‘Nothing like Australia’ comes to Singapore
Three months after it launched its new “There’s Nothing Like Australia” brand story, Tourism Australia has brought the campaign to Singapore.It is inviting Singapore residents to share their favourite Australian holiday stories, to be posted alongside the 3,500 Australian entries it collected [...]
Abacus holds Hack Day with WIT Conference
Abacus International, in partnership with Web In Travel, Tnooz and e27, is holding its Abacus Hack Day in conjunction with the WITConference from Oct 19-22 in Singapore.Abacus Hack Day, which will see participants from all over Asia gather to take part in a 24-hour coding marathon, will be held f [...]
WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp – Innovation Exchange
So here we are at the WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp at the HQ of the Singapore Tourism Board here in Singapore.The day got off to a great start with an inspirational presentation from Morten Lund. More about that session from Siew Hoon so look out for her post.But now the session is Innovation [...]
Website not a low fare channel, says Air China
Air China does not see its website as a channel to dump low fares; rather it sees it as a way for the airline to strengthen its relationship with customers.Fajin Hu, the airline' s senior manager of e-commerce, said that although the majority of air fares placed on its website were lower than those [...]
What’s in store for the Asian airline industry in 2011?
It seems like the airline industry is slowly pulling itself out of a couple of very tumultuous years. And there is no faster growth happening in the industry, than the one we're observing in Asia. GuestLogix has put together an interesting list of predictions for 2011, to see how Asian airlines w [...]
WIT Day One – C of Change or Confusion. Which is it?
Using copious amounts of data, Joe Nguyen, VP South-East Asia for ComScore convinced us all that change is happening rapidly in Asia Pacific. Did you know that travel information rules online? 130 million unique visitors were visiting travel websites in Asia Pacific in August 2010! It was inter [...]
WIT Day One – Independents vs Brands. Who do you think wins?
There's nothing better than seeing two teams duke it out, trying to win the argument. This time the debate was between the power of brands, or is it better to go small and independent? In the INDEPENDENT corner we had Robert Hornman, Managing Director of WORLDHOTELS, Nick Downing, Director of Ope [...]
WIT Day One – Rebel with a focus
He’s irreverent, brash and peppers his language with the “F” word, but today at WIT Morten Lund (pictured right) played it cool. He is the guy who said no to Twitter, who made and lost over US$200 million in his twenties, who says his weakness is a love of life that has led him into some weird [...]
WIT Day Two – Igniting the Romance of Travel on a Wednesday morning
We're opening day 2 on a wonderfully romantic note. No technology, no gadgets, no stats … just love … a story that exudes the love of travel. Goh Mia Chun and his wife Sam went on a inspirational 2.5 year journey through 40 countries that became their very own Motorcycle Diaries. As Mia Chu [...]
WIT Ideas Lab: Social Media, Search, Mobile & Stuff – a Summary
After a day of WITovation at the start of the week, two days of Web in Travel and the first day of WIT ideas Lab, it’s time to catch up again with three of the most active panelists of the week. They are:Timothy Hughes, Vice President Commercial, Orbitz Worldwide and HotelClubMorris Sim, CEO &am [...]
