Articles tagged “Klook”

Online Travel

Viator, GetYourGuide, and Klook Push for Day Tour Dominance: 2024 Outlook

Lots of talk about profitability but very little intention of going public. These are the emerging trends we're keeping an eye on for these three key tours and activities online platforms.

Selene Brophy, Skift | 2 days ago

Viator, GetYourGuide, and Klook Push for Day Tour Dominance: 2024 Outlook

Tourism

Taylor Swift’s Singapore Concert Sparks Tourism Boom in Southeast Asia

For an events-led tourism destination like Singapore, the Taylor Swift concert has been music to the coffers, errr… ears!

Peden Doma Bhutia | 5 days ago

Taylor Swift’s Singapore Concert Sparks Tourism Boom in Southeast Asia

Online Travel

Klook Raises $210 Million to Compete With Viator and GetYourGuide

Klook turning profitable is good news. And the travel startup's failure to get additional follow-on funding from troubled backer Softbank is unsurprising. Klook has made great strides, but it must someday find an exit for its early investors.

Sean O'Neill | 3 weeks ago

Klook Raises $210 Million to Compete With Viator and GetYourGuide

Online Travel

Booking.com Executive on Addressing Payment Failures and Return of the Chinese Traveler

The online travel scene in Asia characterized by fierce competition and high stakes. Booking.com knows that it needs to sort the payment issue and make sure any lingering concerns are put to rest if it wants to stay ahead in the game in the region.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 months ago

Booking.com Executive on Addressing Payment Failures and Return of the Chinese Traveler

Tour Operators

Klook Targets Growth in China and Gen Z Travelers

With Gen Z and Millennials making up most of Klook's audience, the experiences marketplace is heavily focused on these groups' spending habits and shifting approaches to discovering new trip ideas.

Selene Brophy | 3 months ago

Klook Targets Growth in China and Gen Z Travelers

News Blog

Klook’s New Animal Welfare Policy Puts Cruelty-Free Experiences in Focus

Online travel marketplace Klook is ending the sale of certain exploitative wildlife attractions on its platform, with a new animal welfare policy, set to come into effect on 31 October. The experiences platform will stop selling circus-style performances involving elephants, dolphins, and tigers, animal shows performances, and animal-photo experiences. It has since removed experiences for…

Selene Brophy | 4 months ago

Online Travel

Lucrative Opportunities in Tours, Activities and Experiences: New Skift Research

The tours, activities & experiences market is a lucrative and under-explored opportunity in the travel industry. Its high fragmentation, influx of small suppliers, and rapid shift from offline to online makes it a goldmine for online intermediaries to gain market share from traditional offline players

Pranavi Agarwal | 5 months ago

Lucrative Opportunities in Tours, Activities and Experiences: New Skift Research

Tour Operators

Klook and Almosafer Partnership Ups Access to Saudi Arabia’s Tours and Activities

The fragmentation of the tours and activities sector is an issue for destinations across the globe. But as Saudi Arabia pushes to reinvent its tourism offering, it sees digital booking and distribution as essential to growing its tourism numbers.

Selene Brophy | 6 months ago

Klook and Almosafer Partnership Ups Access to Saudi Arabia’s Tours and Activities

Tour Operators

Southeast Asia’s Fragmented Tours Sector Gets Long-Awaited Tech Upgrade

Southeast Asia, known for its tech-savvy, mobile first consumers, has an experiences sector that is 80 percent offline, presenting widespread opportunities for the region's tours and activities landscape to become digitized. Stat.

Selene Brophy | 9 months ago

Southeast Asia’s Fragmented Tours Sector Gets Long-Awaited Tech Upgrade

Online Travel

Google Expands Its Things to Do Feature Deeper Into Maps

Step by step, inch by inch, Google is becoming more central to the tours and activities sector. We've seen this playbook before.

Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago

Google Expands Its Things to Do Feature Deeper Into Maps