Asia/Singapore Wednesday, 5th November 2025

APAC key driver for Christmas booking surge to Europe

Helsinki is the top European destination for longhaul visitors this Christmas, with 29.6% growth in flight bookings over the period December 15, 2019 to...

Geopolitical shifts, climate change among top travel risks for 2020, says...

Heightened security threats, civil unrest and geopolitical instability will be the top disruptors to the mobile workforce in 2020, according to an International SOS...

Bali tops expanding villa rental market in APAC

The overall villa rental market in the Asia-Pacific region grew by 12% in the past two years, reaching a value of US$440 million, with...

Intra-Asia travel remains dominant force in region, shows PATA study

Asia continued to dominate the supply of international visitor arrival numbers (IVAs) into Asia-Pacific in 2018, generating close to 63% of the 696.5 million...

Digitalisation key to connecting with Chinese luxury travellers

Reuter: Intelligence, in partnership with ILTM China, has released a new study looking at how travel and hospitality brands can master WeChat, build up...

Tourism industry more resilient than ever to crises: WTTC

The travel and tourism sector is more resilient than ever, with average recovery times having decreased from 26 months in 2001 to 10 months...

APAC reigns over global duty free and travel retail market

The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a major driver of global duty free and travel retail sales, growing at an estimated 8.7% annually...

APAC’s physical activity market shows active growth

Asia-Pacific is now the number two physical activity market, valued at US$240 billion annually, or roughly 30 per cent of the global market, according...

Personalisation, sustainability demands on the rise for APAC travellers: Sabre

A rising tide of group travel for retirees, eco-conscious movement and thirst for customisation are some of the key traveller trends that Sabre has...

August global air traffic rise on uptick in demand: IATA

Demand in global passenger traffic data for August 2019 (measured in total revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs) climbed 3.8% compared to the year-ago period,...