WiT Studio: Danielle D’Silva (Booking.com) explains the meaning of sustainability in hospitality
WiT Studio hosts a series of exclusive interviews with key players in the industry to discuss the new age of travel, tech, and tourism in Asia and beyond. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.
On this episode, Danielle D'Silva (Head of Sustainability, Booking.com), opens up about creating a [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 10: Dialing in from ‘The Phocuswright Conference 2022’, with Pete Comeau (Managing Director, Phocuswright Inc)
On Top Of The WiT, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
This week, we tackle timezone differences and lessons from The Phocuswright Conference 2022, as Sie [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 09: Gen Zs are hopeful, blurred lines in travel, and positive stress
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
This week, we talk about Gen Z, the future of the industry, and how they're hopeful about the [...]
Japan, Land of Bargains, beckons while outbound remains muted
Weak yen, absence of China – “an opportunity to change focus”
GIVEN the weakened Japanese yen, the land of the rising sun has become the land of bargains and this will give a further impetus to inbound travel to this most popular of destinations, the audience at WiT Seoul 2022 heard.
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Sponsored: Changing priorities, technology adoption and the key drivers for growth: The top 10 trends in corporate travel, as revealed by new Sabre research
WHILE corporate travel is returning, it is coming back differently. So, exactly what are the shapes corporate travel is shifting into, and how are corporate travel agencies adapting to service the new face of business travel? Sabre carried out a survey of travel agents and Travel Management Companie [...]
WiT Studio: Laura Houldsworth (Booking.com) discusses the endemic traveller and how to understand this new market
WiT Studio hosts a series of exclusive interviews with key players in the industry to discuss the new age of travel, tech, and tourism in Asia and beyond. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here.
On this episode, Laura Houldsworth, Managing Director (APAC), Booking.com gives her insight on the [...]
Rebranding Cambodia: Focusing on sustainability to boost tourism in the kingdom
IF you were to come up with a two-week stay in Cambodia, what would your itinerary look like? Would you be able to name five places to visit off the top of your head? Unless you’ve spent a considerable amount of time there, Cambodia is probably defined by its most touristy destinations. According [...]
From Bengkulu to Traveloka: How Caesar Indra is fulfilling his dream of “making the developing world better”
“Local is our DNA, so is DIY,” he says, but can that playbook scale as Traveloka expands
When I asked Caesar Indra how a kid growing up in Bengkulu, a small mountain village on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia ended up being president of Traveloka, Indonesia’s poster child of online travel, h [...]
Top of the WiT Ep 07: Transforming mobility, cruise comeback, dreamers that do
On “Top Of The WiT”, we bring you a grab of the news that happened this week in travel, technology and Asia – interesting nuggets that caught our eye and made it into the weekly WiT newsletter.
This week, we talk about a company that wants to transform mobility, through data and analyti [...]
SEA’s digital economy to hit $200b GMV this year, travel “will take years to reach 2019 levels”
ESG factors “key to unlock the full potential of region's $1 trillion digital economy by 2030”
SOUTH-east Asia’s digital economy is on track to hit $200B GMV in 2022, and is expected to grow twice as fast as GDP in most South-east Asian countries and could reach up to $1T by 2030 if the full [...]
