2011 Articles Archive

THE INDONESIAN government has given the green light for a second airport to be built on Bintan island, to be located within the Lagoi...

HURT by weeks of unrest, an 80 per cent drop in arrivals and some US$1.5 million lost in tourism revenue, Egypt now wants to...

THE LAO Tourism Marketing Board (LTMB), established last July in a partnership between the Lao National Tourism Administration (LNTA) and the private sector (TTG...

TRAVEL Mart India and its UK-based technology partner El Media launched last week Vamoose.in, a new e-commerce portal that offers discounted group deals on...

MӦVENPICK Hotels & Resorts will mark 2011 with four openings in India, Singapore and Thailand. These account for roughly a third of all launches...

VISITOR numbers from South and South-east Asia to Australia hit new highs last year, with Singapore arrivals surpassing 300,000 for the first time. Arrivals...

IATA has called on the Japanese government to establish pro-aviation policies such as more open skies agreements and measures to raise cost-competitiveness at airports....

MALAYSIAN agents are eyeing Turkey as a replacement market for the Middle East, now that the Malaysian and Turkish governments have agreed to waive...

PANORAMA Convex Indah is pouring more resources into its Bali branch office to tap MICE business, as new venues are being developed on the...

NINETY-four per cent of leisure travel agents surveyed in an ASTA study expect to be profitable this year. ASTA president and chair Chris Russo...