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ZUZU Hospitality hits sweet spot, and why there’s less need for hotels to...
Four years on, after having signed its first hotel in July 2016, ZUZU Hospitality believes it has found its sweet spot in helping independent hotels manage their demand and revenue management. It now...
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Don’t build more, fix problems first, Penang tourism master planners told
Less than a month to go before WiT Indie kicks off in Penang on March 13, and fireworks have exploded over the new Penang Tourism Master Plan that was presented a week ago, with criticisms ranging...
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Life in Orange: Making sense of advisories and having blonde moments
When all this is over, we will all look back and wonder how the whole world got unravelled by a virus but in the meantime, we have to deal with it and live through it. And write about it. Because at...
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The Long Run’s time has come as sustainability awareness peaks, new report...
The turn of the decade has certainly been pivotal for The Long Run. Founded in 2009 as an initiative of Zeitz Foundation’s international programme, it had been plugging away quietly at the very...
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Being in Asia “no brainer” for Lufthansa Innovation Hub as it rolls out into...
Christine Wang, head of business development for Lufthansa Innovation Hub’s new centre in Asia (pictured right), speaks to Yeoh Siew Hoon about her learnings as she takes her first dip into travel and...
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Expedia job cuts, Booking braces for “significant impact”, “winter is best...
I’ve been mulling over what I heard William Bao Bean of SOSV Capital say in a Techsauce Global podcast, “It is the cockroaches, the survivors, who can really take advantage of this tough environment...
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MMT’s Kalra aims to keep busy with product, M&A and expansion: “I’m not going...
If you think that the move of Deep Kalra from group CEO to executive chairman of MakeMyTrip marks the end of an era, he’d be the first to pooh-pooh the notion. For him, it marks the beginning of a new...
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Preparing for life in a cookie-less world: ADARA’s Garner on building...
The first question I asked Scott Garner, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of ADARA, how he felt being in Singapore when it’s in Dorscon (Disease Outbreak Response System...
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As Planet Earth goes into lockdown and our right to travel removed, here are...
“We’re on the brink of a new world as the old world comes to a hard stop. Fortify and brace yourself” I got back 11.30pm, March 15 from Penang, Malaysia, 24 hours, before the deadline when the...
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Jane Sun on how Trip.com weathered the mother of all disruptions and her...
With cities across China trying to get back to normal, some tourist attractions reopening and some travel restrictions being loosened, there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, as far as...
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Running an event in a pandemic – worse than bungy jumping but it gets you...
I’ve done many things in my life – bungy jumped, tandem skydived, climbed Mount Kinabalu, trekked many trails, ran into armed gunmen in Thailand, rolled down a jeep in Namibia, contended with a...
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How Findmyfare.com redeployed its travel consultants to medical services:...
In late January, Tushan Shanmugarajah, CEO and co-founder of Findmyfare.com, started seeing drops in sales to markets in South-east Asia. Thinking this was “something like SARS”, that it’d be...
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Letter from Tuscany (State of Mind): Of hermits and princess warriors – what...
Once upon a time, back when humans were allowed to travel, I went on a road trip from Munich to Florence and found myself spending the night at a friend’s place in a little town in Tuscany. After a...
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How to manage fear and anxiety in time of coronavirus
From how to manage your own fear to how to manage bored kids at home, psychiatrist and counsellor Dr Adrian Wang had a long list of advice for our listeners who tuned into our WiT Virtual last Friday....
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Airlines have melted like “snow in the Sahara”; why flying will not be the...
Aviation veteran Christoph Mueller last night paid tribute to airline executives for the amazing job they have done, building up networks that allowed people to fly everywhere, earning dividends for...
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Letter from the Kingdom of Covid-19: A time of ugly truths and bare essentials
I think it’s finally sunk in. The reality. I probably had the longest denial period of anyone I know. From Wednesday, Singapore went into “circuit breaker” mode in the ongoing fight against Covid-19...
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How ScaleUp Malaysia went virtual to pick its 10 startups – RM2 million...
Not only startups have to pivot at this time to find a product-market-fit but investors also have to improvise to seek out the businesses they want to back. ScaleUp Malaysia, an accelerator which...
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In this, we are all absolute beginners – here’s to starting anew, bloopers...
Speaking to Australian Gold Olympian athlete Chloe Dalton yesterday in WiT Virtual about building range and resilience, one other talk came to mind – champion skateboarder Rodney Mullen saying that...
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The making of SG Virtual Choir: An unorthodox collaboration in time of...
How the Singapore Tourism Board came together with Voices of Singapore to make beautiful music together When Voices of Singapore (VOS), a not-for-profit choral organisation, found their festival...
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Survive, innovate, collaborate, then look to the future. What will travel...
The first priority is survival. “This is the opportunity to fix the problems in our business,” said Stephan Ekbergh, CEO, Travelstart, during WiT Virtual’s Middle East Forum held last week. “Then if...
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