Visitor arrivals to the Philippines breaching the five-million mark, officials of the Department of Tourism (DOT) remain upbeat to attract a million additional foreign travellers this year. The secret behind DOT optimist forecasts: the return [Read More…]
Tourism authorities in Thailand were probably a bit frustrated not to be able to organize a large celebration to welcome the Kingdom’s 30th million international traveller. As the country celebrated its 29th million foreign arrival [Read More…]
Despite the long weekends during 2015 year-end holidays, Traveloka, Indonesia’s fastest-growing tech company that provides online booking service for flights and hotels reveals insider data showing that most Indonesians tend to travel domestically. For those [Read More…]
Air New Zealand CEO Christopher Luxon announced in an interview with CAPA (Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation) that his airline will launch seasonal flights between Auckland and Ho Chi Minh City starting with the Northern [Read More…]
Phnom Penh Pochentong International Airport achieves a new milestone today by breaking the 3-million passenger mark a year for the first time of its history. The 3 millionth passenger was Ms Kong Naleap, a Cambodia [Read More…]
According to official news agencies from Vietnam, the total number of foreign visitors to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in 2015 s estimated to have reached 4.7 million, fulfilling this year’s target and up 7 [Read More…]
Myanmar is due to see more than the expected 4.5 million international travellers in 2015, indicated the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism a week ago. According to the Union of Myanmar outgoing union Minister of Tourism [Read More…]
Vietnam tourism had a very bad start earlier this year with international visitors figures down by almost 14% during the first quarter 2015 and still down by 12% for the first half of the year. [Read More…]
With Chinese consumers turning more prudent under an economic slowdown and an anti-corruption campaign, the gaming industry in the region feels partially the pinch of China austerity cure. Macau, Asia’s capital of gambling and games, [Read More…]
It is a sad fact: Southeast Asian drivers are reckless and irresponsible on the roads. Data published by the World Health Organisation point out that roads kill around the world 1.2 million people in a [Read More…]
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