Travellers favour hotels, culture and cities, millennials can be swayed by a good deal: TripAdvisor survey
If you have been in the travel business for a good while, throw out what you know are norms for travellers because the new Millennial travelling community has set its own barometers.
One of the key findings in TripAdvisor’s most recent annual TripBarometer study shows a significant gap i [...]
Teenage Tesloop founder switches direction from ride sharing to data connectivity: Here’s why
Ahead of their on-stage conversation at Phocuswright next Wednesday in Los Angeles, teenage founder of Tesloop, Haydn Sonnad, reveals to Yeoh Siew Hoon a change of direction for the company he founded in 2015 when he was 16.
Tesloop, the Tesla ride-sharing service started by teenager Haydn S [...]
Through The Looking Glass of Cempedak Island: 8 Key Takeaways from WiT Singapore 2018
After an intense three days of “Through The Looking Glass”, my mind is still sparking neurons even though I am now safely esconsced on a private island in Bintan, Indonesia.
Cempedak has, for the last two years, become my go-to escape after WiT Singapore 2018. I saw the all-bamboo resort whil [...]
Want to know what your funds did for kids in the Philippines in 2017? Watch the video
Over the last 10 years, the WiT For Good initiative, held in conjunction with the WIT Singapore conference, has raised about US$500,000 for the betterment of women and children in emerging Asia.
It started out as a small idea back in 2008 when we visited the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital in [...]
Know your farmer – Sampran Riverside’s Arrut leads organic tourism movement in Thailand
In today’s age, where we have our personal trainers, doctors and lawyers, why shouldn’t we have our personal farmer? That was the food for thought offered by Arrut Navaraj, managing director of Sampran Riverside, at the Travelport Live conference in Bangkok earlier this month when he spoke of ho [...]
I can see clearly now, but the future is still blurred
As I go through my life without glasses, for the first time in a long, long, long time, I find myself feeling liberated, yet strangely vulnerable.
For the most part of my considerable adult life, I have been shielded by a visible barrier which helped me see the world better yet protected me from [...]
AccorHotels expands luxury portfolio with purchase of Mövenpick Hotels for US$567 million
In late 2016, AccorHotels increased its collection of luxury properties by buying Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (FRHI), owner of the luxury Raffles, Fairmont and Swissotel brands, for US$2.9 billion.
The French hotel giant is now expanding this luxury segment with the announcement on Apri [...]
Melon, Magic, Money: The blurring of sci-fi and reality and the changing world of content creation
From editing DNA in mice so as to learn how to make humans more space-faring to the continued search of habitable other worlds, to deep algorithm learning to make machines smarter and growing human organs in animals for future transplant, it was a day of mind-blowing inspiration for the 150 or so of [...]
Why search needs to get better and how we can do it for travellers
We have a plethora of options for search but in the English and other Latin languages, the term “Google it” has become as synonymous as “Kleenex”. Perhaps more so.
While the average American uses about 50 Lbs of tissue paper a year, we say the words of the leading search brand and enter a [...]
CruiseWorld Asia sails into Southeast Asia
Some 350 delegates are attending the first-ever CruiseWorld Asia conference from November 30 to December 1, 2017 in Singapore.
CruiseWorld has been a dominant player in the cruise industry in North America for over a decade, and six successful editions of CruiseWorld have been staged in China sin [...]
