Sponsored: Welcome to the New World of Travel
FOLLOWING a long period of strict entry conditions, heightened hygiene protocols, and swift vaccine deployment, the summer of 2022 finally demonstrated that it is now largely possible to travel the world once more. Most tourist destinations in the MENA region, Europe, and the world have started to w [...]
Tech in Travel: When airports need more business, who are they going to call? Skyscanner, maybe
SKYSCANNER will harness the power from data accumulated from its 90-plus million monthly users worldwide to help airports explore route development opportunities.
As flight activity picks up and pandemic fears recede, airports are keen to offer compelling business cases that will attract new airl [...]
Sponsored post: Saying Goodbye to the Passenger Name Record and Hello to a retail-centric future
What’s next for travel agencies in this brave new world of travel?
The only constant in life is change. And we’ve certainly seen plenty of that in recent times. But that doesn’t mean change has to be something that simply happens to us in the travel industry. Travel agencies and TMCs are now [...]
Sponsored: Wego looks at travel trends in the MENA region through pre and post-pandemic data
THE tourism sector has in recent years gone through difficult times. However, thanks to the combination of successful vaccination campaigns and the pent-up demand of frustrated travellers, the situation in the sector improved significantly during the summer of 2022.
But has the travel and tourism [...]
The young, the restless and the policy makers drive OTA opportunity in the Middle East
Government measures establish GCC countries as a ‘hot bed’ for travel and tourism
Online travel agents and the aviation sector will be the biggest beneficiaries of the surge in travel demand predicted for Middle East countries and their neighbours as Covid restrictions are wound back across the [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 04: India On The Rise, Web3 Disrupts Businesses, Lessons For Airlines
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
This week, we're talking about India as the world's fifth largest economy and what that mea [...]
Tech in Travel: NFTs, a nifty friends and family travel app, and airlines told to fess up on fees
Pandemic pushes travellers to the edge – of nature
Is sustainable travel just a fad? A trendy travel choice that will fade faster than a politician’s promise?
It depends on who you ask.
A Trip.com survey found 21.3% of Europe-based respondents indicated that people opt for sustainable tra [...]
Cost, talent, and tourism: Making sense of the airline industry in the “new world”
IF you've travelled internationally in the last year or so, chances are you've stared – wide-eyed and jaw open – at the price of flight tickets. Before everyone's least favourite microbe rocked our world, low-cost airlines used to be able to offer truly low-cost fares. Even regular airlines were [...]
Web3 will disrupt payments but 2C2P is prepared to face the future
“What we see now is not what it will be; it will be good for consumers,” says founder Aung
AUNG Kyaw Moe, founder and CEO, 2C2P is well aware that Web3 could disrupt his 19-year-old B2B payments business but like the entrepreneur and survivor that he is, he’s facing it head-on because he beli [...]
The promise of the Third Age of Digital Travel – let’s live up to it
The time is now to act together and make our industry incredible or face a barrage of restrictions and regulations. Timothy O'Neil-Dunne gets into what can be done collectively, to prove travel's value to governments and to societies.
We are entering the Third Age of Digital Travel – a time o [...]
