How Findmyfare.com redeployed its travel consultants to medical services: “It’s about saving jobs”
In late January, Tushan Shanmugarajah, CEO and co-founder of Findmyfare.com, started seeing drops in sales to markets in South-east Asia. Thinking this was “something like SARS”, that it’d be contained, it switched marketing campaigns to Europe and the Middle East.
In
February, it ran a ca [...]
Covid-19 Wrap: Malaysia Airlines launches ‘Fly Them Home’ campaign, Langham Group sees signs of recovery, RedDoorz provides free rooms to medical workers, and more …
The Covid-19 Wrap is part
of WiT’s “Unity In Crisis” series, a weekly round-up of news on the coronavirus
and its impact on travel.
Malaysia Airlines to fly home travellers stranded overseas
Stranded Malaysians abroad can now come home with Malaysia Airlines' special flights. (Image [...]
WiT Community Blog: Eric Gnock Fah, COO & co-founder, Klook
With Planet Earth in lockdown, our industry at a standstill and many of
us in self-isolation or quarantine at home, or grounded, this is our blog for
you – it’s a way to share stories within our community, to form solidarity and
foster a sense of belonging.
Short essays on what we are eac [...]
WiT Community Blog: Simon Wong, co-founder, Singapore Sidecars
With Planet Earth in lockdown, our industry at a standstill and many of us in self-isolation or quarantine at home, or grounded, this is our blog for you – it’s a way to share stories within our community, to form solidarity and foster a sense of belonging.
Short essays on what we are each [...]
WiT Community Blog: Min Yoon, CEO, Tidesquare, South Korea
With Planet Earth in lockdown, our industry at a standstill and many of
us in self-isolation or quarantine at home, or grounded, this is our blog for
you – it’s a way to share stories within our community, to form solidarity and
foster a sense of belonging.
Short essays on what we are eac [...]
WiT Community Blog: Ben Liao, chairman, Forte Hotel Group, Taiwan
With Planet Earth in lockdown, our
industry at a standstill and many of us in self-isolation or quarantine at
home, or grounded, this is our blog for you – it’s a way to share stories
within our community, to form solidarity and foster a sense of belonging.
Short essays on what we are eac [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 5: William Bao Bean, Partner, SOSV Capital and Managing Director, Chinaccelerator
It is said crisis unites and there’s no better time than now for unity as the travel industry undergoes its biggest test with the outbreak of Covid-19.
With most of the world on lockdown and as China and Singapore enter another round of their fight to contain the novel coronavirus pandemic by [...]
Boost domestic travel confidence to spark recovery before international demand returns, says Sojern
Some
early but clear signs of recovery in Asia in domestic travel have begun to
emerge, at least in North Asia markets like China, Hong Kong and South Korea.
International travel has yet to rebound, but general appetite hasn’t faded,
according to Sojern.
In a
webinar hosted by Sojern, its dire [...]
Green shoots are there, innovate on products and services to capture current need
From hand sanitisers to drive-throughs and meal deliveries with K-dramas included, travel suppliers in Asia are innovating to meet current customer needs. Meanwhile, governments are collaborating with the private sector to innovate in mobile to contain Covid-19. Vera Lye reports on the first WiT Vi [...]
WiT Africa rescheduled, “we will return when the world will look very different”
Following consultation with key stakeholders in its inaugural WiT Africa, scheduled for May 28, WiT has decided to reschedule its Cape Town event.
The deteriorating situation over Covid-19, which has seen it gone global in its outbreak in recent weeks and travel restrictions implemented worldwi [...]
