This MOU will add over 40,000 hotel rooms and residences in over 200 locations across Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Oceania into the airasia Super App. Direct hotel partnership paves the way to help achieve the target of 7.4 million foreign tourist visits to Indonesia.
JAKARTA – airasia Super App announced a direct partnership with Archipelago International, one of the largest hotel management groups in Southeast Asia, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony at The Grove Suites by GRAND ASTON, Jakarta.
This partnership has expanded the airasia Super App hotel booking platform’s portfolio by more than 40,000 rooms and residences in over 200 locations across Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Now, airasia Super App users can access a number of leading properties under Archipelago International, including ASTON, The Alana, Kamuela, Harper, Quest, NEO, fave, and Powered by Archipelago. The MOU signing was attended by the Head of Emerging Markets airasia Super App, Lim Ben-Jie, President & CEO of Archipelago International, John M Flood, and Vice President of Commercial Archipelago International, Chris Legaspi.
This partnership also stands as one of airasia Super App’s efforts as an OTA and hotel booking platform to support the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy’s target of 7.4 million foreign tourist visits to Indonesia in 2023, especially since the reopening of Indonesia’s borders for international tourists from China in post-pandemic.
Head of Emerging Markets airasia Super App, Lim Ben-Jie, commented, “We gladly welcome the collaboration between airasia Super App and Archipelago International. By uniting both our strong brand presence and extensive network, we believe this partnership will be a symbiosis of mutualism that benefits all stakeholders, as well as being our real contribution to supporting the growth of the Indonesian tourism industry.”
“As an OTA with over 700 carriers on our platform, complemented by the wide connectivity of AirAsia airline and the robust travel ecosystem that we have, this partnership reemphasizes the strength of airasia Super App for hotel partners to optimize our database of up to 51 million users and the 1.25 million daily active users who are looking for travel deals. Our unique end-to-end travel booking experience for users allows the airasia Super App to present more cross-sell marketing opportunities and increase visibility for direct hotel partners in reaching the right target market,” he continued.
President & CEO of Archipelago International, John M Flood, said, “The travel industry is steadily recovering after the pandemic, and Archipelago is gearing up to welcome the greater influx of travellers this year as the confidence to travel grows. We are proud to partner with one of the aviation leaders in Asia, connecting Archipelago hotels and airasia Super App users.”
He added, “This symbiotic partnership greatly aligns with our goals this year of expanding our distribution and network capabilities and becoming the preferred hospitality company for guests. We at Archipelago are excited and ready to welcome travellers to our more than 40,000 rooms and residences in over 200 locations. Being the largest hotel management group in the Southeast Asian region, we also actively support the growth and promotion of the Indonesian tourism industry.”
Currently, the airasia Super App has inventories of more than 700,000 hotels worldwide. As an integrated travel platform, the airasia Super App offers more value to users with ‘Best Price Guaranteed’ for airasia hotel reservations, the airasia points system that applies to transactions across products and services within the application and combines AirAsia flight tickets with the best hotel reservation prices in airasia SNAP package.
For airasia hotels’ new users who are planning to go on vacation or staycation, enjoy super great deals with RM20 off with the promo code WELCOME20 if you make a booking via the website (airasia.com) or WELCOMEAPP if you book via airasia Super App. Members will earn airasia points for all transactions on the airasia Super App. Use them like cash to redeem for flight ticket bookings (airasia flights), e-hailing transportation (airasia ride), online food delivery (airasia food), duty-free and lifestyle products (airasia shop), digital gifts (airasia gifts), and many more.
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