Yearly Archives: 2016

Brandon Chan GLOBAL travel and event management company The Appointment Group (TAG) has named Brandon Chan as the general manager of its newly established Singapore...

Kashyap: Staying in the lead INDIA’s leading online travel company Ibibo Group is set to receive US$250 million in funding from South African media conglomerate...

INDUSTRY players are disagreeable with Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s decision to put a blanket ban on the issuing of new hotel licences, saying they...

MYANMAR’s Ministry of Culture has banned visitors from ascending Bagan’s temples and pagodas, save for five of the largest ones, namely Pya Thet Gyi,...

THE Hong Kong government will be allocating a budget of about HK$380 million (US$49 million) to boost dwindling arrival numbers to the autonomous region,...

MALAYSIA’S travel industry is feeling the effects of the global economic slowdown, and players interviewed are bracing themselves for a tough year ahead. While the...

MOBILE travel commerce specialist MTT has appointed David Moran as CEO, who is set to begin work from March 1 at MTT’s Dublin headquarters. In...

Torsten Edens DIETHELM Travel has promoted Torsten Edens to the newly-created position of group operating director, reporting to Lisa Fitzell, group managing director. Edens joins Diethelm...

Gupta: Mobile first, web second FLUSHED with funds from Ctrip International’s US$180 million investment in it, MakeMyTrip (MMT) is surging ahead with the goal of...

AVERAGE hotel room rates in Asia-Pacific escalated last year, with Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore being the three most expensive cities for hotel bookings, according...