New research from Agoda, one of the world’s fastest growing online travel agents (OTAs), has revealed seven out of 10 families globally take at least two family vacations a year, with Asian travellers taking more [Read More…]
Indonesia start-up Go-Jek, one of ASEAN leading ride-hailing company is “extremely close” to achieving profitability in all its segments, except transportation, its founder and chief executive, Nadiem Makarim, declared to news agency Reuters. Launched in [Read More…]
ITB Asia partners with CrescentRating and HalalTrip for the third edition of the Halal in Travel Asia Summit. The event is to focus on key theme of ‘Innovation & Technology in the Muslim Travel Space’. [Read More…]
ASEAN has 38 official UNESCO World Heritage Sites but many more heritage areas could be added. The first ASEAN World Heritage Summit hosted in Sukhothai looked at ways to not only protect and enhance heritage [Read More…]
The death toll from a massive dam collapse in Attapeu Province in southern Laos has jumped to 31, officials said, with scores still missing weeks after the unprecedented disaster that swept entire villages and farmland [Read More…]
Etienne Marleau-Rancourt is the young COO and co-founder of the booking engine Cookly with two other friends. A native Canadian, Marleau-Rancourt wants Cookly to be the reference for any traveller looking for cooking schools around [Read More…]
The recent hosting of the Mekong Tourism Forum in Nakhon Phanom gave an opportunity to highlight Buddhist Tourism for the entire region. Such a tourism product has opportunities to open new areas and communities to [Read More…]
Tornados in the southern Philippines, tropical storms ravaging landlocked Laos – just a few of the severe weather aberrations happening across Southeast Asia right now. And it is unlikely that this would change any time [Read More…]
Last month hosted Mekong Tourism Forum in Nakhon Phanom looked at the issue of single-use plastics in the GMS. And came with a pledge to reduce seriously waste across the region. Sublime landscapes, historical cities, [Read More…]
According to Mich Goh, Airbnb’s Head of Public Policy for Southeast Asia, Airbnb welcomed last year five million guests in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, a majority being recorded in Thailand. During the recent Mekong Tourism [Read More…]
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