Forced to go virtual, event organisers adapt and collaborate to create live “playbook” for successful meetings in the new world
Meetings and event professionals who met over a recent WiT Virtual to discuss what successful meetings look like in the new reality, shared things they miss most about physical events – the energy, the vibrancy, the opportunity to make new connections and to meet someone new at the buffet or coff [...]
As travel awakens from its coma across Asia, is it time to save ourselves?
Four-day work week, travel deals for travel employees, targeting the young, new and exciting road trip itineraries – what other ideas do you have for nourishing those fragile green shoots we are seeing, from Japan to China, Australia and Vietnam?
This morning, on my regular walk, I saw a rainb [...]
A good time for Japan to rethink domestic tourism strategy, “we must get youths travelling”, says Hoshino
“If we can recover 70-80% of the domestic market, we can survive for the next 18 months”, says the fourth generation hotelier as he reports green shoots in domestic bookings
Covid-19 presents an opportunity for Japan to rethink its domestic tourism strategy, said Yoshiharu Hoshino, the fourt [...]
GlobalTix goes back to SaaS roots as it finds ways to survive Covid-19
“Time for companies to build up tech stack, capacity management solutions in demand”
If there’s one positive outcome of the coronavirus crisis for Singapore startup GlobalTix, it’s that it has forced the company back to its roots – that of being a SaaS (Software as a Service) model to [...]
After saving itself, Expedia’s ready to rebuild travel: Ranque on what’s needed to restart and how Covid-19 forced a big clean-up
As a boy, Cyril Ranque flew a lot. His mother was a flight attendant on Air France. One day, on a flight from Mauritius to Paris, he was sitting next to the window and saw one of the aircraft engines on fire.
“At that time, I didn’t know the fuel was in the wings,” recalled the president [...]
A love story about Otter, Zoom and Cuckoo’s Nest
I’ve never slept as well as I have the past two months. In fact, I’ve never slept in the same bed as long as I have. I’ve traded in my travel apps for productivity and health apps. Goodbye, Tripit. Hello, Notability. Goodbye, Timeshifter. Hello Otter.
Otter has
improved my life considerab [...]
Vomiting kids, testing kits, tech investments – Openspace’s Hian Goh on how Covid-19 challenges all assumptions
As he ran around the kitchen preparing yet another meal – it is clear that Covid-19 is liberating men like Hian Goh to find their inner celebrity chef, posting live videos of his cooking on social media – the co-founder of Openspace Ventures was also speaking about how this all-in-one crisis wo [...]
As markets in North Asia pick up, Klook launches Klook Home and local experiences to address multi-stage recovery
With markets in North Asia bottoming out and starting to recover, while markets in South-east Asia remain muted, Klook has launched a multi-stage recovery programme to address customer needs in both phases.
In fact, Eric Gnock Fah, COO and co-founder of Klook, is optimistic that in markets wher [...]
As domestic tourism engines restart, be mindful of consistent protocols and delivery of brand promise
Consumer confidence needs to be boosted, not broken, during fragile, early stage of recovery
As destinations restart their domestic tourism engines, it is critical that governments agree on health and safety protocols, and that travel brands deliver on their promise around the new procedure [...]
Breakout moment for safety app, Geosure as health and medical trumps travellers’ concerns
“Remember when we met last November in Florida at Phocuswright?” asked Michael Becker, CEO and co-founder of Geosure, the safety assessment app for travellers. “It was a collection of some of the biggest and most well-known travel industry luminaries – to think that trend could be broken an [...]
