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What can you learn from OYO, Grab, Google and leading hotels at Direct Booking Summit
The Direct Booking Summit: Bangkok taking place on 19-20 February has announced a world-class line up of speakers who will
Festival of the future to become focus of Southeast Asia’s sauciest tech conference
The theme for South East Asia’s largest tech conference, Techsauce Global Summit has just been announced. Techsauce Global Summit’s ‘Festival
Atta boy: Japanese travel start up raises 3 million bucks
Newborn travel metasearch firm atta Inc. announced the successful completion of its Series A funding of USD 3 million, today.
Is it worth it for Uber to acquire Careem for USD 3.1 billion?
After a tumultuous 2019 ending with former CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick cutting ties with the company, Uber welcomed the New Year with a bang confirming the official close of the previously announced acquisition of Careem for USD 3.1 billion.
Travel Tech 4 Good announces winners of start-up initiative in Cairo
Halla Travel and Blue Odysea are the winners of the Travel Tech 4 Good start-up initiative for the tourism sector
Agoda reveals travel trend expectations for 2020s
Single apps for all travel needs, passport free travel and mobile app check-in are the top three ‘new travel norms’
Trip.com invests in business lounge operator DragonPass
DragonPass, a Chinese company operating high-end business lounges at airports and high-speed railway stations, announced it has obtained an undisclosed
TravelFlan completes USD 7 million funding
TravelFlan, a Hong Kong-based chatbot provider for the travel industry, has recently received USD 7 million in its A round
Let’s go around Singapore Lah!
Booking platform Traveloka has partnered with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) to encourage tourists to discover more of Singapore’s hidden
PH’s competition watchdog slaps Grab with USD 319,000 fine
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) has ordered Grab to refund a total of PHP 16.15 million (USD 319,000) to its users.
Indian ride-sharing firm Ola London launch has 10K drivers signed up
Indian ride-sharing firm Ola signed up 10,000 drivers ahead of its launch in London.
Gojek, Blue Bird deal: Who has the last laugh?
Ride hailing giant Gojek is nearing an agreement to buy 5% of Indonesia’s top taxi operator PT Blue Bird.
E-scooter start-up Neuron Mobility raises USD 18.5 million in Series A
Singapore-based e-scooter start-up Neuron Mobility has closed an USD 18.5 million in Series A funding round aiming to expand in international markets.
Airbnb is on its way to becoming a hotel company
After disrupting the billion-dollar hotel industry, Airbnb is slowly straying away from its roots of listing private houses and rooms to becoming more of a hotel company.
Grab debuts numberless payments GrabPay card
Ride hailing giant Grab has announced the launch of digital and physical numberless payments card GrabPay Card in partnership with Mastercard.
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