New lifestyle in making
Lifestyle hotel brands are an emerging trend in Asia’s hospitality sector, as hospitality operators big and small and even players from outside the field roll out new brands to accommodate the changing preferences of millennials and Gen Z.
Year-end Special: TTG Asia’s hottest stories of the year
What kept you glued to us? Here are a few of our most viewed, most read stories on www.ttgasia.com and TTG Asia social media this year
Women hold up half the corporate sky
While female participation and leadership in the Chinese workplace is comparatively higher than its Western counterparts, Ctrip's CEO Jane Sun thinks more could still be done for women to totally smash the 'glass ceiling'.
Seeking out wellness in China
China is making great efforts to develop health and wellness tourism, leveraging its traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts specialities
Partnerships for a healthier sector
The medical tourism sector is proving to be good business therapy for hotels located in the vicinity of major hospitals in Asia.
Small towns, big dreams
FITs and small groups are the target of bureaux hailing from lesser-known destinations in Japan.
The changing face of OTA-hotel relationships
Hotels and OTAs need each other, but the scales of their symbiotic relationship often appear tilted in favour of OTAs in the latter’s aggressive growth path in the past decade. As hotels big and small now seek to assert greater control of their distribution channels and commission structures, how will their love-hate relationship with OTAs evolve in the next phase?
Travel buyer beware
With the agency space largely unregulated, fly-by-night outfits in the Philippines have been able to run riot.
Will direct cruise bookings replace agents?
The answer is no, at least not in the foreseeable future. Here’s why cruise is still seen as the domain of travel agents and one of the last bastions of commission income for them
Catching up on the digital
Singapore’s travel agency sector gets an upgrade, thanks to more stringent regulations and a slew of
initiatives aiding in the transformation of members into stronger players.