I&CO expands in Asia, forms design capital alliance with Trambellir
I&CO, a global design agency, has officialsed a strategic alliance with Trambellir, a Malaysia-based online medical tourism booking platform. The collaboration entails enhancing Trambellir's user interface (UI) and overall business assets through I&CO's design expertise.
Trambellir serves [...]
Koreans’ top picks for value-for-money travel
Tourvis x Consumer Insight analysis on cost-effective travel trends
Key points:
Japan: #1 destination for first six months of 2024, consecutively
March and April focus on Tokyo, Osaka and other Japanese cherry blossom destinations
May and June strong for Cancun and Honolulu, du [...]
TravelAI rescues Casai. Women in the workforce. Jeeves the Snackbot. Hotelbeds of the Caribbean.
Women in the workforce: The Economist crunches the numbers
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, The Economist has released its annual glass-ceiling index, its measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce.
The publisher looked at 10 indicators—from labour-force partici [...]
I have a dream: Travelling with dignity and humility
How tech can play a role from armchair travel to the physical journey
I’ve now come to an age when my mother needs a wheelchair for travelling. Day to day, she lives a fairly normal active life but travelling, that’s another proposition.
Travelling is a highly physical activity – those lon [...]
WiT Podcast: Cooking up AI and product love with Booking.com’s Adrienne Enggist
“You've got to make your mistakes differently”, says Enggist
As a student, Adrienne Enggist, Senior Director of Product, Customer Experience and Platforms for Booking.com, had an epiphany, not a hallucination, when she listened to Timothy O’Leary, the late American psychologist and author kno [...]
Bolder and better funded: Takaya plans global growth path for Reiwa
Former Relux founder takes lessons from India’s startup scene
Fresh from his first trip to India, Takaya Shinozuka, founder of Japanese online travel company, Reiwa Travel, is blown away by the dynamism of the market and the ambition of the travel startup founders he met.
“I spent five days, [...]
Swept up by Swiftie, and blame AI for everything
In my neighbourhood in Tanjong Rhu, Singapore, there’s an undercurrent of excitement leading up to this weekend. Actually, forget undercurrent. There’s an over-the-top buzz happening because, well, Taylor Swift starts her six-day concert run this Saturday at the National Stadium, across the rive [...]
How Taylor swiftly earned Singapore half-a-billion dollars
Economy booster: One travel platform saw tour bookings shoot up by 2,373% during concert period.
Phenomenon
Definition:
a: a rare or significant fact or event, b: an exceptional, unusual, or abnormal person, thing, or occurrence
People usually make ‘Best Of’ lists at the end of the y [...]
Amadeus joins LGBTQ+ Travel Association. Truth about hotels. Trickiest countries for expats. More
Amadeus has pride in its LGBTQ+ stance
Amadeus has joined the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association (IGLTA) to help provide more information and resources for LGBTQ+ travellers.
IGLTA, which champions the social and economic impact of LGBTQ+ tourism, said the commitment by Amadeus to inclusiv [...]
HalalTrip makes bid to go after next generation Muslim travellers
After 15 years of building CrescentRating, Fazal takes plunge into consumer waters
After launching CrescentRating in 2008 to rate hotels, and building up a solid research, advisory and consultancy business around halal travel, founder Fazal Bahardeen is ready to plunge into the competitive waters o [...]
