Amadeus, Microsoft on harnessing data to understand new traveller demands
“There is no consistency across the industry nor, often, within companies. We are working to solve this.”
Amadeus and Microsoft have co-authored and released a new report called ‘Delivering traveler value: Inspiring, understanding and fulfilling expectations throughout the travel experience a [...]
Travelsoft acquires Travel Compositor, will now transact €5bn bookings annually
Travelsoft will generate over €35m annually and employ 200 technology professionals worldwide.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) group Travelsoft has announced the acquisition of B2B booking engine provider to travel companies, Travel Compositor, as part of the group’s strategy to become the world [...]
GlobalTix partners with Go City to digitise travel services, tackling fragmented demographics
"This collaboration marks a significant step towards solving the challenges faced by agents, operators in the tourism industry by connecting everyone in one unified ecosystem.”
GlobalTix, a key reservation and distribution platform in the region, and Go City, the world's largest attraction pass b [...]
Online travel agencies gain hotel booking ground in 2022
Online travel agencies and other intermediaries, such as tour operators and destination management companies, regained ground in 2022, according to a report.
SiteMinder has crunched data from more than 100 million reservations last year to reveal Booking.com as the most popular booking channel acr [...]
Jigger ready to take on jumbo task of connectivity and integration in tours, activities and attractions
Go City’s Abendano on lessons learnt in Singapore and solving localisation pain points
He was nearly named Jumbo because he was an 11-pound baby. But thankfully, because his father was at a bar, having whiskey with friends, while he was entering the world, his parents decided to name him Jigger ( [...]
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 [...]
How experiences will drive trip planning in 3 charts
The broad consumer shift toward experiences has been well known and well documented over the past half-decade.
In the most recent research from Arival and Phocuswright, a forthcoming consumer study of more than 8,000 travelers worldwide, 58% of Gen Z and millennial travelers say they are prioriti [...]
Travellers more worried about the economy than Covid, but over 80% still planning trips in 2023
IF you packed your bags and went anywhere this year, whether it was a domestic roadtrip or flying to another country, chances are you reflected on just how surreal travelling in 2022 truly is. The speed at which the travel industry has bounced back can be chalked-up to a couple of things, namely the [...]
Bangkok garners 11 million searches, as travellers got adventurous with shark-diving, ziplining, and spooky tours in 2022
WITH 2023 just around the corner, brands in the travel space are packaging data from the last twelve months to give us a glimpse into collective travel habits. It’s an interesting exercise, particularly this year, that quantifies how consumer behaviour has changed after the pandemic, but also how [...]
Words To Live By: The Year In Review and Looking Forward to 2023, Part 1
The 2022 Oxford word of the year is “goblin mode”. The term, which refers to “a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations”, was the first word of the year to have been decided by public [...]
