The agents are swarming: Lessons from the bees
Well, well, well, the great Agentic race is officially on. I’ve lost track of the agents coming our way.
At WiT Singapore, there was of course a lot of talk about what all this means for travel. I played with three possible scenarios in my head and tested it, in various conversations.
One is a [...]
Same same, but different: Rod Cuthbert finds his Zen on AI
Viator founder Rod Cuthbert thought he’d confuse the WiT Singapore audience about AI and discovery. Instead, he talked himself and the room into calm.
Rod Cuthbert does not want to be the godfather of tours and activities. “Just for the record, I really hate that Godfather thing,” he told the [...]
APAC travel agents embrace AI while demanding rate parity and richer content
Research among more than 750 travel sellers reveals growing engagement with distribution platforms, and evolving priorities, sustainability and pricing
The latest biennial study of travel sellers around the world reveals a significant increase in the use of the major global distribution systems, [...]
Globe Planner wins the Alibaba Cloud x Atlas Agentic AI Hackathon at WiT Singapore
Globe Planner has been named winner of the Alibaba Cloud x Atlas Agentic AI Hackathon. The finals were held at the WiT Bootcamp, part of WiT Singapore.
The hackathon challenged developers, startups and travel-tech innovators to build AI agents that change how travel is searched, sold and serviced [...]
Asia’s developers are granting Al more autonomy but retaining human accountability
Agoda releases Al Developer Report 2026
Digital travel platform Agoda has released a new study showing that software developers across Southeast Asia and India are rapidly transitioning from using Al assistants for individual tasks to deploying autonomous Al agents across the software-development l [...]
The leap of faith Instinct can’t book
I suppose it is fitting that I used Instinct to book tickets for the movie Odyssey. A robotic agent that can accomplish tasks in seconds, buying tickets to a three-hour film about one man’s arduous, perilous journey over the seas – fighting the wrath of Poseidon – to return to his family afte [...]
AI wave, local reckoning: Four trends cruise can’t ignore
Confession first: the woman opening a cruise conference is not, by her own admission, a cruiser.
“I am not a big cruiser,” Yeoh Siew Hoon told delegates at Cruise World Asia in Singapore on Wednesday morning, before explaining why she was on stage anyway – WiT, the travel platform she found [...]
From idea to pilot in 7 weeks. Why ZUZU Hospitality picked Queenstown for its new hotel tech platform
ZUZU Hospitality's new "Kea" platform wants to fix the data mess independent hoteliers deal with daily, and Queenstown is the testing ground before it goes global
Singapore-based ZUZU Hospitality is piloting a new AI platform for independent hotels in Queenstown, just seven weeks after founder and [...]
We’re carrying next-generation intelligence inside a last-generation interaction paradigm
Forty-six teams. Three-minute demos. One Agentic AI Hackathon.
When the judges sat back on the first judging round of the Alibaba Cloud x Atlas Agentic AI Hackathon Singapore 2026 to get to the shortlist of 10 submissions, the first thing they agreed on wasn’t “how strong the tech was this year [...]
As AI changes how we book travel, iWander bets on how we actually explore
iWander co-founder and CEO Marius Nigond on building AI-guided walking tours for a generation of travelers who want spontaneity, not a fixed itinerary
Travel planning is being influenced by AI faster than almost any other part of the industry. Google just moved agentic hotel booking out of pilot mo [...]
