Yearly Archives: 2014
Euromic on international membership recruitment drive
TRAVEL specialist association Euromic plans to aggressively expand its membership beyond Europe and will attend IT&CM Asia later this year as part of its...
South Africa hunts for more Indian traffic
SOUTH African Tourism yesterday wrapped up a four-city roadshow in India in its latest and biggest travel trade engagement exercise in the country so...
Cost-cutting clients back out of DMC proposals
DMCs are facing increasing pressure from clients who request tour and incentives proposals only to go direct to suppliers in a bid to cut...
IHG to launch InterContinental hotel in Bandung
INTERCONTINENTAL Hotels Group (IHG) will open the InterContinental Bandung Dago Pakar later this year in Indonesia's third largest city.
Located in the Dago Pakar development...
Affordable luxury rooms
The space between economy and luxury is hotting up as a string of new mid/upscale hotel brands hits the region and jostles to be...
Our outlook on Asian tourism – Thailand, Hong Kong, India
Travel companies in the region share their projections
Inbound
Inbound operators are hopeful for a stronger performance in 2014, barring any greater fallout from the political...
Starlite DMC, New Delhi
Service is good but the store layout at Starlite DMC could be more customer-friendly
PRESENCE A dynamic young travel company, Starlite DMC is located in...
Limited accessibility impair Spain’s appeal for Asian tourists
THE Spanish minister of industry, energy and tourism has urged airlines to set up more direct links between Spain and growing markets in Asia...
JAL scales up international connections to Haneda
JAPAN Airlines (JAL) is shifting a number of flight operations to Tokyo’s Haneda airport and will commence a new Tokyo (Haneda)-Ho Chi Minh City...
Bill Barnett releases new book It Might Get Weird
Cover of It Might Get Weird by Bill Barnett
FOUNDER and managing director of hospitality and consulting firm C9 Hotelworks, Bill Barnett, has released a book...
