10 to vie for WIT Japan & North Asia Startup Pitch title in Tokyo
Ten semi-finalists, covering areas from tours & activities to hotel technology solutions and a photography marketplace, have been selected to compete in the WIT Japan & North Asia Startup Pitch happening in Tokyo June 28-29.
Powered by Amadeus APAC, the competition will see one winner cro [...]
Travel industry urged to step Through the Looking Glass and embrace five new values at WIT Singapore 2018
In its 14th year, the award-winning WIT (Web In Travel) invites the travel industry to take a step Through the Looking Glass at this year’s WIT Singapore 2018 Conference at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre from October 15 to 17.
Attendees will also be encouraged to imbibe WIT’s f [...]
GOEureka wants to be the new disruptor in hotel bookings using blockchain and crypto
With the words “blockchain” and “ICO” being the latest buzzwords in tech startups, Singapore-based GOeureka is pitching itself as the new disruptor in hotel bookings. GOeureka, which aims to launch by the fourth quarter of this year, wants to “decentralise the hotel booking sector and del [...]
Stay One Degree raises US1.5 million in seed funding by blue chip investors
Stay One Degree – a private accommodation cum social networking site – has raised US1.5 million in seed funding, tripling their initial target.
Launched in December last year and co-founded by Thomas Bennett and Jorge Munoz, Stay One Degree aims to rebuild the experience of people lending out [...]
Wegogo takes a long shot at the long tail – can outsiders to travel and China make a go of it?
They are not your usual travel tech startups. First, they are hardly in the first blush of youth. They had successful corporate careers in blue chip companies in Singapore before they took the plunge into their first travel startup in 2014.
Second, their office is not in some cool co-working space [...]
Hail the future drone-based society – Kotaro Chiba bets big on drones and inbound tourism
Drones will be to society what the mobile phone is now – they will connect us, they will do all kinds of stuff for us, they will be everywhere and they will be invisible.
That’s the vision of Kotaro Chiba, founder of the newly set-up 1 billion yen (US$16m) DroneFund in Japan. The co-found [...]
Three lessons on how chatbots can become more than just talk but revenue drivers
This year’s buzzwords might be blockchain and (still) mobile, but it hasn’t been so long since ‘chatbots’ were the mot du jour. Buzzword no more, chatbots have now worked their way across industries, automating and often augmenting the customer service experience.
In hospitality, chatbots [...]
Rebranded Vidi aims to capture bigger slice of tours & activities market
Malaysian online travel startup, Touristly, has rebranded as Vidi to reflect its “evolution from a traditional trip planner to a visual discovery platform.”
The rebranding is also part of the company’s strategy to get a slice of the rapidly growing tours and activities market in Asia Pacifi [...]
Amadeus’ Smart Cities initiative rolls out with Asia as test bed
Amadeus is taking its technological capabilities and expertise beyond travel to tackle the challenges posed to societies by rapid urbanisation and the growth of mega cities, and Asia will be the test bed.
Its Smart Cities initiative, launched last week, is aimed at building a stronger understandi [...]
Record turnout at WIT Seoul 2018 shows interest in digital travel at all-time high
If there was one thing WIT Seoul 2018 proved, it’s that interest, and hunger for knowledge, in the digital travel space is at an all-time high in a market where rapid technological change and changing consumer behaviour are forcing travel incumbents to wake up and smell the web, as it were.
A r [...]
