Still and Stuck: What’s the one big thing Covid-19 challenged your thinking on? Here are some answers
“Nearly the
end of August and still,” sighed my hairdresser this week.
Yes, still.
Still stuck. Still masked. Still Zoom.
Since
March, I must have interviewed countless people from across the world, ran lots
of virtual events. And I sense a weariness settling in. It’s in the shoulders. [...]
Seven Clean Seas employs furloughed tourism workers to clean beaches, goal is to help companies achieve plastic neutrality
Seven Clean Seas, a Singapore-based social enterprise whose mission is to help companies achieve plastic neutrality with plastic credits, has employed the furloughed workers of Nikoi and Cempedak Islands in Indonesia for its beach clean-up programmes.
Tom Peacock-Nazil, CEO and co-founder, said [...]
In age of scarcity, Traveloka goes from “hunting” to “harvesting” in its marketing rethink
Even though
product has taken centre stage during Covid-19, Traveloka’s Christian Suwarna
believes that marketing is also having its breakout moment in terms of how the
Indonesian travel unicorn is rethinking its marketing strategy.
With limited funds to spend, the chief marketing offic [...]
WiT Startup winner IDEM Hospitality becomes part of Groups360 family
For WiT Startup Pitch 2019 winner IDEM Hospitality, the meeting with Groups360 last June was fortuitous. What started out as a partnership discussion very quickly escalated into one around acquisition when it became obvious that it was “a match made in heaven”.
IDEM
Hospitality is now Groups [...]
Let’s talk about work, remote or otherwise, and its side effects
This whole remote work thing that’s still going on in
most parts of the world is producing lots of interesting outcomes, at least in
places where remote work is an option. As Joseph Tsai, executive vice chairman
of Alibaba
Group, observed at the Singapore Fintech Festival recently, “remote work [...]
Cleartrip rolls out Travel Safe and Flexifly, aims to hit sweet spot between product and commerce
Covid-19 has made developers more empathetic to commercial interests: Subramanya Sharma
If there is one positive that has come out of the biggest crisis to hit travel, it is that product has taken centrestage as online travel companies went back to their roots to build new tools and solutions, a [...]
Pandemic forcing hoteliers to fast-track tech adoption and revisit distribution and marketing strategies
The travel standstill has afforded hotels and their partners a chance to revisit distribution and marketing strategies and processes which in better days have mostly operated on a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” maxim. But hotel conversations today have had to change and now largely revol [...]
Milken talks vaccine, Alibaba’s Tsai talks remote work and travel; “massive digitisation of everything”
With so much bad news in travel I thought I’d tune into the Singapore Fintech Festival Global Launch event this week for a different perspective, and the most promising news came at the end from Mike Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute.
Saying things look promising and he wouldn’t be su [...]
Headed for a stellar July and then, wham: TMG’s Kien on steering Ivuvu.com and group through the storm in Vietnam
Tran Trong Kien, who runs Vietnam's largest integrated travel group, covering hospitality, aviation, online and destination management, had been looking forward finally to a July that would show 90% of pre-Covid levels or even surpass 2019 bookings when lo and behold, Covid-19 reared its ugly head [...]
Beauty queens who can cook: How Ivuvu.com used influencers to win domestic hearts
Thien Minh Group found itself having to move really fast the last three months. The mainstay of its business, inbound visitors, had disappeared and it had to pivot to a domestic market. The positive was that Vietnamese consumers, like everywhere else in the world, had moved online and this was an e [...]
