Yearly Archives: 2014
Asiana receives first Airbus A380
SOUTH Korea's Asiana Airlines took delivery of its first Airbus A380 aircraft yesterday, which it plans to deploy on routes from Seoul to Tokyo,...
Changi Airport and Jetstar pilot self-service check-ins
CHANGI Airport Group (CAG) has begun trials for its self-service initiative in collaboration with Jetstar Asia, aimed at reducing the airport's manpower requirements and...
The maturing of meetings
The meetings market in Asia is maturing. Raini Hamdi finds out in this Roundtable why companies want more accountability and transparency from their meetings...
Real-time aircraft tracking not on the immediate horizon
CONVERTING all airlines to a global standard of real-time tracking may take up to three years to realise, said an ICAO official, despite Inmarsat...
France strives to become Chinese-friendly
FRENCH tourism stakeholders are rolling out initiatives for the Chinese market given the three-fold increase in arrivals since 2010.
In 2013, France welcomed over 200,000...
Penang convention bureau to get off the ground by end 2014
PENANG is likely to set up a state convention bureau by the end of 2014, but this is subject to the hiring of a...
Content marketing key for travel businesses leveraging Google
TRAVEL companies must begin to think of themselves as content publishers to survive Google’s landmark shift to a semantic search algorithm.
Speaking yesterday at the...
Adventure Travel Trade Association offers access to research
THE Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) has launched an online store that gives its members and other travel industry organisations access to research papers...
HNA after bigger share of Spain’s NH Hoteles
CHINA'S HNA Group will strengthen its control over NH Hoteles through a 132 million euro (US$179.6 million) agreement to buy over the stake held...
WTTC wants you to tell the world why #TourismMatters
MEMBERS of the tourism industry have been called to pick up their smartphones and change the world's perception of the industry one Instagram video...







