Hotels under-investing in revenue management talent, says Duetto’s Bosworth
It is imperative that the hotel industry in Asia invests in educating the next generation of revenue managers – this is necessary for its own survival, said Patrick Bosworth, CEO and co-founder of Duetto.
Speaking at the Duetto Revenue Strategy Forum which it ran in partnership with Hotel I [...]
Seven startups to vie for top prize at WIT amid surge in travel investments
Seven travel tech startups are in the running in the WIT Startup Pitch competition to win a place in the Travelport Labs Accelerator programme, which comes with seed funding of US$30,000, as well as US$120,000 of cloud credits on IBM Cloud, under the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program.
The semi-fi [...]
Letter from Hong Kong: What Money Men Talk About At Breakfast
Café Too at Island Shangri-La is buzzing, at 8am. It reminds me that power breakfasts are still very much favoured among the rich and want-to-be-richer people.
I can hardly tie my shoelaces at that time of the morning let alone have an intense business discussion about money but Hong Kong does t [...]
Top five travel tech hacks Sabre hopes to bring to Singapore this October
Anupam Bokil, Sabre’s vice president of technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, shares with WIT an exclusive preview of the top five hacks he hopes to see come out of the two-day race against the clock to code a new application that has the power to really disrupt travel.
Today t [...]
Sabre charts transformation of APAC travel technology at TTX
The 500+ participants at Sabre’s inaugural Asia Pacific Travel Technology Exchange (TTX) in Beijing last week were given an insight into the big trends and developments impacting travel and technology in Asia Pacific.
Sabre executives and guest speakers took to the stage to highlight the chan [...]
WIT 2016 will reunite online travel pioneers and reimagine the future
The 12th edition of WIT, to be held on Oct 17-19 in Singapore, will be a reunion of sorts as well as a reimagination of the future.
“Twelve years is the end of a cycle and we are taking the opportunity this year to reflect on the past as well as reimagine the future,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, fou [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Not about age but all about being mobile
The Millennial 20/20 Summit Singapore saw the venue packed with fresh, young talent and industry veterans alike, asking the age (not very) old question – what do millennials want?
With Accenture predicting millennials in Asia will have US$6 trillion in disposable income by 2020, it comes as no [...]
Sabre to hold its first global travel hackathon in Singapore alongside WIT
Leading technology provider Sabre Corporation is bringing its global travel technology hackathon, Destination Hack, to Asia Pacific for the first time. The event will take place from October 14 to 16 at The Hub, Singapore’s largest co-working community of techies, entrepreneurs and creatives, righ [...]
A Baby Tern’s First Steps: How I Learned To Market An Event
By Caitlin Trew
As an intern with no previous experience, the idea of marketing an event on social media was incredibly daunting; especially seeing as Tern was the first travel careers event of its kind.
Named after the Arctic Tern, whose migratory journey is long and zig-zag in nature, the on [...]
The Millennial Traveller: A Young Tern’s First Flight, A Near-Startup Experience
Being a writer for Web In Travel has put me in the advantageous position of being able to interview countless travel startups as they head towards (hopefully) eventual success.
It’s frankly a nice place to be, buffered from the realities and hardships that budding businesses face day in and day [...]
