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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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IATA Macao 2026: 5 reasons airlines cannot skip 28 to 29 October
IATA takes its joint World Financial and World Passenger Symposiums to Macao on 28 and 29 October 2026. Five reasons airline teams should be there.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Weekly Digest: 5 threads for Skift Global Forum 2026, WiT Singapore
Skift Global Forum 2026 opens in New York on Tuesday, WiT Singapore 2026 on 30 September. Five threads this week, from servicing costs to AI-ready hotels.
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Wyndham’s 5-step AI playbook: own agents in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
Wyndham's AI strategy puts its own agents inside ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini with live rates and loyalty perks, rewriting its feeds around how travellers search.
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ixigo Smart Lock: 5 things built years before the Rs 99 fare agent
ixigo Smart Lock hunts a fare inside your budget for Rs 99 and holds it for four hours. The five things that made the agent possible were built earlier.
Daksh Sharma
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