Dixon: Ancillaries make it harder for customers and one shouldn’t get too carried away with social media
Geoff Dixon, the former CEO of Qantas, and now chairman of Tourism Australia, speaks to WIT on the linkages between aviation and tourism, airlines and ancillary revenues and marketing and social media.Q: So is there life after Qantas?A: Yes, there is. Really. I loved being at Qantas but it was just [...]
Groove Condensed: Lessons from WIT Live
Up in the hills of North Thailand, as our longtail boat cut through the deep, full and flowing Mekong River, I had a chance to reflect on the journey that was WIT Live last month.Starting with THack@WIT, it showed the possibilities of innovation in an open travel world as about 40 developers got tog [...]
HEDNA U to be held during WIT, ITB Asia week
HEDNA, the not-for-profit trade association whose worldwide membership includes executives and managers from the most influential companies in the hotel distribution industry, will be staging its HEDNA U in Singapore in conjunction with the Web In Travel conference and ITB Asia next week.HEDNA U wil [...]
Business Angel Network SEA to hear pitches at WIT Bootcamp
BANSEA (The Business Angel Network South East Asia) is supporting the WIT Bootcamp: Entrepreneurship & Innovation and will be on the panel listening to pitches in the WIT Start-Up Gallery. The WIT Bootcamp, to be held Oct 17, the day before the main WIT Conference in Singapore, is the meet-an [...]
A WITNext view: Insights, ideas and inspiration, all in one evening
A night for inspiration at the UndergroundSet in a funky venue, Velvet Underground of Zouk, the first ever WITNext provided much room for audience to be inspired by our speakers. Starting off the night, two entrepreneurs from Pigeonhole Live, Hew Joon Yeng (left) and Lyon Lim, introduced the use o [...]
WIT 2010: A student’s perspective
As one of the volunteers at the Web In Travel, I experienced two interesting and energetic days at the conference. I, along with other student volunteers, was in charge of social media.It was my first time attending a conference like this. We tweeted during the conference using their WITcast technol [...]
WIT Day One – Let’s talk about Search
What is search? It's a quasi blank page on your screen, with a few graphics and a small field box into which you insert your key words. The world of search has a lot of similarities across the various geographical markets, yet is also very localized, especially in Asia. A new concept in search [...]
WIT Day Two – Face-Off: Content, Customisation & The Next Big Thing
Session Overview:This session brings together veteran entrepreneur Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati and now Offbeat Guides, with investor Abrar Ahmad, Partner at Travel Capitalist Ventures. Sifry will talk about where content is going, where it wants to go, how you can free it and give it context [...]
WIT Day Two – The Biggest C-Spot of All
Session Description:China. China. China. Everyone's biggest dream, yet it could be everyone's worst nightmare if one is not prepared. Yet it's a market you have to be in if you want the scale. This session will look at how the digital world has changed the Chinese travel market, from how it's change [...]
WIT Day Two – The new Customer from Philippines, Korea and Indonesia is here. Do you know them?
What do you think is the key connecting factor when trying to reach the new Customer in Asia, and which is going to be crucial for your strategy? Localization of content. Asia is like Europe, the customers are very different across all the different countries. To inform us how the customers differ [...]
