The Indian Express – Online

The White Temple gets hordes of tourists — non Thais pay a THB 100 entrance fee — and there is a strict “route” that one must navigate, which includes a circuit of the pond in front, and up through a ramp that is flanked by twin seas of human hands stretching up to the sky. Spooky, yes — but it is supposed to signify the cycle of rebirth, leading up to the entrance, known as the gate of heaven.

The Star – Online

The ship will be homeported in Singapore for six months, and the deployment is expected to bring more tourists to Malaysia and the region. Stephen said that the ship will be making a record breaking 55 calls to Malaysia during its 2020 2021 season, which starts in October next year.

Channel News Asia – Online

For many Indian tourists, the popular resort island of Phuket has recently become more attractive than ever before. Within four to five hours, they can now fly to the ‘Pearl of the Andaman Sea’ directly from India, without a stopover in the capital Bangkok or other countries such as Singapore or Malaysia.

The New Indian Express – Online

Thailand is a favoured destination with Indians. And thanks to the exemption of the 2,000 baht visa on arrival fee, the footfall is expected to reach a record high of two million by year-end. Sitting snuggly on the country’s eastern coast is Pattaya, 100 km from the capital, Bangkok.

India Times – Online

The tourism industry uses about 65 per cent of Bali’s water, according to the Indonesian non government organisation IDEP Foundation. ‘At Jatiluwih, where thousands of tourists go each day to see the most beautiful rice terraces of Bali, farmers are using plastic pipes to pump in the water they have to buy in the south because the springs in the mountains are drying up,’ local journalist Anton Muhaj told Al Jazeera.

The New Indian Express, News On Air, The Financial Express – Online

A total of 1,75,852 tourists from Singapore visited India in 2017, a growth of 7.4 per cent on the year, said the India Tourism Singapore office. “The target is to encourage a greater flow of tourists from Singapore through a multi pronged approach, including proactive marketing strategies in partnership with the tourism stakeholders,” said the office.

Travel Trends Today – Online

This campaign attracted over 1,000 MICE tourists to Thailand; generating 73 million Baht. For the next fiscal year 2020 (October 2019 September 2020), TCEB has launched the APAC MaxiMICE campaign in 15 countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and India.

Nat Geo Traveller India – Online

Earlier this year, my cruise holiday ended in Los Angeles. Instead of killing time at the airport, I squeezed in an architecture tour of Downtown LA and tried some excellent Salvadorean papusas in the 100-year-old Grand Central Market. Later that night, while flying back home to Mumbai, I had a 12-hour layover in Hong Kong, which only needs Indian travellers to fill up a pre-arrival registration form (in advance) for a 14-day visa-free stay. The Airport Express took me to the city in just 24 minutes (tip: buy an Octopus metro card for travel within the city). The layover was long enough for me to get off at Sham Shui Po for a HKD20/Rs175 meal ...