Letters from the WiT Tribe: What I Learnt at “Next Generation”
Thank you, all those who shared their experience and key takeaways from WiT Singapore 2024. Here are a few more we’ve collected from our tribe.
Stephen Joyce, Global Travel Lead, Protect Group
“After 30 years of online travel and the fundamental shifts in technology that has resulted i [...]
Seek Sophie’s Jacinta Lim on the dichotomy between generations in travel
As a first-time speaker and attendee at WiT Singapore, Jacinta Lim, CEO & co-founder of Seek Sophie, found the experience very enlightening.
“I actually went to a lot of conferences (tech though, not travel) when we first started because the conversations were quite shallow. But I found the [...]
Heart and Soul: Talking About Next Generation at WiT Singapore
Editor's note: This year’s WiT Singapore had as its theme, the “Next Generation”. So what it is that travel’s next generation leadership thinks most about – and what big problems will it solve next? In the first of his series of stories from the show, we sent CP5 co-founder Luke Clark alon [...]
What does the future think? SIT students reflect on WiT Singapore 2024: Next Generation
Collectively, it was an “eye-opening” event on the future of Generative AI, hospitality trends and travel tech leadership
You can’t truly talk about the Next Generation without including the people who will help shape the future of travel and hospitality. Just like years prior, we invited sev [...]
Where the leap comes – AI moves outside
Timothy O’Neil-Dunne gets excited about an experimental project called I-XRAY which removes the screen and could potentially change the human-machine interface like nothing we’ve yet seen. He also examines its possible applications for society and travel and how to mitigate privacy concerns.
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A thaw in the airline-GDS relationship is happening
Timothy O’Neil-Dunne reports on his key observations made at the recent T2RL Engage conference in London.
That great chill between airlines and the GDSes is beginning to see a softening and a thaw in the relationships. Perhaps global warming can have some positive impact.
That’s th [...]
HalalTrip’s Saudi ambitions in-sync with Kingdom’s Vision 2030 transformation
Singapore-based Muslim travel specialist aims to promote Saudi beyond Hajj and Umrah
The expansion of multi-layered tourist visas and a national drive to diversify the economy has positioned Saudi Arabia as a rising destination for both domestic and international tourists. Couple that with its sign [...]
These podcasters aren’t real: Our AI experiment with Google’s Notebook LM
Google's new AI tool, NotebookLM, has the tech world buzzing for good reason. Users of the platform can feed it with any sort of raw data in the form of a text document or PDF - from a simple short stories to staggering reports on complicated subjects - and NotebookLM will turn it into a podcast.
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The New Work Paradigm: Covid’s lasting legacy
We are not going back to the office, not in the way we used to. The pandemic forced us all to re-evaluate how we live, how we work, and how we balance our lives. The forces that powered the old way of working—the service economy built around office towers and cubicles—are permanently disrupted. [...]
The quest for longevity: What’s travel got to do with it?
Over truffled mushroom canapes and lemongrass-ginger infusion tea, I asked Dr. Athasit Amornthanomchoke, an anti-ageing and preventive medicine doctor, practising at the RAKxa Integrative Wellness Retreat in Bangkok, if he saw a lot of male customers and what was the most common reason for their vis [...]
