Keep the love coming
Travellers are staying away from Australia due to global media coverage of its raging bushfires but Chris Schumann, owner of Kangaroo Island Seaside Inn, stresses that the destination will need tourists more than ever in its recovery.
Power of positivity
Erwann Mahe, the new managing director for Best Western International Operations – Asia, has a very diverse region and hefty property portfolio in his hands. Just two months into his role, he tells TTG Asia why he is looking forward to the coming months.
More ammo post-IPO
Gordon Wilson, CEO, Travelport, is bent on providing travel agency customers worldwide with the broadest possible travel content - and he's got more ammunition after the IPO last September. He talks to Raini Hamdi
Evolving destinations
Ni Made Ayu Marlhini, deputy minister for marketing at Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, talks about developing new destinations, rural tourism and the power of domestic travellers
Connecting critical dots in luxury tourism
Asia-Pacific's growing High Net Worth population and their strong travel intentions are attracting an even bigger and more diverse community of luxury travel suppliers and trade buyers to ILTM Asia Pacific, reveals Alison Gilmore, director, ILTM Portfolio of Events.
Charting a course for recovery
The cruise tourism industry has taken a beating from the combined impacts of Covid-19’s tourism freeze and negative media reports on infections onboard – tough times that Cruise Lines International Association is helping its community to navigate through with enhanced education, government advocacy and careful planning with medical experts. Managing director Australasia & Asia, Joel Katz details how
Woman in power
In a highly competitive world of hotel and property business, Carolyn Choo, CEO and managing director of Singaporean firm Worldwide Hotels, has shown the world that she is no shrinking violet. She leads the local firm to consolidation and corporatisation in 2018, rising intact from the destruction of the Covid pandemic with her team – the company is today recognised as Singapore's largest homegrown tourist-class hotel group and has footprints in Asia
Skål! to young Asian members
Young association members are the key to making inroads into Asia’s travel trade, and Skål International’s new CEO, Daniela Otero, talks about big plans to revolutionise the association.
International Women’s Day: Saluting Tourism’s Leading Ladies – Subashini Balakrishnan, director,...
The fight for gender equality is for everyone, and necessary for economies and communities to thrive. With this in mind, International Women’s Day 2020...
Catalysing Cambodia’s new tourism future
The pandemic has brought Cambodia's tourism players together and highlighted the value of a single voice via the Cambodia Tourism Federation (CTF), allowing them to work better with the authorities towards travel and tourism recovery as well future developments, reveals Luu Meng, CTF president, master chef and Almond Group CEO.
