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Philip Wolf, pioneer, legend, mentor, traveller
EVER since I could remember, from the day I started WiT in 2005, everyone would ask me, “Have you been to Phocuswright?” That was the gold standard, they told me, in travel tech conferences. “And...
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Sumba Hospitality School reopens, 10 students supported by WiT begin their term
IT’S been a challenging year for Inge De Lathauwer and her team at Sumba Hospitality Foundation, which runs the hotel school on the Indonesian island. The resort, which provided some income for the...
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From RMB5b refund a day to full domestic recovery: How Trip.com rode out Covid
Now the big question is, when will Chinese outbound restart? THIS time last year, in the darkest days of travel, Jane Sun, CEO of Trip.com Group, recalled that it was having to process up to RMB5...
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Travel will emerge safer and more sustainable, digitised and grateful – with...
Key lessons from WiT’s first Travel Roadshow as a medical expert weighs in on the intersection of health, travel and identity WIT’S first Travel Roadshow kicked off yesterday (March 25) on a positive...
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Ragge: Corporate travel needs a “dream alliance”, and to prove value in net...
AS emotionally exhausting as dealing with Covid-19 has been, Tobias Ragge, CEO of HRS has still had time to dream of a new and better world of corporate travel which he says has been completely...
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From psychiatrist to doctor, in the journey of Covid
“There is pent-up demand even for business travel”, says Dr Walter Lim AROUND this time last year I interviewed a psychiatrist Dr Adrian Wang for one of our early virtual events. We were in the...
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IT is evident that Covid has forced us out of our comfort zone – from writing about travel tech, we’ve had to speak to psychiatrists (how to manage fear), learn about viruses and transmissions (ad...
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Kapap Academy’s Qin wants to grow Angel Wings
Taking self-defence on the road through a travel safety app EVEN a self-defence business is no defence against Covid and so when the pandemic shut down its physical classes, Qin Yunquan,...
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Amid shift towards direct, Sabre’s new airline storefront aims to help agents...
COGNIZANT that there will be consolidation in the travel agency market and that airline distribution is shifting inexorably to direct as a result of the pandemic, Sabre is nevertheless focused on...
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Don’t count on travel to return anytime soon, let’s reinvent global travel,...
THE Singapore Tourism Industry Conference (TIC) began on a sober note this morning with Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing, saying, “Even with the global rollout of vaccines, international...
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Hold your horses. Just because you have been vaccinated doesn’t mean you can...
THAT wasn’t exactly how Singapore’s Minister For Trade and Industry, Chan Chun Sing, phrased it Wednesday morning (April 7) at the Tourism Industry Conference but that was what he meant when asked by...
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From dog cruises to creepy tours, Ice Cream and Slingshot, Singapore rides...
Technology and sustainability at the heart of change THE Year of No Travel may well be “one of the most fertile periods” in the Singapore tourism sector, with new products, experiences and bundled...
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How Phare survived a year of no tourism to Angkor Wat
From adapting shows to local tastes, to a 24-hour virtual performance Phare, The Cambodian Circus rode out 2020 and hopes for international tourism to return by year end IF there is one destination...
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Webb: Recovery won’t be online vs offline, it will be driven by policy
Travelport doubles down on tech to simplify next gen retailing for recovery FOR Greg Webb, CEO of Travelport, pushing ahead with its next generation platform – a commitment it made in 2019 when it...
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Cleartrip sale to Flipkart inevitable, as Covid crushes travel and...
IN many ways, the proposed acquisition of Cleartrip by Flipkart, known as the “Amazon of India” was inevitable – inevitable because the pandemic has no doubt devastated the 15-year-old company’s India...
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Covid has tested global-local models in travel, says KKday’s Liu
“Curated experiences” marketplace embeds deeper local roots, launches Fine Day for luxury and scales Rezio WHEN Weichun Liu told her parents she was giving up investment banking to join KKday in 2016,...
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25 years on, Expedia flips “green screen” again to become the traveller’s...
“It matters who you travel with” falls on shoulders of new brand custodian, Shiv Singh SHIV Singh, the new senior vice president and general manager of Brand Expedia, was sitting in front of an...
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Latest wave dampens Phuket’s hopes of reopening; Trisara stays on course of...
LIKE other hotels in Phuket, the award-winning luxury resort Trisara had been looking forward to closing April on a healthy note because domestic travel in Thailand had been gathering steam but then,...
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Fortified by Tin Men, GlobalTix doubles down on tech roots
Fresh $3m funding is not survival money, it’s to go full force on digitisation mission THE new funding round of S$3 million raised by GlobalTix from Tin Men Capital and SEEDS Capital is not “survival...
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VFS Global brings visa expertise and govt experience to health passports
Synergies between pass providers, tech companies and governments needed to open borders: Jiten Vyas IN 2019, VFS Global processed 30 million visa biometric enrolments across 144 countries. In 2020,...
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