Asia

Created by the Korean industrial group Kumho in 1988, Asiana Airlines gradually became South Korea's second international airline. Initially present on Asian regional routes, the carrier arrived in Europe in the early 2000s. Before covid, it was present in Europe in Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt,...

The ASEAN region is the equivalent in principle of the European Union. It is a vast economic zone comprising ten countries in South East Asia. Originally, it consisted of a core group comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. At the time, the association was set up primarily to deal with the threat...

Imagine if the French government decided to combine Air France, Aéroports de Paris, the Campanile hotel chain and SETE, which manages the Eiffel Tower, into a single holding company. This would be seen as an economic aberration and, of course, the creation of a monopoly. This is exactly what the government is doing...

More than its Asian neighbours, the city-state of Singapore is heavily dependent on global mobility. The city of six million inhabitants has built its economy on trade. It therefore seems essential for the government to gradually reopen its borders to international travellers. In an interview with Bloomberg...

Cathay Pacific continues to suffer more than any other airline in Asia from the decline in air traffic. The covid-19 pandemic has been compounded by the reluctance - justified or not - of many travellers to pass through Hong Kong because of the new security law imposed by China. In...

The Finnish carrier specialising in the Europe/Asia segment will operate only 25%s in the winter 2019 schedule. This translates into an average of 75 flights per day instead of 350 flights last year during the same period. Finnair has reduced its flight schedule for the winter season in line with demand...

Upmarket and sophisticated, the Kimpton brand is continuing to expand within the IHG group. Bought by the British hotelier in 2015 to strengthen its lifestyle offering, the trendy brand born in the United States has 34 projects in its pipeline, which will be added in the next three to five years to the 72 establishments already open across the...

What is the main obstacle to a return to tourism in Asia? Bill Barnett - As in the rest of the world, Asia is faced with crucial choices. There is a collision between health and political imperatives and economic support. As a result, there is very often a conflict...

Fewer than a dozen Asian cities will have direct flights to Paris this winter. That's what you see when you look closely at the airlines' winter schedules. What's more, these schedules are only forecasts, given the evolution of the pandemic and the conditions of entry into the countries concerned. The...

From annual growth of close to 5 % in recent years, the Asian exhibition industry is set to fall by 75 % in 2020. According to a study conducted by Business Strategies Group (BSG) on behalf of UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, net floor space sold is set to fall from 24.5 million m2 in 2019...

The uncertainty surrounding the resumption of air traffic due to the persistence of the Covid-19 pandemic is forcing Finnair to suspend a number of its international routes. However, the airline has set a deadline for these suspensions: March 31, the date on which the summer timetable officially begins...

Korean Air will be operating a watered-down network for the IATA winter season. The season begins on 25 October and runs until 27 March 2021. The carrier's network will represent barely 30% of its usual destinations, i.e. thirty international routes instead of 104 for the same period in 2019/2020. Paris-CDG...

Ascott is continuing to expand lyf, its co-living brand. This "millenials" version of its urban residences, which made its first appearance in Singapore in 2019, opened a new establishment in Bangkok at the end of July, lyf Sukhumvit 8 Bangkok, a residence located in one of the city's most fashionable shopping centres, with...

Why is JAL resuming flights to France at a time when Japan has not reopened its borders and it is advisable to avoid Tokyo, which has been hit by a new wave of infections? What markets is the company targeting? Gilles Binard - The resumption of our commercial flights on the Paris-Tokyo route began on 1st...

Hong Kong's existence as a British colony had never been a problem for China. Quite the contrary. For decades, the territory at the gateway to mainland China had made it easy to do business with the rest of the world. Not only did Hong Kong enjoy complete freedom of trade - the British Government in Hong Kong...

Known for its sense of efficiency, Singapore is the hub of the business world in South-East Asia, particularly in terms of finance and international trade. The city, which has no territory other than its metropolis, is more dependent than its neighbours in the region on its relations with the outside world. With the crisis...

South-East Asia has finally realised the urgency of the Covid-19 pandemic as the number of cases multiplies. From 310 cases on 7 March, the number had risen to 4,034 by 23 March, with Malaysia recording the highest number of cases at over 1,500, followed by Thailand at over 700, Indonesia...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has done its sums. The outbreak of the new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is expected to have a severe impact on aviation activity worldwide, with the epicentre of the crisis obviously being in Asia. The initial assessment of the impact of COVID-19 shows a potential loss of 13 % in passenger demand...

The aviation news was recently shaken up by a Reuters report announcing that the Air France-KLM group had expressed its intention to take a 49% stake in Malaysia Airlines, while Japan Airlines was to become the second largest foreign minority shareholder by taking a 25% stake in the airline, with the remaining shares being held by...

The latest data from ForwardKeys, a firm which analyses the development of global air traffic by working on the capacity of flights in service, flight searches and more than 17 million booking transactions per day, reveals that in 2019, the growth in the number of international air journeys rose by 4.5...