Kei Shibata
Will a Bran Stark-like company win the OTA showdown?
“We are here and the enemy is coming from the south like in Indonesia; another force is coming from the north. China even has a wall!”
The rise of super apps and why they are a bigger threat than Google
If we compare the travel industry to the Amazon jungle, I think of Google as the crocodile or anaconda, the ferocious predator on top of the food chain patiently waiting to ambush its prey, in this case the OTAs. Meanwhile, I think of super apps as the piranhas lurking in the water – smaller in size but equally deadly.
Big Game: The hunt for an ‘end-to-end’ booking platform
There has been a long quest for that one name in travel that caters to the need of a traveller from beginning to end. That is the dream!
LINE to be a ‘super app’ for new travel funnel
LINE is on its way from being a mere messaging app to becoming a super app that will offer services for the new experiential travel funnel.
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