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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...

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Online 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...

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After 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...

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India’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...

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After 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...

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Travel 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...

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Disruption 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,...

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Indonesian 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,...

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Travelmob 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...

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Chinese 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...

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BingDian 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,...

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China’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...

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Hotel 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...

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HomeAway 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...

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Singaporean 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...

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LY 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...

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Qunar 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...

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Major 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...

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Indian 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...

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Indonesia’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...

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Chinese 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...

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New 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...

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Chinese 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...

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Low-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...

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Indonesia’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,...

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More 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...

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Q&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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