MINNEAPOLIS – CWT has partnered with jetlag app, Timeshifter, to offer business travellers personalised plans that use sleep and circadian neuroscience to tackle the perennial issue of jetlag.

The 299-room Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River is scheduled to open during the second quarter of 2020, offering event planners river vistas and versatile venues.

Francis Cheong is huge on story-telling. The chatty Group CEO of Aavii Worldwide will freely share stories of how he started his first events company 16 years ago at home in his pyjamas with just a laptop before growing it into an international brand experience agency; and of how he lost several kilograms a dozen years ago through a complete lifestyle change.

Ivy Lim has been appointed senior director of Hyatt Sales Force – Singapore Office, a role in which she oversees the office’s overall revenue, market share penetration and new business opportunities.

HONG KONG - The Hong Kong Special government has announced it will inject a subsidy of slightly more than HK$1 billion (US$130 million) into exhibition and convention business, in an effort to reinvigorate the sector in the face of high-profile event cancellations.

Successful MICE planners know that, these days, business events are no longer confined within the four walls of a venue. Away from the expert panels and breakout sessions, it is just as important to curate and offer activities that transform, have a lasting impact and form a vital part of a organisational culture that people aspire to belong to.

BARCELONA - The cancellation of Mobile World Congress (MWC), the mobile industry's largest event of the year, which was scheduled to take place from February 24 to 27, 2020, has spurred one event organiser to organise a smaller gathering for those who are still headed to Barcelona.

KUALA LUMPUR - The Global Drone Conference 2020 is set to re-convene in Malaysia for the second time barely five months after its inaugural appearance last October in Kuala Lumpur.

SAN FRANCISCO, PARIS - Accor and Visa have announced a global partnership to bring new payment experiences to ALL-Accor Live Limitless loyalty members. The partnership will bring together Accor’s loyalty programme and Visa’s global payment capabilities to create a new ALL Visa card.

The former CEO of Thailand’s Nok Air has launched a tell-all autobiography, Smiling Through Turbulence. In his book, Mr Patee Sarasin, who is the founder of online travel agency, Really Really Cool, discussed the challenges and crises he experienced running the carrier.

BANGKOK – Hilton has signed a management agreement for its largest hotel in Bangkok yet. Together with real estate company, AP Prime Property Company, Hilton will convert the former Grand Ayudhaya Hotel into a 608-room hotel and open it in 2022.

BANGKOK - The 34-storey Carlton Hotel Bangkok Sukhumvit has opened in the city’s prime location between BTS SkyTrain Asoke and Phrom Phong stations.

SINGAPORE – Egyptian manufacturing company, Al Aman, arrived last Friday in Singapore for a three-day incentive tour, determined to continue its long-awaited trip despite the uncertainty posed by Covit-19.

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s astounding S$10.9 billion (US$7.79 billion) overall budget deficit to boost the economy and help businesses tide through the COVID-19 outbreak, whilst approved by industry watchers and local newspapers, is receiving a quiet response from the MICE trade.