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Asia/Singapore Tuesday, 15th September 2026

Singapore tourism sector draws up battle plan for “long winter” ahead

Nine months into the Covid crisis, which has rewritten the playbook for Singapore’s tourism industry, local players have proven their agility in adapting to a new reality. In this changed landscape, brands have had to seek out new growth opportunities, retune their business plans, unlearn old habits and adopt new ones.

Double Covid testing, travel insurance among Crystal Cruises’ new protocols

Crystal Cruises has expanded the set of health and safety measures for its Crystal Clean+ protocols to include Covid-19 testing for all guests and...

Skyscanner monitors flight demand in real-time

Skyscanner has launched Travel Insight Vision, a business intelligence tool which analyses traveller behaviour by capturing flight search and intent data in order to...

Silversea enriches online training courses

Silversea Cruises has enhanced its digital training platform Silversea Academy to now offer 18 training modules, and has made it available to travel agents...

Rise in early and cautious bookers

Holiday bookings for the year-end are streaming in earlier than expected for some Asian hoteliers, as consumers look to confirm domestic vacations and staycations as stand-ins for their usual Christmas and New Year’s Day trips amid continuing international travel suppression.

STA Travel shuts down

Tour agency STA Travel, which has three retail outlets in different universities across Singapore, has ceased operations, after its parent company in Switzerland filed...

Marching on with marketing amid Covid-19

With hopes pinned on domestic tourism to lead the travel rebound, industry stakeholders need to sharpen their understanding of the local market and retune...

Malaysia aims to resume leisure travel with neighbours by 1Q2021

Tourism Malaysia is hopeful that cross-border tourism for leisure will reopen in stages sometime in the first quarter of 2021. Its director-general, Musa Yusof, said...

Tokyo to be added to Japan’s Go To Travel campaign

Tourism suppliers in Tokyo are brimming with optimism that the upcoming addition of the capital city to Japan’s Go To Travel domestic travel campaign...

Sabre names new president hospitality solutions

Sabre Corporation has welcomed Scott Wilson as president of Sabre Hospitality Solutions. Wilson joins Sabre from Great Wolf Resorts where he served as its chief...