BANGKOK] Thailand’s banks are grappling with weak lending amid high household debt, slowing tourism and sluggish consumer ...

Two Philippine senators are advancing significant tax reforms. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has filed Senate Bill No. 424, proposing the abolition of the travel tax to ease financial burdens on ...

ASEAN Tourism sees an window of opportunities. With brutal wars raging every day, it's an interesting move for the UN to declare 2025 the International Year of Peace and Trust.

Tourism officials from ASEAN member states and the Republic of Korea met in Danang, Vietnam, last week to explore ways to ...

Tourism was on the agenda, with the aim of making ASEAN a Destination for Every Dream. The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat) was convened on 19 January 2025 in Langkawi, Malaysia.

With official ASEAN NTOs Meetings, Tourism Ministerial Meetings and Association Meetings, leaders discussed programmes and their implementation to foster the ASEAN Tourism Recovery for a more ...

Sustainability and connectivity were key themes at this year’s ASEAN Tourism Forum in the southern Malaysian state of Johor. CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout took a trip across the country to explore ...

However, the overall upbeat outlook is set to be featured at this week’s ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) in Singapore, with a campaign to attract more than 120 million visitor arrivals to the region ...

From January 15 to 20, 2025, all roads in the ASEAN tourism highway led to the Persada Johor International Convention Centre in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, where the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2025 was ...

ASEAN tourism ministers are preparing to sign off on a new Tourism Marketing Strategy and launch the preparatory stage for an ASEAN Tourism Strategic Plan (2011-15) that is being designated as the ...

"And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares," said the prophet Isaiah and so they have in Southeast Asia where the old military alliance of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) ...