Trip.com Group has designated tours and experiences B2B platform Globick as its global connectivity partner for direct connections with operators worldwide.
Globick will provide new API integrations between various Trip.com Group platforms, including Trip.com and Ctrip, and tours, events, experiences, theme park and activities operators. This will expand the range of premium products available for Chinese travellers and other important global source markets.
While current integrated partners of Trip.com Group will continue their cooperation in the same manner, the Group will now integrate new chosen operators and aggregators with a direct contract via Globick’s B2B connectivity platform.
Chang Liu, general manager of attractions international business with Trip.com Group, said: “As the China outbound market opens up – and other source markets globally begin to travel internationally in earnest – we want to have the best connectivity solution in place for our tours and experiences partners. Globick’s cutting edge direct connectivity platform enables us to reduce costs and provide our partners with an improved, more efficient experience that will lead to increased sales.”
Xavier Boixeda, co-founder & CEO of Globick, said: “Connectivity is often the missing link in the tours and experiences space, and we feel that this partnership validates our vision to use innovative technology to bring travel sellers and both operators and aggregators together via efficient direct contracts.”
Also new is chef Ashley Breneman, who began her career studying at Le Cordon Bleu culinary institute and has worked for numerous celebrity chefs, including Gordon Ramsay on the hit show MasterChef. She is now the executive chef at Certified Angus Beef. She will be on the July 9 sailing aboard Norwegian Encore to Alaska.
Scoot will begin resuming services to and from China, and will be ramping up flight frequencies across its network to destinations such as Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia.
Scoot will progressively increase its total flights to China from 14-times weekly to 26-times weekly by stepping up flight frequencies to seven of its existing points – Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Tianjin and Zhengzhou.
In April, flights to Haikou, Ningbo and Xi’an will resume, bringing the total number of weekly flights to China to 42-times weekly. Services to Nanning and Shenyang will restart in May, totalling 57-times weekly flights to China by the end of June.
For other destinations, flight frequencies to Athens will increase from two-times to four-times weekly and from 10-times to 12-times weekly for Perth.
Services to Sapporo via Taipei will also increase from three-times to four-times weekly and flight frequencies to Tokyo via Taipei will now be 12-times weekly. The airline will fly to Langkawi seven-times weekly and to Manado four-times weekly.
Scoot services to the Gold Coast will be suspended after July 17 – customers with existing bookings will be notified of their options.