Posts by WiT
WiT Podcast: What does ‘customer love’ mean in 2024?
11/01/2024 by WiT
For the first time since 2019, travel companies are unanchoring themselves to the events of the last 3 years and embracing the freedom, opportunities, and challenges that come with this new travel landscape. In the pilot episode of our new series, Customer Love, in partnership with Booking.com, Yeo [...]
Hindsight is 2023: Our Top 12 posts of the year
28/12/2023 by WiT
2024 is right around the bend, and we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight our most popular posts of the year. While it's fun to look back at what interested our readers and community the most this year, chronicling our most read articles is also a way to gain insight into what travel prof [...]
Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024: Travel leaders set trends and predictions (Part 4)
20/12/2023 by WiT
As 2023 draws to a close, we ask our community of travel leaders to share their reflections of the year and their outlook for the coming one in this series of trends and predictions for 2024. This is the fourth instalment, with mentions of disruption, normalisation, and bandwidth... or lac [...]
Top of the WiT 28: Travel leaders reflect on 2023 and look forward to 2024
18/12/2023 by WiT
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news in travel, tech and Asia - all condensed into a nugget-sized podcast.      For the last couple of weeks, we've featured our year-end series, Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 on the WiT website, showcasing global travel leaders nutshelling 2023 [...]
Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024: Travel leaders set trends and predictions (Part 3)
15/12/2023 by WiT
What are the things we wish AI could solve, and which will it never solve? Plus, what are the trends no one’s talking about yet? More answers in this third instalment of our series of Trends and Predictions for 2024 from our community of travel leaders as we ask them to share their reflections of [...]
Reflections: Gen Z students on travel, technology and sustainability
14/12/2023 by WiT
As the year comes to a close, we figured what better way to usher in 2024 than by talking about the future of travel with the people who are a part of the industry's new and upcoming demographic - Gen Z. We caught up with a few students from the Singapore Institute of Technology and asked them quest [...]
Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024: Travel leaders set trends and predictions (Part 2)
12/12/2023 by WiT
As we enter the last weeks of 2023, we ask our community of travel leaders to share their reflections of the year and their outlook for the coming one in this series of trends and predictions for 2024. This is the second instalment, and Elon Musk and Africa seem to pop up quite a bit. Read on. & [...]
Thailand takes lead in Asia for Christmas and New Year’s hotspots
11/12/2023 by WiT
As the holiday season approaches, global travel patterns are undergoing a significant shift, with Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand emerging as the top hotel destinations for Christmas and New Year's travel, according to data from technology provider Amadeus. The insights, derived from Amadeus' Dem [...]
Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024: Travel leaders set trends and predictions (Part 1)
08/12/2023 by WiT
As we enter the last weeks of 2023, we ask our community of travel leaders to share their reflections of the year and their outlook for the coming one in this series of trends and predictions for 2024. This first instalment carries a mixed bag of sentiment, with some more bullish than others. What i [...]
WiT Podcast: Michael Dykes says Asia will lead the way in travel, shares life lessons
08/12/2023 by WiT
What happens when as a seven-year-old, you are moved from Okinawa to Indiana - two more contrasting places you couldn’t imagine? Well, for half-Japanese-half-American Michael Dykes, it was definitely “jarring”, but it taught him some valuable life lessons which have stood him in good stead in [...]