Spotnana exits stealth mode with big names – and big aims
This article first appeared in BTN (Business Travel News).
CORPORATE travel startup Spotnana has just emerged from stealth mode with the backing of some major industry players, and the company is touting equally major plans to shake up the sector.
The brainchild of WTMC founder Sarosh Waghmar [...]
The Wrap: Accor joins global sustainability network, Emirates implements IATA Travel Pass across worldwide network, and more …
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and updates on how businesses in these sectors are resetting as they prepare for post-pandemic travel.
Accor joins global sustainability network to help address environmental challenges
Fairmont Banff Springs in Alb [...]
How Mary Li wants to build The Atlas to change the way people buy flights
Her third startup focused on domestic and low cost airline content
SOMETIME in 2019, Mary Li was at an exhibition of South-east Asian art at the National Gallery Singapore when she realised that maps depicting the region in the 18th and 19th centuries varied according to the interpretations of [...]
Domestic China pushes Trip.com’s revenues to new highs in Q2
This article first appeared in PhocusWire
TRIO.COM Group posted revenue across the business of $912 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Highlights at a glance
The figure is up from the $628 million captured
during the first quarter of the year and a large increase (86%) on the $448
mill [...]
“We have seen the coffin but there’s always a way back”
How Klook at seven came back with higher revenues
than pre-Covid and profitability
ERIC Gnock Fah, co-founder and COO of Klook, barely remembers what he was doing when he was seven years old. “It’s all a bit of a blur. I studied hard, got good grades, wasn’t very athletic. My family was tr [...]
Sustainability is not cheap, “you have to spend to save”: Pan Pacific’s Choe
Parkroyal Collection expands to Malaysia, group to open 13 new hotels by 2024
SITTING in the lobby of the Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay, I am aware of a feeling of déjà vu mixed with a sensation of something new, lighter, greener. From the outside, it looks and feels like the hotel it used t [...]
Investing in hybrid tech, creating new products and experiences, RWS prepares for a post-pandemic future
THE WiT Travel Roadshow Episode 5 made a bit of history by being the first hybrid broadcast event to be staged at the RWS Convention Centre, which has been re-purposed for events in these extraordinary times.
Speaking to WiT, RWS
vice-president of business innovation, Lam Xue Ying tells us that [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 37: Fernando Gibaja, General Manager, Capella Singapore
How a life of travel prepared this hotelier for this period of no travel, dogs and all
THERE was a moment during Covid-19 when Fernando Gibaja wanted to throw in the towel. It was the very first day when Capella reopened, and breakfast turned into a nightmare. “Honestly, I think it was the mos [...]
How Naila Kiani balanced babies and banking to summit an 8,000m peak
“I want to change perception of Pakistan and promote what it has to offer.”
WHILE some of us were afraid to cross the road to go to the supermarket for fear of catching Covid, Naila Kiani became the first Pakistani woman to summit an 8,000m peak in Pakistan – Gasherbrum II (8,035m) � [...]
The Wrap: UNESCO designates Penang Hill a biosphere reserve, Etihad inks new deal with Amadeus, and more …
THE Wrap is a round-up of
news in the travel and technology industries, and updates on how businesses in these sectors
are resetting as they prepare for post-pandemic travel.
UNESCO recognises Penang Hill as biosphere reserve for its unique natural heritage
The Penang Hill Biosphere Re [...]
