Keep it flexible, transparent and diversify offers, Booking.com advises partners as it unveils “The Future of Travel”
Booking.com advises its partners to keep flexibility and transparency as top of mind when creating deals. Additionally, they should diversify the type of offers they put out in order to manage their cash flow.
Nuno Guerreiro, Booking.com’s regional director, South Asia, Oceania & Chains (p [...]
The Wrap: Singapore Tourism Board and Expedia collaborate to expedite tourism recovery, Malaysia’s Firefly to launch jet operations from Penang beginning 2021, and more …
The
Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and to keep
track of developments in these sectors as businesses adapt and reset to meet challenges
in the era of coronavirus.
Singapore Tourism Board, Expedia in joint pact to spur tourism recovery at home and in overseas m [...]
Handling baggage post-Covid: Automated, contactless, mobile
In an era where human touch is not welcomed, baggage handling and retrieval are going the same way too, as discussed in SITA webinar on baggage solutions for the aviation industry in a post-Covid environment.
In his opening remarks Peter Drummond, portfolio director baggage, SITA, stated it has [...]
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 [...]
New study finds 70% of travellers plan to take a holiday in 2021
Travellers want to be back on the road again after months of being house- and country-bound as nations slowly but cautiously are reopenng their borders to foreign visitors, albeit with strict standard operations procedure (SOP) in place.
Among the most eager to travel again are Americans and Can [...]
The Wrap: airasia.com reveals new identity as “Asean super app”, Malaysia Aviation Group retrains employees to meet future challenges, and more …
The Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and to keep track of developments in these sectors as businesses adapt and reset to meet challenges in the era of coronavirus.
airasia.com unveils new identity in race to be “Asean super app”
airasia.com's management [...]
Smart city projects like OceanMedallion not for faint of heart, human transformation is harder: Padgett
Implementing “smart city” projects such as its guest experience platform and OceanMedallion wearable onboard Princess Cruises ships is not for the faint of heart, said John Padgett, chief experience and innovation officer for Carnival Corporation, during WiT Experience Week Hybrid Day 4.
Dur [...]
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 [...]
Travel Zero.O: 10 Key Takeaways from WiT Experience Week
There was as much to learn about organising a hybrid event as there was to learn about travel at this most pivotal of times. Here’s a summary of the key takeaways garnered over the four days of Sept 28-Oct 1.
1. Be prepared to unlearn everything so that you can learn something new
In organ [...]
Singapore gives the go-ahead to two cruise lines to resume sailing
To kickstart the cruise sector and in line with the “calibrated resumption of economic activities” the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is allowing two cruise lines to offer “cruises to nowhere” to the city-state residents from next month.
Genting Cruise Lines’ World Dream will offer thes [...]
