How Asia is Changing The Travel Experience at Every Step
Asia is a great observatory for travel trends as well as being an experimental playground for innovation. According to the World Tourism Barometer, Asia Pacific has been the fastest growing region in the world for international tourist arrivals between 2005 and 2014,. A report from Mastercard expects that Asia Pacific will continue on this growth […]
5 ways for Chief Innovation Officers to foster a culture of innovation and identify opportunities
Startups are here to stay. With access to endless data and more funding, start-ups will survive and therefore disrupt. Hence, the emergence of an innovation race amongst corporates. Everyone – from banks, industrials and even consumer goods companies – are obsessed with innovating. Innovation Labs, accelerators, transformation teams are mushrooming, but are often disconnected with the […]
Mini-Programs: Tencent and Alibaba's War for Consumers Stickiness
Ecosystem building is a central strategy in the success of the Chinese tech giants. Tencent has accelerated development into this space by launching Mini-programs to the public in January 2017 on its messaging app WeChat, quickly followed by Alibaba on mobile payment app Alipay. Originally called ‘app accounts’, they were renamed after Apple prevented WeChat […]
Must-go tech conferences for business transformation leaders in 2018
CES, SXSW and GMIC, do you recognise any of these terms? If you do not recognise them, do not worry, we’re here to help! These terms are short for some of the best tech conferences worldwide that enable leaders to engage in business transformation. As we shared previously in our guide to fostering innovation within […]
Hospitality in Asia : Hotels and Startups Are Reinventing Accommodation
Hospitality in Asia is about to be reinvented. What was once a market dominated by hotel conglomerates is now undergoing change with start-ups actively redefining the recipe for a satisfactory accommodation experience. Certainly, the revolutionary accommodation experience from Airbnb has paved the way for other enterprises that focus on hospitality in Asia. The region has […]
Recalibrating travel accommodation in India: Insights from OYO COO Abhinav Sinha
The problem in finding accommodation as a traveller in India is simple – the lack of predictability. Although many choices are available, there are often reports of standalone hotels providing substandard hospitality services when guests arrive at their doorstep. Think dilapidated buildings, leaking taps and shower heads, malfunctioning air conditioning, unavailability of card payment methods […]
Sharing economy in Asia: interview with Jia Jih Chai, former Airbnb's director for Southeast Asia and VP of C2C commerce app Carousell
We had a chance to interview Jia Jih Chai, former Airbnb’s Managing Director for South-east Asia and currently in charge of growing social commerce and mobile commerce app Carousell internationally as VP. He shares his experience within Airbnb, the challenges he faced in the different Asian countries, as well as his ideas on the main sharing […]
Should you go to Web In Travel 2015 in Singapore?
Important info about Web In Travel 2015 Held in Singapore and on the 19th-21st of October 2015. The cost of attending this event is S$2,488. Opportunity to explore the disruptions to the travel industry and key elements leading the change. Topics that were covered are Personalisation, Travel Start-ups and Copycats. Past experiences at Web In Travel Travel […]
Lufthansa innovation hub and the travel space: a "startup within the company"
During the Break conference in Bali, we listened to then interviewed Katrin Zimmermann, from the Lufthansa Innovation Hub. Their work as a “startup within the company” can be summarized as follows: Digital travel apps are valued at $88bn, vs $6bn for a big airline on average There’s no or little loyalty, so Lufthansa need to […]
