The WiT Podcast
The WiT Podcast, hosted by Yeoh Siew Hoon, shines the light on the travel industry as it undergoes its biggest crisis with the outbreak of COVID-19. It features conversations with travel industry leaders about how they are surviving the storm, and offers ideas and insights, on how to recover and emerge stronger.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
New Wave of Customer Love in Alternative Accommodation | Customer Love Ep 3
Imagine. Fifteen years ago, there was no alternative accommodation category on Booking.com. Today, there are 7.2m short term rental listings and in its Q3 2023 earnings, this sector grew the fastest,…
Customer Love to Planet Love, Practise What You Preach | Customer Love Ep 2
There’s certainly a lot of practices travel suppliers have to put in place to fulfil and deliver on its responsibility to build a more sustainable industry, and everyone, from the grassroots to giant…
How To Win Customer Love In 2024 | Customer Love Ep 1
What does 'customer love' mean in 2024?
For the first time since 2019, travel companies are unanchoring themselves to the events of the last 3 years and embracing the freedom, opportunities, and chal…
Top of the WiT 28: Travel Leaders Reflect on 2023 and Look Forward to 2024
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news in travel, tech and Asia - all condensed into a nugget-sized podcast.
For the last couple of weeks, we've featured our year-end series, Goodbye 2023, H…
Expedia Talks: Michael Dykes, VP, Market Management, Asia-Pacific
What happens when as an eight-year-old, you are moved from Okinawa to Indiana, two more contrasting places you couldn’t imagine? Well, for half-Japanese-half-American Michael Dykes, it was definitely…
Expedia Talks: Rob Torres, SVP, Media Solutions
After 15 years at Google's marketing and advertising division, Rob Torres recently returned to his former home at Expedia Group as Senior Vice President of Media Solutions. Like many key figures in t…
Expedia Talks: Karen Bolda, SVP, Product & Technology
Technology has come a long way in the last 20 years and Expedia has always evolved its tech platforms to stay on the forefront of change. Now, travel and hospitality are at an inflection point driven…
Expedia Talks: Greg Schulze, SVP of Strategic Travel Partners & Hari Nair, SVP and General Manager, Lodging Marketplace
As a company, Expedia Group is no stranger to change - the company has been through many shifts in the travel and hospitality industry, from technological booms to slumps in the global economy, to th…
Expedia Talks: Alfonso Paredes, SVP, Commercial Partnerships, Expedia Group
Expedia Group rolled out a few partnerships recently – SoFi, Mastercard, and WalmartPlusTravel.com. By enabling giant retailers like these, do they risk losing business on the B2C side of things? Why…
Top of the WiT 27: Human Revolution, Next Step in Social Marketing, Working with Mother Nature, and the Heart of a Friend
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news in travel, tech and Asia - all condensed into a nugget-sized podcast.
In this episode, we're gearing up for WiT's annual flagship event, WiT Singapore.…
Top of the WiT 25: Indie Travel Returns, New Booking Trends, and the Joys of Working with AI
Top Of The WiT is a grab of the trendiest news in travel, tech and Asia - all condensed into a nugget-sized podcast.
In this episode, we're joined by optimists, experimentalists, and innovators Dawn…
Episode 41: Ross Veitch, Chief Executive & Co-founder, Wego
In this episode, we speak to Ross Veitch, Chief Executive & Co-founder, Wego about adventures past and present, including those before the inception of Wego as a company.
Last year at WiT Singapore,…
Top of the WiT 24: Ready for China, Understanding India's Travel Scene, and Google ARCore Digitises Singapore
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.
In this episode, listen to Juliana Kua's …
Top of the WiT 23: Anticipating ATE23, Malaysian Road Trips, and Content Creation In Travel
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.
In this episode, we connect from different…
Top of the WiT 22: Understanding New Trends and How to Market to the Emerging Chinese Traveller
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.
In this special episode, we look back at s…
Top of the WiT 21: The Meaning of Travel Tech, Virtual Reality vs Travel, More ITB Berlin Talk
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.
In this episode, we continue our discussio…
Top of the WiT 20: Thoughts on ITB Berlin 2023, Discomfort Zones, Bonza Takes Flight
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.
In this episode, Siew Hoon and this week's…
Top of the WiT 19: Metaverse Builders, Dull Offices, and The Value of Loyalty
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.
In this episode, we discuss the metaverse …
Top of the WiT 18: ChatGPT Is the Biggest Thing, Traveller Tribes, Betting on Trip Planners, and AI Poems
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 Christian Watts (Founder a…
Top of the WiT 17: Unpacking Asia's travel recovery reports, Global Startup Pitch 2023, Saying Goodbye to Boeing 747
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 Dire…