RV sales boom in China as safe travel alternative
The 4th Guangzhou International RV and Camping Expo begins in Guangzhou, Guangdong province on July 24, 2020. Sipa via China Daily/Asia News Network BEIJING — Sales and rentals of recreational…
Rise in domestic travel helps smaller airlines in South Korea
(Air Seoul) SEOUL — As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic lingers on, some low-cost airlines in South Korea are ramping up domestic flights and cautiously launching new air routes…
Alliance of airlines, travel firms and hotels to boost domestic tourism in Vietnam, experts say
Passengers enjoy Phú Quốc Island from a cable-car system linking An Thới Township with Thơm Island in Phú Quốc Island District, the southern province of Kiên Giang. — VNS Photo…
Cheaper airfares, hotel rooms to boost domestic travel in Malaysia, says industry leader
GEORGE TOWN, Malaysia — Cheaper domestic airfares will be an added boost to the tourism industry as hotel booking statistics showed that many families are price conscious. Malaysian Association of…
‘Travel bubbles’ eyed to revive economies
A flight departing from Korea to Dalian International Airport, at Shandong province in 2020. via China Daily BEIJING — Governments in the Asia-Pacific region are exploring the creation of “travel…
EasyJet to cut a third of workforce as pandemic hits travel
FILE – In this file photo dated Wednesday, April 23, 2008, an EasyJet jetliner lands at the Milan Linate airport, Italy. European budget airline eastJet said Thursday May 28, 2020,…
Hotel buffets on the chopping block in post-coronavirus travel
Hotel buffets could become a casualty of the guest experience when travel resumes. Image: Istock.com/GoodLifeStudio via AFP Relaxnews Contactless check-in and reduced breakfast buffets are among some of the new…
Tourism chief outlines aid package for pandemic-battered PH travel industry
The Department of Tourism is doing everything within its mandate to aid stakeholders in the country’s travel and leisure industry in light of the coronavirus pandemic, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat…
PH travel agencies plead for state aid as COVID-19 bludgeons tourism
The umbrella organization of local travel agencies is asking the government for aid to their sector whose members have been battered by the coronavirus pandemic, along with the rest of…
COVID-19 losses: IATA sees 400,000 PH jobs wiped out in grounding of air travel
More than 400,000 jobs in the Philippines would be wiped out even if demand for air travel—now largely decimated by COVID-19–starts to recover by the second half of 2020, according…