The family striker
In Asia, many hotel owners are starting to transfer the authority to their sons and daughters. How will younger-generation hotel owners in the region...
Better partners now
Believe it or not, airlines still love travel agencies. That, in a nutshell, is what Conrad Clifford, who replaced retired Maunu von Lueders as...
More ammo post-IPO
Gordon Wilson, CEO, Travelport, is bent on providing travel agency customers worldwide with the broadest possible travel content - and he's got more ammunition after the IPO last September. He talks to Raini Hamdi
Kuoni’s sale logic
Kuoni Travel Holding CEO, Peter Meier, tells Raini Hamdi that ‘focus’ is the key to triumph in a fast-changing environment, which is why the group is lopping off its tour operating division and concentrating on two other core divisions
Smooth succession
Laurent Kuenzle fills the big shoes of Luzi Matzig as the new CEO of Asian Trails Group. But apart from the new title, nothing has...
Going beyond growing pains
Thailand’s minister of tourism & sports Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul tells Xinyi Liang-Pholsena why creating sustainable inclusive growth in tourism remains an enduring aim and challenge
What’s...
Rocking and rolling in Asia
A Hard Rock hotel has just opened in Goa and the brand will also debut in China in Shenzhen, followed by Haikou. It’s rock-and-roll in Asia for EVP and chief development officer-hotels Marco Roca, who speaks to Raini Hamdi.
Fresh thinking
At only 26, Chris Gothong, owner and general manager, Best Western Sand Bar Resort, Cebu, Philippines is blazing a path in hotels for a...
It’s chow time
Lucas Chow never bites off more than he can chew. The group CEO and MD of Far East Orchard Singapore tells Raini Hamdi how...
View from the top: Leong Wy Joon (Berjaya Land and Berjaya...
Born with an artistic flair and trained in accountancy, Leong tells Karen Yue that he has never thought of becoming a hotelier. Yet, his...
















