Q&A: Why – and how – travel brands should embrace verifiable ID
AFFINIDI is a Singapore-based
technology company founded by global investment firm Temasek in 2020. Affinidi
uses decentralized technologies to enable the creation and sharing of
verifiable digital credentials, empowering individuals and organizations to
have control of their personal data.
Sinc [...]
The Wrap: ASEAN tourism rebrands, APAC airlines traffic results for 2021, Malaysia Aviation Group’s new fly safe campaign
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology sector – new partnerships, product launches, aviation industry updates, innovative solutions, and more …
ASEAN tourism rebrands as “A Destination for Every Dream” with new logo and tagline
Each of the 10 “spokes” in the [...]
Imagine new NFT world: How tech can bridge art, culture and travel to alter spaces and places
OVERHEARD while walking the dogs this week.
“I am an artist and now I can make my own
NFT.”
“So cool ya, can make our own art and
sell.”
Curious to find out the source of this
exchange, I turned around and saw two young boys – probably no more than 12
years old – striding alon [...]
Arrivals drop 80% in Singapore, inbound trade braces for gruelling 2022
IT’s a sign of how bruising it’s been for Singapore’s inbound industry that when news appeared in local media that visitor arrivals in 2021 had dropped more than 80% over 2020, one immediate comment was “it felt more than that”.
This week, the Singapore Tourism Board released prelimin [...]
“Conservative” appetite for outbound among South Koreans, domestic play will stay for a while
A SURVEY carried out by South Korea’s second largest OTA GoodChoice Company to gauge the appetite of South Koreans for outbound travel showed that most were still “conservative” in resuming travel.
Speaking at WiT Japan & North Asia 2022, Myunghoon Chung, CEO of GoodChoice Company, sai [...]
Airbnb gaining share in hotel distribution analysis
THE Covid-19 pandemic has shifted the
way consumers research and book travel, and hotels are responding by being more
strategic about how they market and sell their rooms, making use of direct -
and multiple indirect - revenue streams.
That’s one of the key findings from the
latest analy [...]
IATA calls for all travel barriers to be removed; slight recovery in air travel demand in 2021
The UK exists on one end of the spectrum: Dr Walter Lim on scrapping of tests
RELEASING its 2021 global passenger traffic results this week, which showed a slight improvement over 2020, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) is urging governments to accelerate relaxation of travel r [...]
Emulating Tesla, Yanolja wants to use tech to grow travel and hospitality market to $3,000 billion
Digitising and connecting spaces, rolling out Interpark, leveraging K-pop, testing NFT and metaverse, South Korea’s travel unicorn has a lot on its plate for 2022
JUST as Tesla has expanded the size of the car market from around $1,000-$2,000 billion to $5,000 billion, Yanolja believes that t [...]
How Trip.com used tech to improve customer service in pandemic times
GOING into the third year of the pandemic, one thing is clear – travel companies have used this time to invest in technology to meet the needs of customers and business partners. Here’s how Trip.com Group used technology to overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic.
At the beginning of 2 [...]
We’re optimistic and ambitious: Peter Kern on 2022
Bumps ahead but this summer could be gangbusters, says Expedia Group CEO
An executive interview with Peter Kern by Travel Weekly's Arnie Weissmann
I THINK the summer of '22 will probably be the biggest travel summer of all time, even with some countries constrained. We're optimistic, we're am [...]
