Shut up and travel with TripHobo
India-based trip-planning platform TripHobo has joined Amadeus Next, the Asia Pacific startup community powered by Amadeus. The aim of the partnership, according to a press statement, is to enable TripHobo to create a “full stack, dynamic packaging solution” for its users.TripHobo currently cove [...]
First Uber like service, Oway Ride, launches in Myanmar
Oway, the fastest growing travel company in Myanmar, has launched car on-demand service Oway Ride in Yangon.With the slogan “Your personal driver awaits” users can order the car service in Yangon “within seconds” via the Oway Ride app.The free, user-friendly mobile app is available in Englis [...]
Focus and personal touch rule at Villa Finder
Almost exactly three years since WIT first featured villa-bali.com, I met with David Chambat, managing director and founder, to find out how his business has evolved. For a start, the villa bookings site has expanded its footprint to cover Phuket, Ko Samui and Sri Lanka. Mauritius, I learnt, is on t [...]
HotelQuickly enters Japan with purchase of Tonight
Last-minute hotel booking app, HotelQuickly, has acquired Japan’s domestic booking app, Tonight, paving its entry into the “Land of the Rising Sun”.With this acquisition, HotelQuickly adds its 16th country and another 400 hotels to its roster.HotelQuickly said the addition of Japan to the app� [...]
Digital insurance Hepstar gets US$2m funding
Capetown-based digital insurance distributor Hepstar has received US$2 million in funding from UK-based technology investor Amadeus Capital Partners. With the new funding the company will build on its momentum including expanding its global reach, accelerating technology development and growing its [...]
Why Travelstart’s Ekbergh decided to get married after 10 years of bacherlorhood
It was around March last year that Stephan Ekbergh, sole owner and founder of South Africa-based Travelstart, was first approached by Amadeus Capital Partners (not related to Amadeus IT by the way).The first meeting with Andrea Traversone took place in ITB Berlin and Ekbergh recalled it didn’t go [...]
Aladdin Street, M’sia’s first halal e-commerce platform, sets sight on the world
Like the fictional Aladdin and his magic lamp, new Malaysian start-up Aladdin Street is ready to light up the e-commerce world with halal products and to give giants in this field, Amazon and Alibaba, a run for their money.The new venture’s co-founder Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, the first Malaysia [...]
Grab, fly and how to win customer love
This week I received a letter (well, an email) from a CEO that grabbed my attention.It was from Anthony Tan, CEO and co-founder, of GrabTaxi telling me (well, it felt like he was talking to me but I am sure it went out to hundreds of thousands of customers) that he’s decided to change his company� [...]
TravelersBox, armed with $10m new funding, will focus on Asia
TravelersBox, claiming to be the first and only solution allowing travelers to convert leftover foreign currency into usable digital currency, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.The round was led by Arbor Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on the intersection of financial [...]
WIT and Hotel ICON team up for WIT Hospitality
In line with Web In Travel’s (WIT) mantra of innovation and nurturing new talent, the first WIT Hospitality in Hong Kong on March 22, 2016 will be held in partnership with Hotel ICON, the teaching and research hotel built for the School of Hotel and Tourism Management by the Hong Kong Polytechnic [...]
