M’sian hoteliers observe disparities between arrivals and occupancies in 1Q
The Malaysian Association of Hotels' (MAH) statistics on 1Q hotel occupancy showed a slight drop to 64.2 per cent, compared with 65.7 per cent...
NASA opens space station for commercial business and private astronauts
NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business, which it hopes will open the gates to American innovation in the low-Earth orbit...
Wyndham to bring Ramada to South Australia
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts' Ramada brand will make its South Australia debut with the signing of Ramada by Wyndham Playford, a new property planned...
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...
