Singapore students win Accor’s Take Off! Challenge with metaverse idea
THREE university students from Singapore and their metaverse idea won Accor Group’s Take Off!
Challenge this year, an annual worldwide student competition designed to attract young talent to the global hotel group.
The winning team, Meta Trio, comprised Phuan Shi Yun, Ng Min Feng and Chia Pe [...]
Travel for love leads the way, then it’s nature, wellness and sustainability
Australia and Singapore blaze new trails in recovery
FIRST it was “travel for love”, said Tourism Australia’s Brent Anderson, those travelling from the region down under to visit families and friends, then it was travellers looking for a different kind of love – that of immersive experience [...]
The pent-up travel party is just getting started in South-east Asia
Consumers are fast turning into revenge travellers as they quickly adapt to open borders, according to Google's APAC chief for travel search.
AFTER two challenging years of start-stop Covid-19 restrictions, the travel industry is sputtering to life again as borders across Southeast Asia reopen in r [...]
TravelTech Show returns in-person with new date and venue
TRAVELTECH Show (formerly Travel Technology Europe) returns in person at new venue, ExCeL London, on June 29-30, 2022, alongside The Meetings Show and Business Travel Show Europe.
Following a two-year hiatus and a fully virtual offering in 2021, the show makes a comeback with a conference and n [...]
Singapore, the home of world-class business events?
THE country has its sights set on growing high-quality MICE events in sustainability, urban solutions, food security, energy security, fintech and advanced manufacturing.
Right from the get-go when Singapore fully reopened to the world on April 1, the country sprang into action, issuing a clario [...]
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 [...]
