Why events and travel are in the same boat: Testing protocols need to be fixed and facilitated while both wait for vaccine to work its “game changing” effects
SINGAPORE showed its determination to bring back life to its business events sector this week when it played “Global Broadcast Centre” and hosted “Main Stage”, the physical component of PCMA Convening Leaders 2021, at Marina Bay Sands.
For those
not in the events industry, PCMA stands f [...]
Brace yourself for “explosion of creative destruction”, says Friedman to business events professionals
EXPECT an explosion of creative destruction AC (After Covid), said Tom Friedman, author and New York Times columnist at the opening of PCMA Convening Leaders 2021 today.
Calling it
“incredibly exciting and destabilising”, he said this would happen because
“never have more people had availa [...]
In crisis, Singapore sees opportunity to “reset and revive”, reimagines tourism offerings
IN anticipation of the new type of traveller who will arrive on her shores once borders are fully opened, Singapore is already busying herself, reinventing her offerings.
At a large hybrid media briefing yesterday, Singapore Tourism Board unveiled SingapoReimagine, the banner platform for initia [...]
Could I have attended this virtually? Events in the age of new protocols, cool tech and changed expectations
I had my first ART yesterday. I wished I could say this involved me splashing blobs of paint on a blank canvas like Pollock or Picasso; rather it was having cotton buds stuck up my nostrils. Honestly, the Antigen Rapid Test wasn’t as bad as I had feared, it felt more like the tingling you get fro [...]
WiT Seoul 2020 goes hybrid – physical Innovation Stage twinned with virtual event
WiT Seoul 2020, to be held October 29, will combine a physical WiT Innovation Stage in Seoul starting at 2pm local time, with a virtual Main Stage which will kick off at 5pm.
The WiT innovation Stage, aimed at connecting local startups with investors in mentoring sessions, will be held from 2pm [...]
Globalisation and OTA power, two sacred cows killed by Covid
Scoot’s Wilson on distribution: “Use the opportunity to recalibrate and build back better” while Pan Pacific's Choe says, “The Netflix culture is coming”
Globalisation and OTA power are the two sacred cows that have been killed by Covid, as far as Campbell Wilson, CEO of Scoot, and Cho [...]
Climbing Hybrid Mountain: Lessons learnt from staging WiT Experience Week
Just before Year 2000 kicked in I had the crazy idea that I wanted to mark the decade’s end on top of South-east Asia’s highest mountain, Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, East Malaysia. I called my best friend, living in Hong Kong at the time, and proposed the idea. Even crazier than I am, she said yes [...]
What Will the Covid Business Recovery Look Like? Look to Travel and Learn.
When it comes to recovery, fortune favours the bold. In this long read, we compare two destination recovery efforts past and present. In the true spirit of WiT 2020, travel industry alumni, and now chief executive and partner of CP5, Luke Clark, looks back to look forward. Way back in 2003, right i [...]
WiT Experience Week, Rewrite: The start of something new as events take on hybrid life and travel faces life-or-death moments
“I didn’t know how much I had missed this.” “I didn’t think I’d be able to sit through seven hours straight.” “I wouldn’t usually have stayed for dinner.” “We didn’t want to leave.”
These were some of the comments expressed by those who were physically present at WiT Ex [...]
Travel’s Oracle Speaks: KP Ho on Digital Decoupling and a Return to Meaning
He has seen his share of crises and survived to tell the tale, and Ho Kwon Ping, executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings, assured the WiT Experience Week audience yesterday that despite an unprecedented 2020 for global travel, the group was still in shape to weather the storm.
“Thankfully [...]
