Survive, innovate, collaborate, then look to the future. What will travel look like in the new normal?
The first priority is survival. “This is the opportunity to fix the problems in our business,” said Stephan Ekbergh, CEO, Travelstart, during WiT Virtual’s Middle East Forum held last week. “Then if you manage to survive, you have to innovate. We innovate best under pressure.”
Stephan [...]
The making of SG Virtual Choir: An unorthodox collaboration in time of coronavirus
How the Singapore Tourism Board came together with Voices of Singapore to make beautiful music together
When Voices of Singapore (VOS), a not-for-profit choral organisation, found their festival cancelled and realised that they would not be able to hold physical events for the forseeable future, [...]
In this, we are all absolute beginners – here’s to starting anew, bloopers and all
Speaking to Australian Gold Olympian athlete Chloe Dalton yesterday in WiT Virtual about building range and resilience, one other talk came to mind – champion skateboarder Rodney Mullen saying that the moment his winning streak ended was his moment of liberation – because that’s when he had n [...]
How ScaleUp Malaysia went virtual to pick its 10 startups – RM2 million funded at time of Covid-19
Not only startups have to pivot at this time to find a product-market-fit but investors also have to improvise to seek out the businesses they want to back.
ScaleUp Malaysia, an accelerator which focuses exclusively on growth stage companies in Malaysia, had set a timeline of April 15 to pick t [...]
How Chloe Dalton Googled her way to an Olympic gold, and how range and resilience will get her through
Olympian gold medalist Chloe Dalton, who has played three different sports at the highest competitive levels, addressed a travel community on WiT Virtual to talk about how having both range and resilience took her to the Olympic gold podium in the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Listening
to her story, it [...]
Letter from the Kingdom of Covid-19: A time of ugly truths and bare essentials
I think
it’s finally sunk in. The reality. I probably had the longest denial period of
anyone I know. From Wednesday, Singapore went into “circuit breaker” mode in
the ongoing fight against Covid-19 which seems to have more twists and turns
than “Kingdom”, the K-drama hit which, to me, co [...]
Airlines have melted like “snow in the Sahara”; why flying will not be the same again
Aviation veteran Christoph Mueller last
night paid tribute to airline executives for the amazing job they have done,
building up networks that allowed people to fly everywhere, earning dividends
for investors and shareholders and paying bonuses to staff for the past 25
years.
“To see it [...]
How to manage fear and anxiety in time of coronavirus
From how to manage your own fear to how to manage bored kids at home, psychiatrist and counsellor Dr Adrian Wang had a long list of advice for our listeners who tuned into our WiT Virtual last Friday.
Here are our key takeaways.
1. Manage social media anxiety
“You have to [...]
Letter from Tuscany (State of Mind): Of hermits and princess warriors – what are you?
Once upon a
time, back when humans were allowed to travel, I went on a road trip from
Munich to Florence and found myself spending the night at a friend’s place in a
little town in Tuscany.
After a lovely dinner of pasta cooked with the freshest, most succulent tomatoes imaginable, and severa [...]
How Findmyfare.com redeployed its travel consultants to medical services: “It’s about saving jobs”
In late January, Tushan Shanmugarajah, CEO and co-founder of Findmyfare.com, started seeing drops in sales to markets in South-east Asia. Thinking this was “something like SARS”, that it’d be contained, it switched marketing campaigns to Europe and the Middle East.
In
February, it ran a ca [...]
