Middle East trade heralds return of physical Arabian Travel Market as the push needed in recovery
'Let's get back to business' sentiment prevails
THE physical return of the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai has been heralded as a signal of positive things to come for the travel and tourism industry in the Middle East. And while it wasn’t as busy compared to previous years, the overall sentime [...]
Putting Mixed Reality to the road test
How WiT and Marina Bay Sands teamed up to co-create a story
IN the absence of real travel, one has to use the powers of imagination,
aided by technology, to travel with the mind.
I recently had the opportunity to put to the road-test the new Mixed
Reality capability at the Marina Bay Sands� [...]
Travel will emerge safer and more sustainable, digitised and grateful – with Mixed Reality thrown in
Key lessons from WiT’s first Travel Roadshow as a medical expert weighs in on the intersection of health, travel and identity
WIT'S first Travel Roadshow kicked off yesterday (March 25) on a positive note with speakers believing that the industry, both travel and events, will emerge better and [...]
GEVME’s Virtual Experience Makers Series to inspire creativity in the virtual world
EVENT organisers are being urged to look beyond traditional industry colleagues to find inspiration for creative ideas of how to make a virtual experience engaging.
To help, virtual event platform GEVME has
come up with a new series called Virtual Experience Makers featuring creative
personalit [...]
Philip Wolf, pioneer, legend, mentor, traveller
EVER since I could remember, from the day I started WiT in 2005, everyone would ask me, “Have you been to Phocuswright?” That was the gold standard, they told me, in travel tech conferences. “And Philip Wolf, have you met him? You must.”
For years, those two phrases rang in my mind as I [...]
TripActions bucks trend: Gets new funding, sees strong growth, predicts robust comeback for business travel
IN the midst of the pandemic and a travel shutdown, TripActions, a business travel and spend management platform, announced it raised US$155 million in Series E funding. Its co-founder & CEO Ariel Cohen said in spite of the events of 2020, TripActions had seen accelerated adoption by companies [...]
Lumitics continues relentless push to cut food waste in travel
LOI'S mission gets momentum from Covid-cost pressure and sustainability movement.
When Lumitics’
founder and CEO Raynor Loi hit upon the idea of tackling the issue of food
waste in Singapore as a 22-year-old finance undergraduate, he would not have imagined
having a platform to speak to minist [...]
How Delegate went from place to Play in the virtual space
WHAT happens when your business is blown up by Covid? Well, you pivot. Here’s the story of how Delegate (DEL) went from an events marketplace to an event tech platform.
For the last six years, co-founders Melissa Lou and Jacqueline Ye had been diligently building up their startup, Delegate, in [...]
WiT to launch monthly Travel Roadshow to guide community through uncertain year
WiT will launch The Travel Roadshow (2021 Series) in March. To be held monthly, it will provide a regular hangout around which the WiT community can gather to chart new trends, exchange ideas, share lessons and forge a sense of camaraderie to get through the uncertain year ahead.
Said Yeoh
Siew [...]
Listen to your dentist, he knows the drill: How to hone enduring skills and stay relevant in a broken world
WHEN New
York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman was asked at the PCMA Convening
Leaders 2021 conference which skill he felt had served him best in his career,
he said, “Deep listening – learn when to listen and what you say when you
listen.”
Which is
why I encourage you to go to t [...]
