Amid the constant setbacks, the good that came out of Covid
“DO you
think this thing will ever end?” asked my niece this week as Singapore
announced a tightening of Covid restrictions – groups of eight to five,
workforce in office back to 50%, events down from 750 pax to 250 pax (with
pre-event testing), three-week quarantine for travellers from “hi [...]
It is simple. Travel passes have to be easy to use. Tech has to connect the dots.
IT is evident that Covid has forced us out of our comfort zone – from writing about travel tech, we’ve had to speak to psychiatrists (how to manage fear), learn about viruses and transmissions (ad naseum) and last week, interviewed a medical doctor on stage to find out how vaccinations would he [...]
Travel will emerge safer and more sustainable, digitised and grateful – with Mixed Reality thrown in
Key lessons from WiT’s first Travel Roadshow as a medical expert weighs in on the intersection of health, travel and identity
WIT'S first Travel Roadshow kicked off yesterday (March 25) on a positive note with speakers believing that the industry, both travel and events, will emerge better and [...]
Philip Wolf, pioneer, legend, mentor, traveller
EVER since I could remember, from the day I started WiT in 2005, everyone would ask me, “Have you been to Phocuswright?” That was the gold standard, they told me, in travel tech conferences. “And Philip Wolf, have you met him? You must.”
For years, those two phrases rang in my mind as I [...]
“Cannot stand anymore” – after a year of no travel, what have you learnt?
“CAN you believe it? Today’s the day WHO called Covid a pandemic a year
ago,” said my caller this morning (March 11, 2021).
At this stage I am ready to believe anything. Well, not everything because there’s a lot of mixed reality out there – there’s someone’s truth and then there� [...]
“The mess of the passes”: The battle by airlines to open borders
THERE’S not a day that goes by these days that I do not receive a news release about a new travel/health pass or some other initiative designed to help governments open their borders with some measure of confidence that by so doing, they will not invite another outbreak.
The day after the [...]
For sale. Melatonin. Never Used.
BUT don’t despair. Connect@Changi launched to revive business travel, Budget to deepen position as global Asia node in startups and deep tech.
I know. It’s shameless, borrowing from the great Ernest Hemingway and his
“baby shoes, never used” quote, but I felt rather teary, looking at my [...]
Welcome to Travellers Anonymous – tips on how to beat VDS
“WHEN was the last time you sat in a bar and had a drink with
strangers?” Someone asked me that the other day on a Zoom call.
He was in Amsterdam, I was in Singapore. We were reminiscing about the
wonderful bars we used to frequent in his city.
Not that I am counting but as I write this [...]
Listen to your dentist, he knows the drill: How to hone enduring skills and stay relevant in a broken world
WHEN New
York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman was asked at the PCMA Convening
Leaders 2021 conference which skill he felt had served him best in his career,
he said, “Deep listening – learn when to listen and what you say when you
listen.”
Which is
why I encourage you to go to t [...]
A survivor’s guide to getting through 2021: Look how far we’ve come
WELL,
that’s 2020 done and dusted. But is it? Dusted for sure and leaving many of us
in the dust, wondering what hit us and now wondering how we pick ourselves up
from the rubble.
Done it certainly is not. Even as many of us took a breather from work the last weeks of 2020 we couldn’t help [...]
