SINGAPORE, 15 January 2021: I get messages all the time from folk who can see tomorrow and far beyond. Another one dropped into my email box this morning. Between the lines, you sense the urgency of a...
SINGAPORE, 13 January 2021: We are coming to terms with
travel discomfort as we pass the first annual milestone of the Covid-19 blight.
My daughter calls to tell me she is boarding one of Singapore's...
SINGAPORE 12 January 2021: Lessons learned
in 2020 and where the travel industry is heading in 2021 are core themes of
opinion-ed from Trip.com Group CEO Jane Sun released this week.
She heads one of the...
BANGKOK, 23 December 2020: Our wish for 2021 is that it will
be safe and successful for all our readers and that the arrival of vaccines
will be a game-changer; a lifesaver for everyone.
SINGAPORE, 16 December 2020: This past year has been a
remarkable examination of how our world responds to crisis. Each and every one
of us, wherever we are in the world, has had to face the unexpected,
unprecedented trauma of...
LONDON, 30 November 2020: Shares in airlines led the rebound
in global stock markets in recent weeks on the news of a significant
breakthrough in the race to find a Covid-19 vaccine.
While the surge...
CHIANG RAI, 18 November 2020: Thailand enjoys a two-day holiday, 19 and 20 November, served up by the government to nourish domestic travel.
It gives Thais a four-day break when the weekend is included
and...
SINGAPORE, 13 November 2020:
The Global Business Travel Association tells us Covid-19 will change the
world’s lucrative events business into something better.
In what GBTA called a headliner webinar, "Virtual,
In-Person, Hybrid: What's Next for the Meetings...
SINGAPORE, 12 November 2020: Like many of the days that have
changed history, 09 November 2020 is a day that I will never forget. The
announcement that drug manufacturers Pfizer /BioNTech are inching tangibly
closer to a confirmed, effective vaccination...
CHIANG RAI, 16 October 2020: Travel is the stuff of dreams,
but since Covid-19 raised its ugly head last December it quickly turned into a
nightmare for those who rely on tourism to pay their weekly bills.