TTGasia.com, Jul 4 – 10, 2008
For travel suppliers – especially hotel developers caught up in what can only be described as an arms race to ramp up the deluxe quotient of their properties – a new report by Merrill Lynch and consulting firm Capgemini Group should make encouraging reading. According to the report, the […]
Asiatraveltips.com, 26 June 2008
With international travellers projected to almost double by 2020, the most significant increases are expected to take place in markets like China, India and destinations in South-East Asia. The Gulf States and emerging Eastern Europe complete this picture, followed by the Latin American and finally African markets. Many of these […]
eTN, Jun 16, 2008
This coordination level accelerated recently when the chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and the president of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) had the foresight to call an emergency meeting in Antigua for ministers and commissioners responsible for tourism, ministers and commissioners responsible for aviation, and members of the […]
eTN, May 20, 2008
The $2-billion online travel industry is getting crowded. After various travel portals trying to woo holiday makers to book on their website, it’s user review websites such as HolidayIQ and Trippundit that are mushrooming. These sites don’t sell holiday packages or tickets but tell you more about holiday destinations-what to […]
eTN, Apr 20, 2008
International travel is no longer the exclusive province of the rich. Over the next several decades, hundreds of millions of new entrants to the middle class will want not only the things – but also the experiences – that money can buy. Indian call centre employees, Russian engineers, Chinese middle managers […]
eTN, 16 June 2008
A recent report commissioned by Amadeus also showed that growing global migration would fuel thirst for international travel. Many migrants remain strongly connected to their country of origin with many reasons to return, such as visiting family and friends, the report said. The last five decades have also seen tourism emerge […]
Vietnam net bridge, 12-6-2008
The region is envisaged needing around VND411 trillion in 2006-2010, VND608 trillion in 2011-2015, and VND1,314 trillion in 2016-2020. Its GDP will reach around 12.5% in 2006-2010, and 12.9-13% in 2011-2020. Priority will go to developing high quality tourism services and products to make the region a high-class sea tourism services […]
eTN, Jun 06, 2008
BANGKOK (eTN) – The Thailand Travel Mart expanded this year to include countries located within the IMT-GT (Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Growth Triangle). This entity includes, since 1993, in a very loose relation, Southern Thailand (from Phuket to Narathiwat and Yala), Half of Peninsular Malaysia and the entire island of Sumatra. By […]
bangkokpost.com, 2008
Thailand’s potential as a world-leading tourism centre appears increasingly assured as it ramps up its destination offerings by adding numerous locations to the tried and tested roster of Bangkok, Phuket, Koh Samui and Chiang Mai.
The cultural and geographic variety of Thailand is an advantage that the private and public sectors are beginning to […]
Bangkok post, May 31 2008
Asia, which is supposed to be driving the global economy forward, and whose demand is being cited as the reason for the unabated rise in oil prices, is likely to be a victim of its own success as brokers say oil prices are set to take a toll on the region’s economies. […]
