Journalists in the hot seat: Learning to cover a crisis, step-by-step restarts and reporting on a post-Covid world
Like the business it covers, travel trade media has also been caught in the crosshairs of Covid-19 and journalists are grappling with their own roles and existential questions, as editors from the Northstar Travel Group shared during a WiT Virtual event on Tuesday.
As Jay Boehmer, editor in [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 8: Wharf Hotels’ Jennifer Cronin on repositioning of Hong Kong and rise of women leadership
In this podcast, the president of Wharf Hotels Jennifer Cronin speaks about Hong Kong’s effective containment of Covid-19, how it can serve as a model for restarting travel, the formation of a co-funded Heritage Tourism Fund and the rise of women leadership.
Hong Kong, as a
destination, has b [...]
South-east Asia seeing huge direct-to-consumer shift in e-commerce, says Shopify’s Verma
The biggest trend happening in e-commerce in South-east Asia is the direct-to-consumer shift, accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis that has seen mass migration of consumers online in the region, said Arun Verma, who’s leading Shopify’s growth in South-east Asia and China.
How this translates t [...]
2020: Year of the Unicorpse, or the Black Swan with a Silver Lining?
By Rafael Aldon, Director, VenturesOne (Click here for the original post.)
"Question every assumption about your business" was the message to CEOs and founders from leading Silicon Valley VC, Sequoia Capital in their March memo, "Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020". Referencing Darwin's 'Survi [...]
‘Cautious travel’ will be the new norm as consumers seek more assurances that travel is safe
Insight
Out Consultancy has launched its “Life After the Pandemic” report, looking into
consumer perceptions of how social, travel, and business practices would change
as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The global survey was carried out on 2912
consumers, predominantly from the MENA region.
[...]
All eyes on steps being taken by “Covid-safe” bubbles in APAC: Will they signal the slow restarting of travel?
While more companies shed jobs, the latest being TripAdvisor which cut some 900 jobs this week, some countries in Asia Pacific (APAC) are taking tentative steps to restart their economies and save jobs, and the long weekend coming up, and subsequent weeks after, will be watched closely by the rest [...]
Impact has been hard, but there’s light at end of tunnel as Daley pieces together a roadmap to recovery
During WiT Virtual, Louise Daley, deputy CEO, APAC, Accor was very realistic about the harsh realities being faced by the hospitality industry – poor occupancy rates, declining RevPAR, staff redundancies and furloughs. However, she also pointed out areas worthy of optimism in the sector. She iden [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 7: Chloe Dalton, Olympian Gold athlete
In this episode, we speak to extraordinary athlete, Chloe Dalton, on building “Range and Resilience”, skills we all need to get us through these extraordinary times. Born in Singapore, the Australian star started out in basketball, crossed over to Rugby Sevens where her team won a Gold in the 2 [...]
A message of unity from members of the WiT community
"We have no life in travel right now, but we will be back." This was the mantra shared by much-loved members of the WiT community, who took a moment to share how they are spending their time at home as the world waits for Covid-19 to pass.
As part of WiT's "Unity in Crisis" series, the video, ed [...]
7 Stages to the New Normal, revisited – “the lack of progress haunts my thinking”
When I wrote the first version of the story that was published in WiT three weeks ago, I used less data than is now available. Now I think we have a better view of the situation. Thus I am revising my timeline and it’s not pretty.
Timothy O’Neil-Dunne revises the timeline of 'The 7 Stages to [...]
