Strength to strength – WiT Startup Pitch alum Split goes 0 to 700 amid pandemic
"The headwinds of Covid became tailwinds for our pivot", says Dylan Tan
WHEN Dylan Tan and co-founder Vishvesh Suriyanarayanan made the decision to pivot their start-up Split in March 2020, it was a move borne of desperation. Sixteen months on, instead of desperation, it looks like inspiration t [...]
Sustainability: Don’t sell or tell, show it
“It should be a jailable offence to greenwash”, says Bouteco’s Kinsman
IF there was one key message from Episode 5 of the WiT Travel Roadshow last Thursday, it is that it is the industry’s opportunity to turn “revenge travel” into “beautiful travel” by putting sustainability prin [...]
How to turn revenge travel into beautiful travel – tips from those doing it
PENT-UP demand there will be for sure – look at how
travel has rebounded in markets where restrictions have been lifted – but how
can the industry turn “revenge travel” into “beautiful travel”, given the
downtime it has had to create new products and services to cater to changed
consume [...]
As Singapore waits for open borders, time to celebrate local champions
THE first virtual Singapore Tourism Awards held this week opened with a glimmer of hope for an industry forced to survive on domestic when Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong alluded to a tourism reopening roadmap over the next few months.
Mentioning
“group travel” with safe itinera [...]
ALIS goes live in Los Angeles, 1,800 gather to talk hospitality and investment
THE biggest hospitality industry conference in the US went back to live this week when the 20th annual Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) opened at the JW Marriott L.A. Live and Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
An
estimated 1,800 gathered at the hotel investment conference, produced [...]
Phuket Sandbox’s encouraging response paves way for Thailand’s reopening to international tourists
TWO weeks on since the July 1 launch of the Phuket Sandbox – a cocoon of vaccinated foreign tourists – despite a surge of Covid infections on the mainland, the scheme has seen some measure of success, receiving 5,473 arrivals and almost 200,000 room nights booked up until the end of August.
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Curiouser and curiouser; The Curious Case of the Missing Peranakan Treasure returns for its second run proving that digital productions really do have legs
NOT new tech but new thinking. In the fourth episode of our Virtual Experience Makers series with GEVME, we speak to actor Hossan Leong and Derrick Chew, executive producer at Sight Lines Entertainment, and go behind the scenes of the making of The Curious Case of the Missing Peranakan Treasure, a [...]
Open road ahead as each OTA takes different bet on the future
“Nothing guaranteed, everything possible” is sentiment of the day
WHEN things have gone full circle, it can look like they’ve stayed still, but at the WiT Travel Roadshow Episode 4, four travel players tell us they’ve been very busy indeed, making bold bets for the future while honourin [...]
Co-ownership of guests, laser focus on high value experiences: Martha Waslen on the DayAway difference
WHEN we spoke to DayAway founder Martha Waslen in April, the startup had just closed a successful seed funding round and brought onboard its only other employee. Since then, the team has grown to 25 members (a mix of employees and contractors) and expects to close a Series A capital raise by the en [...]
Travel is back in the US – families hitting the road, cities will make comeback
IN his “Letter From America” delivered at WiT Travel Roadshow, Episode 4, Hari Nair, global senior vice president, account management at Expedia Group, shared five insights that are fuelling hopes of a robust travel recovery.
First,
the initiatives to reduce the spread of Covid-19 are fuell [...]
