The rise of social chat apps in Asia: Consumers showing preference for virtual agents
SOCIAL chat apps have developed faster in Asia than in any other part of the world, and “in Asia you can't talk about social chat apps without going into super apps and how they are essentially like remote controls for our lives,” said Shyn Yee Ho-Strangas, director, global product management a [...]
New Vrbo ad tugs at heartstrings with John Legend and real-life reunions
VACATION rental company Vrbo unveiled its biggest campaign to date with a new ad featuring John Legend and real-life families who didn’t realise they’d be experiencing surprise reunions with loved ones while cameras rolled.
The scenes play out as Legend performs a
new version of the classic [...]
Security in Travel: How to realistically open borders.
THERE are so many gaffes in aviation caused by unpreparedness and missteps that it is almost impossible to catalogue. The Covid-19 virus should have been treated at the outset as a security issue. The recovery is disjointed as the lack of common approaches to the pandemic especially in Asia Pacific [...]
Carbon Conundrum of a Gen Z-er Global Citizen
THE desire to travel is hard to reconcile with sincere consideration towards the environment as a Gen Z-er. However, innovative product offerings are helping bridge the gap between the two worlds.
Growing up as a global citizen
Travelling across
borders has been an integral part of my life fr [...]
Accor launches biggest ever domestic campaign in Indonesia
Ties up with small and micro enterprises to support local businesses
SPURRED by Covid and how it’s forced travel to go domestic, ALL – Accor Live Limitless has launched its biggest domestic campaign in Indonesia, Rediscover Indonesia, bringing together its 130 hotels in over 30 destinations. [...]
The marathon to open borders – starting well doesn’t guarantee success
Asia falls behind, Middle East pushes ahead, EU and US open up, Australia urged to have “courage”
IT truly is
a marathon race. Just because you started off well doesn’t mean you’ll stay
ahead at whichever stage of the race and at this juncture, countries such as
Singapore and Taiwan, wh [...]
Tightened Covid restrictions dampen use of SingapoRediscovers Vouchers
Remaining at home. Rescheduling tours. Regrouping to (hopefully) come back stronger. For now, Rediscovering Singapore is on hold.
SINGAPORE’S first confirmed Covid-19 case was on January 23, 2020, and it took 10 weeks from that day before the Circuit Breaker was announced. This year, by contr [...]
Sustainability starts from the get-go, it’s not a switch you turn on: Dixon
Lessons in balancing tech solutions with people approaches from Nikoi and Cempedak
“NET Zero” may be all the rage right now in discussions around sustainability but for Andrew Dixon, founder and director of Nikoi and Cempedak islands, its journey started in 2004 because, if you’re running [...]
The curious case of how the Missing Peranakan Treasure at the Raffles came about
Digital interactive play fuses theatre, tech and hospitality in a whodunit mystery
ON August 10, 2020, Singapore actor and comedian Hossan Leong woke up in a state of panic. The night before, he had performed at a for-the-first-time-ever virtual Singapore National Day Parade. “I thought, this [...]
What travellers want and need as they start to travel again
DATA from Expedia Group Media Solutions’ inaugural Q1 Travel Recovery Trend Report indicates growing confidence among travellers, with a message for brands it is time to capture and drive demand.
Wendy Olson Killion, senior vice president, Media Solutions at Expedia, said the latest data and [...]
