Asiatraveltips.com, 23 May 2008
Youth Travel represents around 20% of all international arrivals and is one of the tourism industry’s fastest growing sectors. The average expenditure per trip has increased by 40% among young travellers. As a result, 80% of them return home more tolerant and respectful of other cultures. These are some of the […]
TTGasia.com, May 9 – 15, 2008
Mass market tour operators attending last week’s PATA CEO Challenge – an event focused on confronting climate change – believe sustainability will be a key differentiator in the competition for customers in the future, with TUI Travel PLC even starting to hire a “sustainable product manager” to “really up […]
Forimmediaterelease.net, April 29, 2008
Only a few hotels, airlines, and tour operators in Asia have fully embraced major carbon reduction goals. Those that have are using advanced green audit techniques that allow them to set ambitious carbon reduction targets – and prove they’ve been achieved.
Asia’s carbon-neutral pioneers say this is already bringing them credibility in […]
Asiatraveltips.com, 18 April 2008
Rising fuel costs and aviation taxes, fluctuating exchange rates, the continuing threat posed by terrorism in various parts of the world, and natural disasters: despite all these difficult background conditions there has still been substantial growth on the world travel market.
The World Travel Trends Report 2008, reveals that 2007 saw a […]
Bloomberg, April 14 2008
The chart of the day looks at how exchange rates may affect tourism in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. It shows monthly changes in foreign visitors in each nation since January 2007. During that period, the rupiah was one of just two currencies to weaken against the U.S. dollar in Asia, […]
E travelblackboardasia.com, 11 April 2008
The PATA Annual Meeting session “Human Capital Challenge – It’s Time to Invest”, in Colombo was attended by more than 150 PATA members, local industry stakeholders and media on Monday morning (April 7). The meeting was held to discuss and share ideas in regards to employment and investing in Human […]
Carin Rustema is lecturer reasearch for the master in Tourism Destination Management course conducted at NHTV, Breda University of Applied Science. Every now and then she writes about the her view on the master course here on this weblog. If you want to know more about this master course, take a look at the […]
(eTN) Mar 07, 2008
With the announcement by Samak Sundaravej, incoming Thai prime minister who is planning to legalize gambling and build five casinos for domestic and foreign holidaymakers in the country’s tourist belts of Phuket, Pattaya, Khon Kaen, Hat Yai and Chiang Mai, the Far East has now entrenched itself as the world’s […]
Forimmediaterelease.net, March 6, 2008
International tourist arrivals exceeded 6% growth in 2007 on the back of strong global economic growth. Developing countries grew by 8%.
These figures again underscore UNWTO’s long held view that sustainable tourism can play a major role in helping to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals, in two way world services trade […]
eTN, Mar 03, 2008
The marina and cruise ship industry in The Bahamas would not be in jeopardy should the economic embargo the United States has on Cuba be lifted, Bahamas Port Authority Controller Captain Anthony Allens predicted recently.
In an interview with The Bahama Journal, Mr. Allens said that although Cuba has changed leadership […]
