Covid Entry Check gives TruTrip a breakout moment as it builds new SME corporate tool focused on risk management and duty of care
You wouldn’t call it the best of timing. Singapore-based corporate travel startup TruTrip, which is creating a tool for SMEs to manage their travel, went live with its beta version in April but the timing has actually worked in its favour.
Co-founder Hugh Batley said the timing has given it t [...]
More “good companies” will go public post-Covid, says Saberwal as RedDoorz enters positive recovery territory
As Airbnb prepares for its much-anticipated IPO, Amit Saberwal, founder and CEO of RedDoorz, predicts that good travel companies will emerge out of Covid and there will be a lot of focus on getting these companies public.
“The good companies that will emerge will go on to become your unicorns [...]
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 [...]
