Booking trends for first-time cruisers
While first-time cruisers respond well to upselling by agents when it comes to cabin types, they seem to be more less willing to put...
Tourism supports one in five jobs created in 2017
One in five of all new jobs created globally in 2017 are attributable to travel and tourism, according to new research from the World...
Mobile payment gains momentum for China’s tech-savvy travellers
As travel expenditure of Chinese tourists pick up, so too have mobile payments, with a recent survey showing 65 per cent of Chinese tourists...
Japan, Taiwan close in on Singapore as top non-OIC destinations for...
Japan and Taiwan have raced into the top five in a ranking of non-Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) destinations in Asia for Muslim travellers,...
Europe to benefit from increase in Chinese airlift
Europe is expected to welcome more Chinese travellers on the back of increased flight capacity from China, the latest figures from ForwardKeys showed.
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Why Thailand’s 10 million travellers could be ‘the next big thing’...
While outbound travel from Thailand is set to hit 10 million this year, some destinations are still lagging in marketing efforts and visa policies...
Four travel tech trends to watch in 2018: Expedia
It is not enough to keep up with the digital expectations of today's tech-savvy consumers, Expedia says. Exceeding these expectations is a "travel industry...
Chinese New Year travel bookings up 11 per cent: ForwardKeys
Asia-Pacific looks set to be the biggest beneficiary from the greater numbers of Chinese travelling abroad during the Lunar New Year, according to ForwardKeys.
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Top hotel booking channels for Thailand in 2017
Research by global hotel cloud platform SiteMinder has unveiled that the top 15 booking channels that generated the highest revenue for Thailand hotels in...
South Korea’s tourism woes to persist beyond Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics taking place in Pyeongchang from February 9 to 25 is unlikely to fix South Korea's tourism troubles, providing only a...
