The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 20: Todd Arthur, Vice President, Sabre Travel Network, Asia Pacific
Todd Arthur is himself an avid traveller. He’s been to 117 countries and
you can imagine how antsy he is to make it to 118. But for now, like all of us,
he’s had to get used to a new routine at home and picking up a new life skill
(and it’s not cooking or baking).
And even though he says S [...]
Strong consumer demand and restored confidence behind recovery in China’s travel market
Gradual control of the Covid-19 pandemic and the willingness of Chinese tourists to hit the road again for tourism activities are behind the steady recovery in China’s travel market.
Coupled with this is the majority of Chinese consumers believe travel is still one of the preferred leisure act [...]
AirAsia, Trip.com Group team up to spur revival in regional travel through sharing of assets
Two Asian travel giants, Malaysia-based AirAsia and China’s leading online travel services provider Trip.com Group, have formed a “strategic partnership” giving users access to products and services on their respective digital platforms.
Under the agreement Trip.com and AirAsia.com, the ca [...]
Southeast Asia’s ‘discovery-driven’ digital consumers set to reach 310m by end of 2020
There will be 310m digital consumers in Southeast Asia by the end of 2020, from 250m in 2018. Faster than the region's population growth is the pace of its online spend, which is projected to grow 320% between 2018 and 2025.
According to Facebook and Bain & Company's Riding the Digital Wave: [...]
Let’s talk about work, remote or otherwise, and its side effects
This whole remote work thing that’s still going on in
most parts of the world is producing lots of interesting outcomes, at least in
places where remote work is an option. As Joseph Tsai, executive vice chairman
of Alibaba
Group, observed at the Singapore Fintech Festival recently, “remote work [...]
Cleartrip rolls out Travel Safe and Flexifly, aims to hit sweet spot between product and commerce
Covid-19 has made developers more empathetic to commercial interests: Subramanya Sharma
If there is one positive that has come out of the biggest crisis to hit travel, it is that product has taken centrestage as online travel companies went back to their roots to build new tools and solutions, a [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity in Crisis – Episode 19: Greg Schulze, Expedia Group – a farewell letter, as he returns to the US
On July 25, Greg Schulze, senior vice president, Expedia Group, flew back to the US after completing his four-and-a-half year stint in Singapore as the first global head to be based in Asia Pacific.
He brings
home lots of happy memories of a place he and his family have thrived in, as he
says in [...]
Milken talks vaccine, Alibaba’s Tsai talks remote work and travel; “massive digitisation of everything”
With so much bad news in travel I thought I’d tune into the Singapore Fintech Festival Global Launch event this week for a different perspective, and the most promising news came at the end from Mike Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute.
Saying things look promising and he wouldn’t be su [...]
The Wrap: Headout launches ‘Safe Experiences’, Travelport’s new tracker checks airlines’ safety measures, 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 the green shoots of recovery slowly take root.
Headout introduces ‘Safe Experiences’ to build trust and boost travel among consumers
Safe Experiences has verified [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity in Crisis – Episode 18: The Year of Two Halves That Turned Into “Year Zero.O”
More than halfway into 2020, and still
there seems to be no easy or clear resolution to the Covid-19 crisis that has
grounded travel and pushed economies into free fall.
We had hoped it would be a year of two halves, but at this midway point
into the first year of the new decade, it feels like [...]
