Winners at Phocuswright’s Travel Innovation Summit
Travel industry research authority, Phocuswright, has announced the award winners of The Travel Innovation Summit, held on November 17 and 18, during The Phocuswright Conference in Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.Phocuswright said that each year, innovative companies were selected to demonstrate g [...]
My Take on Phocuswright’s Battleground
This is a guest article by Douglas Quinby, Vice President, Research at Phocuswright.For eight years Phocuswright's Travel Innovation Summit has assembled travel startups and more established companies to present their innovations to the industry and compete on stage at The Phocuswright Conference. T [...]
Direct is the future – FlyZilla excludes OTAs in new flight metasearch product
Last month travel portal TripZilla sent out a press release to announce the launch of its new flight metasearch, FlyZilla, with a rather bold headline “FlyZilla, the Flight Metasearch that says No to OTAs”.Current flight metasearch engines are dominated by airfares from online travel agencies (O [...]
A helping hand for start-ups in APAC and Japan from Akamai
Akamai Technologies has launched the Akamai One start-up programme designed to empower start-ups in Asia Pacific and Japan.The programme is designed to empower start-ups to focus on growing their businesses without worrying about the complexity of delivering fast, reliable and secure online experien [...]
For Asia, the real story is only just beginning
Richie is a 27-year-old orang utan living in the Semenggoh Wildlife Reserve of Sarawak. Philip Yong, CEO of Borneo Adventure, found him living in a cage as a baby, paid to free him and now he’s hanging out at the sanctuary, which rehabilitates apes and returns them to the wild.Obviously Richie is [...]
From cables to tables
She was in the telco business for 20 years. Then she entered a reality television cooking competition – Masterchef Australia Season 4, emerged a finalist, and that changed her life forever.Audra Morrice decided then that she wanted to follow her passion, which is food, left the corporate world, an [...]
Rimoto wins the WIT Start-Up Pitch
Three starts-ups made it to the finals at the WIT Start-Up Pitch during the annual WIT 2015 Conference in Singapore on October 21, and just one took home the "crown".The winner is Rimoto, a disruptive service that enables international travellers to book a taxi, buy show tickets, or make reservation [...]
MakeMyTrip eyes mobile market
Stock prices are no indication of how a company is performing, said Deep Kalra, CEO and founder of Indian OTA MakeMyTrip (MMT) at the opening session of the WIT conference on October 21.Once the disruptor, MMT took the world by storm with a phenomenal IPO listing on NASDAQ in 2010. Despite falling s [...]
A tale of funding and branding from four start-ups
One of the critical issues facing a new start-up and vital for its growth is funding. And it is no easy task getting investors. Four start-ups which provide P2P services took to the stage at the WIT Bootcamp to share their experiences in getting funding.Karl Loo, CEO & founder Malaysia-based Ser [...]
42 Race, rimoto, Wellobox are finalists for WIT Start-Up Pitch
Six start-ups took to the stage at the WIT Start-Up Pitch at the WIT Bootcamp and three emerged victorious to fight it out at Grand Finals of the annual start-up competition during the WIT Conference on October 21.The three shortlisted candidates are 42 Race, rimoto, and Wellobox. 42 Race is a web/m [...]
