Yearly Archives: 2020
Finnair, Sabre renew relationship
Finnair has renewed a distribution agreement with Sabre Corporation, enabling the airline to continue promoting its products and services to travel agents, OTAs and...
Indonesia mulls “travel bubble” with APAC quartet
Indonesia is drawing up plans for a "travel bubble" with four Asia-Pacific countries – China, Japan, South Korea, and Australia – in a bid...
Korean LCCs frustrated with short end of govt financial support
Major restructuring work among South Korea’s low-cost carriers seems an inevitable possibility as the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has decided against additional...
Continued lockdown dampens Philippines’ bid to revive tourism
Philippines' hopes to jumpstart domestic tourism have been set back as the government reverts Cebu City back to enhanced general quarantine (ECQ), and extends...
Preferred Hotel Group acquires Beyond Green Travel
Preferred Hotel Group – which manages global travel and hospitality brands including Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Historic Hotels Worldwide, and PHG Consulting – has...
All incoming travellers to S’pore subject to Covid tests
Singapore will begin phase two of its reopening plans on June 19, allowing retail businesses to reopen their physical outlets, while dining in at...
Phuket hotels get Covid-ready
The Phuket Hotels Association (PHA) has partnered Hotel Resilient, a certification body on disaster risk management, to launch the COVID-READY Certification scheme, designed to...
Vietjet adds five new domestic routes
Thailand's Vietjet has expanded its domestic network, adding five new direct flights from the capital Bangkok to Hat Yai, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Si Thammarat,...
Ready for a reset
Indonesia is raring to bring tourism back to life, but in patient and calculated steps that take in new considerations around health, safety and traveller needs
Unchartered waters
A landmark integrated project that opened last September has altered the Maldivian tourism landscape, but Feizal Samath notes that the pandemic has put a freeze on potential growth
