WIT CONFERENCE 2016: Cape cheered as WIT Startup of the Year 2016
Soaring to the top of this year’s startup leader board, Cape – a social travel app to reserve standby air tickets – was marked as the victors of this year’s WIT Startup Pitch Grand Final 2016.
The mobile app facilitates flight bookings, exclusively dealing in standby tickets for price-se [...]
WIT CONFERENCE 2016: In Pictures
WIT Conference 2016 in Singapore gets a rollicking musical start, followed by discussions on how to reimagine business, with lots of laughter and fun too. Here's a pictorial roundup.
Come reimagine with us, invites WIT Yeoh Siew Hoon
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The best in digital travel honoured at the WITovation Awards 2016
Backstreet Academy, Rome2Rio, CarTrawler, Cleartrip, Chope and Air Black Box are category winners at this year’s WITovation Awards, while Special Mentions went to PEACH Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
The WITovation Awards, which honours visionaries for their excellence in digital marketing an [...]
Going the extra mile: Customer service in the 21st century
By Manuela Schwab
“The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them — preferably in unexpected and helpful ways,” says Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.
The two words “unexpected” and “helpful” sum up the opportunity for ev [...]
WIT BOOTCAMP 2016: Have a mobile first approach to capture the Chinese market
Mobile is so widely used in China that it has influenced the way business is conducted and trends in outbound travel.
Alex Shen, strategic partnership manager at GetYourGuide, revealed at her presentation at WIT Bootcamp 2016 in Singapore that the three most popular online activities are shoppin [...]
WIT BOOTCAMP 2016: In Pictures
Pictorial roundup of WIT Bootcamp 2016 held at One Farrer Hotel & Spa on October 17.
Getting ready to welcome the delegates
This year we ask the delegates to 'Reimage' [...]
The Millennial Traveller: The tricky world of startup investment
Money is always a tricky subject in the start-up world. A whole day could be devoted to hashing out the pros and cons of bootstrapping versus raising investments through a seed round.
Is it right to sacrifice the family meal for your budding business or to sell your soul for a little extra cash t [...]
Asia the outlier in a consolidated world: Trends That Matter to be shared at WIT
China, China, China – the three words we’ve been hearing in the US Presidential Debates that’s become the biggest reality TV show both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic. Perhaps they should add India, India, India – because when it comes to online travel, there seems to be the rest of the [...]
Sabre Destination Hack: Overwhelming response, opens to virtual entries from overseas developers
The response to Sabre’s first ever Asia Pacific inaugural hackathon has been so overwhelming that the company has added a virtual component to enable overseas developers to take part remotely.
To date, over 200 participants have registered from Singapore and the Asia Pacific region for Destinat [...]
Is the tail wagging the dog? Time to flip the world around
I remember the first day I started wearing spectacles. I was 10 and kept failing my Math and the teacher thought there could be something wrong with my eyesight. I was so relieved, I thought I was just bad at numbers and was getting a serious complex.
Anyway, the first day I wore it, not only did [...]
