GlobalTix’s GT Pay, Sentosa’s NFT campaign win in Singapore Tourism Awards
GlobalTix’s new payments product, GT Pay, and Sentosa Development Corporation’s marketing campaign of “Discovery Neverending NFTs” were among the 25 recipients recognised at the Singapore Tourism Awards 2023, announced today.
The two won in the Enterprise Excellence category. GT Pay was [...]
Top of the WiT 24: Ready for China, understanding India, and Google ARCore digitises Singapore
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news that happened this week in travel, tech and Asia - all condensed into a quick-and-easy nugget-sized podcast.
In this episode, listen to Juliana Kua's (Assistant Chief Executive, International Group, Singapore Tourism Board) take on the online travel [...]
9 things we learned at ATE23: Australia recaptures Indian market, Ruby is a hit, visa applications, more
2300 delegates, 623 buyers from 32 countries, and a whopping 45,000 meetings. Those were the numbers that painted the 43rd edition of Tourism Australia’s largest annual trade event, Australian Tourism Exchange 2023 (ATE23) last week.
Hosted on the Gold Coast, Queensland across 5 days, this yea [...]
Skyscanner: Travellers look to APAC as booking windows normalise
The majority of trending destinations for Q2 and Q3 travel are in APAC, with Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Taiwan benefitting, according to the latest report from Skyscanner Horizons: Destination & Booking Insights Q1 2023.
The report also noted that +90 day booking windo [...]
Japanese food platform byFood raises $2.24m to expand in Japan and Asia
The paths of Serkan Toso and Kaoro Joho first crossed when they found they were doing something similar with their food startups – Toso was running Tokyobyfood.com, a website to help foreign travellers find Japanese food while Joho was operating Tablecross, a restaurant reservations app.
Both h [...]
No longer blazing trails, Mr Nice Guy yearns for Asia’s hidden gems
Still a role for DMCs who stay two steps ahead of customers, says veteran
Bob Guy, the "Mr Asia" of the DMC industry, shares his insights on the changes in the travel industry and why DMCs still have a role to play in the digital age. Despite the disruption caused by the pandemic, Guy believes that [...]
Content, tech, sustainability – Singapore charts its voyage into a “Quality Tourism” future
Face hard truths, ask tough questions – tourism captain urges industry to “make it so”
Entertainment content, technology and sustainability are the three key pillars around which Singapore plans to take its “Quality Tourism” strategy to the next level – that takeaway was evident from [...]
China Arising: Six trends to heed to capture the emerging Chinese traveller
Since the reopening of China on January 8, there have been numerous surveys published on what to expect from this most consequential of travel markets and how the world should prepare for it.
But nothing beats hearing first hand from those who are in-market or at the coal face of what is possibly [...]
From hanoks in South Korea to old homes in Japan, Airbnb expands “Historical Homes” listings in Asia
How an idea born in France spread to create a new category of rural heritage tourism; shophouse programme under study
It started out as an idea in France – to fund the renovation of heritage buildings to revitalise heritage tourism in rural areas – an idea that eventually led to the launch [...]
I dream of Finland, happiness, “onnellisuus” and everything, everywhere all at once
I once had a penpal from Finland. His name was Jukka Touvinen. He wrote to me about snow and ice, I told him about sun and sand. That correspondence sustained me until I reached my teens when I overcame my shyness to communicate with real boys and I supposed the same thing happened to Jukka, when he [...]
