The Millennial Traveller: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
How do we strike the balance between always remaining visible to our friends and loved ones, but not too visible to everyone? Are we more or less protected if we simply ‘get off the grid’? Marissa Trew debates the pros and cons of visibility and safety on the web. Growing up, I was always told t [...]
WIT founder Yeoh Siew Hoon receives Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year award
Yeoh Siew Hoon, WIT founder and editor, was named Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year at Tourism50 Gala Dinner and the Singapore Experience Awards 2014 last night. The jubilee event celebrated 50 years of tourism development and partnerships.In the citation for Yeoh, the Singapore Tourism Board said: � [...]
The Wrap: “Little Big 10” takeaways from WIT
In this special edition of The Wrap, I share 10 takeaways I took away from the WIT Conference, which celebrated the “Little Big 10” theme in line with its 10th edition.Infusion of new ideasTalented young people are invading the online travel space, judging from the array of start-ups which prese [...]
Accor unveils wide-reaching digital transformation plan
Accor Hotels today announced its “Leading Digital Hospitality Plan” aimed at consolidating its leadership throughout the hospitality value chain.This includes the reinvention of the customer experience through technology, an eight-purpose designed programme with key deliverables from 2015 and a [...]
10 tips on leveraging social media from Accorhotels
As part of WIT’s 10 anniversary international hotel group, Accor, shared the “Little Big 10” highlights of the 2014 Accorhotels Social Media Monitor, a handy guide on the 101 of using social media by hotels to enhance service delivery and promote the brandEmilie Couton, vice president, guest e [...]
Zinc comes in with a different kind of hotel play
There’s a new hospitality player in town and it intends to make waves. Nothing new about that, you might say. After all, why start something new when you don’t intend it to count for something – but this one has an interesting story.The new company is called Zinc I InVision Hospitality, the r [...]
ZUJI sees bookings double from this year’s NATAS fair
Holiday bookings have more than doubled compared to last year’s NATAS (National Association of Travel Agents) Travel Fair over the same period onzuji.com.sg, according to the OTA.From every aspect of short, mid and long haul, the OTA, which is offering post-NATAS deals on its site following the [...]
Northstar Travel Media relaunches Travel Weekly Asia
Northstar Travel Media announced the relaunch of Travel Weekly Asia on 27 Octobber as a fully-integrated media platform for the Asia-Pacific travel market. Among the new initiatives in the relaunch are Travel Weekly Asia, a monthly print publication, a redesigned website and a responsive e-newslette [...]
The Millennial Traveller: The Grid
All around the world, it seems that I have the same routine for every restaurant I sit in. I’d thank our waiter for the menu then immediately request the Wi-Fi password. It’s not I’m that desperate to check my Facebook notifications. It’s more the feeling that I needed to reassure my family [...]
Good response to trippiece’s English website
trippiece, the Japanese website that was founded in Tokyo in 2011 to introduce the idea of “social travelling” to young inbound travellers, has seen success with its English website set up in April 2014.Since the English site’s launch, the online “social travelling” company has focused on [...]
