SingaporeAir.com a Top 10 travel site, Booking.com the go-to OTA in Southeast Asia for US travellers
Traffic on Singapore Airline’s official website grew 195% last year for US-based visitors
Similarweb recently released its annual Digital 100 ranking of the fastest-growing companies on the web, and one of its 10 key categories is Travel and Tourism. Demand for international travel and cruises do [...]
Women in South-east Asia keen to develop professional skills in the data economy
New survey by She Loves Data and Milieu shows appetite for digital learnings
There’s strong demand from women in South-east Asia to develop their professional skills in the accelerating data economy, according to a survey conducted by Singapore-headquartered She Loves Data (SLD), a global-not-f [...]
Trip.com: New real-time travel guide, using GPT tech, isn’t frazzled by vague questions
TripGen offers travel tips and itinerary suggestions through real-time communication
Trip.com has launched TripGen, a chatbot designed to provide travellers with live assistance through Artificial Intelligence technology. Trip.com implemented this technology to enable users to receive tailored trav [...]
Chat GPT writes poetry for Agoda; Startup clears aircraft aisles; Watchdog hunts dodgy influencers
Bonza ditches the meal trolley for food-by-app
Manish Raniga, CEO of Airline Investments, 777 Partners (owner of Australian low-cost start-up Bonza), has been talking to Future Travel Experience about the airline’s digitally native and customer-centric strategy, and the innovative tech it will ut [...]
Metaverse Builders in Asia: M Social on finding new customers and engaging with them
“The revenue did surprise us, so did the engagement”
IT’S important to understand this single fact about the metaverse that has been echoed by many experts, analysts, and industry leaders – technically, it does not exist. Yet. At least, not in its complete form.
What does exist, though, [...]
Sponsored: Evolving traveler expectations herald new opportunities for travel pros
The travel industry is at an unprecedented stage of evolution. Despite lingering challenges from the pandemic and economic concerns, people continue to place travel as a high priority in their lives. According to Expedia Group’s recent Traveler Value Index 2023 study, nearly half of consumers glob [...]
“It’s the biggest thing”. Putting ChatGPT to good use while being in awe of its capabilities
Tours and activities, experiences will be most impacted, says Magpie's Watts
Christian Watts, CEO and Founder of Magpie Travel, is already designing products around ChatGPT. He says we haven’t scratched the surface of what the tech can do.
A decade ago, Spike Jonze directed a movie called ‘H [...]
Bard slips up, Trivago gets direct, Qatar Airways bags a winner, Sjiji Group helps hoteliers
Bard is going back to bootcamp
It’s back to boot camp for Bard, Google’s experimental chatbot that is set to challenge Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.
The search engine has artificial intelligence features that offer summaries of complex information but prior to the start of private testing with [...]
At 363.3%, Asia boasts strongest year-over-year passenger demand among all regions, says IATA
THE International Air Transport Association (IATA) reports that over the past year, re-openings in many economies of the Asia Pacific region allowed for passengers and airlines to return to the skies, greatly accelerating traffic growth in both domestic and international markets. While RPKs in 2022 [...]
As Vietnamese tourism shows growth, Klook strikes partnerships with key domestic attractions players
IN the new age of travel, the need for a collaborative tourism scene has been called a prerequisite to support robust growth and recovery. In that sense, Klook, a major travel and experiences platform, has been on quite the roll recently.
Klook has just announced partnerships with two key players [...]
