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Spotnana partners with Booking.com
Spotnana has announced a major partnership with Booking.com, integrating directly with the OTA’s latest API to give its customers and TMC partners full access to Booking.com’s global inventory, including rates that were previously only available on the website [...]
Letter from Seoul: High anxiety, hard questions and high stakes
“Don’t worry about the next 20, worry about the next six months”
Back in Singapore, after landing at 1am and walking my dog through tropical humidity six hours later, I found myself reflecting on the strange magic of travel.
Just 24 hours earlier, I had been in Seoul, pacing along the Han [...]
Unpacking the future of money in motion, B2B travel payments with Visa’s Jay Patel | WiT Studio
What does a frictionless travel experience look like, and how do we get there?
In an interview inside the WiT Studio with Jay Patel, Global Account Director - B2B Travel at Visa, we get into the pivotal technologies shaping the movement of money for businesses in the travel sector. Patel sheds lig [...]
From photography, influencing and storytelling, travel’s creative minds reimagine the future
“Always go a little further into the water” – David Bowie
While much is written about the technology toys of the future, the part that too often seems to be lacking is an exploration of just how creative tomorrow’s talent needs to become, in order to help master the challenges ahead of us.
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Charlene Wee: Flying into the future of airline retail
When Charlene Wee took the stage at WiT Singapore, she had just transitioned from heading distribution at Singapore Airlines (SIA) to overseeing operations, a move that bridges two worlds often kept apart: how airlines sell, and how they serve.
After 15 years with SIA, Wee now manages 9,000 [...]
Secondary cities, smoother visas and digital adoption dominate 2026 travel outlook
Digital travel platform Agoda has released its 2026 Travel Outlook Report, offering a data-driven analysis of the evolving travel landscape across Asia. Drawing on an extensive survey of Agoda customers in key Asia-Pacific markets, the report highlights shifts such as the rising popularity of second [...]
Daryl Lee on B2B’s AI moment and impact on rate parity and value
When Daryl Lee walked on stage for his first public appearance as Group CEO of Dida, he was only three days into the job, yet already crystal clear about what he had signed up for.
After eight years leading global expansion at WebBeds, Lee had made headlines for joining what many considered a fast [...]
USTA’s Geoff Freeman: “We are going the wrong way”
He probably has the toughest job in travel right now – for instance, I had more anxiety travelling to the US than Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where I had just been before making my way to San Diego.
So, when U.S. Travel Association president and CEO Geoff Freeman spoke at Phocuswright, I listened with [...]
Airline distribution and the role of aggregators in a fragmented future, with AeroHub’s Kelvin Fu | WiT Studio
Airline distribution is at a crossroads. The centralized Global Distribution Systems (GDS) is more fragmented, driven by NDC (New Distribution Capability) and direct distribution. In the WiT Studio, Kelvin Fu (CEO and Founder of AeroHub) weighs in on the direction of the industry. He asserts that di [...]
Meili’s McGearty: Rooting for a direct future that puts travellers first
“AI could tilt discovery against suppliers”, he warns at WiT Singapore
Mike McGearty, CEO and co-founder of Meili, believes the next decade of travel will be defined by direct relationships between suppliers and travellers – but not at the expense of balance across channels.
“There wil [...]
