Yearly Archives: 2015
Absolute to bring Travelodge hotels to Thailand
(From left) Bernardo Godinez, director of Absolute Hotel Services, Aw Cheok Huat, chairman of Travelodge Hotels Asia, Jonathan Wigley, CEO of Absolute Hotel Services...
M&C woos tour operators to home of The Beatles
M&C’s Aloysius Lee (center back) and John Lennon’s sister Julia Baird (left) joining the choir at Hard Days Night Hotel.
MILLENNIUM & Copthorne (M&C), which...
Asia’s first cosplay cruise to set sail on Mariner of the...
Taiwanese celebrity cosplayer, Neneko (left), and cosplayers from the Singapore Cosplay Club (right).
THE Singapore Cosplay Club will be organising a cosplay festival aboard...
Political jitters make China, South Korea a hard-sell for Japanese travellers
THE ongoing geopolitical tensions between Tokyo and two of its nearest neighbours have made selling China and South Korea "very difficult", according to a...
Amadeus speeds up diversification pace in airline, hotel, payment sectors
FROM its traditional core in travel distribution, Amadeus has been steadily diversifying its core business to airline technology, hotel bookings and payments, and has...
Double Famous Agents points for FRHI property bookings till year-end
Raffles Hotel Singapore. Credit: FRHI Hotels & Resorts
FROM October 1 to December 31, 2015, FRHI Hotels & Resorts will allow travel consultants to earn...
Sydney’s Sandstone buildings to be redeveloped into luxury hotel
THE iconic heritage Sandstone buildings in Sydney, comprising the Lands Building and the Education Building, are slated to be reestablished as a new luxury...
JNTO outlines game plans beyond Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Credit: Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee
THE Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympics may still be five years away, but the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)...
Switzerland places Asian FITs at a premium
SWITZERLAND is not about to reduce its prices even though the lifting of the cap on the euro-Swiss franc exchange rate and the depreciation...
Flight searches for Down Under soar on weaker Aussie dollar: Kayak.sg
Credit: 123rf
AS the Singapore dollar strengthens against the Australian dollar, there has been a surge in flight searches from Singapore to Australia while average...
