WIDEBED Announces 3 New Short-Stay Choices In Johor Bahru In Latest Expansion
WIDEBED is experiencing strong growth in their operations throughout the Johor Bahru region and has announced three new partnerships for short stay rentals.
Johor Bahru, Malaysia, February 14, 2018 /PRWIRE.asia/ -- WIDEBED has announced partnerships with three new owners and developers to offer more staycation choices in Johor Bahru. The new partnerships will allow WIDEBED to offer a greater range of short-term rental choices in the region than ever before while providing the owners and developers with a hands-off revenue stream. Each comes with unique features and facilities in convenient locations, ensuring a perfect match for every traveler’s needs.
The first addition is Pinnacle Tower, offering 38 stories of luxury serviced apartments, replete with an infinity pool, gym, and more. The developer appointed WIDEBED to make a selection of the apartments available for short-term lease. In the center of Johor Bahru, its low population density makes it a quiet oasis amidst the vibrancy of the city beyond.
The second is Setia Sky 88, where individual owners, with the support of the developer, appoint WIDEBED to lease their apartments. This makes family-friendly facilities available including sauna, steam room, gym, karaoke, music room, and even a private cinema. The tallest building in the city also offers the most breathtaking panoramic skylines.
The final addition is the Country Garden Danga Bay. WIDEBED is in partnership with developer-appointed RT Management, to manage short-term rentals for the luxury serviced apartments which come with access to a clubhouse, private beach, and ready access to its own mall making it perfect for shopaholics. Danga Bay is perfect for those who wish to maximize the vacation elements of their staycation.
WIDEBED guest Miss Ong remarked, “I really love the seamless short stay experience provided by WIDEBED. Booking is easy and the whole experience is near perfect. The check in and check out process was simple and fast. We had zero wait time throughout our stay. The place is clean and well equipped with all the conveniences required for daily living, including washer and dryer. It’s a great choice for a short stay compared to others.”
The new location acquisitions are evidence that WIDEBED’s expansion into JB region is growing strongly and steadily. Their current regions of service including Kuala Lumpur, Subang USJ, and Petaling Jaya are also parallelly growing strong. Bookings can be made at http://shortstay.com.my
About WIDEBED: WIDEBED offers a comprehensive short-term rental property management and concierge service to property owners in Malaysia and beyond. The company helps property owners in major cities, maximize their rental income while ensuring there is zero-stress in making accommodation available to travelers of all persuasions. Their service is active 24/7 and aims to take care of everything expected by both the property owners and the guests. For more information please visit: http://widebed.com
Contact Information:
Name: Ivan Chong
Organization: WIDEBED SDN BHD
Website: www.widebed.com
Email: inquiry@widebed.com
WIDEBED Partner With Ezee To Accelerate Business Growth With New IT Initiative
WIDEBED has announced a collaboration with Ezee to advance its booking and channel management system in alignment with WIDEBED’s 2018 focus.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February 12, 2018 /PRWIRE.asia/ -- WIDEBED is set to expand their marketing channels across industry-known names like Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia, Asia Rooms, HomeAway and more, thanks to a new partnership with eZee Technosys, a hospitality IT solution provider. The collaboration brought to international guest utmost convenience to access to WIDEBED’s services through the common booking platforms that are already familiar with. eZee’s partnership with regionally popular Online Travel Agencies including Wotif from Australia and Ctrip from China will also further help WIDEBED’s branding to set foot into these regional markets across the globe.
eZee’s technological advantages will enable WIDEBED to further improve operational efficiency and cross-channel inventory management. By integrating all booking management functions into a single unified platform, WIDEBED can eliminate typical cross-platform challenges including room rate parity maintenance, over/double-booking of properties, and information update syncing.
Teams from both WIDEBED and eZee are looking to develop a comprehensive management system that elevate short stay management operational efficiency.
