Travel Technology

USERS of Hotels.com can now hitch an Uber ride directly via the OTA’s mobile app. Customers who book a room through Hotels.com will see an Uber button appear in...

Pattaya, Thailand WHILE the overwhelming success of the sharing economy has roiled the hotel industry the world over, tour operators are not spared some of...

Gareth Williams, co-founder, Skyscanner TRAVEL search engine Skyscanner is calling on developers around the world to build a game-changing travel tech product using Skyscanner APIs...

NEW startup WEGOGO sees huge opportunity to connect tourism suppliers outside China, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, to sophisticated Chinese tourists via WeChat, the...

AMADEUS has enhanced its Amadeus Airline Market Insight suite with the addition of Booking Analytics, a tool that allows users to access GDS-sourced reservations...

GDS Genie, the world’s first online resource dedicated to GDS training, is now accessible. The portal offers proficiency in three of the world’s largest GDSs,...

WITHOUT the lambaste and fanfare often associated with new technological trends, chatbots have crept their way into social messaging applications and are being used...

Screenshot of matta.travel THE Malaysia Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) is urging its members to sell their packages on matta.travel, the association’s newly-launched B2C...

MOST millennial travellers in Singapore favour booking flights via airline websites rather than from OTAs and metasearch engines, according to a recent study by...

(From left) Quek Choon Yang, chief technology officer Singapore Tourism Board; Shin Jeong Hwan, chief technology officer Kakao THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and South-Korean...