Booking Holdings’ play to keep travellers in ecosystem with AI
Booking Holdings is positioning its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts as a moat against general AI models. The company reported early testing showed lifts in user conversion, reduced customer service interaction and other positive metrics across brands.
CEO Glenn Fogel shared a [...]
The aspiring traveller has spoken, now who will build for them?
MOVE’s Nadia Omer on unlocking ASEAN's next wave of travellers
The desire to travel has never been stronger in South-east Asia. The problem, says Nadia Omer, is that the industry hasn't caught up with the person doing the desiring.
Speaking at Travel Tech Thursdays Kuala Lumpur, themed “ [...]
Global Hotel Alliance reports total hotel revenues up 24%
Global Hotel Alliance (GHA), the world’s largest alliance of independent hotel brands, has reported a robust start to 2026, delivering strong double-digit growth across all key performance indicators in the first quarter, driven by the continued momentum of its award-winning loyalty programme, GH [...]
OTAs: The Next Frontier — trust, plumbing and the local advantage
Three OTA veterans take on the existential question: in a world reshaped by AI, geopolitical disruption, and the complexity of African markets, what does it mean to be a travel platform – and does the name even matter anymore?
The panel, “OTAs: The Next Frontier”, opened with a show of hands. [...]
Africa’s skies are busier than ever, but the continent still risks falling behind the world
Record seat capacity and a runaway success story in Ethiopia can't mask deep structural fault lines across West, Central and Southern Africa. OAG's CEO lays out the numbers
Reported in conjunction with WiT Africa 2026 · Based on a presentation by Filip Filipov, CEO, OAG
African avia [...]
Aviation’s record technology investment hinges on one thing: data coordination
SITA research finds a consistent pattern across AI, cybersecurity, digital identities and sustainability: sharing and coordinating operational data across systems and partners is a key focus for the industry
SITA’s 2025 Air Transport IT Insights report finds that, while the air transport indust [...]
Cruise tourism in Southeast Asia generates US$10 billion in total economic output
Southeast Asia's cruise industry demonstrated strong economic value in 2024, generating US$10 billion (S$12.9 billion) in total output representing 5% of global cruise industry output. The region delivered US$2,564 (S$3,308) per passenger visit - 2.4 times the global average per passenger, despite o [...]
SAA’s Tebogo Tsimane: On survival, looking east and fixing tech in small steps
South African Airways' Chief Commercial Officer on navigating the Middle East crisis, rebuilding from business rescue, and why open skies in Africa can't happen without cheaper fares.
Tebogo Tsimane has spent 24 years at South African Airways, starting behind a reservations desk – issuing manual [...]
Wego’s Craig Hewett: Homecoming, building through crisis and carrying Cape Town
At WiT Africa, the Wego co-founder returned home and in doing so, revealed a story not just about building a global travel company, but about resilience shaped by place, crisis and the long arc of time.
Craig Hewett rarely steps on stage to speak. In fact, after more than 20 years of building Weg [...]
Trust, leapfrogs and the big bets on Africa’s travel
Africa will leapfrog. Again.
That was the consensus running through a panel at WiT Africa featuring Mike McGearty, CEO and co-founder of Meili, Tania Platt, global head of B2B travel at Visa, and Adebayo Adedeji, group CEO of WakaNow.
To a packed room of close to 200 delegates at Innovation City [...]
