Ascott creates Chinese JV to accelerate expansion through ‘manachising’
Ascott is targeting to triple its Citadines room inventory by 2025 through a joint venture with Chinese hotel operator Huazhu Hotels Group and CJIA...
Swiss-Belhotel Karimun to launch in Riau Islands in 2019
Swiss-Belhotel International is expanding to Karimun, an emerging industrial and tourism region in Indonesia's Riau Islands.
Due to open in 2019, Swiss-Belhotel Karimun, Riau Islands...
Aviation roundup: Ukraine International, Thai AirAsia and more
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New Philippine tourism secretary named as Wanda Tulfo Teo resigns
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has appointed agriculture undersecretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat as new tourism secretary, replacing Wanda Tulfo Teo who has resigned amid a tourism...
Indonesia casts lures to attract ASEAN weekend visitors to Jakarta
Following the success of the Batam-Bintan promotion last year, Indonesia is set to offer Jakarta Weekend Hot Deal as part of Visit Wonderful Indonesia's...
Aitken Spence to plant first overseas Heritance in the Maldives
Sri Lanka's Aitken Spence Hotels is set to launch its first Heritance property overseas with the introduction of Heritance Aarah in winter 2018.
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HKTB intensifies courtship of Muslim travellers
The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has entered into a one-year partnership with online travel platform Have Halal, Will Travel (HHWT) to produce content...
Massive Lagoi Bay IR to bring ‘skyrise development’ to Bintan
The Haven Lagoi Bay Bintan – a S$1.4 billion (US$1 billion) integrated resort comprising a hotel, condominiums, a convention centre and other facilities –...
Malaysia sees signs of European comeback
After five years of continuous year-on-year decline from European inbound markets to Malaysia, the country saw an increase in January and February 2018 over...
Hong Kong’s mega SkyCity rides Greater Bay Area connectivity
As grand plans to develop Greater China's Greater Bay Area get afoot, New World Development has been awarded the tender for SkyCity, a HK$20...
