Drew Baker
7 Feb 2023
On February 2, 2023, airasia Super App announced a direct partnership with the Southeast Asia’s largest hotel management group – Archipelago International. The Memorandum of Understand (MOU) partnership signing ceremony – a signing with over 40,00 rooms and residences across over 200 Southeast Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Oceans location – was at The Grove Suites Jakarta on January 31, 2023.
This direct hotel partnership paves the way for supporting airasia Super App’s efforts to support the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy’s target of 7.4 million foreign tourist visits to Indonesia in 2023 and allows airasia Super App user to access many leading Archipelago International properties – including ASTON, The Alana, Kamuela, Harper, Quest, NEO, fave, and Powered by Archipelago.
The MOU signing was attended by airasia Super App Emerging Markets Head Lim Ben-Jie, Archipelago International President & CEO John M Flood, and Archipelago International Commercial Vice President Chris Legaspi.
Airasia Super App Emerging Markets Head Lim Ben-Jie said, uniting strong brand presence and extensive network will create a symbiosis of mutualism that benefits all stakeholders while also contributing to Indonesian tourism industry growth supports.
Mr. Ben Jie said, this wide connectivity partnership, with its robust ecosystem, reemphasizes airasia Super App’s strength to optimize its 51 million passenger and 1.25 million daily active user database. In addition to this, airasia Super App connected with more than 700 global airlines – allowing more cross-sell marketing opportunities and increased right-targeted hotel partner visibility presentation.
Archipelago International President & CEO John M Flood said, we are proud to be one of the aviation leaders’ partners and with the post-pandemic travel industry steadily increasing, as travel confidence grows, Archipelago is gearing up to welcome the greater traveler influx. Archipelago actively support the Indonesian tourism industry’s growth and promotion.
Mr. Flood said, the symbiotic partnership greatly aligns with Archipelago’s distribution and network capability expansion goal, and goal to be guests preferred hospitality company.
Currently, the airasia Super App inventory has more than 700,000 hotels worldwide. The app offers a user value ‘Best Price Guarantee’ – for airasia hotel reservations -, an airasia products and services transaction points system, and SNAP packages – flight and hotel reservations combinations.
Airasia Super App Travel Head Hendry Prianto said, airasia Super App will explore further hotel partnerships, both throughout Indonesia and globally, while presenting attractive, varied user programs. airasia will continuously focus on developing priority tourist destinations – starting from the Bali Island through the #AyokemBali campaign.
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