TripAdvisor ponders the platform’s future direction, monetisation and competing with Google
Just shy of her one-year anniversary as TripAdvisor’s president of core experience, Lindsay Nelson took the stage at WiT Singapore on Tuesday to discuss her work leading the company’s brand and development of content and revenue-generating products.In an interview with WiT founder Yeoh Siew Hoo [...]
The Wrap: Tencent, YesMilano collaborate in enticing more Chinese tourists to Milan
News Roundup: Tencent-YesMilano partnership to boost Milan tourism from China, Singapore Airlines’ new NDC aggregator, Amadeus NDC-enhanced booking platform, more flexibility flying with Cebu Pacific
Destination: Tencent, YesMilano collaborate in enticing more Chinese tourists to Milan
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WiT Singapore 2019: Agoda’s CEO talks Asia, moving beyond accommodation, partnerships
Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best” could be the theme song of Singapore-based travel platform Agoda as it focuses on finding the "best inventory" for its customers, operating with the "best tech" and fending off the intense competition in Asia armed with the "best weapons”. In a wide-ranging [...]
IDEM Hospitality takes top prize of WiT Startup of the Year 2019 in Singapore
IDEM Hospitality has taken the top prize in this year’s WiT Singapore Startup Pitch, powered by Amadeus, after the finals were held earlier this week at Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre.
IDEM Hospitality beat two
other finalists – eRoam and Travenues – with its solution to he [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Alipay and Fliggy collaborate to provide seamless travel experience for tourists
A year on since she last spoke on the WiT Singapore stage in October 2018, much has changed in Cherry Huang’s life – from looking after Alipay cross-border payments for South-east Asia, she’s now the Head of Global Travel at Alibaba Group for the region, in charge of the development of both A [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Finding love in the arms of a robot
In the 1999 film Bicentennial Man, Robin Williams plays a robot, Andrew, who is gifted with the capacity of emotion and creativity. Andrew eventually falls in love with a human lady and decides to marry her. When he petitions a regulatory body to recognise their matrimony, however, he is rejected a [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: How Generation Alpha is influencing travel, from planning to in-trip activities
They are born after 2010 (nine years and under) in the same year as Instagram and the iPad, are known as the children of millennials, the largest generation that is still being born on a daily basis, and the longest living generation.
This is Generation Alpha. “If you don’t know about Alpha, [...]
WiT Singapore 2019: Accor and Expedia Group on how to save the hotel-OTA relationship
The hotel-OTA relationship has always been a tricky one. The two are co-dependent and must care for each other, but not too much. On a panel at the WiT Singapore 2019 Main Stage, Louise Daley, deputy CEO, Accor APAC and Melissa Maher, senior vice president, marketing and innovation, Expedia Group e [...]
WiT Innovation Stage: Marketing to the post-‘90s Chinese traveller
Young Chinese travellers are shaping the future of outbound from the world’s biggest travel market. What appeals to them? How do they book their travel? How do you target this segment?
Anita Chan, CEO of Compass Edge, shared insights into this market segment yesterday at the WIT Innovation Sta [...]
WiT Innovation Stage: Africa a key market of promise for Asia travel but challenges remain
With
the announcement of the launch of WiT Africa in May 2020 at the WiT Innovation
Stage, three panellists sat down to discuss the opportunities and challenges
the continent presents both as a travel destination, and as a source of new
emerging travellers.
Paulina Klotzbucher, Managing Director [...]
