Hey, who turned on the lights?: Defeating darkness with creativity
Travel and tourism players may be living in one of their darkest times in modern history, but these are also days of bright ideas that could forever change how people travel and appreciate destinations.
Hate matters: Anti-Asian Hate is influencing travel intentions
Unlike the AAPI community who has to face the problem at home, the Asian travelling community has a choice of where they want to holiday. And they will very likely pick somewhere safe and welcoming.
The people predicament: How will we retain talents whose faith is...
For an industry that often says its success depends on its people, losing good people to despair and other industries is worrying. On the bright side, this crisis could be a turning point for the travel, tourism and business events profession.
Delayed payments to hotels hosting OFWs woeful
Philippine hospitality, including hotels, are turning out to be one of the biggest casualties of the tourism lockdown the past nine months and counting....
Building back better
What is the future of travel? At this very moment last year, my vision of the future was one of abundant travel opportunities, made possible by convenient air services, some of which at affordable price points, that allow anyone to travel anytime.
Effecting change in travel purpose
There have been many predictions made at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic about how travel and tourism would return when borders reopen. The...
Sense and sensibility
Learning to live with C-19 is key to stable recovery
Tiptoeing the thin line between safeguarding lives and livelihoods
One might think that Philippine destinations would have reopened its doors to domestic tourism, choking as they are five months into lockdown.
But they won’t,...
Pragmatism, not paranoia, key to SE Asia tourism revival
The South-east Asian travel industry could take a lesson from Thailand's incident with Covid in Rayong the past week, where the 31-person Egyptian military...
The other side of C-19: Expediting digital and business transformation
Between the human survival instinct of fight or flight, some travel companies have chosen to fight back in innovative ways.