Wyndham Garden gets planted in Phu Quoc
Vietnam's southernmost island will welcome the Wyndham Garden Phu Quoc come 2020, adding to Wyndham Hotel Group's growing portfolio in the country, which includes...
Event: George Town Literary Festival
Penang's George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) will return for the seventh edition this year from November 24-26 with the theme Monsters & (Im)Mortals.
The three-day...
New online platform for Destination Asia partner agents
Destination Asia has launched Agent Hub, a password-protected online platform partner that agents can use to access up-to-date itineraries, sales tools, training presentations and...
Wyndham to spin off hotel business
Wyndham Worldwide, which operate brands such as Travelodge, Ramada and Days Inn, has announced plans to spin off its hotel business and combine its...
Work underway to alleviate Kyoto’s ‘tourism pollution’
Tourism officials in Kyoto are implementing initiatives to address complaints about tourist overcrowding, termed by local media as “pollution by tourism”.
Over 56.8 million tourists...
Ascott breathes lyf into Singapore’s Funan with US$125m investment
The Ascott has announced a S$170.3 million (US$125 million) investment to develop the Singapore flagship of its co-living, millennial targeted concept, lyf, scheduled for...
Hilton goes into Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste is set to get its first internationally branded hotel with Hilton’s signing of Hilton Dili Palm Springs with Jackson Lay, CEO of The...
ITB Asia 2017 scores partnership with Korea Tourism Organization
For ITB Asia 2017, Messe Berlin (Singapore) has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Korea Tourism Organization of Singapore (KTO), an agreement that...
Roxy-Pacific buys second hotel asset in Japan
Singapore-based Roxy-Pacific Holdings has acquired its second hotel asset in Japan, Tenmabashi Grand Hotel Osaka, for three billion yen (US$27.2 million).
Upon completion of the...
Davidson returns to Alila, now GM of Solo property
Alila Solo has appointed Alasdair Davidson as the hotel’s new general manager.
Davidson previously held senior executive positions at Alila Maldives and Alila Diwa Goa,...
