Klook goes Gaga. AI regulates STRs. Singapore Airlines bans power banks. Sentosa x Weixin Pay. More.
Joe Tsai: AI, Open Source, and Chinese consumers
Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai highlighted AI’s transformative potential during CNBC CONVERGE LIVE, emphasising its potential to boost productivity and create a $10 trillion market - larger than the entire tech sector. He underscored that the real [...]
The future of Northeast Asia travel is online
WiT Japan & North Asia returns to Tokyo, May 26-27
The future of Northeast Asia travel is online, with Phocuswright predicting that the region will smash through another barrier in online travel bookings by 2026, reaching $30 billion.
The latest Phocuswright Northeast Asia Travel Market Repo [...]
Hotels must embrace Gen Z travel trends for future success
Digital travel platform Agoda has outlined how hotels across Asia can embrace the preferences of Gen Z travellers to ensure they are adequately future proofing their business.
The call comes as Agoda research reveals the top five travel habits of Asian Gen Z, outlining a generation that finds inspi [...]
Catch up podcast: Blended travel rising. Loyalty points and free flights. Hybrid hospitality in APAC.
We're trying something new with our weekly-ish podcast - we're outsourcing it to Artificial Intelligence. This is both an experiment and, if we're being honest, a convenient way to digest the top articles of the week from the WiT website into a nugget-of-a-podcast. We'll release a new episode every [...]
Ross Veitch on pivots, near-death and diversification | Conversations On Turning 20
When you get to the ripe young age of 20, you’re bound to collect lots of stories – not only about the past but lessons for the future.
As WiT marks its 20th year in 2025, we turn the spotlight on our community, our tribe pioneers and leaders, to tell their stories and share their views on th [...]
Navigating APAC’s rich, fragmented short-term rental market
Hybrid hospitality, shifting regulations and the 'White Lotus effect' are changing the way owners deal with their rental properties
Unlike more uniform markets, APAC’s short-term rental (STR) industry is highly localised, requiring a flexible approach to regulation, distribution, and guest experi [...]
Expedia and Emirates simplify. HotelPORT launches ReputationAI. Travel sites’ accessibility issues. More.
Emirates and Expedia Group 'go simple' with booking experiences
Emirates and Expedia Group have expanded their partnership by fully integrating Emirates’ New Distribution Capability (NDC) API into Expedia Group’s platforms. This direct connection allows travellers to access Emirates’ full ran [...]
From redundancy to HeyMax: Plugging into the traveller’s economy to help people travel more, spend less
A fintech-loyalty play where it’s about the traveller, says Joe Lu
Joe Lu was on a swing with his newborn daughter in Kobe, Japan during a month-long sabbatical, when he got the news that the Facebook engineering office he had started in Singapore and headed since 2019 would be closed down and j [...]
Nadia Omer on lessons from strangers, and focus on cost, price and budget travel
"Budget travel isn’t about taking market share from premium airlines; it’s about activating new demographics to fly for the first time." - Nadia Omer, CEO, AirAsia MOVE
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last night played host to the first-ever Travel Tech Thursdays, a joint event by WiT, Wego and My Indie [...]
iJapan. AI spending takes flight. Skyscanner DROPS savings. e-Arrival in South Korea.
Tokyo tops the list for biggest flight savings in Skyscanner’s new DROPS feature
Skyscanner has launched DROPS, a new app-exclusive feature that helps travellers find flights that have dropped in price by at least 20% compared to the past week. Scanning over 80 billion prices daily, the feature u [...]
