Catalysing growth beyond Bali
Infrastructure development and investment have to go hand in hand in order for Indonesia’s ‘10 New Balis’ to take off. TTG Asia looks at the tourism progress in a few emerging destinations.
Not your usual .coms
These innovative start-ups are revolutionising the travel research and booking process, moving away from conventional OTA models. Linda Haden and Divya Kaul speak to...
Keeping a watchful eye
Austerity measures continue to bite the corporate travel market, which has become more prudent in spending and is driving a harder bargain in the...
Growing access opens Pandora’s box
Improved accessibility has brought greater visibility to Vietnam’s central coast alongside other issues.
An increase in international flights into Danang is allowing Vietnam’s central coast...
Securing the unchained
Independent properties such as boutique hotels are gaining favour with travellers, and GDSs are leveraging this trend
GDSs are fine-tuning their hotel content towards a...
Serviced residences: where the bright spots are
As the momentum of business investment and infrastructure development shifts beyond traditional economic centres in Asia-Pacific, serviced residence operators are seeing opportunities in new...
Rouble trouble
Hit by plummeting oil prices and economic sanctions imposed by the West, Russia’s currency turmoil is roiling the region’s tourism industry too
Russia’s political and...
A force for good
In response to travellers’ growing determination to travel responsibly, tourism players are making sustainable, guilt-free options more identifiable and accessible, discovers Karen Yue
ASEAN cruising finds sea legs
Cruise operators are embracing South-east Asia as a market as well as a destination but are travellers from around the region reciprocating their affections?
Sea-based...
What Marriott-Starwood merger means for hotel owners
Ensuring that hotel owners will not lose out in this merger is the challenge that the new hotel giant will have to face, Tasos...
