Travel search leader Skyscanner partners with Smart

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If there’s one thing we Filipinos love more than good food, its finding good deals, especially when it comes to travel.

Now, Pinoys who love to travel can easily find the lowest airfares as global travel search engine, Skyscanner, forges a partnership with Smart Communications to provide the best travel options and mobile deals.

skyscannerSmart, through its subsidiary Voyager Innovations, Inc. (Voyager), is now Skyscanner’s first and exclusive mobile partner in the Philippines as it moves to expand in the South-East Asian region to capture more of the tech-savvy millennial traveler market. Skyscanner has unparalleled regional and international coverage of travel options from which Smartcan benefit.

For Skyscanner, the alliance represents an opportunity to further expand its existing presence in Philippines, adding to the rapid growth it already enjoys across the Asia Pacific region. Travelers are looking for a single, simple, and trustworthy source to help them find the right travel solution at the right price.

“We wanted a partner that gives access to a lot of its user base and Smart has 57 million users and growing,” Cocker said. “And the Philippines is a special market. Online travel agency is still very much on its infancy here and there’s a huge opportunity. We’re paying close attention to it in the first few months.”

While there are no big changes to the Skyscanner experience–yet– SMART said they have a lot of things planned out for their subscribers in the near future.

But for now, you can easily create a theme song and playlist  for your next itinerary as Smart subscribers who search for flights using Skyscanner’s powerful search engine will have the opportunity to get a free 1-month VIP music subscription to SPINNR, the country’s leading mobile music streaming app.

Skyscanner’s unbiased, comprehensive and free search service meets that need, with features such as “search everywhere” and price alerts, making it one of the most powerful travel companions for globetrotters.

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“We’re happy to partner with Skyscanner here in the Philippines, which enables us to offer Filipino travelers the best travel deals along with our entire suite of innovative mobile services,” said Orlando B. Vea, Chief Wireless Advisor at Smart and President at Voyager. “This forms part of our continuing commitment to allow our subscribers to ‘live more’ as they travel more in and out of the country.”

“We know that Filipinos want an independent and free tool to help them find the right trip for them at the right price without missing a deal. So we have partnered with the country’s largest mobile network to deliver them just that, as well as unique mobile experiences while they travel,” said Andy Sleigh, General Manager, Skyscanner APAC.smart

To avail of the promotion, users only have to access the Skyscanner search engine online (www.skyscanner.com.ph), look for the article about the Skyscanner-Smart partnership, spot the “word of the day,” and text the word to the number indicated in the article.

Winners of this promo will be given a full-month’s access to millions of songs for streaming on their mobile devices with no additional data charges. Subscribers may also listen to Skyscanner’s own Travel Playlist with hip tunes fit for Filipino travelers exclusively via SPINNR.

SPINNR is a homegrown Filipino music portal and mobile streaming service that enables Smart, Talk ‘N Text, and Sun Cellular subscribers to download and stream millions of songs for as low as P2.50 per day or P49 a month without any additional data charges. SPINNR apps are available on iOS and Android devices, as well as on the Web via www.spinnr.ph.

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