Singapore wants to ease the anxiety of air travel, with the launch of an online Safe Travel Concierge (STC) by Changi Airport Group. The STC roll-out follows a successful trial during the Lion City's first hybrid trade show, TravelRevive, back in November.

Marriott International has launched a new meetings offer for event planners in APAC, specifically those in destinations like Singapore and Hong Kong, where relaxed Covid restrictions allow for small meetings and conferences to take place.

The Seoul Convention Bureau has become the first in Asia to join the Hybrid City Alliance — a body which offers international event organisers solutions when organising multiple city hub events.

The announcement of Phuket’s July reopening sans quarantine has reverberated positively across the travel industry, and everyone on the Thai resort island is now shifting into high gear to turn the “sandbox” proposal into a reality.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced 2 April that Americans who have received an FDA-authorised Covid-19 vaccine can travel safely within the United States.

In the latest February assessment of global airports’ safe travel measures by Safe Travel Barometer, China’s Beijing Capital International Airport led the global leaderboard with a score of 4.5 – making it the first time an Asian airport has surpassed its Middle Eastern counterparts since last November.

As the business events world slowly returns to hosting live meetings, the International Association of Conference Centres (IACC) has released a series of guides to help event planners and venue operators manage F&B service for Covid-safe meetings.

The head of the International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney has spoken in support of the “silent victim” of the Covid-19 pandemic.

IMEX has announced a partnership with end-to-end tech integration provider, Swapcard, who will be delivering a new AI-powered virtual and hybrid events platform for IMEX America later this year

A new Australian event wants the industry to 'Get Local' — because "the domestic industry needs this event, a place to reconnect and do business which we need more than ever in 2021," says show co-founder, Gary Bender

BCCK's annual Ramadhan special is back, offering diners the same delicious offerings plus the creation of special safe 'bubbles' to minimise interaction between diners.

When the first Airbus A380 super jumbo arrived to massive fanfare at Singapore Changi Airport on October 17, 2007, it was hailed as the start of a new era in global aviation

Covid-19 has given rise to a host of new tech tools that are changing the way we source, book and plan meetings. But are they here to stay? 

WiT’s first Travel Roadshow kicked off 25 March on a positive note with speakers believing that the industry, both travel and events, will emerge better and stronger after this cataclysmic crisis.