Tnooz to become Phocuswire with its acquisition by Northstar Travel Group
Northstar Travel Group has acquired tnooz and its related assets as part of a plan to further accelerate development of PhocusWire, an integrated news platform powered by Phocuswright, the travel industry research authority and sister company of WiT.
Tnooz will be merged with PhocusWire over th [...]
WiT Singapore 2018: Split fights all the way to the top to nab WiT Startup of the Year award
Split, with its brand proposition built around instalment payments for travel, fought all the way through three rounds of judging and finished Startup of the Year at this year’s WiT Startup Pitch.
Already with Amazon Web Credits in hand after advancing to the semi-final round at the WiT Bootcam [...]
WiT Singapore 2018: From WiT Startup Pitch champion to US$300m in funding, Eric Gnock Fah shares the journey of Klook
Eric Gnock Fah (COO & Co-founder, Klook) was recognised as a ‘next gen leader’ at the WiT Hall of Fame 2018, for Klook’s rapid success, growth and expansion over the last three years, since winning the WiT Japan & North Asia Startup Pitch back in 2015.
Reflecting on his early begin [...]
WiT Singapore 2018: It’s just a matter of time before drones take over commercial aircraft, says Bobby Healy
Tech futurist and CTO of CarTrawler Bobby Healy gave the WiT Singapore 2018 audience a glimpse into where travel tech is headed and what the future of travel might look like in the next 10 to 20 years.
The first thing Healy noted was that the biggest thing beyond mobile is still chatbots, but not [...]
WiT Bootcamp 2018: Three investors share ideas on how to seek funding in travel
The WiT Bootcamp has always been a day focused on the rising stars in travel – innovative startups share their quirky ideas, and the day acts as an open platform for discussing where potential avenues for growth lie in the industry, and who is best equipped to embrace it.
On the other side of t [...]
WiT Bootcamp 2018: Of funding and pivot – rocky road to success for startups
They came, they pitched and they won. They are the startups at the WiT Bootcamp, held in conjunction with the annual WiT conference, who returned to share their journey at this year’s event.
Troovo, a virtual payment processing system for the corporate travel industry, was the winner last year [...]
Top 3 WiT Startup Pitch finalists picked; all 12 semifinalists receive Amazon Web Services credits
The WiT Startup Pitch 2018, in a first collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), has narrowed its search for the Startup of the Year to the last three.
After the first round of virtual judging, top 12 semifinalists were invited to make a live pitch at the WiT 2018 Bootcamp held at the Grand C [...]
This is Your No-Nonsense Guide to Discover Travel Startups, according to videc’s Chetan Kapoor
By Chetan Kapoor, Co-founder & COO, videc
The travel industry is a maze with thousands of suppliers and distributors. Within this narrative, startups are sprouting across all segments and technologies to disrupt the status-quo. Some of them are even aiming to be the next unicorn.
In my dec [...]
WiT Bootcamp 2018: Culture Trip takes flight through travel content
By Luke Clark
With a calm demeanor attesting to his background in academic psychiatry, and not a tie-dyed item in sight, Dr Kris Naudts may not at first glance seem the most obvious candidate for the next empire builder in travel content.
Yet fresh from a breakthrough year for its funding, Cul [...]
WiT Bootcamp 2018: Muslim travel sector holds huge potential with US$183b expected by 2020, reveals new Salam Standard report
The numbers say it all – by 2060, there will be 3 billion people globally who identify as Muslims, one in three of the world’s population (statistics from Pew Research Centre ).
With the rate of this growth at 70% compared to the global average of 32%, the Muslim tourism market will play an eve [...]
