Covid-19 Wrap: Accor launches ‘Reignite the Love of Travel’ campaign, New Zealand reconnects with the world as country recovers, and more …
The Covid-19 Wrap is part of WiT’s “Unity In Crisis” series, a round-up of news on the coronavirus and its impact on travel.
Accor aims to reignite the love of travel with global campaign
Travellers can share their travel dreams and inspiration that will be combined into an ALL montage [...]
WiT Japan & North Asia 2020 returns to Tokyo on November 5
Forged in 2012 after the tsunami, event returns to rally industry
WiT Japan & North Asia, which was founded in 2012 to rally the industry after the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami in March the previous year, will return to Tokyo on November 5.
“We were forged out of a crisis, and we re [...]
The changing roles of airlines in a post-pandemic world
Technology, trust and collaboration will be key to creating a safe journey for air travellers and pave the way forward for airlines post Covid-19 is the view of Barbara Dalibard, CEO of SITA.
Speaking at the World Aviation Festival webinar last month, she said nobody would have guessed, a few mo [...]
A good time for Japan to rethink domestic tourism strategy, “we must get youths travelling”, says Hoshino
“If we can recover 70-80% of the domestic market, we can survive for the next 18 months”, says the fourth generation hotelier as he reports green shoots in domestic bookings
Covid-19 presents an opportunity for Japan to rethink its domestic tourism strategy, said Yoshiharu Hoshino, the fourt [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 11: Emmanuel and Edina Stroobant, Saint Pierre
#SGUnited, in partnership with Singapore Tourism Board
Covid-19 has been brutal to restaurants but many are not taking it lying down. In this episode,This is the story of how two-Michelin-starred Saint Pierre got creative to survive, held on to its staff and in the process, developed new thinkin [...]
Unsung heroes who fight to save their people, business and community
Emma Bowyer, Laurent Kuenzle, Andrew
Dixon and Thushan Shanmugarajah have one thing in common – they are doing all
they can to get through the Covid-19 crisis with their people intact, and each
is doing it differently.
In fact, Bowyer, managing director of ICMS Australasia, even hired a new s [...]
GlobalTix goes back to SaaS roots as it finds ways to survive Covid-19
“Time for companies to build up tech stack, capacity management solutions in demand”
If there’s one positive outcome of the coronavirus crisis for Singapore startup GlobalTix, it’s that it has forced the company back to its roots – that of being a SaaS (Software as a Service) model to [...]
Covid-19 Wrap: Domestic and regional travel bubbles are at forefront of consumers’ minds, Accor partners AXA to offer guests medical support, and more …
The Covid-19
Wrap is part of WiT’s “Unity In Crisis” series, a round-up of news on the
coronavirus and its impact on travel.
Domestic and regional travel bubbles at forefront of consumers’ minds as travel restrictions ease
Queenstown in New Zealand has seen an increase in search with [...]
Expedia Group commits $275m fund to aid partners’ recovery
Expedia Group is committing $275 million to help partners rebound from the impact of COVID-19 and fuel industry-wide recovery efforts.
Research carried out by
Expedia Group in April 2020 shows lodging partners want support from OTAs in
four priority areas as they look to rebound from the pandem [...]
After saving itself, Expedia’s ready to rebuild travel: Ranque on what’s needed to restart and how Covid-19 forced a big clean-up
As a boy, Cyril Ranque flew a lot. His mother was a flight attendant on Air France. One day, on a flight from Mauritius to Paris, he was sitting next to the window and saw one of the aircraft engines on fire.
“At that time, I didn’t know the fuel was in the wings,” recalled the president [...]
