Seven startups to vie for top prize at WIT amid surge in travel investments
Seven travel tech startups are in the running in the WIT Startup Pitch competition to win a place in the Travelport Labs Accelerator programme, which comes with seed funding of US$30,000, as well as US$120,000 of cloud credits on IBM Cloud, under the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program.
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Letter from Hong Kong: What Money Men Talk About At Breakfast
Café Too at Island Shangri-La is buzzing, at 8am. It reminds me that power breakfasts are still very much favoured among the rich and want-to-be-richer people.
I can hardly tie my shoelaces at that time of the morning let alone have an intense business discussion about money but Hong Kong does t [...]
AccorHotels plays into co-living space with new brand JO&JOE
AccorHotels has launched a new brand, JO&JOE, "designed to meet the expectations of millennials and all those who value sharing, spontaneity and experience.”
The hotel group describes the new brand as "a vibrant living space" and "one that "was co-constructed with its future guests and disr [...]
Top five travel tech hacks Sabre hopes to bring to Singapore this October
Anupam Bokil, Sabre’s vice president of technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, shares with WIT an exclusive preview of the top five hacks he hopes to see come out of the two-day race against the clock to code a new application that has the power to really disrupt travel.
Today t [...]
The Millennial Traveller: From content veteran to tech startup, how Insight Guides is reimagining its role in travel
Travel research and inspiration before the digital age never involved a hashtag or a geotag on your phone. It involved browsing the Travel Literature section of bookstores, flipping through pages of destination magazines… or picking your next destination by spinning a globe and seeing where your f [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Innovation in travel tech has only just begun, says Hack Horizon’s Kostadin Kolev
Reimagining the very way we conduct ourselves in daily life is no easy feat but travel is inherently an industry built on the notion of ‘doing things differently’. While technology in travel is not a novel topic, acknowledging ‘travel tech’ as its own vertical is still relatively young.
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Momondo’s Burge on Brexit, emotion, meta and startups
Yeoh Siew Hoon catches up with Hugo Burge, CEO of London-based Momondo Group, to discuss, among other things, the impact of Brexit, the need for emotion and purpose in today's world of travcl, the evolution of meta and the investments he's making through HOWZAT Partners, and why it's a great time to [...]
WIT 2016 will reunite online travel pioneers and reimagine the future
The 12th edition of WIT, to be held on Oct 17-19 in Singapore, will be a reunion of sorts as well as a reimagination of the future.
“Twelve years is the end of a cycle and we are taking the opportunity this year to reflect on the past as well as reimagine the future,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, fou [...]
The 3 pain points startups should solve in corporate travel: Ragge
Amid the disruption happening in corporate travel, HRS, Global Hotel Solutions, has built its own innovation hub in Berlin where it’s acting as accelerator and partner to startups. It’s also of course a way for the German-based family run company to tap into tech talent. (See related story)
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Sabre to hold its first global travel hackathon in Singapore alongside WIT
Leading technology provider Sabre Corporation is bringing its global travel technology hackathon, Destination Hack, to Asia Pacific for the first time. The event will take place from October 14 to 16 at The Hub, Singapore’s largest co-working community of techies, entrepreneurs and creatives, righ [...]
