Don’t hold your breath for “travel corridors” or “green lanes”, work your domestic strategy for now
“True international travel in South-east Asia needs a vaccine”, says Agoda’s Hughes
Travel businesses in Asia should not pin their hopes on “travel corridors” and “green lanes” generating any substantial volume this year, with Agoda’s Timothy Hughes calling it a “dangerous” [...]
WiT to be first travel hybrid event on Oct 1, streaming live from Marina Bay Sands
WiT Experience Week 2020 will not only be Singapore’s first travel pilot hybrid event but possibly also the first global travel conference to have a physical footprint when it streams live from Marina Bay Sands’ new Hybrid Broadcast Studio on Oct 1.
WiT Singapore, which has been held in the [...]
This is why the world needs business travel and peddlers in paradise
It really doesn’t matter how good the technology is and how much better we are at navigating Zoom, Swapcard, Brella or the myriad of event platforms that have mushroomed during this time in history but let’s face it, it will never be as good as being there.
Such was the feeling when I moder [...]
Here are the winners of Phocuswright Innovation Summit and Launch EMEA
Phocuswright has announced the award winners of the latest Phocuswright Innovation Platform programmes, Summit: EMEA and Launch: EMEA.
The winners are:
Summit: EMEA Most Innovative Startup Award - Winner: IoMobSummit: EMEA People’s Choice Award - Winner: Hotelmize Launch: EMEA Pe [...]
Turner urges, fix the present; Harbison says, fix the future; Joyce raises funds to invest in restructuring to ensure Qantas lasts 100 years
“We need to bring as many people as we can through this”, says Flight Centre Travel Group CEO
Airlines don’t make money at the best of times and these are the worst of times. Watching the opening couple of hours of Wednesday’s CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit on the screen was a bi [...]
Planeterra launches virtual trek challenge to help rebuild community tourism devastated by Covid-19
Planeterra Foundation, the non-profit partner of small-group adventure tour operator G Adventures and G Touring, launched its first annual Planeterra Trek Challenge today (September 2).
Bruce Poon Tip, Planeterra's founder (also G Adventures' founder and G Touring's owner), invites the travel i [...]
Milken talks vaccine, Alibaba’s Tsai talks remote work and travel; “massive digitisation of everything”
With so much bad news in travel I thought I’d tune into the Singapore Fintech Festival Global Launch event this week for a different perspective, and the most promising news came at the end from Mike Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute.
Saying things look promising and he wouldn’t be su [...]
Asia saving Asia: Visa-free travel for residents, safe travel protocols and new experiences for the times
Ideas collected from the wisdom of the crowd during the WiT Virtual Summit
While it is clear that domestic travel is the
immediate market for recovery at this time, the travel industry in Asia also
needs to look ahead and think of ideas to get more Asians travelling since
intra-regional travel w [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 16: Lessons From The WiT Virtual Summit
In this episode, Yeoh Siew Hoon sums up the lessons she took away from the WiT Virtual Summit when we went round the world in six hours – from how it’s okay to be scrappy, to how we should not go back to bad habits of old and how we should, with clever tech, make our customers feel confident ag [...]
Rethinking Trade Exhibitions: Lessons from China and creating a new hybrid world
In my career as a journalist, I’ve gone from print to web, then from web to mobile. Now I’ve gone from physical events to virtual and hybrid. Each time, it has meant surrendering old territory but always gaining new ones. Each moment creates an opportunity to create a new space, a new world.
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