Bangkok state of emergency impacts Lunar New Year bookings
FOLLOWING the declaration of a state of emergency in Bangkok earlier this week, Asian travellers are cancelling or diverting their Thailand trips over the...
TAT invites longhaul markets to Experience Thainess
THE Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is hoping its recent win at FITUR 2014 for a village stay initiative will inspire more southern Europeans...
Euromic on international membership recruitment drive
TRAVEL specialist association Euromic plans to aggressively expand its membership beyond Europe and will attend IT&CM Asia later this year as part of its...
South Africa hunts for more Indian traffic
SOUTH African Tourism yesterday wrapped up a four-city roadshow in India in its latest and biggest travel trade engagement exercise in the country so...
Cost-cutting clients back out of DMC proposals
DMCs are facing increasing pressure from clients who request tour and incentives proposals only to go direct to suppliers in a bid to cut...
IHG to launch InterContinental hotel in Bandung
INTERCONTINENTAL Hotels Group (IHG) will open the InterContinental Bandung Dago Pakar later this year in Indonesia's third largest city.
Located in the Dago Pakar development...
Limited accessibility impair Spain’s appeal for Asian tourists
THE Spanish minister of industry, energy and tourism has urged airlines to set up more direct links between Spain and growing markets in Asia...
JAL scales up international connections to Haneda
JAPAN Airlines (JAL) is shifting a number of flight operations to Tokyo’s Haneda airport and will commence a new Tokyo (Haneda)-Ho Chi Minh City...
Bill Barnett releases new book It Might Get Weird
Cover of It Might Get Weird by Bill Barnett
FOUNDER and managing director of hospitality and consulting firm C9 Hotelworks, Bill Barnett, has released a book...
PAL to launch flights to Paris
THE Philippines and France have hammered out a new air service agreement that will see the return of Philippine Airlines' (PAL) daily flights to...
