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 [...]
Fun factor 10: How tech is making human experiences even better
In a year in which Disney, the world’s most iconic theme park brand, celebrated its 100th birthday, and Taylor Swift, its most iconic pop star broke records galore with her colossal world tour, it would seem like a stretch for those in the travel and experiences business to feel anything but optim [...]
Next revolution: Airbnb looks set to shake up our cities
As one of technology’s biggest disruptors of travel confirms from the US that its ‘biggest update’ is coming in November this year, indications at WiT Singapore 2023 are that the company is set to diversify its service offering in a way that could help shake up our city spaces.
In a Financi [...]
Soul Survivors Or the Mighty Wasted? The WiT Great Debate 2022
After so long away, the digital travel fraternity returned to Marina Bay Sands in October of 2022 to gather, take stock and of course, debate what the past two years had actually meant. Luke Clark of CP5 recounts a debate that had pathos, disco, gender reversal, and a great deal of banana bread. At [...]
“Be the dreamers that do”: Post-pandemic, travel’s desire for genuine change reflected in this panel
In more ways than one, WiT 2022 embraced the desire for a new world order, beginning with travel. Sure, there was the theme and its addictively catchy tune calling out ‘Hello New World’. Yet as Luke Clark writes, just by sitting through a few sessions, you began to sense that this might be more [...]
Making sense of the metaverse of madness
“The real meaning of Web3 is all about community”, says DayAway’s Waslen
There are few conversations that don’t feel surreal in 2022, yet since the carnage in the crypto-currency market, businesses built around blockchain have had a particularly rough ride. Yet as WiT 2022 said ‘Hello Oth [...]
Plug Me In: Why Airbnb is betting on Asia’s digital nomad market
As travel businesses struggle to find staff, one prominent company is bucking the trend by offering people the chance to work abroad for 90 days a year. As Luke Clark of CP5 writes, it’s one of many calculated bets that Airbnb has made in order to carve out a new niche for the long-stay worker-tra [...]
WiT Singapore 2022: Sustainable travel hits the spotlight
It was present in multiple discussions, and even atop a spot survey of participants at Web In Travel 2022. As Luke Clark of CP5 writes, sustainability may be set to gain teeth as a tangible and measurable mark of quality for the travel industry.
As the global pandemic is pleasingly placed just of [...]
Reflections on the eve of “Hello, New World”: We’ve come a long way already
As he writes on the eve of another WiT-Web In Travel event, the first fully physical version since the pandemic, Luke Clark reflects on what a difference a year can make, both for travel and the individuals behind it
The first thing that you noticed on arrival was the talking heads. Not the band. [...]
