eCommerce giant Alibaba will reportedly invest USD3 billion in Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Grab.

Hotelmize, developer of AI-based price prediction and profit-optimisation technologies for the hotel booking industry, is raising its B round investment largely in the Asia Pacific to…

Alibaba Group Holding’s online travel agency Fliggy has established an alliance with 15,000 lodging service providers to help China’s independent hotels find more clients. The alliance,…

Accor and Alibaba Group have announced a strategic collaboration to develop a series of digital applications and loyalty programs to improve the consumer and traveller experience over the…

Chinese giant Alibaba has revealed it is entering the aviation game with an ambitious new relationship with Skytrax's "world's best airline", Singapore Airlines (SIA).

Alibaba Group has announced a strategic collaboration with Japan’s Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) to promote railway-themed Kyushu sightseeing tours.

With the vision of redefining the future of travel, Alibaba Group and Marriott International have begun testing out facial recognition technology at two hotels in China.

For companies that wanted to dip their hands in China’s hypercompetitive travel market and strengthen their online presence and capabilities, Alibaba announced on Monday that it offers a…

Marriott International has formed a new partnership with e-commerce giant, Alibaba, aimed at giving the hotel group an important boost in the fast-growing Chinese market. The joint…

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has formed a new partnership with e-commerce giant Alibaba as it prepares to make a splash in the Chinese cruise market. Under the new agreement, NCL will make…

Skal International Bangkok showcased its unwavering commitment to excellence at its most recent meeting at The Landmark Bangkok. 

Alibaba’s online travel platform Fliggy released the newest edition of its Mid-Autumn Festival Travel Forecast just in time for one of the busiest seasons of the year.

Online travel platform Fliggy released its Summer Travel Report revealing significant growth in booking volume and spending among customers.

The tripartite campaign offers Chinese tourists attractive deals from Fiji Airways as well as travel packages

In conversation with the IWTA Committee, Mary Li, Founder and CEO, Atlas shares more about her transformative journey through travel. Going ahead from tough Covid times to build an inclusive…

“When it comes to climate-conscious travel, passengers are still on a learning curve. Technology plays a key role in shifting their attitudes,” noted Digitrips CEO & Co-founder Nicolas…

TIS - Tourism Innovation Summit 2023 closed its fourth edition, where 7,384 industry professionals discovered the latest trends that are defining smarter, more sustainable and digital…

Short video app TikTok, owned by ByteDance, is set to compete with the likes of Amazon, Shein, Sea Group’s Shopee, and Alibaba’s Lazada, with its live streaming ecommerce business.

At this week’s Phocuswright Europe in Barcelona, delegates discovered how an innovative new technology is being used to help airlines.

This isn’t going to be another one of those articles that starts with pointing out that the internet changed everything, and not just because it started by claiming not to be one of…

 TravelgateX announced a service provider partnership with Fliggy, a leading online travel platform in China.

TIS - Tourism Innovation Summit 2022, the technology event for travel and tourism professionals, returns to Seville (Spain) from 2 to 4 November.

Photo: The iconic Selfridges Oxford Street is considered one of the UK capital’s premier shopping destinations in the heart of London, which occupies an entire city block Bangkok:…

Travel Daily sits down to speak with the Dor Krubiner, founder and CEO of Hotlemize one of the most exciting new companies to arise in travel in the last few years.

Tourism Authority of Thailand announced a joint campaign with Alipay and Fliggy to reboot domestic tourism

According to the China Philippines Travel Sentiment Survey, conducted in the first week of May by hospitality consulting group C9 Hotelworks and Delivering Asia Communications, the key…

Many of us wonder what travelling would be like after the lockdown. It has been over a month since some nations imposed a shutdown that made us live like a recluse and I imagine that our…

Do you know what Chinese are talking now? They are talking about ‘Revenge Spending’ (报复性消费).

Chinese government are tapping tech giants to come up with an app to track the health and travel history of millions of citizens that are preparing to go back to work.

Rumours are circulating that Chinese OTA Mafengwo may be laying off 40% of its employees following several scandals involving the company.

Ride hailing giant Grab has announced the launch of digital and physical numberless payments card GrabPay Card in partnership with Mastercard.

Alipay, digital payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group (Alibaba Group) and Fliggy, Alibaba’s travel services platform, announced a collaboration with Brand USA and the…

Sources claimed that Amazon is reportedly in talks with Go-Jek for a plausible investment. This move could bolster the presence of the e-commerce giant in Southeast Asia.

