Airbnb Launches ‘Neighborhoods’ in Asia, Starting with Bangkok
Home-booking service Airbnb has been in Southeast Asia since late last year, but now the company is ...
Posts Tagged: Travel
Ctrip Confirms Investment in Hotel Booking Mobile App
After rumors had begun to swirl about the two companies, Chinese travel site Ctrip’s vice-chai...
Vietnamese Startup Triip Crowdsources For the Best Tour Guides in Asia
I’m a big fan of collaborative consumption startups like Airbnb, Zipcar, and Coursera because of t...
Baidu-Backed Travel Site Qunar Reportedly Gets $57 Million Funding Round
Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) invested $306 million in Qunar back in the summer of 2011 ...
Interview: Airbnb’s Plans in Southeast Asia (Live Blog)
We’ve seen US-based vacation home rentals site Airbnb pushing into Southeast Asia recently, so...
CheckInTonight Books Your Hotels at the Very Last Minute
Cambodia’s CheckInTonight is a mobile app that helps users find hotels and book them quickly a...
Ctrip’s China Train Ticket Sales Could Be Illegal (But Not for the Reason You’re Thinking)
When I wrote earlier this week that Chinese travel site Ctrip had begun selling train tickets online...
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 st...
Be a Smarter Local With TheSmartLocal.com
A new S$5 million (US$3.95 million) Kickstarter fund was announced during Singapore Budget 2013 back...
Indiescapes: a Curated Marketplace for Authentic Local Travel Experiences
I recently read an article titled “Date A Boy Who Travels”, which reminds me of the female versi...
India’s Traverik Aims to Make Trip Planning a Breeze
Personally, I like planning trips. My copy of the Lonely Planet China guide is pretty dog-eared at t...
ImpulseFlyer Launches iOS App
Singapore’s VIP membership online luxury travel site ImpulseFlyer has launched its iOS app, availa...
Rakuten Travel Sees Huge Revenue Growth in Southeast Asia and China
Rakuten isn’t all about e-commerce or its Kobo e-reader. It also runs Rakuten Travel, an onlin...
HomeAway Makes Third Asian Deal in Tie-Up With Singapore’s Travelmob
Having already buddied up with China’s TuJia and Singapore-based Wego last year, today HomeAwa...
Ctrip Selling Train Tickets Again in Wake of Railway Ministry Absorption News
Yes, the rumors were true: China is dismantling its hilariously corrupt Railway Ministry and absorbi...
India-Based Startup Trip Tern Offers the Most Painless Travel Planning I’ve Ever Seen
For some people, planning a trip down to the last detail is part of the fun. Not everyone enjoys por...
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