Indonesian startup Valadoo focuses on tours & activities
When planning long holidays, the Indonesian online customer places more importance in knowing what to do than where to stay, and budget travel and activities appear to dominate the market.
At least, these are some of the findings of a survey conducted by travel start-upValadoo.com, describe [...]
trippiece brings ‘social travelling’ to Asia, launches English site
Having achieved success in the domestic market, WIT Start-Up Pitch 2012 winner trippiece, an online service for what it calls “social travelling”, is taking its first steps beyond Japan.
It opened an office in Singapore early this year to get closer to potential users in the region and [...]
Keep your eye on Indonesia and what winning WIT Start-Up Pitch did for us
Winner of the WIT Indonesia Start-Up Pitch 2013, Faeez Fadhlillah, CEO & co-founder of Lagisatu, shares his thoughts on the Indonesian market and what life has been like since he won the competition.
When it comes to the travel industry, Indonesia does not seem to appear on the top ta [...]
How Acromobile, ‘WordPress for apps’, solved Nikoi’s mobile challenge
One of the biggest pain points for hoteliers, particular independent properties, is how to deal with the mobile challenge. Mobile optimized website or native app? And if native app, you’d have to develop for both Android and iOS and then how do you cope with the constant updates to operati [...]
Make Olympics 2020 participative and go for smart money, start-ups told
And so the hospitality tech grab continues as the IHS Group announced this week its acquisition of InnLink LLC, a provider of central reservations solutions, and TravLynx, a travel and hospitality services technology company, both US-based.
In this interview with WIT, chairman and CEO of [...]
Tourism comes under spotlight at Start-Up@Singapore
Hospitality and tourism was identified as one of the emerging industries in Singapore at a nationwide 24 Hours Business Plan Challenge organised by Start-Up @ Singapore.The aim of the competition was to raise the awareness of emerging industries, including Cloud Computing and Social Enterprise/Co-o [...]
One Malaysian entrepreneur’s journey of lessons to discovery
It is said that seven in 10 start-ups fail but even that cold hard fact was not enough to stop Jiun Kiew (left) from pursuing her dream more than a year ago - and she's certainly learnt a few lessons since. This is her journey.
Fresh from her studies in Australia, Kiew joined family-owned M [...]
Ryokan specialist Relux wins WIT Japan Start-Up Pitch
Relux, a “satisfaction-guaranteed online marketplace for Japanese inns”, won first prize in the first ever travel start-up competition in Japan held in conjunction with WIT Japan last Friday in Tokyo.
Relux, started up by LocoPartners in March this year, beat five other start-ups in the WIT [...]
Multi-Modal In Europe: A Wrap-Up
Rod Cuthbert, CEO of multi-modal search specialist Rome2rio, gives an overview of where multi-modal is at in Europe.
I’ve just returned from Berlin, where I gave a presentation on the state of the multi-modal sector at the annual ITB Conference. Being in Europe was a good opportunity to me [...]
Musafir wants to become the MakeMyTrip of the Middle East
With its sights focused on becoming the “MakeMyTrip of the Middle East” by 2018, Musafir.com is charting ambitious plans to grow its presence in the region as well as India where it recently launched its portal.
Co-founder of the Sharjah-based OTA, Albert Dias (left), believes the Middle [...]
