Yearly Archives: 2016
Asia’s first GLō hotel to open in 2019
BEST Western Hotels & Resorts’ newest brand, GLō, will make its Asia debut in Na Jomtien, Thailand in 2019.
GLō Na Jomtien will be located...
Technology will take centrestage at ATF 2017
NEXT year’s Travel Exchange (TRAVEX), held alongside the annual ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF), will feature a “one-of-a-kind” tech hub that showcases the latest solutions...
A third of Accor’s revenues won’t be from rooms, says CEO
Sebastien Bazin
ONE-THIRD of AccorHotels’ revenues in the future will not be from traditional room and F&B sales, said its chairman & CEO Sebastien Bazin...
Grab the opportunity now
Since the mid-’90s, the clarion call to travel agents has been – and still is – for them to embrace technology. So I could...
Taiwan welcomes ASEAN travellers with open arms
THE Taiwan government is aiming to boost MICE arrivals from South-east Asia after making it easier for citizens in that region to obtain visas.
Announced...
AFECA celebrates young MICE professionals
When the 99 corporations and 32 association members of the Asian Federation of Exhibition and Convention Associations (AFECA) gather for its annual meeting in...
Chengdu to get more meeting spaces when Waldorf Astoria opens
HILTON will launch its luxury brand The Waldorf Astoria in Chengdu, Sichuan province come December 2016.
The 289-room Waldorf Astoria Chengdu, located in the Chengdu...
EventBank app pushes for Asian expansion
LAUNCHED in 2013, Beijing-headquartered event management and mobile app platform EventBank is gearing up for its next phase of expansion, aggressively targeting local associations...
SITE kicks off auction to fund research, education for incentive travel...
SITE Foundation has launched an online fund-raising auction, Auction 2.0, to support its mission to enhance the awareness and effectiveness of incentive travel.
The auction...
University partners SACEOS for placement opportunities
SACEOS has established its first partnership with a university yesterday with the signing of a two-year MoU with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT)...
