Blacklane adds airport concierge services worldwide with acquisition of Solve
Global professional driver service Blacklane has acquired Solve, the first platform for booking global airport concierge services.
Solve, founded last year and selected to Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 batch, serves more than 500 airports. Its services include curbside and air-side passenger meet [...]
The Wrap: Asia Pacific dominates air travel with 35% of the world market
In The News: IATA releases its yearbook of the airline’s industry’s performances; Booking.com launches the first Technology Playmaker Awards; ATPCO and SITA announces the NDC Exchange
IATA STATISTICS: Asia Pacific dominates air travel with 35% of the world market
Asia Pacific, once ag [...]
Letter from Muscat: And so we enter the golden age of digital travel in Middle East
For some reason, Muscat seems closer in my mind than it really is. To get here, I had to connect via Dubai and with a four-hour layover, it’s almost a 12-hour journey and I thought I could have flown to London in that time.
But returning to Oman eight years later was what I wanted to do. After [...]
The first Kafnu co-working space opens in Hong Kong
Next Story Group, formerly Silver Needle Hospitality, has launched its first co-working space, Kafnu Hong Kong, at Kerry Hotel in the Hung Hom area of Kowloon.
Kafnu is named after a village in India where people go to start Himalayan hikes – a basecamp so to speak. Just like travellers go to K [...]
Sabre says it is committed to NDC standards
Sabre is working on the development of next generation distribution and retailing solutions, which leverage the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) New Distribution Capability (NDC) in ways that will benefit airlines, travel retailers and consumers.
Speaking at The Beat Live in Dal [...]
SpotHero, DVI win awards at BTN Group’s award show
SpotHero for Business walked away with The BTN Group's 2017 Business Travel Innovator Award during the fourth annual Innovate conference produced by the publishers of Business Travel News, Travel Procurement and The Beat at the New York Hilton Midtown last week.
Among 14 Business Travel Inn [...]
Amadeus urges industry to make travel inclusive and accessible for all
“We don’t want anything special, just to travel like anyone else” is a quote from Amadeus’ new research report on accessible travel that looks at just that - better understand the needs of people with accessibility issues and to identify a framework for action for the travel industry.
Acc [...]
Wego’s Ross Veitch on getting the timing right for Middle East and marketplace ambitions
He may have been too early for Singapore as well as Indonesia – indeed South-east Asia in general – but Ross Veitch, CEO and co-founder of Wego, believes he’s finally hit the right timing in the Middle East.
“We probably went into emerging markets too early,” he said. “We thought they [...]
China’s overseas travellers are increasingly opting for experiences over shopping
Chinese travellers are heading out to Asia and Europe in record numbers for the eight-day October national holiday, known as the ‘Golden Week’ (October 1-8).
Ctrip.com International, China’s largest travel site, reveals that over six million of its users are going abroad to spend the holida [...]
Singapore helps Cebu develop its tourism and hospitality sectors
Two institutes of higher learning and a non-profit philanthropic organisation from Singapore are joining forces to support capability building for the tourism industry in Cebu, one of the most popular destinations in the Philippines for foreign visitors.
Republic Polytechnic (RP) and Temasek Poly [...]
