Travel industry urged: “Don’t just take us places, make us feel better”
“We travel to know we’re not alone”, says actor, entrepreneur, traveller, Power Ranger Jason Chan
Editor's note: If you want to be rich, make good memories and there’s no better place than travel to make good memories. Yet, are we in the industry doing enough to create those emotional [...]
See You Soon: Destination experiences for the Next Generation
How Mandai, AlUlA and Queenstown are transforming to face the future
From a manmade attraction in urban Singapore to an ancient kingdom in the Saudi Arabian desert to how the tourism town of Queenstown is being transformed into a technology hub, destinations are rethinking how they face the future. [...]
To Infinity and Beyond: Travel’s New Frontiers are beyond sky-high
Editor's note: From extending your longevity potential through health tourism, to exploring the outer limits of existence with a journey to space, the travel industry is back in the business of pushing its new frontiers out ever further, as Luke Clark explores.
Higher, faster, further and deeper [...]
Michael Cawley on Ryanair, focus, religious zeal on costs, and why it’s making peace with OTAs
Editor's note: As a key player in Ryanair, Michael Cawley has had a front row seat on one of aviation’s most transformative chapters. And as Luke Clark writes in covering his WiT Singapore session, Cawley’s fierce determination to spread the gospel of low-cost, remains as strong as ever.
Ther [...]
Heart and Soul: Talking About Next Generation at WiT Singapore
Editor's note: This year’s WiT Singapore had as its theme, the “Next Generation”. So what it is that travel’s next generation leadership thinks most about – and what big problems will it solve next? In the first of his series of stories from the show, we sent CP5 co-founder Luke Clark alon [...]
A thought revolution needed in sustainability
The next word is biological diversity, says Greenview's Ricaurte
A leading player in hotel sustainability reporting has outlined what he sees as “the next lens” to view humanity’s mission of environmental balance and stewardship
Speaking at WiT Singapore 2023, Eric Ricaurte, CEO of Greenvi [...]
The heart work of socialising travel’s green revolution
“Incentivising the traveller is one thing, and then there’s really immersing the traveller in sustainability – without making them feel like it's homework. Because no one wants to do homework on holidays.”
The push for more sustainable travel has become an accepted option-of-choice for disc [...]
Meet the newbies scaling their startups with tech tools
From brainstorming buddy to content scaling and revenue management”, how AI is aiding each of these four startups
They have come out of the pandemic, each stronger in their own ways. And now thanks to new tools driven by AI and other disruptive technologies, we heard from four regional startups a [...]
Tribal power: The new model warriors driving OTAs forward
“The revolution of travel itself lies in how we connect people”
Anyone who thinks that the great days of innovation for Online Travel Agents (OTAs) are behind us, clearly has not been to a Web In Travel event recently. At WiT Singapore 2023, we met three perfect examples of how in the right han [...]
Opportunities for startups abound in the age of vertical disruption
“To be able to have automation and language models that enable a robot to engage with your customer? It changes the paradigm.”
As every sector in travel from tours and activities, to flights, hospitality and corporate travel undergoes massive change, the WiT Singapore 2023 panel on ‘Vertical [...]
