IDEM Hospitality takes top prize of WiT Startup of the Year 2019 in Singapore
IDEM Hospitality has taken the top prize in this year’s WiT Singapore Startup Pitch, powered by Amadeus, after the finals were held earlier this week at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre.
IDEM Hospitality beat two
other finalists – eRoam and Travenues – with its solution to he [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Alipay and Fliggy collaborate to provide seamless travel experience for tourists
A year on since she last spoke on the WiT Singapore stage in October 2018, much has changed in Cherry Huang’s life – from looking after Alipay cross-border payments for South-east Asia, she’s now the Head of Global Travel at Alibaba Group for the region, in charge of the development of both A [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Finding love in the arms of a robot
In the 1999 film Bicentennial Man, Robin Williams plays a robot, Andrew, who is gifted with the capacity of emotion and creativity. Andrew eventually falls in love with a human lady and decides to marry her. When he petitions a regulatory body to recognise their matrimony, however, he is rejected a [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Accor and Expedia Group on how to save the hotel-OTA relationship
The hotel-OTA relationship has always been a tricky one. The two are co-dependent and must care for each other, but not too much. On a panel at the WiT Singapore 2019 Main Stage, Louise Daley, deputy CEO, Accor APAC and Melissa Maher, senior vice president, marketing and innovation, Expedia Group e [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Being level-headed, judicious and open key to making wise investment decisions, say VCs
Startups today are inundated by the narrative of being showered with copious amounts of funding. Companies can hit astronomical – and some would say logic-defying – valuations, as investors place large bets on companies in the hopes of landing a golden goose. Indeed, there’s a lot of hype aro [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: WiT celebrates new heroes for 2019
WiT is pleased to announce six more inductees to its Hall of Fame, which was launched in 2017 to recognise and honour individuals/ companies who have had the greatest influence on the progress and professionalism of the digital travel industry in Asia Pacific.
Here are our 2019 recipients:
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Forter’s Whiteford on why travel is highly susceptible to fraud and how to fight it with tech, scale and network
Imagine how much bigger travel would be if we took on the bad guys collectively and with a level of sophistication that combines human intelligence with machine learning? That’s the message Angela Whiteford, chief marketing officer of Forter, wants to bring to WiT when she speaks at the Singapore [...]
New Travelport CEO not interested in third place, aims to top market with agility and speed
“I plan to win. Period,” declared Greg Webb, the 71-day old CEO of Travelport but a long-time veteran in the industry, having spent more than 20 years at competitor Sabre. “I do not plan to be the third player for long.” And the gauntlet is thus thrown.
Travelport currently
sits behind [...]
APAC online payments may have leapfrogged, but there’s plenty of work to be done, says Ingenico’s Neil D’Souza
In APAC, it’s alternative payments galore. With a spectrum of internet and credit card penetration levels throughout, many markets have begun developing independent payment solutions to overcome the limits of their local banking infrastructure.
According to the eConomy SEA 2019 report by Goog [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Allen Law, the good son steering Park Hotel Group into the digital future
How many of us can
say “well, my dad bought a hotel and asked me if I would run it”. Not many, I guess, but
that’s how Allen Law, CEO of Park Hotel Group, got his start in hospitality.
He was 24, studying mathematics in London, when his father, Law
Kar Po, called him, announcing the family [...]
