Cost, talent, and tourism: Making sense of the airline industry in the “new world”
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
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
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
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.”
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
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 [...]
OCTO to advance technical connectivity standards for tours, activities & attractions
A CONSORTIUM of leading reservation and ticketing system providers, distributors, experience operators and other companies in the tours, activities and attractions sector of travel and tourism has formed OCTO, a new non-profit association whose mission is to advance technical connectivity standards [...]
Tech in Travel: In the air (just) and on the ground, partnerships are flourishing
From museums to hotel marketing, technology is taking care of business
Klook, Tiqets expand global reach
If you want to get ahead, get a partner. That message is driving new relationships across the tech space.
Latest two to tango are Tiqets, an online platform for cultural and leisure exper [...]
Trambellir is ready to capitalise on wellness tourism, a future trillion-dollar industry
ACCORDING to GWI’s report on the global wellness economy, wellness tourism reached a record $720 billion in 2019 but then took a devastating dive when the pandemic happened in 2020, falling to $436 billion. With the world starting to open up again, GWI forecasts that the market will reach $817 bil [...]
Top Of The WiT Ep 01: Redefining Boring Jobs, Railway Tech, and Wellness Travel
Here's the first episode of a new weekly series called Top Of The WiT, in which we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in the world of travel, technology and Asia – the most interesting tidbits that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
And hey, w [...]
