Yearly Archives: 2016

Jean-Jacques Reibel INTERCONTINENTAL Hong Kong’s managing director Jean-Jacques Reibel will be relocating to Los Angeles in April 2016 to become the opening general manager of...

AS we wrote in our Overheard column on Monday – Hilton Worldwide to launch 13th brand – the chain has now revealed its Tru...

THE Israel Ministry of Tourism has tripled its marketing budget for India to US$3 million this year on the back of record year-on-year arrival...

INBOUND agencies in Thailand are seeing no discernible impact on either arrival numbers or bookings following reports that the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)...

LEADING B2B accommodation wholesaler JacTravel has named Ben Wood as its new regional head of sales for Asia-Pacific. Ben Wood, new regional head of sales...

HOTELIER of the Year award recipient Andrew Turner has been appointed Mantra Group’s vice president of acquisitions for Asia. Turner was most recently the executive...

AMADEUS and content aggregator AccesRail have extended their partnership and now allows bookings of flight and ground transportation from a single screen with its...

(From left) Jesper Palmqvist, area director Asia-Pacific, STR Global; Clarence Tan, senior vice president Asia, Middle East and Africa, InterContinental Hotel Group; and Kenneth...

CARLSON Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has made three key appointments to its executive team, effective from February 1, 2016. CWT’s current president for Europe, Middle East...

ASEAN member countries are collaborating on a new brand – Cruise South-east Asia – aimed at promoting the region as one unified cruising destination. The...