Travelogy interviewed by SG@Entrepeneurs on trends in Asia’s booming tourism industry
Farzana Fattah Farzana is a student at Singapore Management University who’s currently wondering what on earth she’s doing with her life. When not nerding out over the latest superhero movie or scrolling through memes on Tumblr, she is almost definitely researching random places across the globe and daydreaming about the next holiday destination. She is inspired by the variety of cultures in the world and hopes to travel to at least fifty countries in her lifetime to experience most of them.
Asians are getting wealthier, and the Asian tourism sector is one of the fastest growing in the world. At the same time, they’re also getting more Internet savvy, and while infrastructure in developing countries are lacking, that has not stopped them from accessing the Internet in droves through their mobile phones.
These two trends present tantalizing opportunities for startups who want to reach out to a new generation of young Asian travelers with increasingly sophisticated tastes. And indeed, many startups in Singapore and Asia are starting to do so.
Here, we survey some of the interesting travel startups in Singapore, and tease out some trends that may very well represent the future of Asia’s booming tourism industry.
Expect more travel deals and rewards that can be redeemed online.
Travelogy, a travel startup that operates travel sites ComeSingapore.com and TripZilla.com, is also using daily deals to draw visitors in.
ComeSingapore.com is a comprehensive site that offers visitors to Singapore information on places of attraction, upcoming events, and hotel accomodations in the country. The site also aggregate deals to local places in Singapore. TripZilla.com (formerly known as TourPackages.com.sg), with over 300,000 pageviews a month, is more outward focused: It offers Singaporeans a large database of tour packages and deals to other locations.
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