If you have booked a flight, a hotel or a weekend activity on your phone this year, there is a fair chance a Malaysian-built app was behind it. AirAsia MOVE has again been named Asia's Best Travel Booking App, the fourth year in a row it has taken the title at the World Travel Tech Awards.
The 2026 award is voted on by travellers rather than a panel, so it reads as a measure of how people actually feel about the app they use to plan a trip. AirAsia MOVE says the recognition comes with real growth behind it: monthly active users are up 22 percent year on year, and searches for journeys inside the app have risen 14 percent.
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What AirAsia MOVE does now
MOVE started as a way to book flights and hotels. It has since widened into a broader travel and lifestyle app built around the whole trip rather than a single booking. Today it covers:
- Flights across more than 700 airlines
- Over a million hotels
- SNAP, which bundles a flight and a hotel together
- Attractions and experiences through a tie-up with GetYourGuide
- Live entertainment and event tickets through MOVETIX
Alongside the bookings, the app leans on AskBo, an AI chatbot that helps travellers search and narrow options, and on steadier improvements to its booking and payment flows. The pitch is less about any single feature and more about keeping the whole journey, from the ticket to the thing you do when you land, inside one app.
Why a fourth win matters for Malaysian travellers
Travel apps are a crowded field, and the global names such as Booking, Agoda and Trip compete hard for Malaysian users. A homegrown app holding a regional title for four years running is a sign it is keeping pace rather than being pushed aside. For a traveller here, the practical upside is range: comparing a low-cost flight, a hotel and a day tour without hopping between three services.
The award also lands as AirAsia keeps stretching MOVE beyond its airline roots. We have covered the app testing a Solana stablecoin for payments in another market, while the wider AirAsia group has opened new earning paths for its ride drivers at home. The direction is consistent: turn a flight-booking tool into something closer to a daily travel companion.
Where to get it
AirAsia MOVE is free to download on the usual mobile app stores, and existing AirAsia flight bookings carry over into it. There is no new sign-up cost tied to the award.
For most people the win will not change how the app works tomorrow. What it signals is steadier: a Malaysian travel app that a lot of travellers across Asia keep choosing, and keep voting for, four years running.