Spain-based global bedbank Hotelbeds has launched the Chinese version of hotel extranet MaxiRoom. It is designed to control and maximise hotel occupancy rates through Hotelbeds’…

Earlier this year Sabre released their predictions for the travel trends which they believed would appear and gain traction through 2019 and beyond. Dubbed ‘Avoid all Humans’ the report…

The travel industry is obsessed with Chinese travellers trying to attract millions of travellers.

Chinese car-sharing start-up Like Chuxing reportedly has secured “tens of millions” of dollars for its series B+ round of financing from a group of investors including Ant Financial, the…

This week, we saw new technologies that improved cybersecurity with next-gen firewall as well as future trends in the sector.

Mergers, acquisitions, and billion-dollar funding rounds — so much have happened in 2018 and so I’ve thought of compiling them into one bite-sized piece.

Ahead of the Direct Booking Summit in Singapore next February, Triptease has spoken with Chetan Patel, VP for strategic marketing & e-commerce at ONYX Hospitality Group.

Alibaba did it again! The Chinese e-commerce giant beat its own record at Singles’ Day 11:11 event with USD 30.7 billion total sales during the 24-hour event beating last year’s USD 25.3…

With the number of Chinese tourists visiting Thailand falling 11.8% in August 2018, one of the country’s most important lucrative markets -- cornering around 20% of the economy -- is…

Asia and the Pacific is a massive market and a fertile ground for travel start-ups.

Minor Hotels has signed two new management contracts in China under the company’s M Collection brand of hotels and bespoke travel experiences.

One hotel provides facial recognition check-in and a chatbot that answers your questions in a couple of seconds, while the latter has only comfortable rooms to offer. What hotel would you…

Network solutions provider for hotels, Shiji, paired with Alibaba’s Fliggy to integrate facial recognition in 50 hotels in China's Hainan district that speeds up the process of check-in and…

An online YouGov poll commissioned by in-flight entertainment and passenger engagement company, Spafax, has revealed that younger travellers want airports to use technology to enhance their…

If there is Booking.com for hotels and Skyscanner for flights, there is KKday for tours and activities. KKday avoids “one-size-fits-all” tours and targets younger travellers.

China’s population of 1.4 billion has attracted companies from all over the world. Even a slice of this statistics would do wonders for a company. However, travel tech companies must first…

Marriott International is determined to win the race by ensuring it covers all bases. The hotel giant made two important launches in the first quarter – its joint venture with Alibaba and…

In an attempt to lure more Chinese clientele visiting the UK, The Savoy is the first luxury hotel in London to accept payments via Alipay.

Hundred years after women gained the right of suffrage, there is still a lot of work needed to be done to achieve gender balance in all aspects of society like the travel tech sector.

Proving to be a digitalisation trailblazer in the hotel sector, Deutsche Hospitality is currently developing several digital solutions to provide customers with state-of-the-art…

Marriott continues to hit the news cycle this week, following on from their public commitment to Indian tourism with a press conference in Bengaluru. The hospitality giant has now revealed…

MakeMyTrip and Flipkart announced a partnership that will leverage the MakeMyTrip, Goibibo, and Redbus products and services to provide Flipkart's customers with online travel bookings.

Is India's ecommerce giant Flipkart building plans to enter online travel? We look at the company and its history - and why it might be well-placed to build the country's biggest OTA.…

It was announced yesterday that agoda have signed a strategic global partnership with China’s Xiaozhu.com, to develop inventory, tech and services. With agoda being such a muscular…

The new hotels range from tranquil resorts such as the beachfront Weligama Bay Marriott Resort & Spa, which is the company’s first hotel in Sri Lanka, to The Ritz-Carlton Haikou, which…

Ascott has secured seven new contracts in China, taking its total portfolio in the country to more than 100 properties. The Singapore-based serviced apartment operator has penned deals…

Langham Hospitality Group has unveiled plans for the expansion of its new upper-upscale brand, Cordis Hotels & Resorts, across Asia Pacific. Following Cordis' global debut in Hong…

Rail Europe has continued to expand its operations in China with the signing of an agreement to sell tickets via Alitrip, the travel arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba. Having opened a…

In an industry first, Finnair will introduce Alipay services onboard its aircraft. As part of its continued efforts to woo more Chinese travellers, the Finnish national carrier will…