WiT Studio: Johnny Thorsen (Spotnana) gets honest about the industry’s ability to cope with future crises
WiT Studio hosts a series of exclusive interviews with key players in the industry to discuss the new age of travel, tech, and tourism in Asia and beyond. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more.
On this episode, Johnny Thorsen, Vice President, Strategy and Partnerships, Spotnana gets hones [...]
Rebranding Cambodia: Focusing on sustainability to boost tourism in the kingdom
IF you were to come up with a two-week stay in Cambodia, what would your itinerary look like? Would you be able to name five places to visit off the top of your head? Unless you’ve spent a considerable amount of time there, Cambodia is probably defined by its most touristy destinations. According [...]
Atlas launches ATRIP to bring data-led decision-making to travel
SINGAPORE-based low cost flight platform, Atlas, has released its next-generation Air Travel Retailing and Information Platform (ATRIP), which it says bypasses legacy systems to bring on a new age of data-led decision-making to travel.
Founder Mary Li's vision is to enable more people to travel [...]
Sponsored: 2023, the year of technological adoption for travel agents
2020 was the year the world shut down. 2021 was the year of patchy recovery, and 2022 is the year that travel industry recovery continues apace. Both Corporate and leisure travel are returning, and even countries that have been closed to tourists for the best part of two years are now re-opening. So [...]
How WiT shifted my perspective on a career in hospitality and travel
Leon Oh Swee Keong, a Singapore Institute of Technology hospitality student, had doubts about working in the hospitality industry. The image of it being “menial labour” plus the allure of better salaries from other sectors were factors holding him back. After attending WiT Singapore and listenin [...]
WiT Studio: Ariane Gorin (President, Expedia for Business) talks travel recovery in APAC and living in consequential times
WiT Studio hosts a series of exclusive interviews with key players in the industry on the new age of travel, tech, and tourism in Asia and beyond. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more.
On this episode, Ariane Gorin, President, Expedia for Business, Expedia Group, talks about the new age [...]
High tech can lead to higher human touchpoints
GlobalTix’s Chan Chee Chong and Nam Ho’s Marshall share how technology can help agents further drive better engagement and customer service.
Filmmakers have loved to unsettle us with movies that depict machines taking over the world. But don’t hear it from the movie industry, hear it from t [...]
From Bengkulu to Traveloka: How Caesar Indra is fulfilling his dream of “making the developing world better”
“Local is our DNA, so is DIY,” he says, but can that playbook scale as Traveloka expands
When I asked Caesar Indra how a kid growing up in Bengkulu, a small mountain village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia ended up being president of Traveloka, Indonesia’s poster child of online travel, h [...]
Sponsored: Why a positive experience is all that really matters to travellers
By James Marshall, VP, Air Account Management, Expedia Group
CONSUMER behaviour continually changes, but the volatility we have experienced over the past few years has brought this into even sharper focus. All industries are having to adapt to these changes and re-examine how they meet consumer n [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 07: Transforming mobility, cruise comeback, dreamers that do
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
This week, we talk about a company that wants to transform mobility, through data and analyti [...]
