videc launches Global Travel Staffing Barometer to monitor Covid-19 impact on industry jobs
Last week, videc launched Global Travel Staffing Barometer, an online resource to monitor the impact of Covid-19 coronavirus on the travel, tourism and hospitality industry.
The free-to-use tracker offers industry insights on the state of terminations, furloughs and pay-cuts, across industry ca [...]
In this, we are all absolute beginners – here’s to starting anew, bloopers and all
Speaking to Australian Gold Olympian athlete Chloe Dalton yesterday in WiT Virtual about building range and resilience, one other talk came to mind – champion skateboarder Rodney Mullen saying that the moment his winning streak ended was his moment of liberation – because that’s when he had n [...]
How ScaleUp Malaysia went virtual to pick its 10 startups – RM2 million funded at time of Covid-19
Not only startups have to pivot at this time to find a product-market-fit but investors also have to improvise to seek out the businesses they want to back.
ScaleUp Malaysia, an accelerator which focuses exclusively on growth stage companies in Malaysia, had set a timeline of April 15 to pick t [...]
Covid-19 Wrap: AirAsia helps local businesses with S.O.S campaign, Expedia and Hotels.com provide discounted room rates to medical professionals, 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.
AirAsia launches S.O.S campaign to save local businesses
AirAsia lends a helping hand to local businesses affected by the partial lockdown in Malaysia thr [...]
Covid-19 hits Singapore hotel sector hard, but impact is buffered by government’s quick response
Phocuswright’s
special series “Covid-19 Hotel Forecast: Singapore” has cited Singapore as “an
excellent example of how the hotel industry is impacted by the interplay of
viral spread, government policy and social behavior – both at home and outside
its borders.”
Yet, the unpredictabl [...]
ADARA launches Tourism Dashboard offering for destination marketers
As part of its Covid-19 response, ADARA has launch the ADARA Tourism Dashboard as part of its new COVID-19 Resource Center. The dashboard is designed to provide up-to-date destination trends and projections based on each country and by state.
The new product helps destinations and tourism marke [...]
Your plane is clean but is it safe? A plan for “safe flight protocol”
Answer no. And it’s not the airline’s fault. World flying has dwindled to a trickle. On any given day it's a fraction of normal. Traffic through the airports in USA have fallen to less than 5% of normal for the past week in the USA. China had only 15% of airline passengers in February 2020 [...]
Covid-19 exposed weaknesses in value chain, collaboration needed to improve product and back-end automation
During its darkest days in the eye of the storm, Trip.com found itself handling “tens of thousands” of domestic flights and hotels cancellations a day. Thankfully, Yudong Tan, CTO and vice president, flight business, who described that time as “really bad”, said the group had invested heavi [...]
Letter from the Kingdom of Covid-19: A time of ugly truths and bare essentials
I think
it’s finally sunk in. The reality. I probably had the longest denial period of
anyone I know. From Wednesday, Singapore went into “circuit breaker” mode in
the ongoing fight against Covid-19 which seems to have more twists and turns
than “Kingdom”, the K-drama hit which, to me, co [...]
Airlines have melted like “snow in the Sahara”; why flying will not be the same again
Aviation veteran Christoph Mueller last
night paid tribute to airline executives for the amazing job they have done,
building up networks that allowed people to fly everywhere, earning dividends
for investors and shareholders and paying bonuses to staff for the past 25
years.
“To see it [...]
