Weekly News Highlight 27 March - 2 April 2017

Online Travel

Traveloka and Go-Jek

PSSI Officially Announced Indonesian Football League Name as ‘Go-Jek Traveloka Liga 1'

Go-Jek Traveloka Liga 1 was named under the name of two main sponsorship companies, Go-Jek and Traveloka. The league will be started on April 15th 2017 in Bandung by using Home and Away competition.

Traveloka

28 Hotels in Joga Received Traveloka Hotel Awards

Traveloka has granted awards to 28 hotels in Jogja for providing the best accommodation experience to guests from January through January to December 2016. Traveloka Country Market Manager, John Safenson said that the awards was Traveloka’s form of commitment to support their hotel partners.

Agoda

Java Paragon Hotel & Residences Received Gold Circle Awards from Agoda

Java Paragon Hotel & Residences had granted Gold Circle Awards 2016 from Agoda on The Top Performing Property based on Customer Feedback and Reviews category. The hotel previously received Top Choice Hotel Surabaya in 2015 by Lianorg.com

Booking.com

Turkish Court Blocked Booking.com Website

Due to the alleged unfair competition from the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies, the Turkish Commercial Court had decided to block the travel website. The Turkish authorities had 2.5 million Turkish Pounds to the company.

Expedia

There was no PR push from the brand within the week.

Tiket.com

Tiket.com Hacked by Young Hackers

Tiket.com suffered Rp 1.9 billion of losses when a hacker allegedly breached its system. The police have successfully arrested the hacker, a 19-year-old junior high school graduate, who attacked Tiket.com website. The perpetrator hacked the Tiket.com server access for PT. Citilink Indonesia on October 11th to 26th, 2017.

Online Commerce

Tokopedia

Tokopedia will Launch Dedicated Page for Semarang Sellers

Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Semarang teams up with Tokopedia to boost SMEs’ business performance in Semarang. The company will hold trainings on internet utilization and will launch dedicated page for Semarang sellers.

Lazada

Lazada-Unilever Teams Up to Boost E-Commerce Market Share

Lazada Group is teaming up with Unilever in their first e-commerce cross-functional alliance to generate rapid growth for both businesses across Southeast Asia. The partnership will set new standards in customer experience, supply chain and digital marketing, while reaching a lot more consumers across Southeast Asia.

Online Transportation

Go-Jek

Go-Jek Officially Announced its Partnership with Blue Bird

To strengthen coalition between industry players, Go-Jek and Blue Bird launched Go-BlueBird, a special feature to book Blue Bird taxis via the Go-Jek app, where users will be able to pay for taxi fare using Go-Jek’s cashless payment service, Go-Pay. For Go-BlueBird customers, the service will be using the conventional taxi-meter system while customers who booked the taxi via Go-Car service will be using Go-Jek’s fare system.

Grab

Petronas and Grab Introduce Kad Mesra Grab Loyalty Programme

Petronas Dagangan Berhad (PDB) and Grab Malaysia have signed a long term strategic partnership, by launching Kad Mesra Grab as their new loyalty programme. The loyalty program will offer fuel savings as well as special lubricant deals. In addition, the loyalty program also offers Kedai Mesra promotions and can earn reward points for all purchases done at Petronas stations nationwide.