How WiT shifted my perspective on a career in hospitality and travel
Leon Oh Swee Keong, a Singapore Institute of Technology hospitality student, had doubts about working in the hospitality industry. The image of it being “menial labour” plus the allure of better salaries from other sectors were factors holding him back. After attending WiT Singapore and listenin [...]
WiT Studio: Ariane Gorin (President, Expedia for Business) talks travel recovery in APAC and living in consequential times
WiT Studio hosts a series of exclusive interviews with key players in the industry on the new age of travel, tech, and tourism in Asia and beyond. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more.
On this episode, Ariane Gorin, President, Expedia for Business, Expedia Group, talks about the new age [...]
High tech can lead to higher human touchpoints
GlobalTix’s Chan Chee Chong and Nam Ho’s Marshall share how technology can help agents further drive better engagement and customer service.
Filmmakers have loved to unsettle us with movies that depict machines taking over the world. But don’t hear it from the movie industry, hear it from t [...]
From Bengkulu to Traveloka: How Caesar Indra is fulfilling his dream of “making the developing world better”
“Local is our DNA, so is DIY,” he says, but can that playbook scale as Traveloka expands
When I asked Caesar Indra how a kid growing up in Bengkulu, a small mountain village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia ended up being president of Traveloka, Indonesia’s poster child of online travel, h [...]
Sponsored: Why a positive experience is all that really matters to travellers
By James Marshall, VP, Air Account Management, Expedia Group
CONSUMER behaviour continually changes, but the volatility we have experienced over the past few years has brought this into even sharper focus. All industries are having to adapt to these changes and re-examine how they meet consumer n [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 07: Transforming mobility, cruise comeback, dreamers that do
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
This week, we talk about a company that wants to transform mobility, through data and analyti [...]
SEA’s digital economy to hit $200b GMV this year, travel “will take years to reach 2019 levels”
ESG factors “key to unlock the full potential of region's $1 trillion digital economy by 2030”
SOUTH-east Asia’s digital economy is on track to hit $200B GMV in 2022, and is expected to grow twice as fast as GDP in most South-east Asian countries and could reach up to $1T by 2030 if the full [...]
Tech In Travel: Dancers in Bali, unhappy travel app users and a passenger security prototype pops up Down Under.
THERE is a new dancer in Bali – and it’s not a beautiful Balinese lady performing the Kecak dance.
Launching 17 November, Bali Dancer NFT (non-fungible token) is a digital asset that works as a membership card and assists tourists in premium clubs, restaurants, cafes and tourist spots in Bali [...]
Sponsored: Welcome to the New World of Travel
FOLLOWING a long period of strict entry conditions, heightened hygiene protocols, and swift vaccine deployment, the summer of 2022 finally demonstrated that it is now largely possible to travel the world once more. Most tourist destinations in the MENA region, Europe, and the world have started to w [...]
Cruise chiefs hail comeback, urge travel agents to embrace digital – it’s now or never
CRUISING is back – with Cruise World Asia 2022 held in-person in Singapore for the first time in three years – and cruise chiefs in Asia urged their travel agent customers to embrace digital, given the acceleration in digital consumer behaviour during the pandemic.
This shift to online is hap [...]
