2016 Articles Archive

The latest hotel openings and announcements made this week InterContinental Shanghai NECC InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has opened the 536-room InterContinental Shanghai NECC in Shanghai’s Hongqiao...

Holly Richter A NEW adventure tour operator helmed by industry veterans is set to launch by the end of this year. Rove, co-founded by Holly Richter...

Credit: 2015 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix WHILE last year’s Singapore Grand Prix saw a blanket of haze overshadow the event, this year, gloom is...

AS Royal Caribbean International’s Singapore season approaches, the cruise line has unveiled a contest to reward top selling agents. For the first 30 bookings made...

A premier room in Dorsett Wanchai Hong Kong DORSETT Hospitality International has appointed Hotels & Resorts Representative Service (HRS) as its GSA for the South...

HUMANOID robots with speech capabilities have been deployed at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport to act as mobile information providers. Built by Hitachi, the EMIEW3 robots...

Passenger boats from Lombok to Gili Trawangan TWO passengers were killed and 20 others injured when a boat carrying international travellers exploded at Padangbai, Bali...

In marketing to the Muslim traveler, companies should be mindful of the differences between Islamic travel markets. Travels motivated by spiritual reasons – such...

Hasiyanna Ashadi GROWING interest from Indonesian tourism stakeholders to attract domestic travellers have prompted the Association of the Indonesian Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) Jakarta...

Tourists in the Sultanahmet Park, near Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey LONGHAUL bookings into Europe have steadily declined throughout 2016 as travellers avoid the region...