Tech in Travel: A key to unlocking exclusive experiences, international airport seeks startups, LYFE enriching offers, capital market experts eyeing travel
NFTs are continuing to make news. Online membership and loyalty programme DayAway has created the Founder's Key, a collection of 500 limited-edition NFTs that will unlock a range of experiences and VIP benefits from hospitality, travel, retail, wellness and F&B brands worldwide
DayAway's Foun [...]
Rhinos, unicorns, and fragmented markets: 3 investment trends that will shape travel and hospitality this year
IT has been a turbulent time for tech investments and particularly tough for travel. But then amid the dark clouds, there’s always the silver lining and investors are hard wired to seek out the bright spots. What do they see beyond the horizon, into the new world of travel and tech investments? Wh [...]
Sim Wong Hoo, the guy who started it all in Singapore
Hian Goh, co-founder of Openspace Ventures, Singapore pens a tribute to the man he says started it all – Sim Wong Hoo, CEO and founder of Creative Technology, passed away January 4 and is widely regarded as the father of tech in Singapore. His success was not without its struggles.
In 1999, I [...]
Content is king: Will 2023 favour those who rule the travel content kingdom?
IN travel, we’ve always said content is king. But in the new world, this has been raised to a whole new level with the unleashing of the creator’s economy. How do you ensure your place in it? What new thinking do you have to embrace? How do you apply your skills and learnings to a new world wher [...]
The Malaysian aviation scene is changing, as MYAirline’s maiden flight takes off
THE MYAirline headquarters was abuzz with palpable energy on Wednesday, November 30. It was a cocktail of excitement, anticipation, and hints of warranted nervousness. After all, they were less than 24 hours away from their maiden flight, scheduled for the morning of December 1.
I was invited to [...]
The Phocuswright Conference: Presenting the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023
It has long been said that creativity and innovation often arrive in times of crisis. Our selections of the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2023 certainly validate that mantra.
Of the 25 startups on this list, 14 have been founded since the start of 2020 when travel - and much else in the world - came [...]
WiT Seoul 2022: Travel brands jostle for position amid intense competition and consolidation
FROM traditional giants like Hana Tour to local OTAs such as Good Choice, Tidesquare and MyRealTrip, travel brands in South Korea are jostling for position to catch the recovery wave. In the meantime, massive changes have taken place in the market including the accelerated digitisation of consumers [...]
Digitalising transport: Merging first, middle and last mile in a single journey
This startup wants to enable mobility transformation for the developing world
THE word "journey" is used loosely in travel to describe the act of getting from Point A to Point B... and then C, D, all the way to Z. It's an idealistic word, come to think of it, that encapsulates what travel-tech comp [...]
“Be the dreamers that do”: Post-pandemic, travel’s desire for genuine change reflected in this panel
In more ways than one, WiT 2022 embraced the desire for a new world order, beginning with travel. Sure, there was the theme and its addictively catchy tune calling out ‘Hello New World’. Yet as Luke Clark writes, just by sitting through a few sessions, you began to sense that this might be more [...]
Pace of innovation set to pick up in travel sector, though fraud worries grow
INNOVATION breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) may not be directly disrupting the travel industry just yet but they are among the new technologies that could drastically change the way services are delivered in the coming years, say experts at the WiT Singapore 20 [...]
