We are all in the same boat but it appears to be different oceans
“Even in tiny Singapore, we have our own small ocean to explore. I've booked a boat trip to an outer island, no passport required. Where you are determines your outlook, but we need new eyes. Freedom, grab it when you can.”
The previous week, I got so excited I nearly fell off the high chair [...]
WiT Middle East Watch: Tunisian bike taxi startup gains momentum, Radisson sees RED in Middle East, Arab countries show strong demand for ITB Berlin
Tunisian bike taxi startup gains momentum
Tunisian bike taxi startup IntiGo has picked up momentum, having raised over $300,000 in funding from angel investors, reported MENAbytes.
The startup
had raised $300,000 three months ago when it launched.
Founded by
serial entrepreneur an [...]
South-east Asia a “melting pot of trends” in online travel
It’s an interesting time in the travel industry in South-east Asia.The middle class is growing very fast, 90% of the region’s 360 million internet users are connecting through mobile devices, brands already in travel are expanding their offerings and other e-commerce entities are forging partn [...]
In The Big Chair – Ross Veitch of Wego
Ross Veitch and Craig Hewett founded flight and hotel marketplace Wego in 2005 in Singapore. It has raised about $59 million and expanded beyond Southeast Asia into the Middle East, North Africa and India.
The company crossed $1 billion in gross merchandise volume in December 2018, and an IPO is [...]
How Zouba intends to build its way to become a meta-book marketplace for destination products
Malaysia-based GoQuo, which calls itself an “airline’s best friend” helping them sell ancillary revenues, has taken the plunge into the tours and activities space by launching Zouba (meaning “let’s go” in Mandarin), a “meta-book marketplace” for destination products.
“We’re a [...]
Jayride is global and now wants to be the “NDC of ride-hailing”
When asked about a group of people hovering around a high table in the hallway of Jayride’s Sydney headquarters, founder and managing director Rod Bishop explained they were doing a daily pow-wow, and they were doing it standing to “keep it short”.
Once you are privvy to Bishop’s vision map [...]
Small or large, companies should be doing more with data
Small companies should not be left behind in the data game, advised Luke Donkin, sales director for Adara in Australia, New Zealand and Pacific.
Asked if smaller players will lose their competitive edge of being able to offer personal service and products since big companies now have acces [...]
Peach urges travel lovers to share…info, that is
Peach has devised another way for travel lovers to share travel tips and notes with one another.
“tabinoco”, which in fact means travel lovers, is based on the concept of “a notebook for little travel notes” where, through social media, travellers can share and use unique information thr [...]
Tours & activities: continued growth, walking and eco tours top
The tours and activities space has been watched closely in the last few years, tapped as a promising revenue generator for the travel industry. Phocuswright’s Tours & Activities Come of Age: The Global Travel Activities 2014-2020 Report had pegged the tours and activities marketplace to reach [...]
Ctrip on its way to being the “strongest and the best company in the best industry”
If there was any doubt about Ctrip’s desire for world domination, well, there shouldn’t be any now.
During its annual meeting “Joining Hands for Success” in Shanghai, Ctrip’s co-founder and executive board chairman James Liang keynote speech which was peppered with superlatives, inclu [...]
