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News and analysis for the people who run travel, from hotel boardrooms to airline route desks.
Inside Singapore's S$740 million tourism war chest: where the money will go
The Tourism Development Fund's top-up is the region's largest. Officials talk outcomes, not impressions — and that changes who gets paid.
Tourism boards are buying outcomes, not impressions. Media is adjusting.
Sojern's 2026 survey found 64% of DMOs already produce content for AI engines. The media brief has quietly been rewritten.
IHG signs twelve hotels across India in a single quarter as the midscale race tightens
Holiday Inn Express leads the pipeline. Every global operator now needs an India story; few have the partners to build one.
Asia's hotel deal volume hits a five-year high, led by Japan ryokan portfolios
Private equity has discovered the 12-room inn. The question is whether scale and omotenashi can coexist.
AirAsia's narrowbody mega-order signals a widebody rethink across ASEAN's LCCs
The A321XLR changes the maths on five-hour routes. Long-haul low-cost may finally have an aircraft that fits it.
The Big Interview: the CEO rebuilding a 50-year-old Bangkok hotel icon
A landmark property, a nine-figure renovation and a bet that heritage outsells novelty. Sixty minutes, on the record.
Six senior moves across Asian hospitality this week
New country heads in Vietnam and Japan, a regional CCO in Singapore, and a DMO chief returning to the private sector.
APAC arrivals tracker: the region closes to within 4% of 2019
Our monthly read of UN Tourism and national statistics: who has recovered, who is still waiting on China, and what the forward bookings say.