MIKE Annetts, a founder of TTG Asia, passed away last week in the Gold Coast, Australia.
Former TTG Asia editor, Yeoh Siew Hoon, said in a blog post: “Mike was the man who brought TTG Asia to the region and gave me my break in travel journalism, the one who gave me that first job back in Kuala Lumpur as correspondent for TTG Asia.”
“I don’t think Mike got the credit he ought to for bringing an English travel trade newspaper out to Asia in those days, when the travel industry was just developing, and Asia was an infinitely foreign market,” she added.
Darren Ng, managing director, TTG Asia Media, remembers Annetts as “a very focused, hands-on person when it came to editorials”.
“But we remember him more as a polished gentleman, who had a presence, a lot of gravitas about him, and one who certainly enjoyed a tipple every Friday,” Ng added.
