The Wrap: The best of ASEAN in an e-book
In the news: An e-book on Asean top tourist attractions, Kaligo’s iPhone app, Expedia Singapore’s new loyalty programme, enhanced services on Scoot’s Dreamliner fleet The best of ASEAN in an e-bookFollowing closely on the heels of the formation of the ASEAN Community the region’s national to [...]
10 things you didn’t know about cart abandonment
For the past five years SaleCycle has been tracking online cart abandonments – more than one billion. The company shares with WIT the data behind this rising trend, and the 10 things behind these abandonments. (see infographic below)According to SaleCycle, the problem for most online e-commerce st [...]
The Wrap: China, Thailand, Hong Kong most favoured destinations for Singapore travellers
In the news: GfK Travelscan report on Singapore travellers, lower booking costs for agents with VANs, AirAsia’s new mobile appChina, Thailand, Hong Kong most favoured destinations for Singapore travellers Travellers in Singapore have chalked up more outbound trips by air in the first three quarter [...]
The Wrap: Souvenirs and memories – APAC tourists are the world’s top travel spenders
In the news: Visa’s Global Travel Intentions Study 2015 on travel spend, and new NokScoot/Sabre and Eva Air/Travelport partnerships.Souvenirs and memories: APAC tourists are the world’s top travel spenders Travellers from Asia Pacific trumped their counterparts from the rest of the world in inte [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Third Culture Colonialism
As a ‘third culture kid’ (TCK), I never quite felt at home anywhere. Patriotism remained a foreign concept and while it was easy to state, “I am half English and half Singaporean (or Indonesian, technically speaking)” whenever people asked, I never felt like I fitted in with either ‘cultur [...]
Letter from inside a Tesla: Nerds love it, women will love it, what’s not to love?
I am not big into cars but even I know the future when I see it.
My first encounter with a Tesla was about three years ago when Joe Nguyen of comScore said he wanted to show me his latest gadget and took me for a drive in one of the first few models of the electric car invented by Elon Musk.
We co [...]
Letter from County Wicklow: Like roses in Ireland, Asia is blooming
On the drive from Dublin airport – minus my baggage – I asked the driver if County Wicklow was where the water came from to make Guinness.He laughed and said, “The things tourists believe.”Thing is, it does take a certain suspension of disbelief to travel. That just the day before I had been [...]
The Wrap: New hospitality standard for hotels to make Muslim travellers feel at home
In the news: A new hotel reference tool for Muslim travellers, 7-day booking calendar for HotelQuickly, Etihad and Adobe team up New hospitality standard for hotels to make Muslim travellers feel at home A research by Thomson Reuters revealed that Muslim travellers are big spenders on tourism pr [...]
A modest proposal: travel technology dominance
This is a guest blog by Arnie Weissmann, editor in chief, Travel Weekly.The question that Singapore’s minister of foreign affairs put to attendees at the Web in Travel conference last week seemed a little silly: “How many of you are in the travel industry?”Every hand went up.And the followup s [...]
How Stone saw the light and decided to bring it home to Uluru
“There’s something in today’s society that draws people to personal experiences more,” says Ray Stone as he explains why creating experiences such as the “Field of Light” exhibition in Australia’s most sacred place are key to drawing in more visitors to destinations.It was four years a [...]
