TravelFlan raising $12m to expand, buys OTA in Beijing, lining up Seoul
Following its Series A raise of US$7m last December, Hong Kong-based TravelFlan, a travel and lifestyle AI-digital solution startup, is in the midst of raising an additional US$12m to expand across Asia. To date, the company has raised more than $9.9 million.
Said Abel Zhao, who co-founded the [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 12: Cameron Holland, Chief Executive Officer, Luxury Escapes
As Australia slowly awakens, so is Luxury Escapes, the company that grew out of packaging luxury hotel experiences for Australian customers and, in the last seven years, has cast its net wider to Asia.
Like other travel companies, it too had to deal with a crisis of cancellations and change req [...]
As travel awakens from its coma across Asia, is it time to save ourselves?
Four-day work week, travel deals for travel employees, targeting the young, new and exciting road trip itineraries – what other ideas do you have for nourishing those fragile green shoots we are seeing, from Japan to China, Australia and Vietnam?
This morning, on my regular walk, I saw a rainb [...]
Covid-19 Wrap: Accor launches ‘Reignite the Love of Travel’ campaign, New Zealand reconnects with the world as country recovers, and more …
The Covid-19 Wrap is part of WiT’s “Unity In Crisis” series, a round-up of news on the coronavirus and its impact on travel.
Accor aims to reignite the love of travel with global campaign
Travellers can share their travel dreams and inspiration that will be combined into an ALL montage [...]
Amadeus’ B2B Wallet for virtual payments gets advanced process automation boost
Amadeus hopes to help the travel industry digitally transform B2B supplier payments through its Amadeus’ B2B Wallet’s integration with Troovo’s advanced Process Automation (RPA) engine.
Troovo was the winner at WiT’s Startup Pitch in 2017.
In a statement,
Amadeus said the way travel [...]
WiT Japan & North Asia 2020 returns to Tokyo on November 5
Forged in 2012 after the tsunami, event returns to rally industry
WiT Japan & North Asia, which was founded in 2012 to rally the industry after the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami in March the previous year, will return to Tokyo on November 5.
“We were forged out of a crisis, and we re [...]
The changing roles of airlines in a post-pandemic world
Technology, trust and collaboration will be key to creating a safe journey for air travellers and pave the way forward for airlines post Covid-19 is the view of Barbara Dalibard, CEO of SITA.
Speaking at the World Aviation Festival webinar last month, she said nobody would have guessed, a few mo [...]
A good time for Japan to rethink domestic tourism strategy, “we must get youths travelling”, says Hoshino
“If we can recover 70-80% of the domestic market, we can survive for the next 18 months”, says the fourth generation hotelier as he reports green shoots in domestic bookings
Covid-19 presents an opportunity for Japan to rethink its domestic tourism strategy, said Yoshiharu Hoshino, the fourt [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 11: Emmanuel and Edina Stroobant, Saint Pierre
#SGUnited, in partnership with Singapore Tourism Board
Covid-19 has been brutal to restaurants but many are not taking it lying down. In this episode,This is the story of how two-Michelin-starred Saint Pierre got creative to survive, held on to its staff and in the process, developed new thinkin [...]
Unsung heroes who fight to save their people, business and community
Emma Bowyer, Laurent Kuenzle, Andrew
Dixon and Thushan Shanmugarajah have one thing in common – they are doing all
they can to get through the Covid-19 crisis with their people intact, and each
is doing it differently.
In fact, Bowyer, managing director of ICMS Australasia, even hired a new s [...]
