WiT and Phocuswright team up for Global Startup Pitch
“Time to unite around innovation”
AS part of the Northstar Global Travel Technology group, WiT and Phocuswright are kicking off 2022 with a round-the-world Global Startup Pitch. This combined effort is the next evolution of a relentless, ongoing 25-year search for startups that disrupt, innovat [...]
JTB talks change, collaboration and connection with the world
A focus on customer experience helps JTB weather the Covid storm
IF Covid has any redeeming benefit, it can only be the time the pandemic has given the travel industry to reassess its business practices and strategies, to reset and reload, ready for the recovery down the track.
What did we do ri [...]
Airbnb, Rakuten LIFULL Stay ride alternative accommodation wave in Japan
ALTERNATIVE accommodation providers were the beneficiaries of changing traveller trends during the pandemic and within Japan, Airbnb and Rakuten LIFULL STAY certainly rode the Covid-induced trend well.
Speaking at WiT Japan & North Asia 2022, Atsuo Mori, territory manager for Airbnb Japan, re [...]
“Womenomics” and ESG champion, MPower’s Matsui is preparing “teenager” startups for stardom
Venture capitalist advises travel to go on “attack mode management”
THOSE who still doubt the Covid pandemic will significantly change the way we will live and work in the future should listen to Kathy Matsui, formerly with Goldman Sachs and now general partner of Japan’s first ESG-focuse [...]
“Conservative” appetite for outbound among South Koreans, domestic play will stay for a while
A SURVEY carried out by South Korea’s second largest OTA GoodChoice Company to gauge the appetite of South Koreans for outbound travel showed that most were still “conservative” in resuming travel.
Speaking at WiT Japan & North Asia 2022, Myunghoon Chung, CEO of GoodChoice Company, sai [...]
From sake tourism to temple stays, ESG to metaverse, North Asia waits patiently for rebound
“KIKO No Ikioi” – Japanese saying for “no choice but to carry on” – and travel companies in North Asia have certainly carried on even though cross-border travel remains at a standstill, two years into the pandemic. Global to local OTAs have carried on investing in tech, team and product [...]
WiT Japan & North Asia 2022 – time to rebuild bridge and “open eyes to the world again”
Hybrid event returns to Tokyo on Jan 14-15
WiT will kick off its first event of 2022 with a “Homecoming” to Tokyo for its ninth edition of WiT Japan & North Asia. The hybrid event, on January 14-15, is expected to be attended by up to 150 on-site delegates, complemented with a virtual au [...]
Cruising to nowhere getting somewhere, as domestic cruises resume in Malaysia Dec 22
Cross-border cruising on table, Singapore-Penang-Phuket itinerary being planned
IT is ironic that even though air travel in Asia is going nowhere, the only sector that seems to be going somewhere even though it is mostly to nowhere, is cruising.
On December 22, domestic cruises from Penang, [...]
Pace, The Atlas, Spotnana – fuelled by experience, passion and funding
Three startups, helmed by seasoned entrepreneurs, the ones to watch
IF there is one
trend we’ve seen in the startup world, it’s that seasoned entrepreneurs are
returning to solve problems they’ve either been working on for a long time or
turning their eye to new and hot spaces they hope to [...]
Lessons from WIT Africa: Collaboration can be a reason for celebration
No fear, young Africans are treading new paths to entrepreneurial success
ONE continent fascinated 19th century explorers more than any other: Africa.
Explorers like the Scot, David Livingstone; Henry Stanley, who recorded
his journeys for the New York Times, and British scholar Sir Richard B [...]
