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GlobalTix tackles content management challenge with Magpie
19/11/2020 by WiT
GLOBALTIX'S growing content management challenge has led the Singapore-based online ticketing platform to forge a partnership with Magpie. The San Francisco company Magpie provides content management solutions to the tours and activities sector. “As we continue to build up our already vast dat [...]
“Hello, I am Zooming in while cruising” – and best news of all, a vaccine which sends travel stocks soaring
12/11/2020 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
From cruises and conferences, to Tokyo Olympics and Expo2020 Dubai, slow and steady steps are being taken to revive economies. I can’t believe I am saying this in 2020 but I had a Zoom meeting this week in which someone was calling in while she was on a cruise. Okay, albeit that it was to [...]
How much do you miss staying in hotels? I didn’t know the answer till this staycation
04/11/2020 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
Hello, Mr Doorman. Here I am. I never thought I’d ever say “I miss staying in a hotel” but when I got out of the car and was greeted by the doorman at Raffles Singapore, I felt almost weak at the knees. A wave of nostalgia overcame me as flashbacks of special hotel stays raced through my m [...]
Psst, fancy spending Christmas in Hong Kong?
16/10/2020 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
Industry welcomes opening of no-restriction travel corridor between Singapore and Hong Kong I am already imagining spending Christmas in Hong Kong, feeling the crisp cold of a winter season, taking in the lights of one of Asia’s most vibrant, dynamic cities and catching up with friends in som [...]
What Will the Covid Business Recovery Look Like? Look to Travel and Learn.
13/10/2020 by Luke Clark
When it comes to recovery, fortune favours the bold. In this long read, we compare two destination recovery efforts past and present. In the true spirit of WiT 2020, travel industry alumni, and now chief executive and partner of CP5, Luke Clark, looks back to look forward. Way back in 2003, right i [...]
Travel Zero.O: 10 Key Takeaways from WiT Experience Week
09/10/2020 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
There was as much to learn about organising a hybrid event as there was to learn about travel at this most pivotal of times. Here’s a summary of the key takeaways garnered over the four days of Sept 28-Oct 1. 1. Be prepared to unlearn everything so that you can learn something new In organ [...]
Sentosa builds local love as a fun, vibrant tourism hub
08/10/2020 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
Having built a domestic market that made up a quarter of its total visitorship of 19 million pre-Covid, Sentosa Development Corporation and its partners are now pulling together to entice the only market segment available to them right now and to grow it. Sharing about the changed environment i [...]
WiT Experience Week, Rewrite: The start of something new as events take on hybrid life and travel faces life-or-death moments
05/10/2020 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
“I didn’t know how much I had missed this.” “I didn’t think I’d be able to sit through seven hours straight.” “I wouldn’t usually have stayed for dinner.” “We didn’t want to leave.” These were some of the comments expressed by those who were physically present at WiT Ex [...]
Dream Drive claims top prize at WiT Startup of the Year 2020 in Singapore
02/10/2020 by WiT
Japan’s Dream Drive has claimed the top prize in this year’s WiT Singapore Startup Pitch, after it made its final pitch with two others at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre as part of WiT Experience Week, its first-ever hybrid event. It also nabbed the People’s Choice Award, voted [...]
Travel’s Oracle Speaks: KP Ho on Digital Decoupling and a Return to Meaning
02/10/2020 by Luke Clark
He has seen his share of crises and survived to tell the tale, and Ho Kwon Ping, executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, assured the WiT Experience Week audience yesterday that despite an unprecedented 2020 for global travel, the group was still in shape to weather the storm. “Thankfully [...]