How Mi Sun Song rewired HanaTour and why the hardest work starts now
When Mi Sun Song took the helm of HanaTour, she arrived as an outsider in almost every sense that mattered.
She wasn’t a career lifer from Korea’s traditional travel agency world. She wasn’t part of the old hierarchy. And she was stepping into a company long defined by scale, group trave [...]
Asia-Pacific travel boosted by visa-free travel, mega rail projects, and new connectivity
According to Rome2Rio’s 2026 Travel & Mobility Trends report, Asia-Pacific is set to be one of the most dynamic travel regions in 2026, driven by easier entry, major transport upgrades and a clear shift in how travellers choose to move. Visa liberalisation and reopened borders are unlocking hu [...]
Data, not drama, should shape Airbnb’s short-term rental rules
What does it mean to be a lawyer for a platform operating across various jurisdictions, and doing it in real time? In a conversation with Darrell Chan, Airbnb's APAC General Counsel, the idea of “guerrilla lawyering” is used as a working philosophy. But what does that look like when regulations [...]
Sir Richard Branson on space tourism: “The journey is the destination”
Speaking virtually at TOURISE 2025 in Riyadh in November, Sir Richard Branson reflected on his decades-long mission to make space accessible through Virgin Galactic, and on the deeper meaning of space tourism beyond the technology and spectacle.
Branson said his entrepreneurial decisions have [...]
The experience surge: Where meaning, AI and human connection collide
In an age where travellers crave meaning as much as adventure, the experience economy is surging again, not through algorithms alone, but through the people and purpose behind them.
At WiT Singapore 2025, the session title said it all: The Experience Surge: The Quest for Personalisation, Meaning an [...]
Hindsight is 2025 | Our top 12 stories of the year
At the edge of the new year, we’re taking a moment to look back at the stories that defined the conversation across our site in 2025. It was a year marked by fast-moving shifts in travel tech across Asia Pacific, from AI moving out of the hype cycle and into real-world deployment, to changing trav [...]
The Great Debate: Who will win in the Age of AI?
At WiT Singapore 2025, seven voices sparred over travel’s next frontier and the answer might just be the traveller.
When WiT turns 20, it doesn’t start with a party – it starts with a fight.
Under the blazing lights of the Main Stage at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, seven industry minds fro [...]
Year In Review 2025, Looking Ahead To 2026 | Part 4
Being curious as to the reason why time seems to fly faster as we get older, we intelligently asked AI for the answer.
And it seems there is science behind it, the simplest explanation being that “Each year becomes a smaller fraction of your life. When you’re 5, a year is 20% of your life. [...]
The real threat to mobility tech isn’t competition, it’s how travel gets discovered
When Mike McGearty returned to the WiT Studio this year, the conversation quickly moved beyond “what’s new” in mobility tech to a more complicated question; has the industry actually changed all that much? From his vantage point as CEO and co-founder of Meili, the answer is nuanced. While the [...]
Year In Review 2025, Looking Ahead To 2026 | Part 3
Being curious as to the reason why time seems to fly faster as we get older, we intelligently asked AI for the answer.
And it seems there is science behind it, the simplest explanation being that “Each year becomes a smaller fraction of your life. When you’re 5, a year is 20% of your life. [...]
