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Booking anxiety surges in Northeast Asia
New research from Web in Travel and Phocuswright, powered by Protect Group, finds that geopolitical instability and travel uncertainty are driving a significant shift in booking behaviour across China, Japan, and South Korea. 42% of regional travellers now a [...]
53% of business travellers book outside approved channels due to lack of content
Nearly one-third of companies using a corporate online booking tool (OBT) report that 20% or more of travel spend is booked outside the approved platform, with 53% citing missing content as the main driver, reveals new research from Trip.Biz, the business travel brand of Trip.com Group.
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Asia Pacific travellers seek familiarity and practicality amid shifting global dynamics
Visa’s 2026 Global Travel Intentions study shows how Asia Pacific travellers seek trusted destinations, plan with greater intent, and seek flexibility to navigate global uncertainties
Visa has unveiled key findings from the 2026 Global Travel Intentions (GTI) study, the latest edition of its f [...]
Low-cost, high stakes: How Air India Express and Transavia are navigating change
Air India Express and Transavia offer contrasting but complementary lessons on growth, digital transformation and the enduring power of brand in a price-driven world.
What does a budget airline in the Netherlands have in common with a low-cost carrier reshaping mobility across India? More than you [...]
Simplicity, flexibility, and a human touch help reduce booking anxiety in North Asian travellers
Early top-line results from the exclusive WiT and Phocuswright research into Booking Anxiety show that anxiety is widespread but unique to each market.
When I asked the audience at the WiT Japan event in Tokyo whether they had ever hesitated at the point of booking because of a “what if”, it fe [...]
Jesper Koll: Scarcity leads to innovation, lessons from Hello Kitty and Astro Boy
Jesper Koll, Senior Advisor, Wisdom Tree Investments, opened his presentation on “Destiny” at WiT Japan with the objection he hears most often: Japan's population is shrinking by nearly 3,000 people every day. How can anyone be bullish?
His counter argument – scarcity is the mother of inven [...]
Tripadvisor to sell TheFork to American Express for $700 million
Transaction highlights the value of Tripadvisor's portfolio and enables greater focus on experiences.
Tripadvisor, Inc. announced it has entered into a put option agreement to sell TheFork, its online restaurant reservation and management platform in Europe, to American Express for $700 million in [...]
AI + Omotenashi: Hail, a new partnership in travel
JTB’s Eijiro Yamakita on reading the room, sensing the world, and why the renaissance of travel is already here.
There is a word that does not translate easily. Omotenashi, often rendered as “Japanese hospitality”, is, as Eijiro Yamakita gently reminded the audience at WiT Japan, neither a me [...]
Agoda’s Morgenshtern on leaps of faith, B2B bets, and why optimisers must become leapers
Agoda’s CEO marks 12 years at the helm with a candid reckoning: what got you here won’t get you there and the age of AI demands something harder than data.
Omri Morgenshtern, CEO of Agoda, arrived at his first WiT Japan at what he cheerfully acknowledged was a full cycle – 12 years at Agoda, [...]
What happens when capital enters Musk’s orbit?
Everyone is talking about the eventual SpaceX IPO as though it is preordained to be the largest and most successful public offering in history.
Maybe.
But perhaps we should spend a little more time discussing the risks. Not the risks to SpaceX itself. The risks to everything around it. Perhaps [...]
