TODAY: Steady growth for Asian outbound travel in 2017, Jumeirah opens the first ice rink in the Maldives and five reasons why developers and owners love hotel leases.

Steady growth for Asian outbound travel in 2017
Sunday, 3rd December 2017

Asians are going on more international trips than ever, although the growth rate has slowed this year after a 9 percent increase in 2016. The main trends over the first eight months of 2017 include a continued rise in sun & beach holidays, more city trips and a good comeback for travel to Europe after a downturn last year >>

Five reasons why developers and owners love hotel leases
4 Dec 2017 : With both macro- and micro-trends supporting fixed-income hotel investments, here are five reasons why there has never been a better time to structure hotel leases in decades >>

Jumeirah opens the first ice rink in the Maldives
2 Dec 2017 : Jumeirah Vittaveli brings a new first to the Maldives this festive season with the opening of the destination’s first ice rink, the rink allows guests to be carried away into a small winter wonderland of their own while being enveloped by the warmth of the tropics >>

Bangkok mega-projects take centre stage at forum
3 Dec 2017 : Running under the theme ‘MEGACITY BANGKOK– A Tourism and Hotel Futurescape’, the seventh annual TTF will focus on the redevelopment of the thriving Thai capital >>

Niseko real estate propelled by hotel brands entering market
4 Dec 2017 : Japan’s famed ski destination Niseko is well on its way to becoming a world-class year-round holiday destination back of sustained growth in summer visitors over the past six years. Last year over 1.6 million visitors were recorded, with parity in numbers between the frenetic December to April ski season and May to November summer and shoulder season >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Why 'Heart And Soul' Is Also A Strength In Leadership
Monday, 4th December 2017

One of the most difficult and humbling things for us human beings is to admit we don’t know something, our brain has evolved over thousands and thousands of years into a three-pound, organic computer with the sole task of 'making things more certain'. Gaining mastery and a sense of control over our physical and psychological environments is a natural, inherent human drive >>

OpenJaw China: Airlines count on 3 pillars for a differentiated offering
Personalisation, underlying trends that are making organisations agile and innovative, and new sector-specific businesses processes and systems can enable airlines to come up with a differentiated offering >>

The Die Hard Survival Guide To This Year’s Office Holiday Party.
While you can debate all you want about whether 1988’s Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is – don’t fight us on this point), you can’t disagree with the fact that the movie depicts one of the all-time most memorable office holiday parties.

Besides being eminently re-watchable, the movie also provides valuable instruction on how to throw a proper office holiday party. The folks at the Nakatomi Corporation did some things right, and did some things wrong, when it comes to hosting annual holiday festivities. If you learn from their example this year, you’ll enjoy the holidays knowing that your office party won’t lead to any human resources disasters or lawsuits >>