Casto Travel’s text message-based mobile travel assistant “Marco” is completing 60 percent of the current users’ bookings without human intervention, said president and CEO Marc Casto.
Despite the success, some OTA platforms lack transparency in terms of information disclosure and find it hard to manage some contracted travel agencies with malpractices.
The top priority is to provide best user experience.
New report says Chinese travel consumers are far ahead of curve compared to the rest of the world, living in a predominantly mobile society, favoring on-the-go payment solutions and online shopping.
Withlocals has more than 1,200 bookable private tours on its platform, covering 24 cities globally. Research says that the market for personalized tours will be worth $6.8 billion a year by 2020.
Payments made in European stores using the Chinese mobile payment app Alipay increased six-fold over this month's Golden Week, according to the tech company.
Book direct looks to be on life support in the Chinese market as more than 70% of Chinese digital bookings are made through OTAs according to EyeforTravel’s Chinese Travel Consumer Report 2017-2018.
Winding Tree helps Lufthansa Group enable all innovative partners who develop cutting-edge travel applications to access these offers via a decentralized and intermediate-free travel marketplace.