The billionaire Airbnb host who walks the talk
Community and connection are key as home sharing gains new advocates
NATE Blecharczyk is someone who believes in walking the
talk.
In
10 years, he has hosted more than 750 Airbnb guests in the San Francisco home
he shares with his wife, Elizabeth. He does it, he says, because he believes in
[...]
MakeMyTrip partners with Hopper to offer travellers flexibility in booking trips
INDIA’S online travel company MakeMyTrip has tied up with flight and hotel app Hopper to help its customers make better travel decisions by leveraging the latter’s AI-enabled pricing tools.
Through this partnership, MakeMyTrip uses Hopper’s Price Freeze technology to power its Price Lock f [...]
Yanolja acquires 70% of Interpark’s business division
YANOLJA, South Korea’s leading travel and leisure platform, has signed an agreement to acquire the business division of Interpark, one of the country’s earliest e-commerce marketplaces.
Both
companies signed an MOU on the acquisition of 70% of stake in Interpark’s
business division which [...]
AI and data, payments and airports keeping interest of Amadeus Ventures
THE first thing Amadeus Ventures did when the pandemic struck was to support its portfolio companies to “make sure the companies and people were in a safe place”, said Suzanna Chiu, head of the strategic funding programme that invests in early stage travel startups.
“We worked out conting [...]
How SmartRyde diversified from Asia to ride through Covid and raised $1.6m
FOR Sota Kimura, founder of SmartRyde, it’s been quite a ride since he founded the global airport transfer marketplace in March 2017 to September 2021 when it raised approximately US$1.6 million in Series A funding round.
As a student, he often found himself “in trouble with ground transpor [...]
WiT is first industry event to use Marina Bay Sands’ Virtual Meeting Place
WiT Experience Singapore 2021 will be the first industry event to use Marina Bay Sands’ newly-launched Virtual Meeting Place for the virtual component of its two-day conference next week on October 19-20.
In the works: WiT's new virtual home, built on the Virtual Meeting Place, will be reveale [...]
Living the life of Riley in Cornwall
BeMyGuest’s CTO on living with Covid, remote working and building software during a pandemic
BEING in Cornwall, after not having left Singapore in more than two years, has given Ross Riley, CTO of BeMyGuest a different outlook on several things.
For one,
it’s given him a more positive ou [...]
The Wrap: Cathay Pacific’s content now available for Amadeus-connected agents, Sabre and Emirates seal new distribution deal, and more …
THE Wrap is a round-up of
news in the travel and technology industries, and updates on how businesses in these sectors
are resetting as they prepare for post-pandemic travel.
Cathay Pacific offers NDC content to Amadeus-connected travel agents
Amadeus-connected travel agents worldwide n [...]
Allseated EXVO 3D platform makes Asian debut at WiT’s “Homecoming”
Skypark by AJ Hackett will offer a first of its kind hybrid experience
ON October 20, during the “Homecoming” reception of WiT Experience Singapore 2021, a new virtual home of Skypark by AJ Hackett, Sentosa, will be unveiled. Built by Allseated EXVO, it marks the American 3D virtual event pl [...]
Travel sector hopeful, Malaysians euphoric, as country resumes interstate and international travel
The move is to revive Malaysia’s ailing domestic tourism sector and prepare the nation to live in an endemic phase.
“Hopeful” and “euphoric” best describe the feelings of the players in Malaysia’s travel sector and Malaysians on the lifting of domestic travel restriction starting Oct [...]
