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. [...]
What Will the Covid Business Recovery Look Like? Look to Travel and Learn.
When it comes to recovery, fortune favours the bold. In this long read, we compare two destination recovery efforts past and present. In the true spirit of WiT 2020, travel industry alumni, and now chief executive and partner of CP5, Luke Clark, looks back to look forward. Way back in 2003, right i [...]
Travel’s Oracle Speaks: KP Ho on Digital Decoupling and a Return to Meaning
He has seen his share of crises and survived to tell the tale, and Ho Kwon Ping, executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, assured the WiT Experience Week audience yesterday that despite an unprecedented 2020 for global travel, the group was still in shape to weather the storm.
“Thankfully [...]
