A Gen Z perspective on dreaming and planning travel – “flawsome videos” are the new black
Cole Lim, a hospitality graduate from Singapore Institute of Technology, attended WiT Singapore 2022 and this is his key takeaway from the event.
Imagine that you are planning a picnic with your friends this weekend. Where would you go to search for the perfect picnic spot with luxurious green gr [...]
Want to be a K-artist? South Korea ramps up for recovery with fresh ideas, new products and eye on tech
K-wave, longtail experiences, NDC, Urban Air Mobility – Seoul all out to bring back travel
FROM Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO) considering visas for fans wanting to enrol in K-pop training classes to global attraction pass company, Go City launching its first city pass in Seoul since the pandem [...]
Cruise chiefs hail comeback, urge travel agents to embrace digital – it’s now or never
CRUISING is back – with Cruise World Asia 2022 held in-person in Singapore for the first time in three years – and cruise chiefs in Asia urged their travel agent customers to embrace digital, given the acceleration in digital consumer behaviour during the pandemic.
This shift to online is hap [...]
Follow mummy’s advice, work with OTAs and embrace new economy asset class: Miguel Ko on the future of hospitality
Amid the bad news, investors pick bright spots – Japan leads the way
Hoteliers who follow their mother’s advice “to share”, learn to embrace the “new economy asset classes” and learn to work with OTAs are the ones who will win in the new world of hospitality, said Miguel Ko, chairman of [...]
Making sense of the metaverse of madness
“The real meaning of Web3 is all about community”, says DayAway’s Waslen
There are few conversations that don’t feel surreal in 2022, yet since the carnage in the crypto-currency market, businesses built around blockchain have had a particularly rough ride. Yet as WiT 2022 said ‘Hello Oth [...]
Travel is back, Asia’s rising, here’s what to watch out for in the new world
TRAVEL is back and so is Asia – was the resounding sentiment at WiT Singapore 2022, which gathered more than 400 delegates from close to 30 countries in the first physical reunion of the online travel industry in Asia Pacific in three years.
With the theme of “Hello, New World”, the more th [...]
Travel is today’s ultimate luxury, Google identifies four new traveller archetypes
TRAVEL has become the ultimate luxury in today’s world, declared Hermione Joye, Sector Lead, Travel, APAC for Google, as she shared the latest findings from a Google and Kantar study at WiT Singapore 2022 last week.
One, “revenge travel” is here to stay in the APAC traveller mindset, with 7 [...]
Reflections on the eve of “Hello, New World”: We’ve come a long way already
As he writes on the eve of another WiT-Web In Travel event, the first fully physical version since the pandemic, Luke Clark reflects on what a difference a year can make, both for travel and the individuals behind it
The first thing that you noticed on arrival was the talking heads. Not the band. [...]
From Hotel California to no room at the inn – the change in fortunes for one Singapore hotel
Farm, CoComelon, Razer gaming suites – “this is what we joined the industry for – to make people happy, to create experiences”
THE last time I interviewed Marcus Hanna, general manager of the Fairmont and Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore, we were both masked, his hotels were like ghost tow [...]
Seven startups advance to Grand Finals at WiT Singapore
Travel startup ecosystem is alive and well, say judges
THE travel startup ecosystem is alive and well, despite the ravages of the pandemic, concluded judges at the WiT/Phocuswright Global Startup Pitch held August 25, as they named seven startups to advance to the Grand Finals at WiT Singapore 2022 [...]
