Travel Zero.O: 10 Key Takeaways from WiT Experience Week
There was as much to learn about organising a hybrid event as there was to learn about travel at this most pivotal of times. Here’s a summary of the key takeaways garnered over the four days of Sept 28-Oct 1.
1. Be prepared to unlearn everything so that you can learn something new
In organ [...]
Sentosa builds local love as a fun, vibrant tourism hub
Having built a domestic market that made up a quarter of its total visitorship of 19 million pre-Covid, Sentosa Development Corporation and its partners are now pulling together to entice the only market segment available to them right now and to grow it.
Sharing
about the changed environment i [...]
WiT Experience Week, Rewrite: The start of something new as events take on hybrid life and travel faces life-or-death moments
“I didn’t know how much I had missed this.” “I didn’t think I’d be able to sit through seven hours straight.” “I wouldn’t usually have stayed for dinner.” “We didn’t want to leave.”
These were some of the comments expressed by those who were physically present at WiT Ex [...]
Dream Drive claims top prize at WiT Startup of the Year 2020 in Singapore
Japan’s Dream Drive has claimed the top prize in this year’s WiT Singapore Startup Pitch, after it made its final pitch with two others at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre as part of WiT Experience Week, its first-ever hybrid event. It also nabbed the People’s Choice Award, voted [...]
Travel’s Oracle Speaks: KP Ho on Digital Decoupling and a Return to Meaning
He has seen his share of crises and survived to tell the tale, and Ho Kwon Ping, executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, assured the WiT Experience Week audience yesterday that despite an unprecedented 2020 for global travel, the group was still in shape to weather the storm.
“Thankfully [...]
WiT Experience Week, Rebuild: Wego builds new e-commerce brand outside travel as product chiefs innovate their way out of Covid
The future
of product will be codeless, commoditised, accelerated but ultimately human?
To ride out the long winter that’s coming, Wego is launching a brand new e-commerce business outside travel, Ross Veitch, CEO and co-founder disclosed yesterday at Day 3: Rebuild of the WiT Experience Week. [...]
WiT Experience Week, Reboot: Build something for the future, investors hungry for products that will last the test of time
While most investors are staying away from travel due to the uncertainty of recovery, Amit Anand, founding partner of Jungle Ventures, remains excited about the space which he said has been kind to him.
He’s made two exits – Voyagin to Rakuten and Travelmob to HomeAway – and
while he said [...]
Slow, rolling recovery but Travelport “cautiously optimistic”
WiT speaks to Mark Meehan, Group Vice President and Managing Director, APAC, on how he sees the recovery for the region amid a new study that Travelport has just released.
Q: As we enter the third quarter of 2020, are you more optimistic or pessimistic about travel recovery than say 3 months ag [...]
WiT Experience Week, Rewind: We’re doing everything we can but it’s messy, “governments must act”
If there is one clear message I took away from hosting Day 1 of WiT Experience Week today, September 28, it is that every one of us is doing all we can to survive this Covid-19 storm but our fortunes (or misfortunes) lie in the hands of governments.
When asked the question in our audience pollin [...]
Key takeaways from Google Think Travel APAC to be shared at WiT this week
Last week saw
the launch of Think Travel APAC 2020, Google’s flagship innovation and
marketing event for the travel industry. Over two days 250 travel executives
from over 20 countries tuned in to hear from CEOs, Google product teams and top
industry players on what they are doing to pivot and su [...]
