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WiT collaborates with ATTIA to launch new awards
WiT (Web in Travel), Asia Pacific’s leading travel tech news and events platform, will launch an awards series, the Travel Changemakers Awards, at its signature conference in Singapore this year. The Awards aim to recognise travel innovators that h [...]
Newly launched Northstar Travel Today delivers daily travel scene snapshots to your inbox
“This new initiative is a uniquely Northstar-enabled creation, gathering our voices to paint a picture of the global travel industry.”
There’s a lot happening in the travel and hospitality space - markets are shifting, tourism is recovering, key markets are evolving. Technology is fundamental [...]
How the metaverse will transform travel: McKinsey points to $800B industry by 2025
THE metaverse market is experiencing rapid growth and by 2025, is projected to reach a market size of approximately $800 billion, with estimates suggesting it could surpass $1 trillion by 2030, according to the McKinsey report, “Value Creation in Metaverse”.
The gaming industry is at the fore [...]
Six key trends shaping travel experiences in Asia/Pacific
Arival, the leading authority for the tours and activities sector, has released six key trends that are shaping the future of travel experiences in APAC. The findings, from its recent The Outlook for Experiences 2019-2025 research, are released ahead of the annual Arival Activate event, which take [...]
GlobalTix’s GT Pay, Sentosa’s NFT campaign win in Singapore Tourism Awards
GlobalTix’s new payments product, GT Pay, and Sentosa Development Corporation’s marketing campaign of “Discovery Neverending NFTs” were among the 25 recipients recognised at the Singapore Tourism Awards 2023, announced today.
The two won in the Enterprise Excellence category. GT Pay was [...]
Meet the 25 pitching at Round 1 of Global Startup Pitch
Twenty travel tech startups plus five wildcard participants have been selected for the first round of the Global Startup Pitch. The competition, which is in its second year, is jointly produced by WiT and Phocuswright.
They were selected out of a crop of more than 120 entries received for the [...]
Yanolja Cloud buys Israel’s Go Global Travel to fuel global expansion
Continuing its expansion to bring K-tech to the hospitality and leisure world, Yanolja Cloud has announced the acquisition of Go Global Travel (GGT), an Israeli B2B travel technology company, which distributes its inventory of more than one million hotels and other travel products from 200 countries [...]
Top of the WiT 24: Ready for China, understanding India, and Google ARCore digitises Singapore
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news that happened this week in travel, tech and Asia - all condensed into a quick-and-easy nugget-sized podcast.
In this episode, listen to Juliana Kua's (Assistant Chief Executive, International Group, Singapore Tourism Board) take on the online travel [...]
“People like Hugo are hard to find”: Stephan Ekbergh
Stephan Ekbergh, CEO of Travelstart, shares this ode to Hugo Burge
I met Hugo Burge first in 2001. He had started Cheapflights. I ran Travelstart and had just acquired a small business in Ireland called Openjet. Openjet was the first to properly do mix and match bookings with LCCs and GDSes.
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Asian Development Bank charts impact of pandemic on Southeast Asia aviation industry
Southeast Asia's aviation industry has taken a significant hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an estimated loss of $17 billion in revenue in 2020, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). However, the ADB has proposed a range of strategies to aid in the post-pandemic recovery o [...]
