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Online engagement continues to baffle event planners in Asia, according to results of Northstar Meeting Group’s Asia Planner Pulse Survey.

Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) has turned to gamification to up the fun factor for incentives planners looking to pick up destination products and updates.

For the first time in 10 months since Covid-19 set in, Dubai Business Events (DBE) successfully hosted a familiarisation trip for meeting planners from the UK and Russia — both countries have travel corridor arrangements with the UAE, however a national lockdown has since been declared in England.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation's largest hotel in Asia Pacific has opened in South Korea, the 1,600-room Grand Hyatt Jeju also marks the return of a Hyatt branded hotel to the southern island, known for its rich history and culture.

FCM Travel Solutions has launched a Digital Health Credential Programme, bringing together technologies to enable business travellers a safer, seamless and quicker journey back on the road.

Pan Pacific Hotels Group (PPHG) has announced its sixth property in Australia with PARKROYAL Monash Melbourne set to open in April 2021.

This year has been so big and so unprecedented (sorry. Not sorry) that the Oxford English Dictionary hasn’t named a word of the year—but several words, citing the “hyper-speed at which the English-speaking world amassed a new collective vocabulary relating to the coronavirus”.

With the Singapore government's long awaited announcement to begin Phase 3 starting 28 December, 2020, it also means an increase from the current five to eight persons for social gatherings — and an opportunity for "cruises to be an alternative as a MICE destination," says Steven Ler, executive director, head of travel at UOB Travel Planners.

The Hong Kong government’s attempt to quash the city’s fourth Covid-19 wave has allegedly ruffled some hotel industry feathers, when it announced on 11 December, the 36 exclusive hotels approved to accept quarantine guests between 22 December and 19 February.

Hong Kong has upped its pandemic safety game with Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) announcing rapid Covid-19 test services, and its flag carrier, Cathay Pacific, announcing free Covid-19 travel insurance.

With virus sniffing dogs in Helsinki, quarantined international business meetings in Singapore and a new travel pass for everyone, the travel and tourism industry is working night and day to overcome the barriers to travel in the torrid time delivered by the Covid pandemic.

In 2019, well over two million foreign visitors wandered wide-eyed around Cambodia’s famed archeological wonder, Angkor Wat. After entry restrictions on international arrivals to the Southeast Asian nation were introduced in March, the World Heritage site saw a drop of almost 80% in foreign visitors this year.

Australians will need to holiday in their own backyard for a while longer after the federal government extended its ban on outbound international travel.