Efficiency will triumph, tours and activities will be healthier after Covid: Baidi Li wants to bring the luck of Magpie to APAC
This week, Magpie Travel, the San Francisco-based company offering content management solutions for the tours & activities sector, announced the appointment of Baidi Li as head of growth initiatives. Until recently, Li had been a regional director at Viator, a leading company in the sector.
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WiT Startup Pitch to receive US$250,000 in technology credits and support from Amazon Web Services
WiT announced today that Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, is collaborating with WiT Startup Pitch for the third year running. AWS will provide over US$250,000 worth of technology credits and support towards WiT Startup Pitch 2020 throug [...]
Here are the winners of Phocuswright Innovation Summit and Launch EMEA
Phocuswright has announced the award winners of the latest Phocuswright Innovation Platform programmes, Summit: EMEA and Launch: EMEA.
The winners are:
Summit: EMEA Most Innovative Startup Award - Winner: IoMobSummit: EMEA People’s Choice Award - Winner: Hotelmize Launch: EMEA Pe [...]
Covid Entry Check gives TruTrip a breakout moment as it builds new SME corporate tool focused on risk management and duty of care
You wouldn’t call it the best of timing. Singapore-based corporate travel startup TruTrip, which is creating a tool for SMEs to manage their travel, went live with its beta version in April but the timing has actually worked in its favour.
Co-founder Hugh Batley said the timing has given it t [...]
Seven Clean Seas employs furloughed tourism workers to clean beaches, goal is to help companies achieve plastic neutrality
Seven Clean Seas, a Singapore-based social enterprise whose mission is to help companies achieve plastic neutrality with plastic credits, has employed the furloughed workers of Nikoi and Cempedak Islands in Indonesia for its beach clean-up programmes.
Tom Peacock-Nazil, CEO and co-founder, said [...]
In age of scarcity, Traveloka goes from “hunting” to “harvesting” in its marketing rethink
Even though
product has taken centre stage during Covid-19, Traveloka’s Christian Suwarna
believes that marketing is also having its breakout moment in terms of how the
Indonesian travel unicorn is rethinking its marketing strategy.
With limited funds to spend, the chief marketing offic [...]
WiT Startup winner IDEM Hospitality becomes part of Groups360 family
For WiT Startup Pitch 2019 winner IDEM Hospitality, the meeting with Groups360 last June was fortuitous. What started out as a partnership discussion very quickly escalated into one around acquisition when it became obvious that it was “a match made in heaven”.
IDEM
Hospitality is now Groups [...]
“The emails and phone calls suddenly stopped” but MyRealTrip persevered and raised US$36m. Here’s how it did it
MyRealTrip, South Korea’s online travel platform, which had its roots in tours and activities, made headlines on July 29 when it raised US$36m in a funding round led by existing investor Altos Ventures along with IMM Investment and Smilegate Investment. New investors including Korea Development B [...]
Mystifly raises US$3.3m amid Covid upheaval, heralds new era of the “retail airline”
Other than the fund-raise, the biggest positive of Covid-19 has been his move back to his hometown of Kolar. “I don’t see myself moving back to urban life after this,” says Rajeev Kumar.
In its more than 10 years of being around, you could say Mystifly, the Bengalaru-based air retailing an [...]
Real-world exploration game startup, Questo raises €300,000 to expand globally
Questo, the platform for city exploration games, has raised €300,000 in funding. The round was led by Sparking Capital with participation from Early Game Ventures. The funding will help Questo's international expansion.
Questo helps travellers experience destinations by sending them on a ‘qu [...]
