Hindsight is 2023: Our Top 12 posts of the year
2024 is right around the bend, and we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight our most popular posts of the year.
While it's fun to look back at what interested our readers and community the most this year, chronicling our most read articles is also a way to gain insight into what travel prof [...]
Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024: Travel leaders set trends and predictions (Part 2)
As we enter the last weeks of 2023, we ask our community of travel leaders to share their reflections of the year and their outlook for the coming one in this series of trends and predictions for 2024. This is the second instalment, and Elon Musk and Africa seem to pop up quite a bit. Read on.
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Booking a flight direct is still not easy – is this why OTAs are winning?
Last week, I tried to book a one-way flight from Seletar, Singapore to Subang, Kuala Lumpur. How hard could it be after all? It’s really only one airline that plies this route and it’s a flight I’ve taken several times – in fact, a flight I always look forward to because it’s on a smaller [...]
With 31% surge in passenger demand, air travel shows continuous recovery
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported an increase in passenger demand for October 2023, indicating a continued recovery in the aviation sector.
According to the latest data, total traffic for October, measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs), witnessed a rise of 31. [...]
SWISS tackles air turbulence. France’s Train + Air. Jeju Air plans air taxi. More.
This week: Cryto in travel, urban air mobility in Jeju, trains and planes in France, SITA takes the bumps out of flying.
Crypto gaining friends in travel and hospitality
A study by crypto tax software company CoinLedger has placed Travel and Hospitality fourth highest in a list of companie [...]
First, space balloon, next, sub-orbital flights. Space tourism is closer than you think
Fancy floating in a capsule and looking down on Earth? You can do that by end 2024
Do you remember the moment when you first fell in love with space and the notion of space travel? Well, Tara Hyland, luxury travel advisor and one of the first to become a Virtuoso “Accredited Space Agent” for Vi [...]
WiT Seoul: AI, social experiences, and next-gen OTAs are driving travel forward
Key insights from WiT Seoul 2023
This article originally appeared on Tidesquare.com
As the travel and tourism industry continues its recovery post-pandemic, this year's WiT Seoul 2023 shed light on valuable insights and emerging trends shaping the landscape. Hosted by WiT and Tidesquare annually [...]
An online trailblazer goes offline: Donggun Lee on his journey, the future, and physical stores
During a session titled ‘From Startup to Scaleup’ at WiT Seoul, Donggun Lee, CEO and founder of MyRealTrip, was invited to break his story down into its own ‘hero’s journey’. Popularised by author and mythologist Joseph Campbell in the 1940s, the Hero’s Journey concept suggests that ever [...]
Electric air taxis takeoff in 2024, Swiftie surge, and agents of influence
Australia noted a 446% week-over-week growth in booking volumes after Taylor Swift concert announcements in Melbourne and Sydney
Amadeus has released its 2024 travel trends and as pointed out by similar courtesy of Booking.com and Expedia, travel and hospitality continue to shift and evolve in this [...]
Korean air market entering Season 3 of K-drama moments
One step closer to Korean Air-Asiana merger, Korean Air to launch NDC in 2024, new airlines Air Premia and T’way jostle for supremacy, Lufthansa and KLM Air France push on with NDC, agents anticipating disruption in distribution in traditional market
It felt like something out of a K-drama. Afte [...]
