Yearly Archives: 2016

Battambang's bamboo train A BID to add three emerging tourist destinations in Cambodia to the UNESCO World Heritage list has been welcomed by tour agents. Detailed...

Geoffrey Kent, founder of Abercrombie & Kent CHINA’s Zhonghong Group has agreed to purchase a majority of the equity in luxury travel agency Abercrombie & Kent...

WITH global GDP generated by aviation forecasted to more than double in the next 20 years, aviation industry players are calling on policymakers to...

TRAVEL metasearch engine Kayak has unveiled a search function for activities across multiple regions, aggregating tours from providers GetYourGuide and Viator. Under the new ‘Activities’...

SKYSCANNER has combined functions from its standalone hotels and car hire mobile apps into its existing flight app. This saves users the additional step of...

Seven-year-old male manatee, Kai (pictured), was chosen to make the trip to Guadeloupe – an archipelago of islands in the Caribbean Sea – along...

NORTH Korea has allegedly started printing counterfeit US$100 bank notes and is passing them off to travellers and in business transactions, according to media...

HOTEL businesses in Asia can now gain access to accommodations revenue management tool OTA Insight, after Fastbooking, part of AccorHotels, signed an agreement to...

WITH WeChat so widely used in the Chinese market, the Orchard Road Business Association (Orba) is hoping to entice more travellers from China to...

MALAYSIA is set to relax restrictive visa regulations for Sri Lankan visitors in hopes to reverse a drop in arrivals from the South Asian...