The WiT Podcast – Episode 38: Mieke de Schepper, Executive Vice President and Managing Director Asia Pacific Amadeus IT Group
IN this episode, we
speak about coping with fatigue in a region that’s lagging behind in travel
recovery, how technology can facilitate the return of safe travel and boost
confidence of travellers and how governments and travel companies need to
collaborate to get us out of this and through this [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 37: Fernando Gibaja, General Manager, Capella Singapore
How a life of travel prepared this hotelier for this period of no travel, dogs and all
THERE was a moment during Covid-19 when Fernando Gibaja wanted to throw in the towel. It was the very first day when Capella reopened, and breakfast turned into a nightmare. “Honestly, I think it was the mos [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 36: Demystifying Sustainability, Lee Cheh Hsien, Divisional Director, Planning, Sentosa Development Corporation
How to climb your “Carbon Everest”: Break it down into small actionable steps.
LEE Cheh Hsien, Divisional Director, Planning, Sentosa Development Corporation, is all about breaking down the big topic of sustainability so that island destinations like Sentosa and businesses on the island can [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 35: Dr Paul Tambyah: Travel must work with medicine to prevent being taken hostage in next pandemic
GOVERNMENTS
will go to default “shut borders” mode in absence of “scientific, calibrated
approach”, argues president-elect of International Society of Infectious
Diseases
The travel
industry needs to take a more proactive approach to managing future pandemics
because even if WHO declare [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 34: Tracy Lui, Senior Assistant Director, Marketing & Communications, Mount Faber Leisure Group, Singapore
Sentosa
United, in partnership with Sentosa Development Corporation
THE cable car is one of Singapore’s oldest attractions,
built in 1974. Guess how many people have ridden in it since?
Well, clearly Covid had an impact on the number of riders in
2020 and the group, which markets the cable [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 33: Luke Johnson, General Manager, AJ Hackett, Singapore
Sentosa United, in partnership with Sentosa Development Corporation
THE story of how AJ Hackett, which invented commercial bungy jumping 30 years ago and has added thrills to the lives of four million people across the globe, went from 5% domestic business to 100% is an adventure in itself.
[...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 32: Hello 2021, here’s looking at the Year of the Ox
JANUARY has
come and gone and still the world doesn’t look that much different from when we
ended 2020. International borders are still closed, countries are still in
various forms of lockdowns and restrictions and airlines are set to face
another disastrous year.
In this sobering report, IAT [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 31: Dear 2020 (Letters From Friends), Part 2
HERE’S Part
2 of The WiT Podcast, Dear 2020, in which we feature “Dear 2020” letters from
our friends from around the world. What would they say to it? How would they
want to remember it by?
We thought
it’d serve as a time capsule of sorts for our industry so that say, in five
years from [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 30: Mira Bharin, Director, Brand, Marketing and Communications, Sentosa Development Corporation
Sentosa United, in partnership with Sentosa Development Corporation
IMAGINE this –
last year, Singaporean residents made about 8.58
million outbound departures by air and there were around 2.13 million outbound
departures by sea in that same year. Amazing numbers for a small island of 5.6
mill [...]
The WiT Podcast – Episode 29: WiT Middle East, Part 2
WELCOME to Part
2 of our special report from the Middle East where we present a summary of our
event held on November 25 when we gathered close to 30 speakers to share their
knowledge and insights over four hours.
In Part 2 we hear how critical aviation is to the distribution of vaccines and how [...]
