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The WiT PodcastFuture Lanes Ep 2: The Traveller | DAA’s Kenny Jacobs on the future of airports, retail and travel“For me, an airport is a runway with a supermarket attached.” – Kenny Jacobs, CEO of DAA (Dublin and Cork Airport Authority) The travel industry is at a crossroads. As passenger demand bounces back with renewed force, airports, airlines, and ancillary service providers are rethinking how they approach customer engagement, sustainability, and digital transformation. In this episode, WiT founder Yeoh Siew Hoon and co-host Bobby Healy, co-founder of Meili, spoke with industry veteran, Kenny Jacobs, CEO of DAA (Dublin and Cork Airport Authority) and former CMO of Ryanair. Together, they explored the complex landscape of mod...2025-02-1251 min
Travel Tech InsiderSeason Finale | What’s on Tap for 2025Wrapping up season two of the Travel Tech Insider podcast, we turn the tables on our favorite trade media voices to hear what they’re keeping an eye on for 2025. What are they most excited to cover? What under-the-radar trends do they think will have an outsized impact on the ways we plan, shop, book and experience travel? And how do they go about their day-to-day jobs in the media world, identifying stories and cultivating their sources to find their unique angles and insights? We’re joined by four of the leading thinkers, writers and question-askers in the i...2025-01-281h 13
The WiT PodcastKlook at 10: From $1m to $1b by 2018, founders reflect on journey and see bright future for experiences | WiT Podcast Ep 43They put their own money into the business, one of them selling his house. Together, they scraped together $1m. By 2018, their tours and activities platform was valued at around $1b, and the business continues to grow. It’s hard to say who’s more surprised by the achievement – Ethan Lin (CEO) or Eric Gnock Fah (President) or perhaps their parents whom they talk about openly – but one thing is clear, these two co-founders are firm friends and have each other’s backs. It’s uncanny how well they complement each other, as you will discover in this spec...2024-08-151h 08
The WiT PodcastCooking Up AI & Product Love with Adrienne Enggist | Customer Love Ep 4Travelling is a highly physical activity – those long walks to the gates and immigration, those long queues – not easy when you are not fully mobile. Especially for the elderly - the requests for assistance pre-flight, the waits at check-in for assistance, the arrival process – and the inevitable conclusion that one day it will happen to all of us. For Siew Hoon (Founder, WiT), seeing life through her mother’s eyes made her highly cognizant of the ageing societies of Asia. According to the Singapore government's 2023 population report, citizens aged 65 and above make up almost one-fifth of Singapore's populati...2024-03-0707 min
The WiT PodcastCooking Up AI & Product Love with Adrienne Enggist | Customer Love Ep 4As a student, Adrienne Enggist, Senior Director of Product, Customer Experience and Platforms for Booking.com, had an epiphany, not a hallucination, when she listened to Timothy O’Leary, the late American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. He wasn’t talking about acid but of the future, she said. ““He asked us to imagine a future that’s less than 20 years away, where you can talk to anybody in the world instantly in real time without paying for long distance … and he spoke of how you could create content like Arnold Schwarzenegg...2024-03-0741 min
The WiT PodcastWiT Stories: Swept up by Swiftie, and Blame AI For EverythingTaylor Swift has arrived in Singapore for the highly anticipated Eras Tour, which she'll perform for six nights over two weeks. Let’s face it, pop stars are good for business. More than 300,000 tickets have been sold for the concerts in Singapore, with a large number of fans travelling in from Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. All round, it’s been a good news week for travel and tourism, with the top travel companies all reporting healthy fourth quarter 2023 and full year 2024 results – from Airbnb, Booking Holdings, Expedia Group, Trip.com Group, Amadeus. Also...2024-03-0104 min
Powering TravelThe intersection of tech and travelWondering how new technology like AI will impact travel? In this episode, guest host Richard Kocher, Senior Director of Media Insights and Planning at Expedia Group, is joined by travel journalist Siew Hoon Yeoh to discuss the role of technology in travel. Siew Hoon is the founder of Web in Travel, and has been covering the impact of tech on the travel industry since the early 2000s. She believes that travel is still a human industry —after all, it's humans who travel, not robots. However, she also believes that tech like AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we...2024-02-2833 min
The WiT PodcastHow To Win Customer Love In 2024 | Customer Love Ep 1What 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 challenges that come with this new travel landscape. In the pilot episode of our new series, Customer Love, Yeoh Siew Hoon (Founder, WiT) speaks to her co-host for all upcoming episodes, Laura Houldsworth (Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Booking.com), about travel trends to look forward to this year. With a background in financial services, writing, communications and marketing, Laura gets candid about seeking Booking.com thanks t...2024-01-1138 min
