Sri Lanka’s marketing campaign takes off to arrest tourist slump
Tourist arrivals plummeted 70 per cent last month, owing to lack of travel confidence after the Easter Sunday bombings, but Sri Lanka’s travel industry...
Social enterprise rolls out edutainment programmes against child exploitation in tourism
Cambodia-based social enterprise Friends International (FI) has unveiled a swathe of new products as part of its recently-launched ChildSafe Academy, including an escape room,...
Oyo grows distribution through RateGain partnership
Oyo Hotels & Homes has gained access to RezGain, RateGain's distribution platform, making the Oyo inventory available on over 700 OTAs across more than...
Accor to bring first MGallery to South Korea
Accor Ambassador Korea, a joint venture between Accor and Ambassador Hotel Group, will launch the first MGallery hotel in partnership with Pungnong to expand...
Thailand hotels look to India to fill gap amid plummeting Chinese...
China might have been a darling source market for Thailand in the last couple of years, but if last year’s Phuket boat tragedy has...
Minor Hotels to hit the tracks in central Vietnam
Minor Hotels has bought a train carriage from the Vietnamese state-owned railway, with which it hopes to reimagine transportation between two Anantara resorts in...
Birdwatchers flock to Philippines’ Cagayan for grey-faced buzzard
Birdwatching is the new tourism product of Cagayan in northern Philippines, thanks to the interest elicited by grey-faced buzzards that migrate from Japan to...
ILTM grows into title of premier luxury travel show in APAC
Staking its claim as the premier B2B luxury travel event in the region, ILTM Asia Pacific last week returned to Singapore “100 per cent...
Alipay tie-up with Splyt allows Chinese travellers to book rides in-app
Alipay has entered its first deal to integrate mobility solutions, partnering UK mobility startup, Splyt Technologies, to give Chinese travellers in-app access to a...
Sabre and Infini sign new Japan distribution agreement
Infini has been appointed the official distributor of the Sabre Global Distribution System (GDS) in Japan.
The Tokyo-headquartered ticketing and reservation system will now market...
