China Leads Asia in VC Investments in E-Commerce; Sadly Acquisitions Are a Rare Sight [STATS]
Earlier today we looked at a report that has counted up $6.9 billion in investments among Asian e-commerce sites from 2010 to the present da...
Posts Tagged: travel ecommerce
TuJia Gets Series B Funding For its Vacation Home Rentals Service, HomeAway Again Joins In
After attracting its first major financing in May of last year, the Chinese vacation home rentals startup TuJia has announced today that it ...
Travel Site Burufly Sees Content and Social as Key Strategies
Founded in April of 2012, Indonesia-based travel startup Burufly helps users discover fun places to travel in Indonesia, while making it con...
Among China’s Airbnb Clones, It’s a Battle Between Ants and Little Piggies
Our first two bits of Chinese startup funding news of 2013 could not have gone to companies with weirder names. Beijing-based Xiaozhu.com (m...
India’s MakeMyTrip Continues Push into Thailand with New $3.2M Acquisition
Just a few weeks after India’s MakeMyTrip (NASDAQ:MMYT) acquired the Thailand-based site HotelTravel for $25 million, the travel e-com...
After Wego Investment, Valadoo Relaunches Site and Gets More Social [VIDEO]
Valadoo, an Indonesian online travel service, had a re-launch event last night following the investment made by travel-meta search website W...
Yatra Acquires Travelguru to Boost Its Hotel Offerings
Travel is a hot industry. There are big companies who have gained success in China, and now we’re seeing the same trend following in I...
Quafrica Guides Chinese Travelers Around Africa, In Luxury
There’s another contender in the luxury travel e-commerce sector in China in the form of Quafrica, which specializes in adventure tour...
Asian E-Commerce Sites Net $6.9 Billion in Investment in Past 3 Years, But Exits Still Tiny [STATS]
Asian e-commerce companies have attracted $6.9 billion across 383 deals – through funding, acquisitions, and IPOs – from 2010 to...
India’s HolidayIQ Raises Series C Funding, De-Merges From Singapore’s Wego
Bangalore-based online travel community HolidayIQ has announced today that it has raised series C financing from Tiger Global Management and...
Privepass: Thailand’s Members-only Travel Site Focuses on Experience
Privepass is a members-only travel site that provides its users exclusive travel experiences. The concept is somewhat similar to ImpulseFlye...
HomeAway Brings its Vacation Rentals to Chinese Tourists in TuJia Tie-Up
One of the first Chinese startups I wrote about this year was TuJia, which is an online service for vacation home rentals. Then a few months...
Indonesia’s Tiket Wins AICTA 2012 Startup Award, Shares Latest Stats
Indonesian ticket booking platform Tiket has made some interesting progress since we last talked with them in August. Tiket has bagged a hat...
Ctrip Opens Up a $500 Million Marketing War Chest
Chinese online travel service Ctrip (NASDAQ:CTRP) is setting aside a $500 million war chest for marketing and bargain promotions, anticipati...
Rumor: Ctrip Acquires Travel E-Commerce Rival Feeyo
There’s a rumor in the online travel industry in China that one of its giants, Ctrip (NASDAQ:CTRP), is about to acquire its smaller Ch...
BingDian Hotels App Lets Users Check-In to Auctions, Loyalty Discounts
A new Chinese startup has launched that claims to help hotels sell more directly to consumers and thereby build up better customer loyalty t...
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