WIT Bootcamp 2017: Empowering communities through socially-conscious startups
While most startups are in the game for dollars and cents, some have set out with a strong social conscience, trying to build stronger communities, promote sustainability — even help younger people develop emotional intelligence.
LocalAlike, for example, helps villages in Thailand build up sust [...]
WIT Bootcamp 2017: Creativity and passion trump experience when working for startups
The ability to think out of the box, hard work and the willingness to learn. Those are the qualities startups look out for when hiring, panelists agreed at the "Startup Got Talent" session, moderated by Marissa Trew, Content & Marketing, WIT, at the WIT 2017 Bootcamp.
Dan Lynn, co-found [...]
Asia-led innovations take centre stage at WIT as brands vie for position in world’s fastest growing travel market
SINGAPORE – In its 13th year, the award-winning WIT – Web In Travel conference opening in Singapore today, will place the spotlight on the digital travel market in Asia Pacific which, in 2017, accounted for 38% of the travel market (Phocuswright’s Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Tenth Edit [...]
Google’s Heckmann on how machine learning will Translate to better travel and how Asia is setting pace in mobile
Ahead of his speaking on the WIT Main Stage on Tuesday, October 24, Oliver Heckmann, Vice President, Engineering for Travel and Shopping, Google, shares what's top of his mind on how new technology such machine learning/AI and voice can make better travel.
Q: As you get set for to speak at WI [...]
Letter from Hong Kong: From real estate to community, from brick to clicks, can hospitality make the leap?
The sky is piercingly blue, as blue as it could only get after a huge storm has just whipped through. I am in Hong Kong two days after the last Typhoon 8 visited this city built on a rock.
At the Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP), I heard a panel of investors saying perhaps [...]
South Korea’s MyRealTrip gets US$6mil investment to step up expansion
MyRealTrip, South Korea’s leading tour and activity platform, has received ₩7 billion (US$6.2 million) investment from five VCs, bringing its total funding to ₩12.3 billion (US$10.9 million).
The new investors are SmileGate Investment, Altos Ventures, Imm Investment, Mirae Asset-Naver Fund [...]
The Wrap: Second edition of AirAsia Japan takes off end October
In The News: AirAsia takes second shot at Japan; BeMyGuest adds two industry veterans to its team; Virgin Australia implements Sabre Branded Fares; CWT in new deal to remove distribution fees for customers
AIRLINES: Second edition of AirAsia Japan takes off end October
In June 2013 when th [...]
Outgoing Malaysia Airlines CEO says “love for country” behind move to rejoin Ryanair (Updated)
In the past month speculations were rife that Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAB) group managing director and chief executive officer Peter Bellew would return to his former employer Ryanair, but he dismissed them as just that and instead expressed “his commitment to Malaysia Airlines”.
But the spec [...]
Tech should make Better Travel for everyone, with disabilities you can or cannot see
What’s your disability? Because as far as clinical psychologist Nicky Abdinor, born without arms and shortened legs, is concerned, “everyone has a disability, it’s just that you can see mine”.
And perhaps disabilities you can see versus those that aren’t visible may be easier to deal wi [...]
APAC destinations gaining favour with Chinese travellers, drop in trips to Europe
In 2016, while international travel grew by about 4%, China registered a growth rate of 13%, further consolidating its position as one of the world’s most important source markets for international travel. The country exceeded the Asian Pacific average outbound growth rate of 9% in the same year.
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