Best Travel Activity and Connectivity Platforms 2024

Klook is a travel-related platform from Hong Kong that offers a host of adventures through their individually-tailored itineraries and has more than 60,000 activities across 250 destinations.

Klook also allows purchasing gift cards for corporate or individual use. These gift cards can come in the form of a cash voucher that you can use to purchase attraction tickets, hotel bookings, tour packages and more. Klook also offers multi-attraction city passes for places, such as:

Klook tends to offer the most discounts and coupons and partnerships with banks like Citi and Standard Chartered, as well as credit card companies, providing exclusive and attractive deals every week.

Traveloka is a travel-related platform from Indonesia that is in direct competition with platforms such as Klook, KKday, and Trip.com in the Asian market. They also offer everything travel-related, from hotels to flights to transportation, to tourist attractions and tours, and even COVID-19 tests.

Traveloka offers one of the most competitive rates regarding anything travel-related in Asia. That includes tour packages, tourist attraction tickets, and experience services like spas. They also pride themselves on being transparent in their OTA cost structure.

Like Klook, Traveloka also bundles multiple attractions and their different pricing tiers in packages for certain destinations and attractions, providing substantial savings for those who want to visit multiple tourist attractions at once.

Kkday is a platform from Taiwan that offers fully planned and licensed guided tours in more than 150 different cities. Travellers can also leave public ratings on the site. KKday has hosted more than 30,000 tours and activities in 92 countries. Their itinerary on the website is extremely detailed yet so simplistically intuitive for every tour they offer.

KKday also offers bulk purchasing, which means that if you book a tour or attraction for multiple people, you can get a lower price per person, which is a good offer for those who want to travel in large groups like friends or family.

Agoda is an online travel agency from Singapore that specialises in hotels and flight searches. They have recently expanded themselves into attraction and tour bookings.

Agoda offers the pointMAX programme, where you can link up to 16 different miles and reward programmes, such as Asia Miles and KrisFlyer, and earn reward points whenever you book a hotel.

You can collect miles whenever you book attractions using a miles credit card. For example, the UOB PVRI Miles Credit Card allows you to earn up to 6 miles per 1SGD spent on your booking when you use the platform.

Tripadvisor, as well as Viator and Tripadvisor Experiences, all fall under the umbrella company Tripadvisor; Tripadvisor is one of the best websites to get highly detailed information and reviews on any tours or attraction listing, from itineraries to maps to closest shopping areas. And since they acquired Viator, they also have many activities and tourist site admissions to choose from.

Viator is the world’s largest online marketplace specialising in tours, activities, and attractions. They boast the most tour-related merchants, with over 3,500 partner networks worldwide, so you will not be lacking in various options to choose from in all seven continents. Another benefit from Viator is that they offer more payment styles, such as the book now and pay later feature that is not present in many other platforms.

Trip.com offers a wide variety of tour packages and attractions in the Asian market. Trip.com also provides an all-in-one experience with its seamless website and app experience. From finding attractions to payment to receiving the e-tickets. They also have travel blogs for major destinations that you can read to gain more insight into where you want to head.

Like Klook, you can also purchase gift cards for others that can be used for buying tourist attraction tickets and tours. You can also join their free trip.com Rewards loyalty programme that offers exclusive members-only discounts and long-term savings using the trip.com coins that can be redeemed.

Booking.com is the oldest and currently the biggest online travel agency worldwide. They offer the most variety of attractions and destinations where you can find attractions in the OTA space.

With their origins in Europe, they offer the most bookings in over 266 destinations in the European continent alone, with the biggest cities like London and Paris having more than 500 attractions listed on the website. If you are looking for tourist attractions globally, especially in Europe, booking.com is your platform.

Get Your Guide is an online tour and attraction-oriented platform based in Berlin, Germany. They pride themselves on providing overseas tours that are not extremely popular or are less mainstream, making it a suitable site if you want to stay from the crowds or what a different authentic experience.

They also have a more straightforward review about each tour they provide, making it suitable for someone who prefers to get information to the point.

Expedia is a global online travel agency specialising in hotels and flight bookings. Like Agoda, they have also recently expanded their offerings to travel activities.

Expedia has one of the best loyalty programmes when in the OTA market. For every S$1 you spend on eligible stays, packages, and activities, you earn 1 point (or 2 points if you book via mobile app), which can be redeemed to book for future trips. You can also get 10% discounts on membership prices and exclusive member deals.

Expedia also allows you to collect airline miles when you are a member of their rewards programme.

Headout is an online travel agency based in New York. While other OTAs on the list tend to provide affordable tour and tourist site packages in Asia, Headout expands the economical prices of the tickets to Europe and America. They also offer tickets available even at the last minute that you can take advantage of if you are an impromptu booker.

Changi Recommends is a platform from our very own Changi Airport Group that provides recommendations for anything travel-related. It is helpful if you want to purchase miscellaneous items related to travel.

Changi Recommends provide tourist SIM cards; overseas transportation passes such as train tickets; COVID-19 tests; hotel, tours, attraction booking; travel insurance; and even currency exchange services using PayLah/PayNow/NETS Pay/Pay Anyone/UOB MIghty.

Skyscanner is a flight, hotel, and car rental aggregator that finds the best hotel, flights, and car rentals from their respective sites such as OTAs, Airlines, and car rental companies. Skyscanner allows you to find the best deals for renting a car with big merchants such as Hertz, Europcars and AVIS, so if you are planning to go on a roadtrip, you can check out skyscanner to get the best deals.

In terms of telecommunications plans, MyRepublic never fails to provide affordable and reliable data locally, and now they are also expanding the same benefits overseas.

Unlike traditional telecoms plans that use pay-as-you-go charges, if you are a MyRepublic customer, you won’t be charged for more than you choose to spend, so you won’t get shocked when you receive the bill. They also do not charge for incoming roaming calls when using the MyRepublic App. Overseas roaming can be as low as $6 for 1GB in Malaysia all the way to $35 for 1GB in Europe and North America.

Airalo is an eSIM service app that allows you to connect yourself anywhere around the world without having to switch a physical SIM card. All you have to do is download the Airalo app on your phone, choose your destination and which data package, and install and activate your eSIM card to use! Data packages can cost as low as USD4.50 for 1GB valid for seven days

Airalo is an excellent alternative if your telco does not offer affordable roaming data packages.

YogoFi is an app that provides broadband data services overseas. You can get a day pass in destinations like China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan for as low as $5, or you can opt for a 50GB plan for $10 per month.

You can even have unlimited data for just $25/month with no excess data charges and no lock-in period.