In addition to their management platform, the company is also developing a mobile application for operational communications within the team, helping to create a more seamless experience for staff, property owners and guests. The app will allow staff to manipulate details, make updates and check inventory status on the go. CEO Ivan Chong sees this to be especially helpful as anytime a new marketing campaign is to be rolled out, the team can easily update the room’s rate through the smartphone app, skipping the hassle to update multiple platforms manually.
This new partnership is only the beginning of the company’s plans for greater technological integration. In an earlier announcement, the team was developing a short stay management system that provide real-time transparency for multi-properties management. With eZee’s technology onboard, WIDEBED’s management system will also be enhanced with a real-time rental status for the owner, with automated owner statements and report generation, enabling property owners to get precise information with ease, and offer industry leading transparency to clients.
Ivan explained, “We are delighted to announce our partnership with eZee, as a major stepping stone in achieving the objectives outlined in our 2018 focus. We aspire to provide quality short-stay experiences for every guest, while protecting the benefits to the property owner. That is the driving force behind the optimization of our internal capabilities. Doing so ensures we enhance our service quality for all parties. We look forward to taking our guests and property owners’ experiences to the next level of satisfaction.”
About WIDEBED: WIDEBED offers a comprehensive short-term rental property management and concierge service to property owners in Malaysia and beyond. The company helps property owners in major cities, maximize their rental income while ensuring there is zero-stress in making accommodation available to travelers of all persuasions. Their service is active 24/7, and aims to take care of everything expected by both the property owners and the guests. For more information please visit: http://widebed.com
Contact Information:
Name: Ivan Chong
Organization: WIDEBED SDN BHD
Website: www.widebed.com
Email: inquiry@widebed.com
WideBed To Expand Throughout SEA & Uplift Real Estate Management Industry In 2018
Celebrating key milestones achieved in 2017, WideBed has announced ambitious plans to transform their service provision in the coming year, including multinational expansion.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 29, 2017 /PRWIRE.asia/ -- Short-stay property & guest management service provider WideBed has today announced their intention to bring their services to Thailand and Cambodia in 2018, headlining a series of ambitious goals for the year ahead. The company has taken time at the year’s end to celebrate the many milestones they have achieved over the last twelve months, while detailing their ambitious plans to scale up the business and its service provision in the coming year, promising twelve months of new breakthroughs across three categories: current geographical boundaries, the current industry landscape and the current target customers.
Wider service coverage. Since its inception, WideBed is aspired to be the ultimate short-stay property & guest management service provider in Southeast Asia. The team has expanded across key locations within Malaysia including Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya, Johor as well as Sabah in 2017. In 2018, the team is finalizing their plans to expand into other Southeast Asia countries like Thailand and Cambodia.
Pioneering Short Term Rental Management. They aim to redefine the professional standard and exceed customer expectations, to set the bar for service excellence in the industry for the next generation. The company has already started the Malaysia PropTech Association, to bring together all other players in the real estate management industry, including legal services and renovations service providers, to raise standards industry-wide. WideBed will continue to proactively collaborate with others business partners or similar management company on this initiative.
WideBed is one of the founding members of Malaysia PropTech Association.
Win-Win Situations For Both House Owners And Management Companies. The company is developing a management system that helps all players to better manage properties in bulk. In 2018, they will further improve this system with unparalleled transparency, providing a clear picture of the rental status and other information about managed properties.
New Guest Targeting. The company formerly focused only on tourists as the key customer group. In 2018, the company will focus on new customer profiles, including local business travelers, staycationers including digital nomads, experience travelers and more. They will target these demographics with a direct booking site designed to raise awareness internationally.
WideBed’s properties are well equipped to suit different travelers’ needs. Most units comes with kitchen and laundry facilities to make their guests feel as comfortable as at home.
This work will be built on a foundation of key milestones achieved in 2017. Highlights include:
Ivan Chong, CEO of WideBed explained, “We are committed to changing the game in property management, permanently and for the better. We have achieved significant developments in the last year, but we are more excited than ever by our prospects for 2018, where 2017’s hard work will begin to pay dividends and we can do bigger and better work than ever before.”
