Singapore Tourism Board initiates safe travel guidelines, curates itineraries for tourism sector
Resources help inbound visitors navigate health, safety requirements and showcase new experiences in Singapore
AS Singapore progressively reopens its borders to more international visitors, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has moved in tandem with the launch of the Safe Itinerary Guide and “ [...]
Headout gets another $30m, looks for “travel, entertainment, AR” acquisitions
Headout has tapped existing investors to add an additional $30 million to the Series B investment round it originally secured in September 2021.
The additional funds were again led by Glade Brook Capital,
with participation from existing backers Nexus Venture Partners, FJ Labs and
500 [...]
“Womenomics” and ESG champion, MPower’s Matsui is preparing “teenager” startups for stardom
Venture capitalist advises travel to go on “attack mode management”
THOSE who still doubt the Covid pandemic will significantly change the way we will live and work in the future should listen to Kathy Matsui, formerly with Goldman Sachs and now general partner of Japan’s first ESG-focuse [...]
WIT Japan’s first start-up champion says travel investment can be best in the worst of times
Takaya’s second coming pauses for take-off
LOOKING in the rear-view mirror can reveal much about the future. Scrutinise the past performance of Japan’s Takaya Shinozuka and you see a young tech entrepreneur who won WIT’s very first start up in Japan in 2013, earning him a place in WIT hist [...]
AirAsia Group is now Capital A: New identity to reflect it’s more than an airline
AIRASIA Group has officially rebranded as Capital A - its new corporate identity to show the diversification of its business portfolio beyond travel.
The budget airline operator
said the
name change reflected its new core business strategy as an investment holding
company in tandem with its tr [...]
Q&A: Why – and how – travel brands should embrace verifiable ID
AFFINIDI is a Singapore-based
technology company founded by global investment firm Temasek in 2020. Affinidi
uses decentralized technologies to enable the creation and sharing of
verifiable digital credentials, empowering individuals and organizations to
have control of their personal data.
Sinc [...]
The Wrap: ASEAN tourism rebrands, APAC airlines traffic results for 2021, Malaysia Aviation Group’s new fly safe campaign
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology sector – new partnerships, product launches, aviation industry updates, innovative solutions, and more …
ASEAN tourism rebrands as “A Destination for Every Dream” with new logo and tagline
Each of the 10 “spokes” in the [...]
Imagine new NFT world: How tech can bridge art, culture and travel to alter spaces and places
OVERHEARD while walking the dogs this week.
“I am an artist and now I can make my own
NFT.”
“So cool ya, can make our own art and
sell.”
Curious to find out the source of this
exchange, I turned around and saw two young boys – probably no more than 12
years old – striding alon [...]
Arrivals drop 80% in Singapore, inbound trade braces for gruelling 2022
IT’s a sign of how bruising it’s been for Singapore’s inbound industry that when news appeared in local media that visitor arrivals in 2021 had dropped more than 80% over 2020, one immediate comment was “it felt more than that”.
This week, the Singapore Tourism Board released prelimin [...]
“Conservative” appetite for outbound among South Koreans, domestic play will stay for a while
A SURVEY carried out by South Korea’s second largest OTA GoodChoice Company to gauge the appetite of South Koreans for outbound travel showed that most were still “conservative” in resuming travel.
Speaking at WiT Japan & North Asia 2022, Myunghoon Chung, CEO of GoodChoice Company, sai [...]
