Are we there yet? Find out at The Phocuswright Conference
With all the talk and buzz around new technologies and bold ideas, now is a good time as any to take stock of where we are in the journey to this new future. Speakers and delegates to the upcoming The...
View ArticleIs there gender equality in travel? Find out soon
How are travel companies faring in gender equity and promoting women’s leadership? Phocuswright will soon have the answers when it completes its second study on gender equity and presents its findings...
View ArticleExosonic wants the airline industry to boom through supersonic travel
It’s hard to catch the attention of an audience confronted with 24 back-to-back startup and product pitches, but Exosonic managed to do just that. At The Phocuswright Conference Summit, Norris Tie,...
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Letter from Fort Lauderdale: Time shifting as search chokes, funds bloat and...
As I wait for the first of three flights that will bring me home from Fort Lauderdale to Singapore via Houston and San Francisco, I have downloaded the Timeshifter jetlag app, one of the startups that...
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Reck on how GetYourGuide is more entertainment, less OTA and why the future...
Johannes Reck, CEO and co-founder of GetYourGuide, remembers his first Phocuswright 10 years ago when he had to make about 150 pitches and “everyone was intrigued by our new concept”. “This year, it...
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Covid-19 hits Singapore hotel sector hard, but impact is buffered by...
Phocuswright’s special series “Covid-19 Hotel Forecast: Singapore” has cited Singapore as “an excellent example of how the hotel industry is impacted by the interplay of viral spread, government...
View ArticleWiT Virtual goes around the world in 6 hours on June 24
In collaboration with Phocuswright and PhocusWire, event will unite travel As part of its “Unity in Crisis” series, WiT Virtual will stage a “Around The World in 6 Hours” Summit on June 24, which will...
View ArticleWiT Startup Pitch 2020 goes virtual, open call for entries
Covid or no Covid, the startup world must go on. In fact, one could argue that startups and entrepreneurship have become even more important at a time when travel has been decimated by the pandemic...
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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...
View ArticleRemembering Philip Wolf
A collection of tributes from some of our friends at the intersection of Phocuswright and WiT Deep Kalra, co-founder, MakeMyTrip“Philip was a perfectionist in all aspects of his life and had an...
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WiT Startup Pitch 2021 is back, with $250,000 worth of AWS credits and support
WiT’s annual Startup Pitch is back, bolstered by the continuing collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, for the fourth year running. AWS...
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Phocuswright tips five key trends to watch in APAC
THE Covid-19 pandemic ravaged economies and the travel industry in Asia Pacific (APAC), especially in countries with a higher dependency on tourism. As governments tried to protect their populations,...
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Travel startups take the spotlight at Phocuswright
AFTER a pandemic-related plunge in funding for travel technology startups in 2020, with investment dropping 56% from the previous year, funding through the third quarter of 2021 has surpassed last...
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WiT and Phocuswright team up for Global Startup Pitch
“Time to unite around innovation” AS part of the Northstar Global Travel Technology group, WiT and Phocuswright are kicking off 2022 with a round-the-world Global Startup Pitch. This combined effort is...
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Why India travel needs to thank Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) for its growth
“The elephant has started dancing” Virendra Jain, Co-founder and CEO, VIDEC and Director, Business Development, APAC and Middle East, Phocuswright casts his eye over the India travel landscape and...
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Letter from Phoenix: Gummies, guacamole and lessons from taxi drivers
After three years away, I was curious to see what Narita airport would look like, compared to Incheon where I had just been two weeks prior. This is one of the slower airports in Asia Pacific to...
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Mobile acceleration changing everything in Asia – stay alert, “the wolves are...
Hospitality tech still “messed up”, opportunities abound for chat, social commerce and innovative bundling The step change in mobile adoption, social, chat as well as the surge in low cost airline...
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How experiences will drive trip planning in 3 charts
The broad consumer shift toward experiences has been well known and well documented over the past half-decade. In the most recent research from Arival and Phocuswright, a forthcoming consumer study of...
View ArticleRise of a region: Digital transformation to supercharge Southeast Asia’s...
Digital transformation will continue to accelerate rapidly across Southeast Asia, with online bookings more than doubling between 2022 and 2025 It’s no secret that the pandemic hit different regions...
View ArticleTop of the WiT 17: Unpacking Asia’s travel recovery reports, Global Startup...
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news that happened this week in travel, tech and Asia – all condensed into a quick-and-easy nugget-sized podcast. We’re joined by Pete Comeau (Managing...
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