Amadeus now supports bidding for better seats
AMADEUS has partnered with Plusgrade to enable the bidding of preferred seating arrangements on flights via the Altéa Suite.
After purchasing an airline ticket, passengers...
GTA’s Travel Bound now features ArrivalGuides content
GTA has partnered with destination content provider ArrivalGuides to brings its content onto GTA’s Travel Bound retail agent website.
The ArrivalGuides destination content covers close...
Orbitz inventory now available on Amadeus GDS
TRAVEL agents can now get access to Orbitz Worldwide products via Amadeus’ GDS after Expedia, parent company of Orbitz, entered into a new global...
Malaysia takes to Weibo to court Chinese travellers
THE Malaysia Inbound Tourism Association (MITA) and social media network Weibo are collaborating on a campaign to help meet Malaysia’s arrival targets this year.
As...
Airbnb to surpass Uber by 2019
SHARED space providers including Airbnb and WeWork will surpass ride-sharing providers Uber and Lyft by 2019 in terms of revenue, according to new data...
Website to demystify Japanese love hotels for foreigners
LOVEINN Japan, said to be the first English-language website dedicated to Japanese love hotels, has been launched. Its hotel booking function is expected to...
Large proportion of TripAdvisor reviews suspicious, university researchers warn
Rob Law, professor in Hotel and Tourism Technology Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
A “large and considerable proportion” of online hotel customer reviews...
JacTravel launches wholesale site for agents
THE JacTravel Group has lived a new accommodations wholesale site for agents, www.totalstay.com, with a bookable inventory of over 100,000 hotels worldwide.
The portal is a...
Google on the verge of launching travel app
Screenshot of Google's email invite
GOOGLE will be releasing a test version of its own travel assistant app next week to a select group of...
Xiaomi devices to come pre-installed with Wego app
TRAVEL search engine Wego is partnering with China’s leading smartphone maker Xiaomi to have its travel app pre-installed in half a million new android...