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Adventure tourism is a valuable forte for destinations to develop, asserts Hannah Pearson, Adventure Travel Trade Association’s regional director for Asia, as it is a multi-billion dollar segment that keeps most of the earnings within the local community and demands a sustainable approach to development

He became president of Japan National Tourism Organization just after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 and led Japan to become a top hit among Asians today. Ryoichi Matsuyama is far from finished, Raini Hamdi discovers

With its heavy presence in China, Swire Hotels found itself in a tight spot of navigating the evolving crisis as an independent luxury brand. Managing director Dean Winter dives into the critical roles of teamwork and flexibility in ensuring survival.

With 2023 inventory almost sold out, all future cruise credits utilised, and more than half of its Asia-Pacific customer population being new-to-brand, Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ senior vice president and managing director Asia Pacific, Steve Odell says the luxury brand is ready for a brilliant new year

Gordon Wilson, CEO, Travelport, is bent on providing travel agency customers worldwide with the broadest possible travel content - and he's got more ammunition after the IPO last September. He talks to Raini Hamdi

Intergovernmental collaboration on restoring travel freedom, consistency in border reopening strategy and science-based approach to safe travel measures can help speed Asia-Pacific towards air travel recovery, identifies Subhas Menon, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines

Andamanda Phuket's soft-launch on May 21 signals new beginnings for the destination's Kuthu district and an opportunity for Phuket to bring in valuable tourists, shares Proudputh Liptapanlop, executive director of owner Proud Group

Cruise demand is growing day by day, and customers are returning with a bigger appetite for immersive experiences over longer duration, observes Eamonn Ferrin, vice president for international business, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL)

Anthony Wong, founder and operator of Cottage by the Sea by Frangipani Langkawi, is a pioneer in the sustainable travel and hospitality industry in Malaysia and has ambitions to turn his resort into a carbon negative property by 2030

Hoshino Resorts’s CEO Yoshiharu Hoshino has been named Master Entrepreneur of the Year by EY, recognised for demonstrating exemplary entrepreneurial spirit and business strategy while being founder of a company with global influence. He shares plans for the company’s future growth and reasons for why the brand is thriving