The WiT PodcastExpedia Talks: Michael Dykes, VP, Market Management, Asia-PacificWhat 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 “jarring”, but it taught him some valuable life lessons which have stood him in good stead in both his career and life. The Vice President, Market Management of Asia-Pacific for Expedia Group said growing up on a farm in rural America taught him self-sufficiency as well as an appreciation for the origin of food. It also made him determined to return to Japan, and Asia, where his heart is and...2023-12-0846 min
The WiT PodcastExpedia Talks: Rob Torres, SVP, Media SolutionsAfter 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 travel and hospitality, Rob has seen the industry shift and evolve over time, with technology driving most of the change in the last couple of decades. In this episode of Expedia Talks, we ask Rob about the lessons he has collected and curated over the years to help him prepare for the future of travel. With so much new technology at one's disposal, how does an e...2023-12-0119 min
The WiT PodcastExpedia Talks: Karen Bolda, SVP, Product & TechnologyTechnology 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 by decentralised tech like Generative AI. As the Senior Vice President of Product & Technology at Expedia Group, how does Karen Bolda and her team stay on top of all these trends? And how do tech-centric providers sift through the hype without getting distracted by the 'next big thing' that enters the market? In this episode of Expedia Talks, we ask Karen about...2023-11-2435 min
The WiT PodcastExpedia Talks: Greg Schulze, SVP of Strategic Travel Partners & Hari Nair, SVP and General Manager, Lodging MarketplaceAs 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 the current AI revolution amidst a worldwide recovery phase. Similarly, two travel veterans, Greg Schulze, SVP of Strategic Travel Partners and Hari Nair, SVP and General Manager, Lodging Marketplace, are no strangers to transformations in the industry either. In this episode of Expedia Talks, we sit down with Greg and Hari to talk about their roles at Expedia and how it has evolved...2023-11-1740 min
我们谈谈@XMUMNo. 15 求职问题千千万，面试官怎么看？求职问题千千万，面试官怎么看？
2023年即将过半，实习季、毕业季再一次接踵而至。今天，我们邀请到了马来西亚人力资源管理协会荣誉副主席，厦门大学马来西亚分校MBA项目兼职讲师——Dr. Henry Yeoh Chew Hai，在节目中，他从资深面试官和雇主的角度解答了同学们有关求职、面试的种种困惑，也对在校生如何做职业规划给出了建议。
主播：萧茗蕙 Siew Min Hui，2021/02级新闻系本科生
本期节目以英文进行
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/voicefromxmum/message2023-05-081h 31
Disruptive CEO NationYeoh Siew Hoon, Founder Web in Travel, WiTFor this episode we head to Singapore to speak with Yeoh Siew Hoon, a remarkable businesswoman, friend of young entrepreneurs, and the founder of Web in Travel (WiT). WiT launched in 2005 and was acquired by Northstar Travel Media in 2104. Siew Hoon continues to lead the platform, having extended editions across the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. Siew Hoon started the company based on her interest on how technology was changing the way people book and plan their travel but over the years expanded the focus and the product lines while staying true to the company’s br...2021-03-0317 min
The WiT PodcastLessons From The WiT Virtual SummitIn this episode, Yeoh Siew Hoon sums up the lessons she took away from the WiT Virtual Summit when we went round the world in six hours – from how it’s okay to be scrappy, to how we should not go back to bad habits of old and how we should, with clever tech, make our customers feel confident again about travelling. And finally, what a father had to tell his daughter about the business he built up and saw destroyed, and what he hopes for her future.2020-07-1517 min
Get OutEpisode 073 - Jens Uwe Parkitny | Journalist, Photographer, Travel professional, & Author of Marked For Life Jens Uwe Parkitny is a portrait photographer, a travel trade journalist, and a travel industry professional. He's the author of two coffee table books - Bloodfaces, and Marked For Life, which celebrate facial tattoos of Chin people, documented over a decade. Follow him for more such passion projects that will showcase tattooing traditions in the diverse cultural landscape of Myanmar. Jens has also co-created Loikaw Lodge, a lakefront boutique accommodation in Myanmar's Kayah state. Listen to his journey from growing up in Germany, and being a journalist for travel...2020-07-0700 min
PhocusWire PundIT ShowPhocusWire PundIT Show - Episode 17The first of two PundIT Shows, recorded during Phocuswright Europe 2019 in Amsterdam in mid-May.
Usual opinions, a few giggles here and there, but lots of worthwhile travel punditry.
Joining us for #17:
Siew Hoon Yeoh (WebInTravel)
Maggie Rauch (Phocuswright)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2019-05-2919 min
Don't Stop Us Now AI EditionSiew Hoon Yeoh – Is Making Travel BetterOur guest this week is Singapore-based, travel entrepreneur Siew Hoon Yeoh.Siew Hoon is one of the humblest people you’ll meet. She refutes the idea that she’s an innovator and a pioneer in her space. But ask anyone in the travel industry in Asia “who is the most innovative woman you know?” and Siew Hoon Yeoh is nearly always the answer.Siew Hoon’s company Web in Travel (or WIT as you’ll hear her say in the interview) is a content and events company focused on online travel. Those in the know say Siew Hoon’s efforts to bring digit...2018-06-2730 min