BTN Group launches Business Travel Show America
The BTN Group, part of Northstar Travel Group, will host the Inaugural Business Travel Show America, a Virtual Expo from September 9-10.
The event brings the industry together to realign the future of corporate travel and meetings, and is the biggest industry event of its kind following the outb [...]
Trip101 sees record growth in bookings, shorter booking times for vacation rentals
Travel media Trip101 reports record levels of vacation rental bookings as well as shorter booking lead times (time between booking and check-in) in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Remarkably, May saw a record number of bookings for Trip101, with a 300% YoY (year-on-year)growth. The [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 14: DJ One With Aldrin
We met over Hainanese curry rice in a local food court in Singapore. I asked him about his love for music and how he got started as a DJ, and how he came upon the name of “One With Aldrin”.
His story
captivated me. Local boy, loves music, loves mixing, driven by his passion,
pretty enterpris [...]
Agoda counts on domestic tourism for recovery, launches “GoLocal” campaign
Agoda is banking on domestic tourism to kickstart a travel recovery among its and launched its biggest integrated campaign, “GoLocal”, signing up thousands of hotel partners in the pre-launch phase.
Accommodation
providers opting in to Agoda’s GoLocal initiative are promised “a multi-ch [...]
The Wrap: Myanmar rolls out three-stage road map to rejuvenate tourism industry, AirAsia stimulates domestic travel in partnership with hotels, and more …
The Wrap is a weekly round-up of news in the
travel and technology industries, and to keep track of developments in these
sectors as the green shoots of recovery slowly take root.
Myanmar’s rolls out a three-stage road map to rejuvenate the tourism industry
Promotion to domestic destination [...]
New metrics needed to measure “touchy-feely” aspects, hybrid means longer product cycles – major rethink needed in business events sector
Covid-19 and its forcing us enmasse into the world of virtual and hybrid events is throwing up some very tough challenges for an industry, used to running physical events, to confront.
They range from finding new metrics to prove its value to changing its mindset to thinking longer product cycl [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 13: Ho Kwon Ping, Executive Chairman, Banyan Tree Holdings
At WiT 2009, themed “Tough Love” because the world was coming out of the global financial crisis, Ho Kwon Ping, known for not pulling his punches, called out of the rise of China and the clash of civilisations.
A decade later, we revisit him in his home in Singapore to catch up with him on [...]
Rappi Travel sees slight uptick in bookings, ready to ride on superapp’s growing reach across Latin America
Latin America’s superapp, Rappi, launched its travel vertical in February, which is either bad timing or good, depending how you look at it.
For Guido Becher, head of Rappi Travel, it was good because it meant the company didn’t have to deal with the chaos that ensued with the breakout of t [...]
Some corporate travel may not return, buyers and TMCs invest in tech for a new future
The reality is sobering. It’s going to take a while for corporate travel to get back up, especially that of the major multinationals. SMEs, well, that’s a different story for another day.
Novartis, for example, is not permitting international travel for internal meetings for the rest of th [...]
The Wrap: Domestic tourism takes off in Malaysia, SIA rolls out new project to thank Covid-19 frontliners, and more …
The Wrap is a weekly round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and to keep track of developments in these sectors as the green shoots of recovery slowly take root.
Domestic tourism in Malaysia resumes as country enters recovery phase
Many Malaysians are keen to reconnect with [...]
