Expedia Group expands partnerships with several major airlines to support growth strategies
Expedia Group partners with major airlines, including Hawaiian Airlines, avianca and Turkish Airlines, to capture surging demand as air travel is expected to reach 5.2 billion passengers in 2025.
Expedia Group has expanded its partnerships with several major airlines to support their growth strat [...]
Rome2Rio expands advertising business, adds to executive team
New CEO sets goal to triple ad revenue by end of 2026
Rome2Rio, the trip and route planning platform owned by Omio Group, has announced the expansion of its advertising business to help travellers and destinations discover each other. With its tenured leadership team, and expertise within transpo [...]
Nadia Omer on lessons from strangers, and focus on cost, price and budget travel
"Budget travel isn’t about taking market share from premium airlines; it’s about activating new demographics to fly for the first time." - Nadia Omer, CEO, AirAsia MOVE
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last night played host to the first-ever Travel Tech Thursdays, a joint event by WiT, Wego and My Indie [...]
iJapan. AI spending takes flight. Skyscanner DROPS savings. e-Arrival in South Korea.
Tokyo tops the list for biggest flight savings in Skyscanner’s new DROPS feature
Skyscanner has launched DROPS, a new app-exclusive feature that helps travellers find flights that have dropped in price by at least 20% compared to the past week. Scanning over 80 billion prices daily, the feature u [...]
Future Lanes Ep 4: Building Traveller-First Experiences | Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson on tech, direct distribution, and traveller experience
The travel industry is constantly evolving, and few airlines have been as relentless in shaping the low-cost carrier model as Ryanair. In a no-holds-barred conversation on the “Future Lanes” WiT Podcast, Ryanair CEO Eddie Wilson shared his candid views on everything from direct distribution to l [...]
9 in 10 young travellers fail to achieve ‘travel therapy’
Millennials and Gen Z crave travel as a vital form of self-care and rejuvenation, yet their wanderlust remains out of reach. In partnership with consumer insights platform GWI, Klook's latest Travel Pulse research across 14 markets reveals that nearly all young travellers see travel as a powerful st [...]
A year at the helm | Pan Pacific’s Melvin Lim on going beyond buzzwords in hospitality
Stepping into the role of General Manager at Pan Pacific Singapore a little over a year ago, Melvin Lim has learned a few key lessons - none more important than adaptability. “The hospitality industry is constantly evolving, influenced by shifting guest expectations and global events,” he says. [...]
Let’s think about the connected trip from the customer perspective, says OAG’s Filipov
Fresh from attending his first aviation conference, after four years away from travel, Filip Filipov, chief operating officer of OAG, is as excited as he was when he first got into the digital travel space in 2009 as “a bright-eyed kid from Bulgaria”.
“It’s wonderful to be back,” said F [...]
Thailand gets White Lotus’d. OTAs big attraction leap. TripAdvisor’s new growth engine. More.
Big leap - OTAs now deliver nearly 1 in 5 bookings
New research from Arival reveals that online travel agencies (OTAs) now account for 18% of all attraction ticket bookings globally, more than doubling their pre-pandemic share of less than 10%. The report, The State of Visitor Attractions, highligh [...]
“It’s Not Us vs. Them” | AirAsia MOVE’s approach to competition, ‘Google keyword wars’ and being branded an OTA
AirAsia has never been afraid to shake things up. From launching as a scrappy low-cost carrier (LCC) to becoming a dominant force in Asian aviation, its latest transformation of its online platform into AirAsia MOVE is yet another bold step forward. At the heart of this shift is a simple but powerfu [...]
