A Friday 22 January report in UK newspaper, the Times indicated the Japanese government has privately concluded that the Tokyo Olympics will be cancelled because of the coronavirus.

Airlines are taking Covid-19 vaccinations into their own hands – led by Singapore Airlines and Emirates.

Global exhibition organiser Informa Markets has appointed Michael Duck as executive vice president of commercial development.

Following news that the Trans-Tasman travel bubble between New Zealand and Australia is set to open by April 2021, Tourism New Zealand has launched three new incentive experiences, which it hopes will also entice corporates from across APAC to return once restrictions are further eased.

Global engagement and marketing agency, MCI has announced a new brand design to reflect the marketplace changing demands of today's digital age.

Less than a month after MICE events were given the go-ahead to resume in Malaysia, the government's latest lockdown measures — a two-week Movement Control Order (MCO) from 13 January — have dealt the industry yet another blow.

After delaying its original launch by a year, Expo 2020 Dubai is tempting the global events community with the opening, this week, of its Pavilions Premiere which offers a glimpse of what's to come when the world's first Expo in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region kicks off on 1 October 2021.

IATA’s head of airport, passenger and security products, Alan Murray Hayden, says fast progress is being made to bring its Travel Pass digital health credential solution to market, and “most of the world’s biggest airlines will be using it from March on”.

Accor has announced a joint venture with Sydney developer Central Element and property investor Boston Global (CEBH) to launch the city's first 25hours Hotel by end 2022.

Jeanette Stanton has been appointed events project manager for Business Events Industry Aotearoa (BEIA), New Zealand’s business events association, formerly known as CINZ (Conventions and Incentives New Zealand).

The new year has brought with it a renewed sense of hope that travel, tourism, and business events will be “back to normal” within a number of months. And with close to 300 delegates gathering in Singapore, the “Global Broadcast Centre” for PCMA's Convening Leaders conference (13-14 January), that hope started to feel like a reality.

Amid a spike in Covid-19 infections and renewed movement restrictions, event industry leaders in Thailand are urging the government for further assistance.

With Hong Kong's fourth Covid-19 resulting in extended quarantines, cancelled flights and speculations rife that restrictions will stretch into the end of February — the city hopes new measures will curb the virus, including its LeaveHomeSafe mobile app, launched in November.

The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) has joined the hybrid studio bandwagon, as part of concentrated efforts the past year "in upping our infrastructural and solution offerings to meet the new demands in our current market landscape".