Meet Frozen Lime Asia, a young hospitality services outsourcee
Singapore-based Frozen Lime Asia is touting its one-stop, outsourced services that synergise revenue, distribution and sales & marketing functions for Asia’s tourism and hospitality...
Revised IATA rules bring some relief to Philippine agents
IATA will no longer mandate all its 242 accredited Philippine agencies to use credit cards for BSP payment transactions, to the relief of agencies...
MakeMyTrip courts budget travellers
Having set its sights on budget travellers from India, MakeMyTrip is expanding its product line – currently comprising four- and five-star hotel accommodation in...
Ambitious aviation think tank set for launch
Emirates and a consortium of industry partners will collaborate on the world’s first sector-wide ideation lab of its kind, Experimental Lab (X-Lab) at Area...
Pop culture pilgrimage, mates escape on the up: Booking.com
Booking.com has released eight travel trend predictions for 2018, among which are an increase in pop culture-inspired travel and friends-based getaways.
According to booking.com, television shows, films, sport and...
Switzerland offers expert certs, fam trips for agents
Agents can now register for online classes and be certified by Switzerland Tourism as Switzerland Travel Experts.
Existing Switzerland Specialists, i.e. those certified before April...
World’s longest scheduled US flight takes off
United Airlines yesterday launched the world’s longest scheduled nonstop flight to or from the US, and first direct Singapore-Los Angeles flight.
Flight UA 38 will...
First person: To feed or not to feed
Rosa Ocampo takes a closer look at the fishy whale shark practice in Oslob, and is adamant that something has to be done about the ecological imabalance
Tours sector hots up in Asia
The online tours and activities segment hots up in Asia with Hong Kong’s Klook completing near US$60 million in Series C funding, the largest...
TAT shows off the many facets of Thailand
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has soft-launched at ITB Asia 2017 a new marketing concept which focuses on new source markets, new traveller...
