Hospitality and leisure industry

Chinese travelers scrap holiday trips to Thailand over safety concerns
Chinese travelers are canceling plans to visit Thailand during the Lunar New Year holiday, as concerns over the kidnapping of ...

A new luxury hotel towers over Havana as Cuba’s economic troubles mount and tourism plummets
HAVANA — It’s impossible to miss. The huge rectangular mass of concrete and glass — the tallest building in Havana ...

His hospitality empire is worth over $200 million
Ho Kwon Ping is the co-founder and executive chairman of Banyan Group. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Growing up, ...

Company pairs travelers with the visually impaired
Glyn Evans has been on 30 trips with the same travel company, but he can still pinpoint the moment that ...

What to see in 2025
In Salzburg, Austria last spring, I skipped around the fountain outside Mirabell Palace. Others did too. Some 60 years earlier, ...

What to know and how to avoid crowds in Rome this year
Vatican City is the world’s smallest country by size and population. That’s not stopping an estimated 32 million travelers from ...

How to get to Komodo Island? Jetstar Asia to fly from Singapore
Jetstar Asia will launch direct flights linking Singapore to Labuan Bajo, the Indonesian town considered the “gateway” to Komodo National ...

What is the most powerful passport in the world? It’s Singapore again
Singapore has the world’s most powerful passport, according to the 2025 Henley Passport Index. The nation-state was one of six ...

Aviation industry to have another hard year led by Boeing delays
The aviation industry is bracing for another year of difficulties, as delivery delays at Boeing and supply chain problems are ...

Which airlines have the fewest delays? Here are the results for 2024
Aeromexico was the most punctual global airline in 2024, according to a report published by aviation analytics company Cirium. Some ...