FACET (Forestry Area Conservation Ecological Tourism), provider of sustainable tourism services, will open an ecotourism attraction early next year in Oudomxay Province, Northwest of Lao PDR. The province is easily to be reached from Chiang [Read More…]
When technology and environment can become an object of desire for travellers. In the province of Ilocos Norte, near Vigan, a UNESCO world heritage city, tourists are flowing along the beaches of Pagudpud near Burgos [Read More…]
Since September 2015 the islands of Borneo and Sumatra have been burning due mostly to palm trees plantation companies. Millions of hectares of rainforest and peat forests have burned away or are still on fire. [Read More…]
Is the Water Festival these days cursed in Cambodia? Since the tragic accident which occured during Phnom Penh festival in 2010, most of the following traditional celebrations have been cancelled. The accident in 2010 was [Read More…]
Persistent haze over more than two months due to forest fires in Sumatra and in Indonesian Borneo are not only disrupting travel and tourism in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore but are also affecting the [Read More…]
Typhoon Lando (Typhoon Koppu as it is internationally known) is the second most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines in 2015, according to weather scientists. Pouring rains and winds blowing by up to 210km/h were [Read More…]
Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo said on Thursday (Oct 8) he had asked Singapore, Russia, Malaysia and Japan for help to put out fires that have sent choking smoke drifting across the region for weeks. Indonesia [Read More…]
Tourists certainly experienced it: English proficiency in Malaysia -once a British colony- is dropping rapidly due to the push for Malay-speaking teaching in schools for the last 30 years. The consequence is that less and [Read More…]
The world increasingly knows that global warming across the planet has devastating consequences for the mankind by multiplying natural catastrophes. Southeast Asia is particularly vulnerable to flooding and pouring rains in Myanmar is a reminder [Read More…]
Legazpi plays host for the PATA New Tourism Frontiers Forum 2015 next November. The destination has been selected for its best environment practices. The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) organises the newly re-branded PATA New [Read More…]
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