Air is changing everything: Why you must attend WiT Singapore

If you want to be relevant in the “Next Generation” of travel, you cannot afford to miss WiT.

Because all the conversations will converge around how air travel is changing in all dimensions, including commercial models, and how that leads to ripples throughout the travel eco-system.?

1. OTAs are changing their approach to flights

Expedia Group , always big on air, is stepping it up. Once accommodation-only players – Booking.com , Agoda – are getting into flights. 携程集团 is scaling flights across the globe. AirAsia MOVE wants to sell more than its airline. As they get into flights, they are also building across different verticals – tours and activities being the new frontier.

They will all be at WiT.

2. The evolving nature of air search and retailing

As Generative AI seeps into the tech ecosystem, the way consumers search will change. Airlines, intermediaries and tech companies are all on the move, like pieces on a chess board. Who’s making what moves? Who’s adding value? Who’s serving the traveller best? What is the next form of travel commerce?

谷歌 , Skyscanner , Wego.com , Sabre Corporation , TikTok – they will all be at WiT.

3. The low cost factor is shaking things up

Low cost airlines, ever innovative, ever fast, are shaking things up. New aircraft orders, a new region opening up a whole new market of travellers, rethinking OTA strategies and retailing.

Michael Cawley , Ryanair ; Steven Greenway ????? ?????? , flyadeal ; Trevor Spinks , low cost commercial veteran – they will all be at WiT.

4. From the top, looking down

To understand what will happen on the ground with all the changes in air, you need a helicopter view and veterans are best at offering that big picture view.

Peter Harbison , founder of CAPA - Centre for Aviation ; Timothy O'Neil-Dunne , airline distribution veteran – they will all be at WiT.

5. Digital Identity & Payments, a key part of the ecosystem

International Air Transport Association (IATA) and 携程集团 are partnering on the IATA One ID Initiative. How will this new technology streamline travel and how will it affect everyone in the value chain? Then there are new fin tech companies bringing new solutions to solve travel’s unique pain points in payments.

International Air Transport Association (IATA) , 携程集团 , JUSPAY , GLN International Inc. , Ant International – they will all be at WiT.

6. The future of direct and personalisation

Let’s face it, if we can go direct, we want to it. It makes it easier to build the relationship with the customer, to get more personal, to deliver the on-brand promise, to nurture loyalty. Airlines are stepping it up, and hotel brands are learning and ramping up. Tech companies that are building for that very purpose are entering the market.

雅诗阁 , 万豪酒店 ; Mike McGearty , Meili – they will all be there.

Yes, we’ve got a stellar line-up of speakers who will be unpacking the future of air travel and how it impacts everything.

You can’t afford not to be there.

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