Accor launches biggest ever domestic campaign in Indonesia
Ties up with small and micro enterprises to support local businesses
SPURRED by Covid and how it’s forced travel to go domestic, ALL – Accor Live Limitless has launched its biggest domestic campaign in Indonesia, Rediscover Indonesia, bringing together its 130 hotels in over 30 destinations. [...]
The marathon to open borders – starting well doesn’t guarantee success
Asia falls behind, Middle East pushes ahead, EU and US open up, Australia urged to have “courage”
IT truly is
a marathon race. Just because you started off well doesn’t mean you’ll stay
ahead at whichever stage of the race and at this juncture, countries such as
Singapore and Taiwan, wh [...]
Middle East trade heralds return of physical Arabian Travel Market as the push needed in recovery
'Let's get back to business' sentiment prevails
THE physical return of the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai has been heralded as a signal of positive things to come for the travel and tourism industry in the Middle East. And while it wasn’t as busy compared to previous years, the overall sentime [...]
The curious case of how the Missing Peranakan Treasure at the Raffles came about
Digital interactive play fuses theatre, tech and hospitality in a whodunit mystery
ON August 10, 2020, Singapore actor and comedian Hossan Leong woke up in a state of panic. The night before, he had performed at a for-the-first-time-ever virtual Singapore National Day Parade. “I thought, this [...]
Putting Mixed Reality to the road test
How WiT and Marina Bay Sands teamed up to co-create a story
IN the absence of real travel, one has to use the powers of imagination,
aided by technology, to travel with the mind.
I recently had the opportunity to put to the road-test the new Mixed
Reality capability at the Marina Bay Sands� [...]
As restrictions tighten in Asia, let’s keep our eye on the horizon
Travel recovery reflected in Booking and Expedia Group results, European Commission proposes easing of travel restrictions using Digital Certificate – could this be a model for Asia?
I’VE never
been a good sailor which is why the best piece of advice I ever got from a
friend when out sailing [...]
Amid the constant setbacks, the good that came out of Covid
“DO you
think this thing will ever end?” asked my niece this week as Singapore
announced a tightening of Covid restrictions – groups of eight to five,
workforce in office back to 50%, events down from 750 pax to 250 pax (with
pre-event testing), three-week quarantine for travellers from “hi [...]
AC, Which Way Forward? The different roads that have diverged in travel
“TW0 roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by,And that has made all the difference.”So penned Robert Frost in “The Road Not Taken”.
Well, it seems that on the long, long road to recovery AC (After Covid),
more than two roads have diverged in travel and all [...]
Aitken: Traveller confidence patchy across the world, pessimism more evident in APAC
Skyscanner builds out more domestic product, adds insurance bundle
AS the Covid-19
virus weaves different paths through the world it is having similar effects on
traveller sentiment across different regions. Said Hugh Aitken, Skyscanner’s
vice president of flights, “On the one hand, in Europ [...]
VFS Global brings visa expertise and govt experience to health passports
Synergies between pass providers, tech companies and governments needed to open borders: Jiten Vyas
IN 2019, VFS Global processed 30 million visa biometric enrolments across 144 countries. In 2020, that number plummeted by 70% and it would have been much worse without the first three months when [...]
