Thailand’s diversification campaign brings steady growth momentum: Expedia
Visitors to Thailand are seeking more diversified experiences and venturing into secondary destinations, offering hoteliers opportunities to target inbound visitors through a market segmentation...
Interest in greener stays on the rise: Booking.com
More travellers are seeking out greener stays while showing a willingness to pay more to ensure they are travelling sustainably, according to recent findings...
Hong Kong most expensive in APAC for business travel
Hong Kong is now the most expensive location for business travellers, having overtaken Tokyo which drops to second spot, revealed the latest Daily Rates...
Agents face biggest struggle to convert browsing to booking
As high as 92 per cent of all bookings in Asia-Pacific are abandoned at checkout, with travel agents in the region facing the biggest...
Japan, Taiwan close in on Singapore as top non-OIC destinations for...
Japan and Taiwan have raced into the top five in a ranking of non-Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) destinations in Asia for Muslim travellers,...
Booking trends for first-time cruisers
While first-time cruisers respond well to upselling by agents when it comes to cabin types, they seem to be more less willing to put...
Tourism supports one in five jobs created in 2017
One in five of all new jobs created globally in 2017 are attributable to travel and tourism, according to new research from the World...
Mobile payment gains momentum for China’s tech-savvy travellers
As travel expenditure of Chinese tourists pick up, so too have mobile payments, with a recent survey showing 65 per cent of Chinese tourists...
Europe to benefit from increase in Chinese airlift
Europe is expected to welcome more Chinese travellers on the back of increased flight capacity from China, the latest figures from ForwardKeys showed.
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Why Thailand’s 10 million travellers could be ‘the next big thing’...
While outbound travel from Thailand is set to hit 10 million this year, some destinations are still lagging in marketing efforts and visa policies...
