Southeast Asian Superapp Grab’s Next Destination: Your Whole Journey
Photo Credit: A passenger boarding a Grab Taxi. Grab
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Grab is inching deeper into travel planning, using AI at scale to keep users inside its app. OTAs may be worried.
Southeast Asian superapp Grab is making a play for the region’s booming travel market. The Singapore-headquartered company launched 13 AI-powered products at its annual GrabX showcase in Jakarta on Wednesday, four of them targeting travel.
“With more than 200 million passengers moving through Southeast Asia's airports every year, Grab is expanding from solving individual travel moments to delivering a more end-to-end travel experience,” the company said in a statement.
The announcement comes as Southeast Asia welcomed 144 mill