Technology
Preparing for the booming Indian market: An Interview with MakeMyTrip’s Rajesh Magow
05/10/2022 by Jill Menze
In early September, Phocuswright published its India Total Market Report, which provides a comprehensive view of India’s travel market, including detailed market sizing and projections, distribution trends, analysis of major travel segments and key developments. Below, PhocusWire speaks with [...]
Searching for each and every Byway, travellers do it their way on slow travel holidays
04/10/2022 by Ian Jarrett
Travellers with world’s first platform for flight-free holidays are never alone with WhatsApp It’s midday and hot; you’ve missed your train from a station in a remote part of Spain. You’re worried. Who are you going to call? If you are a customer of Byway, the world’s first platform for f [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 04: India On The Rise, Web3 Disrupts Businesses, Lessons For Airlines
29/09/2022 by WiT
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter. This week, we're talking about India as the world's fifth largest economy and what that mea [...]
Tech in Travel: NFTs, a nifty friends and family travel app, and airlines told to fess up on fees
29/09/2022 by Ian Jarrett
Pandemic pushes travellers to the edge – of nature Is sustainable travel just a fad? A trendy travel choice that will fade faster than a politician’s promise? It depends on who you ask. A Trip.com survey found 21.3% of Europe-based respondents indicated that people opt for sustainable tra [...]
Cost, talent, and tourism: Making sense of the airline industry in the “new world”
27/09/2022 by Arvindh Yuvaraj
IF you've travelled internationally in the last year or so, chances are you've stared – wide-eyed and jaw open – at the price of flight tickets. Before everyone's least favourite microbe rocked our world, low-cost airlines used to be able to offer truly low-cost fares. Even regular airlines were [...]
The promise of the Third Age of Digital Travel – let’s live up to it
03/10/2022 by Timothy O'Neil-Dunne
The time is now to act together and make our industry incredible or face a barrage of restrictions and regulations. Timothy O'Neil-Dunne gets into what can be done collectively, to prove travel's value to governments and to societies. We are entering the Third Age of Digital Travel – a time o [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 03: AI-generated artwork, new world travel trends, MYAirline ready to take off
23/09/2022 by Arvindh Yuvaraj
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter. This week, we're talking about stunning artwork created by artificial intelligence, Airbnb's [...]
Tech in Travel: Hotel security, preparing for Japanese travel, bye-bye Misterfly, and More
22/09/2022 by Ian Jarrett
Be ready for the return of the Japanese traveller Wolfgang Emperger, senior vice president for Europe, Africa and the UK & Ireland at the Shiji Group, has been talking about the steps companies need to take as Japan cautiously opens its borders to travel. Shiji Group provides technological sol [...]
“The end is inevitable. Your kind is destined for extinction.”
22/09/2022 by Yeoh Siew Hoon
Not if you blend old world experience with new world tech – just look at Maverick In the movie “Top Gun: Maverick”, there’s a scene in which Rear Admiral Cain (Ed Harris) is telling Maverick (Tom Cruise) that “soon we will have pilots who don’t need to eat, sleep, p… and disobey order [...]
Airbnb: How local communities are benefiting from dispersal of post-pandemic travel
21/09/2022 by Arvindh Yuvaraj
IT'S been said over and over again that work and travel have fundamentally changed. That's not news. But what's interesting is how the line between work and travel – activities that used to be on opposite ends of the spectrum – continues to blur. People are working out of hotel rooms. More trave [...]