A change in approach to how travel should tackle pandemics is necessary: Prof Tambyah
THE travel community should take a more active role in overcoming the pandemic – not in the sense of eradicating it, but to figure out how we can more quickly normalise life and travel with it.
Professor Paul Tambyah: “This pandemic has battered the travel industry, and it is not going to be [...]
Post-pandemic travellers want to eat, pray and love
How urban destinations like Singapore can shine in sustainability and wellness
THE pandemic has given people around the world pause to consider wellness – and not just physical but mental as well – and they are looking for it within their travel experience.
Klook recently ran a survey th [...]
Greenwashing? Forget it. Don’t tell and sell, just do it
MORE and more, customers want to participate in sustainable travel so forget greenwashing. And don’t tell and sell, just do it.
This was the consensus among the three panelists at the recent WiT Experience Singapore during a session on “The Tech, Heart & Dollars of Sustainability”. Eve [...]
Hopper’s hop into the fintech space to innovate travel
From the “worst business you could imagine” to a US$3.5b valuation
A FEW things make Hopper an enviable company today – nearly US$600 million in funding (mostly achieved during the pandemic), a valuation of US$3.5 billion, and never a cent spent on Google ad words.
It ha [...]
Lumitics continues relentless push to cut food waste in travel
LOI'S mission gets momentum from Covid-cost pressure and sustainability movement.
When Lumitics’
founder and CEO Raynor Loi hit upon the idea of tackling the issue of food
waste in Singapore as a 22-year-old finance undergraduate, he would not have imagined
having a platform to speak to minist [...]
Still far from attaining the holy grail of frictionless travel, but Amadeus definitely a candidate to get industry there: Ropers
Asked to put the travel industry on a scale, 10 being the attainment of the holy grail of friction-free travel, Amadeus’ new president of strategic growth businesses Stefan Ropers put it at two or three.
“We haven’t gotten very far. The future is here, but it is not equally distributed. I [...]
Howie Chang thinks and moves Forward with new school concept in Penang
The notion that schools today are not keeping pace with changes outside, regardless of the industry but in particular the tech industry, is neither ground-breaking nor novel. What is innovative, however, is a school that purports to churn out not just students with a degree or diploma in hand, but [...]
Meet Benny: revolutionist, disruptor and the next gen travel agent
Enter Benny, a self-proclaimed revolutionist and disruptor in the hotel and travel agency space on a mission to “break free from the powers of the OTA”. Founded by Sage45 which is made up of a team of hotel experts, Benny is an invite-only community where travellers become agents for independen [...]
JAYRIDE oils its wheels with new fund injection
JAYRIDE, the online global marketplace for airport transfers, has raised $5 million via an initial $3.2 million placement to new investors announced on 14 November then upscaled with a further $1.8m from existing shareholders.
Rod Bishop (pictured left), its managing director, said the additiona [...]
New Travelport CEO not interested in third place, aims to top market with agility and speed
“I plan to win. Period,” declared Greg Webb, the 71-day old CEO of Travelport but a long-time veteran in the industry, having spent more than 20 years at competitor Sabre. “I do not plan to be the third player for long.” And the gauntlet is thus thrown.
Travelport currently
sits behind [...]
