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Featuring: Belinda Jackson Cairo, Egypt’s sprawling capital, is set on the Nile River. At its heart is Tahrir Square and the vast Egyptian Museum, a trove of antiquities including royal…

North West Cape is a peninsula which juts out into the Indian Ocean just north of the town of Carnarvon. 

ExCeL London has suffered the loss of the World Aviation Festival at the end of September but confirms that the British-Irish Expo goes ahead 5-6 October reports Business Travel News. World…

Facing the Straits of Malacca, Penang was one of the great trading ports in South East Asia.  Once part of the Sultanate of Kedah, it was ceded to the British East India Company on the…

For Air France the Airbus A380 never arrived with a real splash, Lufthansa supplying the cabin staff when the aircraft was certificated with a media flight out of Toulouse and then a quiet…

Industry expert and respected marketeer David Barrett in discussion with Andrew J Wood on recovering from the impact of the coronavirus on Thailand’s formidable travel and tourism industry.

Right at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic I was absolutely sure people will only travel again if they feel it is safe to do so in the new Covid-19 world, and when they have the…

British Airways reopened London City Airport last night with a flight from Douglas Isle of Man carrying just six passengers. But it was a start. When the pandemic started, back in March,…

A senior director of civilian aviation recently said that international flights are not likely to resume in Thailand until late September.

July and August and will see the return of Aer Lingus Regional acording to Business Travel News London.  www.btnews.co.uk Flown by Stobart Air these are all key routes from Dublin, Cork and…

Pullman Bangkok King Power recently staged a demonstration of the new Hybrid Meeting in their Eternity Ballroom. Forty-six participants participated in-person, watching a keynote address and…

OPINION: Thailand Tourism recovery- are we doing enough? by Andrew J Wood

Talking in a webinar sponsored by the World Aviation Festival last week Joanna Geraghty, COO and President of JetBlue, was very positive regarding a London start-up in 2021 writes Malcolm…

The Royal Thai Government has approved the fourth phase for easing restrictions on businesses and activities, but kept the Emergency Decree in place to maintain controls on all entries to…

The North Terminal at London’s Gatwick Airport is to reopen next Monday 15 June to coincide with the return of easyJet.  Full details  in Business Travel News when it is published that…

June 2020 would seem to be a strange time to introduce a brand-new UK-based airline but with strong connections with Asia.  THG Air is different Business Travel News London reports.

Chris Tarry's CTIARA consultancy has been quick off the mark with an air passenger confidence survey taken during the first few days of June. The results are not surprising with 96% of…

long stretch of coastline measuring about 1,100kms north of Perth, the Coral Coast extends from the town of Cervantes as far north as Exmouth and slightly inland.

if you wish to drive from Eucla in the south east corner of Western Australia around the coast to Kununurra in the north east, in the Kimberley region, you would have to drive a distance of…

It is hard not to be mystified by Papua New Guinea. It is a land that is untamed and wild in beauty, while diverse in unique culture.

The Thailand government will give up its controlling stake in Thai Airways as it approved a financial restructuring for the cash-strapped airline through bankruptcy protection. The airline…

Global aviation has been battered and air traffic remains largely grounded as countries enforce their lockdowns and restrict travel, with few signs that the end is in sight. For the largest…

BANGKOK: Not surprising opposition to another huge government handout to debt-ridden Thai Airways International (THAI) is mounting, as far as public sentiment is concern there is a change…

BANGKOK: Billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont, chairman of Charoen Pokphand, is urging the government to relax lockdown measures and welcome foreign travellers as soon as possible, and turn the…

“It will soon be the time when we will quarantine people coming into the country by air.” The words of Boris Johnson Prime Minster speaking to the nation last night, Business Travel News…

Jones Lang LaSalle reports from Thailand that hotels across the region are under extreme financial stress as they face operating with reduced occupancies for the foreseeable future

"This proposal would effectively kill international travel to and from the UK and cause immeasurable damage to the aviation industry and wider UK economy” That was Airlines UK Chief…

BANGKOK: How do we sensibly and effectively restart travel and tourism, the industry that employs 1-in-10 workers globally? A workforce that has been decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic. 


To tide it over difficult times Gatwick Airport has secured a £300m loan with a consortium of banks loan to ensure its investment grade rating is maintained Business Travel News reports…

Malcolm Ginsberg from Business Travel News (BTN) discusses their view on what happens next during this Covid-19 Global pandemic.

The recently appointed British aviation minister Kelly Tolhurst has spoken out. Not yet well known to the air transport community her words, to the UK weekly Business Travel News, were…

Skål International Bangkok President Andrew J Wood gives his thoughts on what we can expect to see once the Coronavirus starts to dissipate

We are living in extraordinary times. With the world forced into a complete shutdown and travel by any means frowned upon and commercial aircraft largely grounded GLOBALLY we are all in…

BANGKOK: As our travel and tourism industry struggles with the ongoing C-19 crisis, with hotels and tourism businesses closing and their teams laid off, the industry is being decimated.…