Independent outbound travellers from China are likely to be young, well-educated and female, according to a report from Skyscanner’s Chinese business Tianxun and payments specialist UnionPay Smart. The report combines Tianxun’s search data and spending trends from UnionPay. The fact that most independent travellers are under the age of…
European low-cost carrier Ryanair has temporarily closed its Ryanair Holidays service, just over a month since it launched. A message on the channel says the platform has been suspended “because of illegal screenscraping and mis-selling of Ryanair flights by the technology provider”. Tour operator Logitravel and accommodation service World2Meet were named…
Travellers are mostly looking for information and inspiration about hotels and destinations, rather than air tickets, when using search engines such as Google. Research from guest feedback platform TrustYou found that 57% of consumers search for hotels, 49% are looking for a destination, and almost a third are searching for a…
TripActions emerged from beta earlier this week announcing a significant funding round and its public launch. The corporate travel platform aims to encourage business travellers to make savings by incentivising them as well as improve the overall process of booking business travel. The San-Francisco-based startup, founded in March 2015,…
Family trips can be more complicated than any other type of travel to organise – with multiple requirements and more than just one person to please. That’s the slightly simplistic view, but many will recognise that high levels of United Nations-accredited diplomacy are often required on such tasks that,…
Business travel management startup TripActions has raised $14.6 million in Series A funding. The San-Francisco based company, which comes out of beta today, is looking to reward business travellers for keeping an eye on spend. The funding is led by Oren Zeev of Zeev Ventures with Arif Janmohamed of Lightspeed Venture…
Conor Yang, chief financial officer for China’s Tuniu.com, has told Bloomberg TV that the business is aiming for “non-GAAP break even” by 2018. Nasdaq-listed Tunui focuses on outbound luxury packages for Chinese individual and group travellers and recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Bloomberg asked Yang about the competitive landscape…
Singapore Airlines-backed Scoot will be the first low-cost carrier to have direct-booking functionality on travel search engine Skyscanner. The agreement is being seen as a significant moment in the brand’s drive to give airlines the ability to leave the booking part of ticketing to a search intermediary, putting it up against online…
Social media management company Local Measure has raised $3.4 million funding from private investors and private equity firms in Asia Pacific. The Sydney-based company will use it latest funding to continue to develop its service and expand with plans for a new office in Dubai this month followed shortly by…
The things we know already – mobile plays a vital role in the process of travel search and, increasingly, booking. We don’t wait until we get home or visit an offline agent anymore; we simply turn to our phones to browse and book flights, hotels and more on the…