online booking

Small-ship cruise firm Windstar Cruises launched its new online booking engine through its official website. 

6 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Hotel Website  While the power of a hotel website is common knowledge, many hotel owners take it at face value but don’t do enough with it. A website attracting more traffic will boost your booking numbers directly. Therefore, we recommend you take it seriously.  Few go the […]

We have been following RedDoorz as it scales up towards becoming the leading accommodation marketplace in Southeast Asia.

BedLinker is a Vietnamese joint stock company providing technology solutions that allow hotels, travel agents and tour operators to work together. The start-up founded by Thuan Dao, whose 16-year career includes working on revenue management, e-commerce, reservations and sales for five-star properties in Vietnam like Sheraton and Vinpearl, has a growing portfolio with three products to date.

India’s largest online travel services provider, MakeMyTrip Ltd, formally announced that it entered an agreement with award-winning budget hospitality company OYO. The agreement entails hosting the online hotel chain’s economy, mid-segment and vacation rentals assets for booking through MakeMyTrip Ltd’s OTA platforms MakeMyTrip and Goibibo. This means MakeMyTrip and Goibibo customers can now choose from economy-mid […]

Anywhr, an opaque bespoke tour booking start-up under the National University of Singapore’s NUS Enterprise programme, operates on the belief that “travel is more than just recycling itineraries.”

DayBreakHotels, a Rome-based travel tech start-up launched by Simon Botto, Flavio Del Greco, Lorenzo Stabile and Michele Spadone in 2013, recently caught the attention of Hotel Jumpstart, the accelerator programme organised by Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) and Hotels.com in collaboration with Traveltech Lab, for helping three- to five-star hotels maximise their accommodation and occupancy levels while reaching out to business, leisure, and “bleisure” travellers.

UpsellGuru, based in Germany with a satellite office in Malaysia, has become a favourite of boutique chains and independent brands in the luxury side of hospitality for this reason. Launched in May 2016, it is currently the only pre-arrival up-selling management system on the market that allows guests to bid on – as opposed to simply avail – room upgrades and add-on services.

We recently touched base with Valéry Linÿer, CEO and founder of MagicStay, to show us how a rental platform dedicated to business travellers holds its own.

B2B alternative accommodations rental platform for business tourism recently earned EUR 1.5 million (US$1.86 million) in its latest fundraiser.

Information and communications technology (ICT) has made its mark in many industries. The hotel and hospitality industry is no exception to this, with everything from reservations to house management to customer reviews now dependent on ICT. Given that both social media feedback and commentary from friends and family hold significant influence over travellers’ accommodation choices, […]