We’re off! WIT BootCamp – the many and varied opportunities that is Asia Pacific
Bootcamp this year was kicked off by Siew Hoon - of course! She reminded us that you can follow all the action this year on our hashtag - #WIT2011 on Twitter. We then heard from some regional experts working in some of the key locations in Asia Pacific - one region, but each with some speci [...]
WIT Day One – C of Change or Confusion. Which is it?
Using copious amounts of data, Joe Nguyen, VP South-East Asia for ComScore convinced us all that change is happening rapidly in Asia Pacific. Did you know that travel information rules online? 130 million unique visitors were visiting travel websites in Asia Pacific in August 2010! It was inter [...]
WIT Day One – Independents vs Brands. Who do you think wins?
There's nothing better than seeing two teams duke it out, trying to win the argument. This time the debate was between the power of brands, or is it better to go small and independent? In the INDEPENDENT corner we had Robert Hornman, Managing Director of WORLDHOTELS, Nick Downing, Director of Ope [...]
WIT Day One – Rebel with a focus
He’s irreverent, brash and peppers his language with the “F” word, but today at WIT Morten Lund (pictured right) played it cool. He is the guy who said no to Twitter, who made and lost over US$200 million in his twenties, who says his weakness is a love of life that has led him into some weird [...]
WIT Day Two – Igniting the Romance of Travel on a Wednesday morning
We're opening day 2 on a wonderfully romantic note. No technology, no gadgets, no stats … just love … a story that exudes the love of travel. Goh Mia Chun and his wife Sam went on a inspirational 2.5 year journey through 40 countries that became their very own Motorcycle Diaries. As Mia Chu [...]
WIT Ideas Lab: Social Media, Search, Mobile & Stuff – a Summary
After a day of WITovation at the start of the week, two days of Web in Travel and the first day of WIT ideas Lab, it’s time to catch up again with three of the most active panelists of the week. They are:Timothy Hughes, Vice President Commercial, Orbitz Worldwide and HotelClubMorris Sim, CEO &am [...]
WIT Speakers Corner: Travel specialist investor out to find ‘next big thing’ at WIT
Specialist travel fund, Travel Capitalist Ventures, is setting its sights on “the next big thing” in Asia. Abrar Ahmad tells Yeoh Siew Hoon what he's on the lookout for.1. Let's talk about travel investments in general – has the market come back after last year? What's the current mood?On the [...]
Letter from Bhutan, Pt 2: Of dogs, horse heads, phalluses and cordyceps
Day 2 in Bhutan dawns bright and clear. Fluffy white clouds floating on a canvas of brilliant blue sky. More Fluffy Dragon than Thunder Dragon, I thought as I woke up at the Namgay Heritage Hotel in Thimpu.Happiness, I thought. We had expected lots of rain and black clouds – all the guidebooks tel [...]
Letter from Bhutan: Happiness is a place, Part 1
Call it premonition but somehow I knew that my baggage would not arrive with me on the flight from Punta Cana via Paris. And so I wasn’t too flustered when I was proven right.In fact, in some ways it felt good to leave the airport so light – and it made me aware that too often we carry way more [...]
Letter from Punta Cana: First feel of the Caribbean
“What are the three things I must do while I am here?” I asked the woman sitting next to me on the Air France flight bound for Punta Cana from Paris.Despite my exhaustion, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of anticipation for what awaited me in the Dominican Republic, a place I had long wanted [...]