Ivan Chong, CEO of WideBed sharing his view on Malaysia short term rental market on Shareda CEO Roundtable Conference 2017.
About WideBed: WideBed offers a comprehensive short-term rental property management and concierge service to property owners in Malaysia and beyond. The company helps property owners in major cities, maximize their rental income while ensuring there is zero-stress in making accommodation available to travelers of all persuasions. Their service is active 24/7, and aims to take care of everything expected by both the property owners and the guests. For more information please visit: http://widebed.com/
Contact Information:
Name: Ivan Chong
Organization: WideBed Sdn Bhd
Website: www.widebed.com
Email: inquiry@widebed.com
McParadise set to make on-demand tour a seamless experience for everyone
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 19, 2017 /PRWIRE.asia/ -- Tours and activity booking mobile app startup, McParadise, is planning for its official launch end of this year. The latest mobile app features location based on-demand activity booking, allowing travellers to book any activity nearby them at the eleventh hour.
Formerly Tourders, McParadise work hand-in-hand with local operators to serve their customers with on-demand activity booking.
McParadise, formerly known as Tourders, has served more than 5,000 happy customers in the tours and activity industry in the past one and a half years. While previously focused on delivering customised tours, with the new identity, the Malaysian startup will now deliver location based on-demand activity booking through mobile application. This is made possible through FIT’s Mobile phone GPS with activities location database, detecting and suggesting activities around based on algorithm.
“Our aspiration is to help every traveller enjoy the best experience on ground. At times, travellers may not have a pre-planned itinerary, we fill this gap by providing them quick and ready access on-demand tours and activity.” said Joseph Toh, the founder and CEO of McParadise.
The mobile app is strategically designed as an answer to the current travel trend, where travellers have gone on-demand and made decisions “last minute”.
“We find that the travellers nowadays are very mobile-dependent, favour instant gratification and prefer last minute booking when it comes to activity planning. Hence to answer to the trend, we designed this mobile application to perfectly match this trend.” said Raymond Lok, COO of McParadise.
McParadise makes on-demand travel as easy as clicking a few buttons on your smartphone.
“Even for travellers with an agenda, they are bound to have fragments of free time they wish to fill up. Or at times, a pre-planned itinerary may be affected by unforeseen events thus creating free time. McParadise is the obvious app to help fill up those free times.” he added.
With the mobile app, travellers can quickly find activities available around them and join immediately, allowing travellers to fill up their time whenever they feel the need to. What’s more, the mobile app also facilitates the purchase of e-ticket on many travel spots, removing the need to queue for ticket. Such convenience provides seamless online to offline experience for travellers and empowers them with a full control over their travel itinerary.
McParadise is currently in work with destination partners from popular travelling hot spots like Sabah and Kuala Lumpur to provide activities ranging from hiking, diving, cruising, local experience and many more, within the destination. “No one knows the destination better than the local providers, they are the best person to provide the most complete experience at the destination. This is also the reason why we are not entering the market to compete with them, but to connect and grow together with them.” Joseph elaborated. The mobile application will act as an active sales channel to reach out to travellers, bringing growth opportunity to the existing local activity operators.
When speaking about future plan, Joseph stated “We are working to expand across Malaysia’s popular destinations starting from Sabah, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Langkawi and Malacca. Eventually, we will extend our footprint across the South East Asia region. We welcome all destination partners for collaborations. We would love to meet tour operators who wish to welcome more travellers to their destinations and are seeking growth to their business.”
McParadise mobile app is currently in test in App Store and Google Play. The official launch of the mobile application is expected to be in one month time. Currently activities booking can be made through their website: www.mcparadise.co
About McParadise:
McParadise is an online marketplace that connects experience seekers and local tourism providers by delivering a one-stop-shop booking experiences via its user-centric platforms.
