Traveloka Xperience Launches Movie Booking in Thailand and Continues Broadening Local Lifestyle Offerings across Southeast Asia

BANGKOK, 11 November 2019 – Traveloka, SEA’s leading digital travel & lifestyle platform, in partnership with Thailand’s largest movie theatre operator Major Cineplex, has launched Movies under Traveloka Xperience for its Thailand users. The Movies product will allow users to book and purchase seated tickets for pre-sold and premiered movies as well as discover upcoming movies. This is another step forward towards Traveloka’s vision to help its customers discover and book their lifestyle needs, not only when traveling but also at their home location.

Henry Hendrawan, President, Traveloka Group Operations, said, “We are excited to announce the launch of Movies under Traveloka Xperience with Major Cineplex in Thailand. Apart from a seamless movie booking experience, users will also be able to pay using multiple channels available on Traveloka today. This is a testament to our commitment to fulfill a broad range of lifestyle needs for our customers in Southeast Asia whether they are traveling outbound or staying local. This launch also showcases the importance of Thailand and the inroads that we have made in this exciting market. We will continue to bring forth more exciting products and services in Thailand to further establish Traveloka as its comprehensive travel and lifestyle platform”

Narute Jiensnong, Chief Marketing Officer of Major Cineplex Group PLC, stated “Major Cineplex is honoured to partner with Traveloka, one of the largest and fastest-growing travel and lifestyle platforms in Southeast Asia and Thailand. This partnership will provide customers in Thailand a convenient way to discover and book movie tickets via the Traveloka app.”

Tee Chayakul, Country Manager, Traveloka Thailand, who added, "One of the most popular indulgent weekend activities amongst Thais is watching movies at the cinema with their friends and family. However, we recognize there are still a lot of pain points in the whole customer journey. We hope the launch of Movies under Traveloka Xperience will improve the experience of our Thai customers in discovering and booking movies.”

Sylvia Gunawan, Vice President Revenue & Growth, Traveloka Xperience, said “Traveloka continues to further its commitment to roll out technology innovations for users to discover the world as frictionless as possible through our travel & lifestyle products. Earlier in June 2019, we introduced Traveloka Xperience to the Thailand market. Today, we proudly announced our strategic partnerships with Major Cineplex to launch Movies, a new category under Traveloka Xperience. Now customers can not only discover and book attractions, spa & massage parlors, dining experience, or tours, but also movie tickets that are still on pre-sale or premiered in Thailand. This enables Thais to explore and enjoy various things to do, even without leaving their hometown."

Traveloka Xperience is currently available in all interfaces, including mobile application as well as desktop and mobile website, and locally present in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Australia. Traveloka Xperience provides more than 20,000 travel and lifestyle products in more than 300 destinations worldwide. Movies under Traveloka Xperience is expected to enhance the lifestyle of Thais through features such as early discovery of upcoming movies, seat booking and purchase of pre-sold as well as premiered movies, reliable payment channels, and instant confirmation with scan & go feature at the entrance. Moreover, Traveloka's customer service also offers 24-hour support in local language. Combined with a very interesting pipeline of new products and services which Traveloka will launch in Thailand in the future, it expects to become the travel and lifestyle partner of choice for all Thais.

For further information and updates, please visit www.traveloka.com/th-th or www.facebook.com/TravelokaTH