WIT Start-Up Pitch: New car rental start-up drives into town
Adrian Lee, co-founder of Drive.SG, tells WIT what drove him to start the car rental site and what he hopes to change.
Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraph
Drive is an aggregator for car rental services in Asia. With obvious international choices such as A [...]
On-demand mobile hotel booking solution, SavvyMob, expands footprint in India
Bangalore-based start up, SavvyMob, is on an expansion path, spreading to 50 Indian destinations with over 500 hotels that include Royal Orchid, Golden Tulip, Summit Hotels, and Trip India Hotels.
Its latest expansion in the last six months also covered newer holiday destinations like Leh, Ladakh [...]
Emirates Hackathon: Youths want it simple, social and more personal
If there were some recurring themes that came out of last weekend’s Emirates Travel Hackathon, it was youths want to share, meet each other, make friends, play games and make travel fun, cheap and easy for themselves.
They also want it simple, with most saying there was just too much informatio [...]
WIT Start-Up Pitch: Guiddoo – tour guides & activities in one app
Vineet Budki, VP Strategy for Guiddoo, tells WIT how it wants to be the Skyscanner of Tours and Activities that enhances a traveller’s in-destination experience.Q. Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraphGuiddoo is a start-up that does tour guiding and gctivity meta-searc [...]
THE LIST: Hotels hand-picked for the time-poor and impatient jetsetter
How often are you asked by your friends for hotel recommendations? Too often, if you are frequent travellers like Trey Shores and Kei Shibata, which is why the two have teamed up to launch THE LIST, a collection of hand-picked hotels that they believe will suit the tastes of like-minded travellers.T [...]
WIT Start-Up Pitch: TraveDoc wants to be the Uber of doctors
Q: Describe the business, core products and services in one paragraphTraveDoc is the online doctor appointment scheduling service for people living and traveling in a new country. Fast, easy and free, TraveDoc lets you choose and schedule an appointment with a great physician, dentist, or specialist [...]
Seven things I wished I had known before founding a travel start-up
It’s been almost two years since I decided to jump onto the travel start-up wagon. Travel tech has always been my passion, and when I had the opportunity to do my own travel startup – Lagisatu.com - I immediately grabbed it. I instantly became an entrepreneur not knowing what the word even mean [...]
Tripbooka matches travellers with agents for customised itineraries
Customised itinerary planning remains one of the hardest problems to solve with technology but one Australia-based start-up is having a go at it. Tripbooka is an online platform connecting travel agents with travellers who want the ease of technology but still want the human touch when it comes to p [...]
He got out of poverty, now he wants Local Alike to champion community tourism
Growing up in the Isan village of Roiet, Thai entrepreneur Somsak Boonkam (Pai) knew he had to pursue education to escape poverty. At age 8, his parents managed to gather enough money to send him to Chantaburi High School. From there, he studied his way to university at Nakhom Pathom.“That changed [...]
Why Tujia had to take a different approach with vacation rentals in China
When Melissa Yang returned home from the US to start a new vacation rentals site for China, she knew she had to do it differently. While the experience she had had working with Escapia, a vacation rental bookings site which was acquired by HomeAway in October 2010, came in handy, she knew a differen [...]
