Here’s looking at you, 2021, Part 1: Mixed start, “time to claw back lost ground”
WE kick off the year with a gathering of views and opinions from our community of industry leaders on their outlook for 2021, from their levels of optimism and their plans to get through the year. Here’s the first collection.
Rajesh Magow, CEO and co-founder, MakeMyTrip
Q: How would yo [...]
The Wrap: Middle East nations resume air connectivity with inking of new agreement, Malaysia Airlines launches new online shopping platform, and more
THE
Wrap is a round-up of news in the travel and technology industries, and to keep
track of developments in these sectors as businesses adapt and reset to meet
challenges in the era of coronavirus.
IATA hails the resumption of air connectivity between nations in the Middle East
With the end [...]
Brace yourself for “explosion of creative destruction”, says Friedman to business events professionals
EXPECT an explosion of creative destruction AC (After Covid), said Tom Friedman, author and New York Times columnist at the opening of PCMA Convening Leaders 2021 today.
Calling it
“incredibly exciting and destabilising”, he said this would happen because
“never have more people had availa [...]
A survivor’s guide to getting through 2021: Look how far we’ve come
WELL,
that’s 2020 done and dusted. But is it? Dusted for sure and leaving many of us
in the dust, wondering what hit us and now wondering how we pick ourselves up
from the rubble.
Done it certainly is not. Even as many of us took a breather from work the last weeks of 2020 we couldn’t help [...]
What people want in 2021: Spending more quality time with loved ones and making a difference
WITH the Covid pandemic showing no sign of abating as we entered a new year, and while waiting the mass rollout of vaccines and travel to resume many people have different priorities in 2021 - spend more quality time with loved ones and make a difference.
This is revealed by Agoda in its [...]
The Wrap: IATA Travel Pass set for Q1 release, BIGLIFE introduces a new name and new look, and more …
THE Wrap is a round-up of news in the
travel and technology industries, and to keep track of developments in these
sectors as businesses adapt and reset to meet challenges in the era of
coronavirus.
The IATA Travel Pass aims to reconnect the world safely
The IATA Travel Pass will help travell [...]
AirAsia Group sells 32.7% stake in its Indian unit to Tata Sons for US$37.7m (Updated)
LAST month AirAsia Group Bhd, in response to media reports that it might be reviewing its investment in AirAsia India and could exit the country, acknowledged the operation has been draining cash “causing the group much financial stress.” (comment made in this report)
The Group has reached a [...]
Don’t lose the travel spirit, learn from fungi – see you on the road in 2021
THE other day, I watched in horror as my sweet golden retriever pounced on a young monitor lizard, grabbed it by the neck and whipped it about three times. By the time I pulled Bowie off the creature, it was dead with a deep gash at the neck.
In many
ways, it reminded me of what this year has be [...]
Agoda partners Atome to offer instalment payment option for bookings
AGODA has made it easier for travellers who find it "inconvenient" to pay for their accommodation in one lump sum to do so in instalments.
The digital travel platform makes this possible through a regional partnership it just formed with “buy now pay later” technology company, Atome, to off [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 31: Dear 2020 (Letters From Friends), Part 2
HERE’S Part
2 of The WiT Podcast, Dear 2020, in which we feature “Dear 2020” letters from
our friends from around the world. What would they say to it? How would they
want to remember it by?
We thought
it’d serve as a time capsule of sorts for our industry so that say, in five
years from [...]
