Posts by Cheryl Teo
Disney Cruise Line to homeport in Singapore in 2025
30/03/2023 by Cheryl Teo
Disney Cruise Line to homeport in Singapore in 2025 Disney Cruise Line and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) have announced a groundbreaking partnership that will see the American cruise line debut in Southeast Asia with its first homeport and new cruise ship in the region. The new ship, [...]
High tech can lead to higher human touchpoints
31/10/2022 by Cheryl Teo
GlobalTix’s Chan Chee Chong and Nam Ho’s Marshall share how technology can help agents further drive better engagement and customer service. Filmmakers have loved to unsettle us with movies that depict machines taking over the world. But don’t hear it from the movie industry, hear it from t [...]
WiT Singapore 2022: Small tech innovations spark a big travel revolution
14/10/2022 by Cheryl Teo
The pandemic-induced tech boom is changing the lives of travel community in big ways, shares panel experts at WiT 2022. If there’s one thing good that came out of the pandemic, it was the acceleration of travel technology fuelled by the global travel industry’s immense pressure to adapt quickly [...]
What’s the next big thing in luxury travel?
09/09/2022 by Cheryl Teo
LUXURY travel is back this season, and so is ILTM APAC which kicks off its comeback by decoding the mindset of Asia's most affluent travellers. Luxury travel is bouncing back, but the sector is looking anything but the same. New trends have taken root and are shaking up the world of affluent trav [...]
The pent-up travel party is just getting started in South-east Asia
27/04/2022 by Cheryl Teo
Consumers are fast turning into revenge travellers as they quickly adapt to open borders, according to Google's APAC chief for travel search. AFTER two challenging years of start-stop Covid-19 restrictions, the travel industry is sputtering to life again as borders across Southeast Asia reopen in r [...]
Singapore, the home of world-class business events?
06/04/2022 by Cheryl Teo
THE country has its sights set on growing high-quality MICE events in sustainability, urban solutions, food security, energy security, fintech and advanced manufacturing. Right from the get-go when Singapore fully reopened to the world on April 1, the country sprang into action, issuing a clario [...]