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Articles tagged “asia”

Tour Operators

Southeast Asia’s Fragmented Tours Sector Gets Long-Awaited Tech Upgrade

Southeast Asia, known for its tech-savvy, mobile first consumers, has an experiences sector that is 80 percent offline, presenting widespread opportunities for the region's tours and activities landscape to become digitized. Stat.

Selene Brophy | 1 year ago

Southeast Asia’s Fragmented Tours Sector Gets Long-Awaited Tech Upgrade

Tourism

Cambodia Relocates Angkor Wat Communities in Controversial Tourism Touch-Up

Cultural sites like Angkor Wat must be preserved, but that shouldn't come at the cost of local livelihoods. Destinations shouldn't treat the two as if they are in conflict.

Dawit Habtemariam | 1 year ago

Cambodia Relocates Angkor Wat Communities in Controversial Tourism Touch-Up

Tourism

Asia Presents Even Steeper Challenges for Female Travel Leaders Today

Asia's failure to tackle the issues preventing women from occupying more high ranking travel positions is just one of the reasons the continent is still struggling to make a complete recovery.

Liz Ortiguera, Bridge Experiences | 1 year ago

Asia Presents Even Steeper Challenges for Female Travel Leaders Today

Business Travel

FCM Travel Business Trip Sales Rise Everywhere — Except Asia

China's recovery is key for the corporate travel agency in many ways, but it all depends on how many businesses are ready to head back there.

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

FCM Travel Business Trip Sales Rise Everywhere — Except Asia

Airlines

AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes Refocuses Back on a Superapp Just for Travel

While "disruptive and different" is still the mantra that Tony Fernandes swears by, he says he's choosing to tread carefully even as he aspires to create an AirAsia Republic.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 1 year ago

AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes Refocuses Back on a Superapp Just for Travel

News Blog

South Korean Hospitality Tech Firm Onda Raises $10 Million

South Korean hospitality tech company Onda, announced on Thursday that it has raised $10 million in its Series-B funding round. Led by South Korea-based private equity firm TS Investment, the investors in this round included Industrial Bank of Korea as well as other South Korean investment companies like NAU IB Capital, Square Ventures, K Bridge…

Peden Doma Bhutia | 1 year ago

Tourism

The Global Travel Outlook for a Redistributed World

Get the lowdown on the broader economic trends affecting travel in 2023, thanks to data and analysis from Skift Research. Watch this Skift Megatrends video to stay ahead of the game.

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

The Global Travel Outlook for a Redistributed World

Tourism

Skift’s 2023 Megatrends and Other Top Stories This Week

In Skift's top stories this week, we unveil our 16 Megatrends for 2023, India is poised to become the world's largest outbound travel market, and Sonder eliminates cleaning fees for guests.

Sherry Sun | 1 year ago

Skift’s 2023 Megatrends and Other Top Stories This Week

Tourism

China Defends Visa Backlash Against South Korea, Japan Covid Curbs

Alleged discrimination of the Chinese traveler is at the centre of China's Covid-curbs visa war now underway as authorities continue to question fatalities data coming out of the country.

Bernard Orr and Brenda Goh, Reuters | 1 year ago

China Defends Visa Backlash Against South Korea, Japan Covid Curbs

News Blog

India Makes Covid Test Mandatory for Arrivals From China and 5 More Asian Countries

India is making a PCR Covid test mandatory for inbound arrivals from China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, and South Korea, from January 1. Passengers arriving in India from any of these six countries would be required to upload results of tests not older than 72 hours before departure along with a self-declaration on the…

Peden Doma Bhutia | 1 year ago