Letter from the Kingdom of Covid-19: A time of ugly truths and bare essentials
I think
it’s finally sunk in. The reality. I probably had the longest denial period of
anyone I know. From Wednesday, Singapore went into “circuit breaker” mode in
the ongoing fight against Covid-19 which seems to have more twists and turns
than “Kingdom”, the K-drama hit which, to me, co [...]
Airlines have melted like “snow in the Sahara”; why flying will not be the same again
Aviation veteran Christoph Mueller last
night paid tribute to airline executives for the amazing job they have done,
building up networks that allowed people to fly everywhere, earning dividends
for investors and shareholders and paying bonuses to staff for the past 25
years.
“To see it [...]
How to manage fear and anxiety in time of coronavirus
From how to manage your own fear to how to manage bored kids at home, psychiatrist and counsellor Dr Adrian Wang had a long list of advice for our listeners who tuned into our WiT Virtual last Friday.
Here are our key takeaways.
1. Manage social media anxiety
“You have to [...]
The 7 Stages to the New Normal
Changing the way we travel would have been unthinkable at the end of 2019. But now we must accept it. The travel world has been turned upside down. How can we get back to a normal steady state and how does that happen? Welcome to the seven stages of the new normal, writes Timothy O’Neil-Dunne, pr [...]
Letter from Tuscany (State of Mind): Of hermits and princess warriors – what are you?
Once upon a
time, back when humans were allowed to travel, I went on a road trip from
Munich to Florence and found myself spending the night at a friend’s place in a
little town in Tuscany.
After a lovely dinner of pasta cooked with the freshest, most succulent tomatoes imaginable, and severa [...]
There are no winners in all this, only survivors, say investors
BEACH
(Booking, Entertainment & Live Events, Airlines, Cruise Lines & Hotels
& Resorts) stocks have taken a hammering with the Covid-19 crisis. More
than $332 billion in value have evaporated over the past month, according to this analysis. Booking Holdings has seen a 37% drop,
Expedia [...]
How Findmyfare.com redeployed its travel consultants to medical services: “It’s about saving jobs”
In late January, Tushan Shanmugarajah, CEO and co-founder of Findmyfare.com, started seeing drops in sales to markets in South-east Asia. Thinking this was “something like SARS”, that it’d be contained, it switched marketing campaigns to Europe and the Middle East.
In
February, it ran a ca [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 5: William Bao Bean, Partner, SOSV Capital and Managing Director, Chinaccelerator
It is said crisis unites and there’s no better time than now for unity as the travel industry undergoes its biggest test with the outbreak of Covid-19.
With most of the world on lockdown and as China and Singapore enter another round of their fight to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic by [...]
Boost domestic travel confidence to spark recovery before international demand returns, says Sojern
Some
early but clear signs of recovery in Asia in domestic travel have begun to
emerge, at least in North Asia markets like China, Hong Kong and South Korea.
International travel has yet to rebound, but general appetite hasn’t faded,
according to Sojern.
In a
webinar hosted by Sojern, its dire [...]
Green shoots are there, innovate on products and services to capture current need
From hand sanitisers to drive-throughs and meal deliveries with K-dramas included, travel suppliers in Asia are innovating to meet current customer needs. Meanwhile, governments are collaborating with the private sector to innovate in mobile to contain Covid-19. Vera Lye reports on the first WiT Vi [...]
