Spotnana partners with Copa Airlines, offering NDC and ancillary services to Latin America travellers
Spotnana, known for itsTravel-as-a-Service platform, has collaborated with Copa Airlines to bring advanced NDC capabilities to travellers across Latin America. This integration, developed in just one day, provides travellers with direct access to Copa Airlines’ content, including sales promotions [...]
I met a Black Hat and it led to this revelation
I was standing in a long queue at the café at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre and wondering why it doesn’t have a robotic barista because the human ones were looking rather frazzled when I spotted the man next to me, wearing a delegate badge that says “Black Hat Asia”.
Intrigued bec [...]
Bus-iness in India. Quicktext billion-dollar return. Travelport promotes ‘understated’ Malaysia. More.
Flipkart hails the bus
India’s homegrown digital commerce ecosystem, Flipkart, has launched bus services on its App.
In collaboration with state transport corporations and private aggregators Flipkart, which launched in 2019, will offer customers the choice of choosing bus connectivity to 25 [...]
Noh Master Kawamura wants to keep 14th century art form alive by sharing with travellers
Third-generation performer to open WiT Japan & North Asia 2024
Compared with most Noh families, whose roots can go back to the 14th century, Noh Master Kawamura Haruhisa, who runs Kyoto’s Kawamura Noh Theatre, is a relative newcomer. His Noh roots go back a mere three generations.
And [...]
How an Indian techie, inspired by his first computer, is disrupting corporate travel
Building tech alone won’t make an impact, says company co-founder. Products must be business-first.
You’ve heard of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), but Travel-as-a-Service is a term uniquely coined by Spotnana – a service provider that calls itself a cocktail of ‘Online booking tool provider, [...]
GHA turns 20, reports surge in revenues and direct bookings for its hotels
UAE-headquartered Global Hotel Alliance (GHA), the world’s largest alliance of independent hotel brands, has started its 20th anniversary year on a high note, reporting robust Q1 results across all key performance indicators.
Exceeding expectations, total hotel revenues for Q1 2024 jumped t [...]
Amadeus’ Picard delves into field trips, AI PAs, and simplified digital expenses
'Bleisure' anticipated to reach US$731.4 billion by 2032, with Gen Z representing 27% of the global workforce soon
Industry analysts anticipate that business travel spending will fully rebound by the end of 2024, returning to levels seen before the pandemic in 2019. Adding to those analyses, Amadeu [...]
Shanghai Express layover. Taiwanese DMC gets digital. AI powers language app.
Your Shanghai layover is here
Shanghai Express is a free layover city tour launched by Trip.com Group to show travellers the highlights of Shanghai before their next flight.
International travellers transiting the Shanghai Pudong International Airport for more than eight hours are eligible for [...]
MakeMyTrip tripling down on India to build comprehensive travel shop
“We’re not going global”, asserts Rajesh Magow. Here's why.
Firstly, Rajesh Magow, CEO and co-founder of MakeMyTrip, would like to clarify that his company is not going global, as was reported in various media outlets yesterday. Instead, it’s doubling down, even tripling down on its core [...]
Decoding travel jargon: From bleisure to rubbish tourism
Author and travel writer Paul Theroux had a very simple way of describing people who travel. He divided them into tourist and traveller, saying, “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.”
Listen to the article here
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