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Shares in daigou-focused retailer AuMake have been placed in a trading halt pending an announcement on an acquisition and related capital-raising. The company, which last month extended its bricks-and-mortar presence beyond Sydney, has requested the halt be…
Bonjour Holdings sales fell 7.3 per cent last year as the health and beauty products retailer reorganised its store network. The company reported a loss attributable to shareholders of HK$39.6 million (US$5 million), which was a significant improvement on the…
Hong Kong-listed luggage giant Samsonite International has achieved its seventh consecutive year of sales growth following its listing in 2011. Net Samsonite sales were up 8.4 per cent on a constant-currency basis to US$3.797 billion in the year to December…
The Shilla Duty Free is partnering with popular Chinese webtoon artists to boost its appeal to travelling Chinese shoppers. The travel retailer said that this is the first marketing partnership of its kind in the Korean duty free industry. Webtoons have…
Amazing Thailand Countdown 2019 at ICONSIAM is a truly amazing event of the country with a great collaboration of entities from the public and private sectors and surrounding communities to organize a New Year Celebration in a scale never before seen along…
More than 40 travel agencies, including five pilgrimage agencies, are joining the second phase of the Garuda Indonesia Travel Fair (GATF) 2018. The event, held by the flag carrier in partnership with Bank Mandiri, is held at the Jakarta Convention Center…
Boracay, one of the world’s most famous beach destinations, has reopened for a limited-numbers test run almost six months after closing for a cleanup operation to reverse the fortunes of the resort island once labeled a “cesspool” by Philippines President…
Tourism Ministry claimed that they will keep adding the number of international flight routes especially from Asia Pacific to Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. One of the potential markets targeted is South Korean tourists. Tourism Ministry’s Asia Pacific deputy…
They’re still coming in droves — but no longer buying in spades. After propping up sales for overseas retailers over the past decade with a shopping-driven tourism agenda, Chinese visitors are no longer returning home with suitcases bulging like before. A new…
State-owned airport operator PT Angkasa I said that over 1 million passengers have traveled through Balis Ngurah Rai International Airport during the homecoming flow of post-fasting travelers since 10 days (D-10) before the Lebaran D-Day to D+4. Head of…
The number of Chinese tourists visiting Indonesia is estimated to reach more than 2 million tourists in 2017, an official said. Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in Jakarta Sun Weide said here on Tuesday that the tourism…
The Indonesian government is predicting that the recent severing of ties between several Arab countries and Qatar would deal a blow to the archipelago’s tourism industry, with 50,000 expected tourists not showing up because of the crisis, a senior official…
Despite the decline of tourist arrivals into Hong Kong last year and challenges in the luxury retail sector, Italian-owned mall operator RDM has just opened its first Hong Kong outlet. Located in the KC100 complex near Kwai Hing MTR station, Florentia Village…
In January, International Living (IL), an authority on global retirement and relocation opportunities, had put Malaysia in sixth place for its “10 Best Places to Retire” list. Part of the Annual Global Retirement Index, Malaysia received high scores in the…
The Tourism Ministry, in cooperation with Chinese provincial tourism administrations, aims to raise the number of tourist arrivals from China by 50 percent to 2.1 million in 2017 from 1.4 million last year. The ministry’s director for Asia-Pacific tourism…
About 2.89 million Indonesians visited Singapore throughout 2016, the biggest contribution of tourists to the city state, about 17.7 percent of the country’s 16.4 million total foreign tourist arrivals, according to a statement released by Singapore Tourism…
