All you need is WiT: 20 tales that rocked the Next 20
From rock-and-roll endings to raw honesty on AI, WiT Singapore 2025 hit every note –human, hopeful and hilariously unfiltered. Founders bared souls, CEOs dropped truth bombs, and travellers found faith again in connection. Here are 20 stories from Luke Clark that prove The Next 20 wasn’t just a [...]
Which way for the OTA? Crib notes for the journey ahead
So much has changed in the travel arena in the 20 years since Web in Travel began – but the centrality of the Online Travel Agency (OTA) to the travel conversation remains a common thread. Yet just as those behind former brand giants like Pan Am, Blockbuster, BlackBerry or Compaq will tell you, no [...]
Find your people: How these travel founders connected the dots
When Formula 1 Mercedes boss Toto Wolff farewelled seven-time world champion driver from his team after 12 years, his advice was memorable: “It’s most important to remember one thing: find your people,” Wolff advised Hamilton. “When you find your people, you don’t just beat the world – y [...]
From photography, influencing and storytelling, travel’s creative minds reimagine the future
“Always go a little further into the water” – David Bowie
While much is written about the technology toys of the future, the part that too often seems to be lacking is an exploration of just how creative tomorrow’s talent needs to become, in order to help master the challenges ahead of us.
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Young punks to new guardians – Asia’s new kids return in style
Each of them was a previous Startup of the Year pitch winner at WiT. Since then, they have each gone on to build amazing companies, helping to bring even more global attention to this new Asian century.
Now, as the WiT Singapore preview noted, each is now preparing their bid to “take it to the ne [...]
It’s the remix! Meet travel’s masters of reinvention
Those on the outside looking in, sometimes assume that travel planning must be easy. They assume that once you are established, the process of managing travel products becomes easy – and that early travel success is a near-guarantee of future success.
Sadly, where this staunchly competitive ind [...]
Main character energy: The qualities tomorrow’s travel leaders need to succeed
As we learned in the recent WiT documentary ‘Online Travel in Asia: The Untold Story’, the travel leaders who made it to 2025 did so by navigating some game-changing hurdles – and in the case of the COVID pandemic, laboured through challenges that nothing could have prepared them for.
Admit [...]
From Borneo’s Kinabatangan River to bee farms in Singapore, Seek Sophie aims to scale for impact
After you have walked the main streets and visited the big attractions in places, you’re probably ready to “uncover the unexpected”, and that’s what Singapore-based experiential travel specialist, Seek Sophie, wants to help you do.
Seek Sophie’s two co-founders, CEO Jacinta Lim, and COO [...]
Eyes on the prize: Innovating for the Next Generation
Editor’s Note: The future of travel experiences will hinge on how we differentiate our offerings in a way that captures and holds our customer’s hearts and minds. At Singapore’s Web in Travel, Luke Clark discovered two different yet unique approaches to injecting innovation into the travel mix [...]
Fast Forward: Where tours & activities will take us in a decade
Editor’s Note: Remember back when we used to plan a decade ahead? Luke Clark does: and thanks to some WiT enabled rose-tinted glasses, he takes a look at some of the trends driving tours and activities into the next decade and beyond.
Bill Gates is believed to be responsible for the truism that [...]
