Security in Travel: How to realistically open borders.
THERE are so many gaffes in aviation caused by unpreparedness and missteps that it is almost impossible to catalogue. The Covid-19 virus should have been treated at the outset as a security issue. The recovery is disjointed as the lack of common approaches to the pandemic especially in Asia Pacific [...]
LINE Travel jp bets on chat and corporate travel, moves from meta to merchant model
Blurring of business and leisure creates opportunity for blended travel model, says Shibata
LINE TRAVEL jp is taking a bet on its future by blending the world of corporate travel with chat and, in the process, moving to a merchant-of-record model with its new chat-based corporate travel booking [...]
Carbon Conundrum of a Gen Z-er Global Citizen
THE desire to travel is hard to reconcile with sincere consideration towards the environment as a Gen Z-er. However, innovative product offerings are helping bridge the gap between the two worlds.
Growing up as a global citizen
Travelling across
borders has been an integral part of my life fr [...]
Accor launches biggest ever domestic campaign in Indonesia
Ties up with small and micro enterprises to support local businesses
SPURRED by Covid and how it’s forced travel to go domestic, ALL – Accor Live Limitless has launched its biggest domestic campaign in Indonesia, Rediscover Indonesia, bringing together its 130 hotels in over 30 destinations. [...]
The marathon to open borders – starting well doesn’t guarantee success
Asia falls behind, Middle East pushes ahead, EU and US open up, Australia urged to have “courage”
IT truly is
a marathon race. Just because you started off well doesn’t mean you’ll stay
ahead at whichever stage of the race and at this juncture, countries such as
Singapore and Taiwan, wh [...]
Middle East trade heralds return of physical Arabian Travel Market as the push needed in recovery
'Let's get back to business' sentiment prevails
THE physical return of the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai has been heralded as a signal of positive things to come for the travel and tourism industry in the Middle East. And while it wasn’t as busy compared to previous years, the overall sentime [...]
Tightened Covid restrictions dampen use of SingapoRediscovers Vouchers
Remaining at home. Rescheduling tours. Regrouping to (hopefully) come back stronger. For now, Rediscovering Singapore is on hold.
SINGAPORE’S first confirmed Covid-19 case was on January 23, 2020, and it took 10 weeks from that day before the Circuit Breaker was announced. This year, by contr [...]
IATA supports unrestricted access to travel for vaccinated travellers
ACCEPTING vaccinated travellers should be best practice to reopen borders, said the International Air Transport Association.
In cases where vaccination was not possible access to quarantine-free travel should be provided through Covid-19 testing strategies based on widely available, free-of-char [...]
Sustainability starts from the get-go, it’s not a switch you turn on: Dixon
Lessons in balancing tech solutions with people approaches from Nikoi and Cempedak
“NET Zero” may be all the rage right now in discussions around sustainability but for Andrew Dixon, founder and director of Nikoi and Cempedak islands, its journey started in 2004 because, if you’re running [...]
From workations to wellness and antiques: How three hoteliers are facing the future
“OUT of adversity comes opportunity”, so said Benjamin Franklin. This quote best personifies three Asian hoteliers who, through their resourcefulness and creativity, have not only survived the past year of almost no inbound business but placed them in good footing for post-pandemic times.
A [...]
