The best in digital travel honoured at the WITovation Awards 2016
Backstreet Academy, Rome2Rio, CarTrawler, Cleartrip, Chope and Air Black Box are category winners at this year’s WITovation Awards, while Special Mentions went to PEACH Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
The WITovation Awards, which honours visionaries for their excellence in digital marketing an [...]
WIT BOOTCAMP 2016: Have a mobile first approach to capture the Chinese market
Mobile is so widely used in China that it has influenced the way business is conducted and trends in outbound travel.
Alex Shen, strategic partnership manager at GetYourGuide, revealed at her presentation at WIT Bootcamp 2016 in Singapore that the three most popular online activities are shoppin [...]
The Millennial Traveller: The tricky world of startup investment
Money is always a tricky subject in the start-up world. A whole day could be devoted to hashing out the pros and cons of bootstrapping versus raising investments through a seed round.
Is it right to sacrifice the family meal for your budding business or to sell your soul for a little extra cash t [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Reimagining travel from high tech, super speed to low tech, walking pace
In the midst of all the build-up for WIT Singapore next week, I jetted off on an annual sojourn to the UK with my family. We made our routine stops in London and Edinburgh, before setting off for the rural landscapes of Scotland’s northern highlands.
Travelling to the Isle of Skye in the far no [...]
Asia the outlier in a consolidated world: Trends That Matter to be shared at WIT
China, China, China – the three words we’ve been hearing in the US Presidential Debates that’s become the biggest reality TV show both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic. Perhaps they should add India, India, India – because when it comes to online travel, there seems to be the rest of the [...]
Sabre Destination Hack: Overwhelming response, opens to virtual entries from overseas developers
The response to Sabre’s first ever Asia Pacific inaugural hackathon has been so overwhelming that the company has added a virtual component to enable overseas developers to take part remotely.
To date, over 200 participants have registered from Singapore and the Asia Pacific region for Destinat [...]
TripAdvisor changes booking policies on animals attractions, launches education portal
TripAdvisor today announced its commitment to launch a set of industry-leading actions, including changes to its policy on selling tickets to animal attractions, and the launch of a new education portal to help inform travellers about the standards of care for wild, captive, and endangered species i [...]
Is the tail wagging the dog? Time to flip the world around
I remember the first day I started wearing spectacles. I was 10 and kept failing my Math and the teacher thought there could be something wrong with my eyesight. I was so relieved, I thought I was just bad at numbers and was getting a serious complex.
Anyway, the first day I wore it, not only did [...]
Seven startups to vie for top prize at WIT amid surge in travel investments
Seven travel tech startups are in the running in the WIT Startup Pitch competition to win a place in the Travelport Labs Accelerator programme, which comes with seed funding of US$30,000, as well as US$120,000 of cloud credits on IBM Cloud, under the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program.
The semi-fi [...]
Letter from Hong Kong: What Money Men Talk About At Breakfast
Café Too at Island Shangri-La is buzzing, at 8am. It reminds me that power breakfasts are still very much favoured among the rich and want-to-be-richer people.
I can hardly tie my shoelaces at that time of the morning let alone have an intense business discussion about money but Hong Kong does t [...]
