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 [...]
WiT heads to Latin America: WiT LATAM debuts in Buenos Aires in November 2027
Joint venture with travel tech veteran Guido Becher, in partnership with Phocuswright, builds a bridge between Asia and Latin America
WiT (Web in Travel), the leading travel tech media and events platform in Asia Pacific, will make its Latin America debut with WiT LATAM on Thursday, November 11, 20 [...]
Lobby and Crewfare win Global Startup Pitch People’s Choice Awards at WiT Singapore 2026
The Global Startup Pitch People’s Choice Awards were announced today at WiT Singapore: 21, A New Beginning, celebrating the most innovative Seedup and Scaleup startups from around the world, as voted by the audience. The awards spotlighted two rising stars of travel and technology – Lobby in the [...]
Global conference returns to Queenstown in 2028 as the region builds travel and hospitality tech hub
Queenstown is set to once again become a meeting point for the global travel technology industry, with WiT Queenstown returning on 28 March 2028 following a highly successful inaugural event earlier in the year.
The first New Zealand edition of WiT (Web in Travel), delivered in partnership wit [...]
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 [...]
The Ground Shift: 10 things we now know
Gathering the key takeaways from WiT Phocuswright Middle East 2026
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” I simply had to open WiT Phocuswright Middle East last week in Barcelona with the opening line from Charles Dickens’ The Tale of Two Cities.
It felt apt – an event t [...]
Africa’s live events boom: The continent is ready for its mega-concert moment
From Springbok sell-outs to Formula E, South Africa is proving it can host world-class live events. But infrastructure gaps, rising costs and a talent drain are holding the continent back from its full potential.
The numbers don't lie
The global live events industry is on a tear. Valued at [...]
Meet the winners of the 2026 Global Startup Pitch
Eight travel tech startups have been selected as the winners of the 2026 Global Startup Pitch.
The winning companies were among seventeen that presented their pitches live on the Startup Stage at Phocuswright Europe in Barcelona this week.
The competition, now in its fifth year, is jointly prod [...]
Letter from Tokyo: Samurai power, love robots, AI storm in a teacup
Key takeaways from WiT Japan 2026
A Samurai performance at the start, love robots at the end and in between one-and-half-day of conversations about “The Next 20: Precision, Reinvention and Quiet Power”.
Only in Japan could the precise sit comfortably with poetry, the quiet power of a centuri [...]
Letter from Las Vegas: The Techies built it, now the Fuzzies want it back.
The slot machines get you first. That relentless ding, ding, ding as you walk into the ARIA lobby, the raucous laughter from the bars, the crowds hunched over gaming tables – I can’t be anywhere else but Las Vegas.
I’d come off two full flights from Singapore via San Francisco, and the Stri [...]
