WiT Experience Week, Reboot: Build something for the future, investors hungry for products that will last the test of time
While most investors are staying away from travel due to the uncertainty of recovery, Amit Anand, founding partner of Jungle Ventures, remains excited about the space which he said has been kind to him.
He’s made two exits – Voyagin to Rakuten and Travelmob to HomeAway – and
while he said [...]
WiT Experience Week, Rewind: We’re doing everything we can but it’s messy, “governments must act”
If there is one clear message I took away from hosting Day 1 of WiT Experience Week today, September 28, it is that every one of us is doing all we can to survive this Covid-19 storm but our fortunes (or misfortunes) lie in the hands of governments.
When asked the question in our audience pollin [...]
How to stitch an events quilt for the hybrid world
I don’t know much about quilting but at times, I have felt like we are stitching together a new kind of events quilt for the coronavirus age.
I know,
everybody says this is the new thing, that virtual’s the state to be in for now
because we have no choice and hybrid’s the way forward even [...]
From analogue to virtual to hybrid: Evolution of events picks up speed
Events might have been due for a makeover, but the onslaught of the pandemic and its repercussions on travel and events have undoubtedly quickened the evolutionary cycle.
When the pandemic hit the industry early this year, GlobalSign.in, the team behind GEVME, an event management software, had [...]
WiT to be first travel hybrid event on Oct 1, streaming live from Marina Bay Sands
WiT Experience Week 2020 will not only be Singapore’s first travel pilot hybrid event but possibly also the first global travel conference to have a physical footprint when it streams live from Marina Bay Sands’ new Hybrid Broadcast Studio on Oct 1.
WiT Singapore, which has been held in the [...]
This is why the world needs business travel and peddlers in paradise
It really doesn’t matter how good the technology is and how much better we are at navigating Zoom, Swapcard, Brella or the myriad of event platforms that have mushroomed during this time in history but let’s face it, it will never be as good as being there.
Such was the feeling when I moder [...]
WiT partners with GEVME to deliver a new kind of Experience Week, Sept 28-Oct 1
WiT (Web in Travel) is partnering with Singapore-based events platform, GEVME , to deliver a new kind of WiT Experience Week 2020, scheduled from September 28 to October 1.
“Covid has forced events
into a new world and all of us have had to adapt to the changed circumstances,
and the best way [...]
Cleanliness and hygiene take centerstage in Hilton marketing
Who could have imagined hotels would be advertising their cleaning processes and products on their websites, or building entire marketing campaigns around how they keep their hotel rooms cleaned and sanitised?
But in this
new world we live in, these are now valued and marketing hooks because cl [...]
WiT Startup winner IDEM Hospitality becomes part of Groups360 family
For WiT Startup Pitch 2019 winner IDEM Hospitality, the meeting with Groups360 last June was fortuitous. What started out as a partnership discussion very quickly escalated into one around acquisition when it became obvious that it was “a match made in heaven”.
IDEM
Hospitality is now Groups [...]
Singapore to resume B2B events, experimenting with hybrid-virtual format
After announcing its domestic tourism recovery strategy, Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has also stated plans to resume B2B events over the course of the next few months. MICE events in Singapore have been suspended since March 2020, in light of the Covid-19 outbreak.
To ensure events resume safe [...]
