The Wrap: Bridge Rentals, Ctrip join forces to offer vacation rentals to Chinese travellers
The weekly news roundup: Bridge Rentals and Ctrip new partnership, Allianz Global Assistance’s revamped mobile app, Travelport Business Insights launched
HOSTPITALITY: Bridge Rentals, Ctrip join forces to offer vacation rentals to Chinese travellers
Bridge Rentals, a non-hotel inventory [...]
Sabre Destination Hack: Overwhelming response, opens to virtual entries from overseas developers
The response to Sabre’s first ever Asia Pacific inaugural hackathon has been so overwhelming that the company has added a virtual component to enable overseas developers to take part remotely.
To date, over 200 participants have registered from Singapore and the Asia Pacific region for Destinat [...]
How travel distribution will change, driven by consumer revolution: LSE study
Gatekeepers, mega meta online travel agencies, artificial intelligence, and the use of portable technology may fundamentally disrupt travel distribution in the next decade, according to a new study by the London School of Economics (LSE).
The report, “Travel distribution: The end of the world a [...]
TripAdvisor changes booking policies on animals attractions, launches education portal
TripAdvisor today announced its commitment to launch a set of industry-leading actions, including changes to its policy on selling tickets to animal attractions, and the launch of a new education portal to help inform travellers about the standards of care for wild, captive, and endangered species i [...]
Is the tail wagging the dog? Time to flip the world around
I remember the first day I started wearing spectacles. I was 10 and kept failing my Math and the teacher thought there could be something wrong with my eyesight. I was so relieved, I thought I was just bad at numbers and was getting a serious complex.
Anyway, the first day I wore it, not only did [...]
The Wrap: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th top overseas travel spenders by 2025
The weekly news roundup: Visa’s report on future of global travel and tourism, two new partners for Sabre, PayPals’s new merchants in APAC
VISA SURVEY: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th top overseas travel spenders by 2025
International travel among Singapore household [...]
APAC travellers like to consume travel content before they sleep: Skyscanner
We have been advised not to bring our mobile gadgets to bed as the blue light emitted is bad for our eyesight, interrupts our sleep patterns and bad for health, yet many travellers in Asia Pacific (APAC) are doing just that - consuming travel content before they hit the sack.
Skyscanner’s first [...]
Letter from Hong Kong: What Money Men Talk About At Breakfast
Café Too at Island Shangri-La is buzzing, at 8am. It reminds me that power breakfasts are still very much favoured among the rich and want-to-be-richer people.
I can hardly tie my shoelaces at that time of the morning let alone have an intense business discussion about money but Hong Kong does t [...]
Top five travel tech hacks Sabre hopes to bring to Singapore this October
Anupam Bokil, Sabre’s vice president of technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, shares with WIT an exclusive preview of the top five hacks he hopes to see come out of the two-day race against the clock to code a new application that has the power to really disrupt travel.
Today t [...]
The Wrap: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
The weekly news roundup: Skyscanner’s new quality ratings feature, Club Carlson’s ‘Members Only Rate’, TripAdvisor’s million dollar pledge to the refugee crisis
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY: Skyscanner’s partner quality ratings help travellers with flight booking
Global travel search engi [...]
