Can Japan leap beyond “the Italy of Asia” in the AI era?
Why quiet power may become Japan’s greatest competitive advantage
The travel industry is undergoing its biggest transformation since the rise of the internet.
The catalyst, of course, is generative AI.
Yet the most thought-provoking question I took away from WiT Japan 2026 wasn’t about AI [...]
Now that the game has been changed by the Delta variant, is Asia leading the world again?
SINGAPORE, one of my home bases, is about to hit 80% of fully vaccinated
residents. This is quite remarkable, as experts say that an 80-90% full
vaccination rate will likely allow countries to build herd immunity in the
current state of this Delta-variant-driven epidemic.
Japan, my other base, [...]
As online travel reaches maturity in the west, what does the next chapter look like?
As the global online travel market reaches a turning point, what lies in store for all players, from global to local?
To me, there was one key message that came out of the two largest conferences in online travel for Asia Pacific and North America – WIT (Web in Travel, Singapore) and Phocuswrig [...]
