How to win in the next wave of travel: Lessons from “Little Big 10”, Part 1
This is my dream. To write in a place like this. A house on the beach. The sound of the waves crashing on the shore. A dog at my feet. I’ve named him Sam. He’s a beautiful husky and he comes and goes on his own. I think he belongs to someone living in a house nearby but clearly he’s a free spi [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
How do we strike the balance between always remaining visible to our friends and loved ones, but not too visible to everyone? Are we more or less protected if we simply ‘get off the grid’? Marissa Trew debates the pros and cons of visibility and safety on the web. Growing up, I was always told t [...]
The View from Students: 10 Key Takeaways from WIT Bootcamp
As part of our WITNext outreach to inspire and mentor young talent, we opened our events to tourism and hospitality students from the UNLV (University of Las Vegas). This is a summary of their learning from the WIT Bootcamp on Oct 27. Constant shifts of trends in businessesIn the past, businesses us [...]
WIT founder Yeoh Siew Hoon receives Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year award
Yeoh Siew Hoon, WIT founder and editor, was named Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year at Tourism50 Gala Dinner and the Singapore Experience Awards 2014 last night. The jubilee event celebrated 50 years of tourism development and partnerships.In the citation for Yeoh, the Singapore Tourism Board said: � [...]
Spacebase, changing the way we meet, wins WIT Start-Up Of The Year
Judges of the WIT Start-Up Pitch 2014 placed their bets on the P2P sharing site for event spaces, Spacebase, while the People’s Choice award, voted by delegates, went to Local Alike – a Thailand-based community-based tourism platform.Julian Jost of Capetown-based Spacebase pipped three other f [...]
The Wrap: “Little Big 10” takeaways from WIT
In this special edition of The Wrap, I share 10 takeaways I took away from the WIT Conference, which celebrated the “Little Big 10” theme in line with its 10th edition.Infusion of new ideasTalented young people are invading the online travel space, judging from the array of start-ups which prese [...]
Accor unveils wide-reaching digital transformation plan
Accor Hotels today announced its “Leading Digital Hospitality Plan” aimed at consolidating its leadership throughout the hospitality value chain.This includes the reinvention of the customer experience through technology, an eight-purpose designed programme with key deliverables from 2015 and a [...]
10 tips on leveraging social media from Accorhotels
As part of WIT’s 10 anniversary international hotel group, Accor, shared the “Little Big 10” highlights of the 2014 Accorhotels Social Media Monitor, a handy guide on the 101 of using social media by hotels to enhance service delivery and promote the brandEmilie Couton, vice president, guest e [...]
Meet the WIT Warriors as “Little Big 10” closes on a high
The WIT Conference ended yesterday with the who’s who of online travel in APAC gathered on stage as WIT, for its 10th edition, created the WIT Warriors circle to recognise the top influencers in online travel in APAC in the past decade.
The 10 Warriors are:
Rob Rosenstein, CEO & C [...]
The death of the travel agent, Episode 9
Previously on “Lost”, we saw the Travel Agent who had been caught in a time warp constantly making the same mistake over and over again. (With apologies for the use of certain Americanisms in this piece). In one of the Day 1 sessions at WIT’s Little Big 10 Conference, Martin Symes (pictured b [...]
