The pandemic-induced tech boom is changing the lives of travel community in big ways, shares panel experts at WiT 2022.

If there’s one thing good that came out of the pandemic, it was the acceleration of travel technology fuelled by the global travel industry’s immense pressure to adapt quickly to the crisis.

As travel players far and wide innovated or leveraged on tech innovations from the small to the big, this tech boom continues reverberating all across the world, and as WiT’s founder Siew Hoon puts it “will revolutionise the in-destination experience”.

At WiT 2022 on 4 October, industry-leading players took to the ‘Changing Things Up, On the Ground’ panel to tell their own unique stories of how this technological evolution has contributed not only to their businesses but also for the trade, its consumers and personal lives.

Travelling to far-flung destinations at the click of a button

Baidi Li is the SVP of Commercial in APAC for Go City, where she leads the company’s commercial growth and expansion in the region

When the avid travellers were forlorn and in despair of not being able to pursue their passion at exploring the world, the world brought itself right into travellers’ homes through the means of virtual vacations.

The Maldives was one of the many destinations that launched a series of live-streaming videos that allow travellers to explore its azure waters and idyllic islands from a first person’s perspective.

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