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4 Oct 2026The Weekly Digest

Weekly Digest: India’s digital tourism stack and who gets AI bookings

Five stories from the week: India's National Digital Tourism Stack, Thai Airways' CEO exit, an agentic AI travel hackathon, Airbnb's AI agent stance and Mews guest automation.

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1 Oct 2026Events

HICAP 2026 Singapore: 5 reasons hotel investors should attend

HICAP 2026 Singapore runs 20 to 22 October at the Fairmont and Swissotel The Stamford, with India, Japan and China sessions and a tech brief for owners.

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29 Sep 2026Technology

MakeMyTrip’s Price Drop Protection: the Rs 229 bet on falling fares

MakeMyTrip's new Price Drop Protection adds a third paid cover to the flight checkout, for Rs 229 a head. What it pays, where it stops, and what it means for…

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28 Sep 2026Startups

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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27 Sep 2026The Weekly Digest

Weekly Digest: Agoda, Dextr AI’s US$6.7M and Thailand’s THIM app

Agoda's AI assistant, Dextr AI's US$6.7M seed, Thailand's THIM app, Japan's US$343.1B tourism pact and Skift's call for a single AI conversation.

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25 Sep 2026Analysis: Five moves

Klook’s secret sauce: 5 moves behind Visa, Mastercard and Cloudbeds

Klook signed Mastercard, Visa and Cloudbeds in 28 days. Five things the Hong Kong experiences platform did that other suppliers did not, with numbers.

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23 Sep 2026Startups

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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22 Sep 2026Technology

Amap and Singapore Tourism Board launch 104-place Street Stars guide

Amap and STB's Singapore Street Stars puts 104 places into seven AI-ranked lists inside the app 170 million Chinese users open daily, as China arrivals rise 9.4%.

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21 Sep 2026Startups

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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