Asia Travel News

Russian airline Aeroflot is set to add new flights to its portfolio.

The Board of Directors of Singapore Airlines (SIA) has announced that Goh Choon Phong will succeed Chew Choon Seng as CEO when Seng retires this year-end.

Enters into an arrangement with Faridabad based-Far Horizon Tours to operate a luxury river cruise vessel, M.V. Mahabaahu on River Brahmaputra by early 2011 under the PPP model.

Thai Airways International (THAI) and Tiger Airways are working to ensure that their merged entity, Thai Tiger Airways, can begin service by March 2011.

Delhi will have 42 information kiosks-cum-food counters installed, to make the city more hospitable for tourists during the Commonwealth Games (October 3-14, 2010).

The first six months of this year saw international tourist arrivals grow by seven per cent, according to the August Interim Update of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) World Tourism Barometer.

With a 25% larger exhibition than last year

Flagship takes off on second long-haul route; flights to Johannesburg to follow

World Travel Awards Asia and Australasia Ceremony is coming to The Claridges, Surajkund, Delhi, NCR in October for what is expected to be the most keenly fought competition ever.

In the wake of Monday's Manila hostage crisis, which left eight Hong Kong tourists killed and several others injured, the Philippines has become a "condemned" country for tourists, the travel business has plummeted as a result.