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Travel Tech Asia 2026: 16 Korean Startups Buyers Should Know
Travel Tech Asia 2026, 21 to 23 October in Singapore, has 50+ exhibitors and a Korean Tourism Startup Centre. Here is who is in the 2026 cohorts and what buyers…
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Google Spirit Airlines data deal: US$10M for an airline’s emails
The Google Spirit Airlines deal values an airline's emails, chats and code at US$10M. Congress questions the employee data in it, a signal for hotels and OTAs.
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Qantas Hotels & Holidays moves to Expedia B2B booking engine
Qantas Loyalty picks Expedia Group B2B to run Qantas Hotels & Holidays and Jetstar Holidays, keeping control of the points. Platform due H1 2027.
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WiT Singapore 2026: eight travel startups from 17 Barcelona finalists
Eight startups chosen from 17 Barcelona finalists pitch at WiT Singapore 2026 in the Global Startup Pitch. People's Choice winners go on to Phocuswright in Fort Lauderdale.
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Luxury Escapes valued at $525m in Ellerston Capital’s 12% stake deal
Ellerston Capital buys a 12% stake in Luxury Escapes in a secondary sale at $525m, targeting a 5% dividend yield and a two-to-three-year exit.
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Indonesia’s SPUN raises US$1.8M to put visas inside OTA checkouts
SPUN, the Indonesian visa startup, embeds its application flow in Klook, Traveloka, Tiket and Nusatrip checkouts. It closed a US$1.8M seed funding round and counts 200 corporate clients.
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dormakaba to buy Alliants, adding 100,000 rooms of guest software
dormakaba has agreed to acquire Alliants, the Southampton guest-experience software firm behind 100,000 hotel rooms. What owners should read into it.
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Seek Sophie enters China with 25 curated Yunnan experiences
Singapore's Seek Sophie enters China with 25 community-led Yunnan experiences after three scouting trips, and names Sichuan, Chongqing and Xinjiang next.
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Carrum raises US$10 million from Uber at a US$168 million valuation
Uber leads a US$10 million Series B into Carrum Mobility, India's largest Uber Black fleet partner, at a US$168 million valuation. Plus two more travel startup funding deals from this…
Daksh Sharma
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