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It’s travel over shopping for the young, wild and free
The majority of young travellers are ready to forgo a year of travelling to go shopping, according to the latest ZUJI-dex travel report. According to the OTA, the report “ goes inside the minds of...
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The Wrap: Book flights at the right time to get the best fares: Skyscanner
In the news: This week we feature Skyscanner’s findings on flight booking, Gfk’s collaboration with Abacus, Travelport’s partnership with Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Jet Asia Airways Book flights at...
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The Millennial Traveller: Tours of a thoughtful kind
Whenever we travel, there’s an inherent expectation that we will experience the best a place has to offer, whether it be through dining at the finest restaurants, taking part in various cultural...
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Remembering LKY by his words, and deeds
As much as any of us has been expecting it, we’re never prepared for that moment of finality. I remember the doctors preparing us, days ahead, for my father’s death. Yet when it came, it was still like...
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WIT Start-Up Pitch: New car rental start-up drives into town
Adrian Lee, co-founder of Drive.SG, tells WIT what drove him to start the car rental site and what he hopes to change. Adrian Lee (left) and Paul Tan, Drive.SG’s founders. Q: Describe the business,...
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10 lessons from Singapore, the Start-Up: Learning from Lee Kuan Yew
Like everyone living in Singapore, I spent most of last week reading, listening and learning about the life of Lee Kuan Yew and how he built a nation from scratch. And it made me realise that in many...
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Changi Airport and STB team up to grow visitor arrivals to Singapore
Changi Airport Group (CAG) and Singapore Tourism Board (STB) have inked a strategic marketing deal that see them jointly investing S$35 million to boost awareness of and arrivals to both Singapore and...
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The Millennial Traveller: Beyond city limits, parallels between Perth and...
From a tourist’s perspective, it seems both Singapore’s and Western Australia’s tourism industries are beginning to make a conscious and strategic effort to battle past public perceptions as, most...
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The Wrap: Sandy shores and swanky stays for APAC affluent on family vacations
In the news: Visa survey on APAC affluent holiday makers, Alitrip partners Travelport, Live like a local with STB and TripAdvisor Sandy shores and swanky stays for APAC affluent on family vacations...
View ArticleOakwood launches Studios brand, enters Singapore
Oakwood Asia Pacific announced last week it will be launching a new serviced residence brand in Singapore – Oakwood Studios – due for completion in November 2016. A management contract with local...
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Best of TW Asia Global Wrap: Muslims like shopping in Asia/Pacific
Featured stories from TravelWeekly Asia: Insight into Muslim consumers’ shopping habits, KrisFlyer miles on Scoot and Tigerair, meeting to tackle regional haze Muslims like shopping in Asia/Pacific...
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Make Singapore an ideas hub, invites Minister
Security is priority for a smart nation Use Singapore as test bed for new technology. That was the invitation Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister-in-charge of...
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A modest proposal: travel technology dominance
This is a guest blog by Arnie Weissmann, editor in chief, Travel Weekly. Arnie Weissmann The question that Singapore’s minister of foreign affairs put to attendees at the Web in Travel conference last...
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The Millennial Traveller: Third Culture Colonialism
As a ‘third culture kid’ (TCK), I never quite felt at home anywhere. Patriotism remained a foreign concept and while it was easy to state, “I am half English and half Singaporean (or Indonesian,...
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Changi is the best airport in Asia for self-connect flights
If you have to self connect your travel, then Singapore’s Changi Airport is the best place to be. The airport, which has won countless accolades, topped the list as the most popular airport for...
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ADARA reveals Singaporean millennials are travel disruptors
Millennials in Singapore are disrupting traditional travel models and influencing travel, said a new global study from travel data platform ADARA. The research showed that Singaporean millennials are...
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Sabre to hold its first global travel hackathon in Singapore alongside WIT
Leading technology provider Sabre Corporation is bringing its global travel technology hackathon, Destination Hack, to Asia Pacific for the first time. The event will take place from October 14 to 16...
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Top five travel tech hacks Sabre hopes to bring to Singapore this October
Anupam Bokil, Sabre’s vice president of technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, shares with WIT an exclusive preview of the top five hacks he hopes to see come out of the two-day race...
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The Wrap: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th top overseas...
The weekly news roundup: Visa’s report on future of global travel and tourism, two new partners for Sabre, PayPals’s new merchants in APAC VISA SURVEY: Singapore households projected to be world’s 7th...
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Sabre Destination Hack: Overwhelming response, opens to virtual entries from...
The response to Sabre’s first ever Asia Pacific inaugural hackathon has been so overwhelming that the company has added a virtual component to enable overseas developers to take part remotely. To date,...
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