Contact Information:
Name: Joseph Toh
Email: hello@mcparadise.co
Phone: +6014-319 7268
Fei Fei Crab Restaurant – Passion and Persistence Reap Rewards for Award-winning Restaurateur
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 22, 2017 /PRWIRE.asia/ -- Despite having just turned 30 earlier this year, Tan Nam Kun or as he knows to his fans, Chef Minamikon, still looks boyish and has the demeanour of the friendly, dependable young man next door. Although he has achieved massive fame with multiple seafood restaurants spread throughout Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru, received three entrepreneurship business awards and is said to be the “Culinary Crab King”, he has not let glory get to his head.
Tan shares that life has always been challenging from young as he did not come from a rich family. He had to build his business empire from ground zero, learning the ropes and fine-tuning his skills and knowledge day by day.
Initially trained in multimedia design, operating a food business, what more, a gourmet crab and seafood restaurant was never in his mind 10 years ago. After graduating from college and starting his first job doing multimedia in a TV station, he felt cooped up and could not see the future.
Reflecting deeply, he realised that he loved food and decided to leave his training before and start afresh by helping out in a restaurant. He vowed that he would learn the ropes, learn as much as possible and do whatever it took to understand the restaurant business. His perseverance was demonstrated by being one of the earliest to reach work and often he was the last to leave, taking whatever spare time to understand and learn finer culinary skills but also discover how to manage operations and finances.
Tan is indeed an extraordinary, self-made entrepreneur who is deserving of all the recognition and accolades accorded to him. After winning the SME & Entrepreneurship Business Award early this year in the Enterprising Inspiration category, he has gone on to win the International Prestige Brand Award for Best Brand in Crab Restaurant and the China-ASEAN Top Business Award 2017. What is the secret of his success? Good food, good quality, good people. In fact, his Fei Fei Crab chain of restaurants are so popular that long queues are seen during weekends and they even have a no reservation policy.
Tan has never forgotten his roots. He speaks of his childhood days and his dreams of desiring to be his own boss and create financial freedom. Saving every bit of money left from his meagre income and trying to make ends meet, he made sure he understood enough about cooking, operations, management…the whole works.
He soon opened a small stall in a neighbouring food court, testing out his own recipes in crab dishes. Soon he won himself many loyal customers who encouraged him to start out on his own standalone restaurant.
Bootstrapping right from the beginning with only a capital of RM50,000, Tan’s life has never been the same since he opened his first Fei Fei Crab restaurant and today with 8 flourishing outlets, a host of signature dishes and creative new dish innovations, his hopes and dreams are more vibrant than ever hope.
“I hope to open 10 restaurants by end of 2017 and eventually, expand overseas as well”, enthuses Tan. He has even visited neighbouring countries as well as China to evaluate the business prospects and sees ample growth opportunities.
He says that to grow and to maintain customer support, “It is important to always maintain consistently high standards of taste, quality and the customer experience. This is my credo for growth”, enthuses Tan.
“I have never thought of challenges as stressful. Whenever there is a road block or barrier, I just charge forward. I learn from my mistakes and evaluate what to do next. All I know is to just do it. Success is just around the corner. I never give up no matter what circumstances I may be in”, he says.
I also try to network with other like-minded entrepreneurs so that I can learn more and develop my own knowledge and skills at the same time. My business circle has also been greatly enriched as a result.
Tan Nam Kun epitomises true entrepreneurial grit and spirit, an exemplary model to those who wish to start a new business. He is an inspiration to seasoned business owners that change and growth come to those who are hardworking and persistent.
Contact Information:
Name: Dr. Zyro Wong
Organization: Zyro Wong Consultancy
Website: http://zyrowong.com/
Phone Number: +6019-224 9663
Email: me@zyrowong.com
Address: B-1-3A, Kuchai Exchange, Jalan Kuchai Maju 13, Off Jalan Kuchai Lama, 58200 Kuala Lumpur.