STAAH bridges its growing base of 20,000+ customers to travelers across Asia, thanks to the company’s latest partnership and integration with Klook, Asia’s leading platform for experiences and travel services.
Asia’s travel recovery is back on track, with the travel market expected to grow over 5% resulting in a market volume projection of US$402 billion by 2028, a majority of which will be hotel transactions. STAAH and Klook has joined hands to capture this growing demand, connecting Klook’s global reach with STAAH’s online distribution platform, the Max Channel Manager, to reach more travelers from Asia and beyond. The platform hosts over 500 online booking channels, and offers a real-time, two-way connection to some of the world’s top property management systems and central reservation systems to enable seamless delivery of rates, availability and reservations for hotels. Combined with STAAH’s integrations to leading revenue management systems, connected hoteliers can benefit from a seamlessly integrated technology stack ensuring an enhanced guest experience.
“We are very excited to partner with STAAH, a a well-known hotel distribution and booking platform, to enhance the number of Stay offerings for our customers. Our focus is on delivering a holistic travel experience across the various touchpoints for our customers, which include hotel stays, and this collaboration will allow more hotel partners to leverage our global reach and tap onto our robust user base in Asia. Together with our unique bundling strategy alongside the experiences and services offered on our platform, we can enable our customers to enjoy a more seamless and integrated experience while on their journeys.” says Emma Lee, Hotels Lead from Klook.
Through this collaboration, STAAH’s partner hotels can explore marketing their offerings via Klook’s owned online channels and other strategic paid campaigns to reach a wider global audience. Klook currently sees over 65 million monthly visitors across its platforms, with Gen Z and millennial travelers making up majority of its user base. Focusing on markets including Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and rapidly expanding into other markets in Asia Pacific, Klook has curated Stay+ hotel packages which bundle hotel rooms with popular experiences, transport options, and travel essentials available on its platform to enhance the overall traveler journey.
Under this initiative with over 10,000 Stay+ packages and counting, Klook offers travelers greater value and choices when booking a hotel stay. Additionally, to better cater to the next generation of travelers comprising of Gen Zs and millennials, Klook has established an industry-first affiliate program and community (Klook Kreators) comprising of over 16,000 micro and nano content creators to generate authentic social media travel content on 8 platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Little Red Book and more.
STAAH’s Head of Connectivity, Adam Walsh, says, “We are pleased to partner with Klook.com and provide our hotel customers yet another channel where they can market their offerings and inventory. Klook’s focus on experiences and bundling is a great way of broadening the distribution beyond just rooms to a more holistic experience, aligning well with the changing demand and digital-savviness of the modern customer.”
Hotels connected to STAAH’s network can easily integrate with Klook via their dashboard, following a simple and fast onboarding process where all rates and inventory are updated in real time,allowing the hotels unlock more bookings together with Klook.
For queries about the Klook integration, please reach out to your STAAH account manager for more details.
About Klook
Klook is Asia’s leading platform for experiences and travel services. We curate quality experiences ranging from attractions and tours to local transport and experiential stays, in over 2,700 destinations globally. Founded in 2014, we are here to inspire and enable more moments of joy for travelers anytime, anywhere.