The WiT Podcast – Episode 32: Hello 2021, here’s looking at the Year of the Ox
JANUARY has
come and gone and still the world doesn’t look that much different from when we
ended 2020. International borders are still closed, countries are still in
various forms of lockdowns and restrictions and airlines are set to face
another disastrous year.
In this sobering report, IAT [...]
Welcome to Travellers Anonymous – tips on how to beat VDS
“WHEN was the last time you sat in a bar and had a drink with
strangers?” Someone asked me that the other day on a Zoom call.
He was in Amsterdam, I was in Singapore. We were reminiscing about the
wonderful bars we used to frequent in his city.
Not that I am counting but as I write this [...]
The Wrap: KL International Airport to use facial recognition for passenger authentication, D-EDGE launches new resource 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.
Malaysia Airports to roll out facial recognition for faster, safer passenger authentication, repl [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 30: Mira Bharin, Director, Brand, Marketing and Communications, Sentosa Development Corporation
Sentosa United, in partnership with Sentosa Development Corporation
IMAGINE this –
last year, Singaporean residents made about 8.58
million outbound departures by air and there were around 2.13 million outbound
departures by sea in that same year. Amazing numbers for a small island of 5.6
mill [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 29: WiT Middle East, Part 2
WELCOME to Part
2 of our special report from the Middle East where we present a summary of our
event held on November 25 when we gathered close to 30 speakers to share their
knowledge and insights over four hours.
In Part 2 we hear how critical aviation is to the distribution of vaccines and how [...]
