Book Your 300 Seconds of Glory in WIT Bootcamp’s Start-Up Gallery
The WIT Bootcamp taking place on Oct 17 in Singapore, is looking for start-ups (from zero to two years old) who would like to present their business to our panel of investors and mentors in the Start-Up Gallery.We are looking for breakthrough ideas and smart, savvy entrepreneurs in the digital tra [...]
Travellers will pay higher rates for hotels with better reviews, study shows
TrustYou, the inventor of the Meta-ReviewTM, working in conjunction with Donna Quadri-Felitti, Academic Chair and Clinical Associate Professor at NYU, Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism, has developed a study to understand the link between reviews and hotel conversion rates and [...]
WIT’s Bootcamp gets the week off to a great start!
It’s been an excellent day at #wit2011 with Bootcamp kicking off the week’s proceedings. We heard in the morning from a number of key players in the region, each giving the attendees valuable insights into their areas of expertise. What’s clear is that, although we are one region (in so [...]
WITNext: How sticking to one groove and building up networks paid off for me
Vera Lye started her career as a travel journalist in TTG Asia and has worked for publications like Travel Asia and TravelWeekly. She now runs RAVE, which handles media relations and communications projects for travel companies. January 1994Just returned from a four-year-university sojourn to the U [...]
WITovation Start-Up Pitch: The Beachfront Club
The Beachfront Club, a new website, aims to help travelers find hotels with “true beachfront”. WIT asks co-founder Chris Ryan, based in Thailand, for his pitch.Q: In a tweet, state what you are trying to do with this business.Create an exclusive, niche marketing club for hotels with true and abs [...]
You want to book a hotel tonight? Disruptors that are changing the game
Room 77, the website that lets you pick “the perfect room”, has entered Asia – its first destination being Hong Kong. Kevin Fliess, Vice President of Product for Room 77, announced the expansion this morning in Guangzhou, saying there were plans to spread its network further.Fliess said that [...]
YourSingapore app to offer personalised experiences
YourSingapore Guide app is now available for iPhone and Android users (sorry Blackberry, you are excluded again) who want to create personalized experiences of their stay in the Little Red Dot.Available for free, the app, jointly developed by the Singapore Tourism Board and partners, American Expre [...]
Online travel leaders set tone for the future
At the WIT conference, we sat down with online travel leaders from Agoda, Hotels.com, Yatra and Elong to discuss OTAs and what the future holds for them. Times are good now but competition is increasing and the challenges are mounting. Are they ready? The discussion touched on what role would m [...]
MCM group makes its first social play outside Indonesia
Indonesia’s MCM Group, which owns media brands such aslintasberita, Kaskus, KrazyMarket and Daily Social, is launching a new social group site called Mindtalk, which will also mark the company’s first digital media play outside its home market.The English-language site, in beta, will allo [...]
A beautifully designed Application highlights shortcomings of the ‘old’ web
The first thing I noticed about the Kayak iPhone application is the nice big button approach. When I used to develop software applications for board level blue chip executives we used to call this the ‘Fisher Price’ approach – large and obvious buttons ‘Press Here’ – nothing too comp [...]
