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Staff exodus weakens Sri Lanka’s hotel industry recovery potential

A combination of poor local economic performance in Sri Lanka and the lure of better paying jobs elsewhere has forced skilled hospitality staff to...

Japan leverages on AI to ease communication hurdles

Japan’s travel industry is looking to language processing tools and other artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies to support communication with international travellers in the face...

Louvre Hotels to expand across Indonesia

Louvre Hotels Group (LHG) is set to grow its presence across Indonesia with a target to have double the number of hotel properties in...

Philippine’s Hotel 101 goes global

Philippine hotel owner and management company, Hotel 101 Group, gains a global foothold with investments in new hotels to be built in Japan, Spain...

Mountain tourism in Indonesia reaches new heights

Mountain tourism in Indonesia has shown advancement in demand post-lockdown, observe Indonesian industry players. Speaking at the Indonesia Mountain Tourism Conference in Jakarta recently, Vicky...

UNWTO pledges to develop lesser-known destinations with new initiative

The UNWTO has formally adopted its Tourism Opens Minds initiative at its 25th General Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on October 20. Designed to help develop...

TAT signs LOI with eight major Chinese tourism partners

Thailand’s prime minister Srettha Thavisin presided over the signing ceremony of a letter of intent (LOI) between the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and...

CEO change imminent at Kempinski

Kempinski CEO Bernold Schroeder, who led the independent luxury hotel chain through one of its most challenging periods, is understood to be leaving the...