BingDian Hotels App Lets Users Check-In to Auctions, Loyalty Discounts
A new Chinese startup has launched that claims to help hotels sell more directly to consumers and thereby build up better customer loyalty than on conventional e-commerce platforms. Its BingDian...
View ArticleOnline Travel Grows in China: An Interview with Tuniu CEO Donald Yu
Tuniu's Donald Yu In the West, online travel has long since eclipsed the brick-and-mortar industry, but in China, real-world travel agencies are very much alive. Travel patterns are also very different...
View ArticleAfter Wego Investment, Valadoo Relaunches Site and Gets More Social [VIDEO]
Valadoo, an Indonesian online travel service, had a re-launch event last night following the investment made by travel-meta search website Wego a couple of months ago. The beta redesigned site is...
View ArticleIndia’s Makemytrip Makes an iPhone App, Finally
India’s biggest online travel service, Makemytrip (NASDAQ:MMYT), finally has an iPhone app to its name. Coming two months after the launch of its Android app, it means that iPhone users can now also...
View ArticleAfter 5 Million Travel App Downloads, Chinese Startup Seeks $1 Million in...
Building a startup that’s focused on free apps is always a tricky business, and so the Chinese company 8684 is heralding its milestone of five million users of just one of its series of travel and...
View ArticleTravel startup Qiito, working quietly behind the scenes, now ready for Primetime
The travel and tourism industry is one of the world’s largest, so it’s inevitable that many startups want to be a part of it. In Singapore, many travel startups have gotten quite a bit of attention...
View ArticleDisruption of Travel: Why Indian Startups are Creating Global Waves
Sangeet Paul Choudary writes regularly on strategies for online two-sided markets: platforms, marketplaces, and communities, at platformed.info and works closely with startups in these spaces in India,...
View ArticleIndonesian Travel Company GONLA Looks to Beat Its International Competitors
Indonesian online travel agency GONLA.com officially launched today. The name GONLA simply means ‘GO Now, Later, Anytime.’ The company seems to focus its attention on attracting foreign tourists,...
View ArticleTravelmob Aims to be Asia’s Airbnb, Snags $1 Million in Seed Funding
Earlier this year, the former managing director of Skype Asia, Turochas “T” Fuad, left to form a new startup called Travelmob. And today, Travelmob has revealed that it has raised US$1 million in seed...
View ArticleChinese Apps Already Supporting Apple’s Passbook For E-Tickets
Tencent's QQ Movie Tickets app now supports Apple's Passbook for e-tickets. When Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) launched the Passbook app in iOS 6 for e-tickets, coupons, and loyalty cards, many were concerned...
View ArticleBingDian Hotels App Checks-In Some Series A Funding
The makers of the BingDian Hotels app, which we looked at earlier this year shortly after it launched, has checked-in some series A funding. The round was led by California-based Bluerun Ventures,...
View ArticleChina’s Online Travel Sales to Hit $48 Billion by 2016, But India Will Show...
A new report from eMarketer reckons that China’s well-established online travel sector will hit $32.51 billion in sales for the year 2012 – but by 2016 it’s projected to grow to $48 billion. While...
View ArticleHotel Comparison App ‘I Find Hotels’ is Now Available in Indonesian
‘I Find Hotels’ is an iOS hotel comparison app made by Australia-based company HotelsCombined.com. Interestingly the app doesn’t compare hotel rates directly, but instead it compares hotel rates...
View ArticleHomeAway Makes Third Asian Deal in Tie-Up With Singapore’s Travelmob
Having already buddied up with China’s TuJia and Singapore-based Wego last year, today HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY) has agreed another Asian tie-up – this time with Travelmob. As regular readers will...
View ArticleSingaporean Startup Travelmob Acquired by HomeAway as US Firm Pushes Into Asia
Singapore-based home vacation rental startup Travelmob, which only launched into beta in early 2012, has been acquired by HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY). The financial details haven’t been revealed, but the...
View ArticleLY fires back at Tuniu: ‘In one year, we will completely surpass you’
The fight is on! Yesterday, we wrote about how Chinese travel site Tuniu has taken aim at rival travel site LY.com, demanding that its travel agency partners give Tuniu lower prices or stop working...
View ArticleQunar and Ctrip trading barbs, headed for a price war
China’s online travel market is getting downright rowdy. Last week we saw international online travel specialists Tuniu and LY.com trade blows and harsh words, and apparently, market leaders Ctrip and...
View ArticleMajor Chinese travel agents launch boycott of Tuniu
Chinese online travel service Tuniu (NASDAQ:TOUR) found itself in hot water today after its removal of one travel agency from its site listings led to a boycott from many of China’s top travel...
View ArticleIndian online travel startup raises funding to provide expertly curated...
Bangalore-based TripFactory raised series A funding from Aarin Capital Partners today. The funding amount is undisclosed. TripFactory is an online store that provides curated travel packages. Based on...
View ArticleIndonesia’s MNC gets into online travel with Mister Aladin
Indonesia’s online travel sector could be the next big thing. Traveloka is unquestionably the dominant force for booking plane tickets, but when it comes to reserving hotels and rooms, several players...
View ArticleChinese travel site Ctrip nabs another $1b from Priceline, investors
Image by Xiangrui Huang Chinese online travel site Ctrip announced today that it has received another investment from American online travel firm Priceline. Priceline and an unnamed long-term equity...
View ArticleNew startup launches to add zing to Southeast Asia’s budget hotel battle
Photo credit: Unique Hotels The budget hotel battle in Southeast Asia is heating up. Inspired by the success of India-based Oyorooms, more startups are stepping in to solve the fragmented nature of...
View ArticleChinese travel giant Ctrip invests $180m in India’s MakeMyTrip
Image by Xiangrui Huang What do you get when you combine the two most populous countries on earth? A huge travel market. That may be the thinking behind Chinese online travel giant Ctrip’s latest...
View ArticleLow-cost airline ticket startup spreads its wings with seed funding
Photo credit: Sean MacEntee. Taiwanese startup HelloWings today announced it has raised its seed round. The amount is undisclosed. The funding comes from Taiwan-based Pinehurst Advisors, and...
View ArticleIndonesia’s Airbnb, where users can negotiate the price, raises $2m
Travelio team. Accommodation booking site Travelio today raised a US$2 million pre-series A round led by Shanghai-based venture capital firm Gobi Partners. Travelio offers accommodation in hotel rooms,...
View ArticleMore than a week ago, two major airlines disappeared from Traveloka. [Update]
Where have all the tickets gone? Photo credit: ken H. (Update Nov. 7 2016: Citilink and Garuda flight tickets are back and can be purchased again through Traveloka. A spokesperson for the startup said...
View ArticleQ&A: Skyscanner boss on life with Ctrip post-acquisition, future of online...
Skyscanner co-founder and CEO Gareth Williams. Photo credit: Skyscanner/VisualMedia. Online travel site Skyscanner has established itself as one of the most influential air travel marketplaces...
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