News in Asia

Cambodia needs to create new tourism products in Siem Reap province in order to attract greater number of visitors from China and South Korea, the Minister of Tourism says.

Marriott International, an American hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities worldwide, is planning to further expand its presence in the Kingdom.

Travellers between Delhi and Lucknow will soon be able to enjoy world class rail travel service when Tejas Express starts plying the route between the country's capital and the capital of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh by the last week of September.

With the number of foreign tourists expected to reach 20 million by 2020 and the growing popularity of Indian tourists sights with overseas visitors, India is planning to equip the prime attractions with signboards in foreign languages.

Airports in Vietnam are functioning at the edge of their capacity with the ever growing number of passengers expected to surpass the 112 million mark by the end of this year.

The British Dave TV channel listed Son Doong Cave in the Vietnam Central province of Quang Binh in their World's Top Adventures Rating. The tour of the cave received 24 percent of the votes and is placed the 5th among 20 best adventure tours across the globe.

According to the Department of Tourism (DOT)'s data, over 4 million foreign tourists visited the Philippines in the first six months of 2019, 11.43 percent more than during the first half of 2018.

The government of the country is ready to provide full support to the City of Manila in improving its tourism infrastructure. 

In a bid to promote Thailand's tourist attractions, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has recently launched 'TAT Mobile Car' information kiosk to let it easier for visitors to get access to the information of sights, destinations, festivals and events both in Bangkok and across the country.

Pha Dok Siew nature trail and waterfalls in Doi Inthanon National Park in the northern province of Chiang Mai, Thailand have been closed temporarily due to heavy rains and high levels of water in the rivers feeding the falls.

As severe tropical storm Krosa has approached western parts of Japan, torrential rains affect the whole country. Today, 549 domestic flights have already been cancelled due to stormy weather.  

Daimonji mountainside festival in Kyoto will be celebrated tomorrow, August, 16 with the Daimonji and several other mountains in the vicinity set ablaze.

Palaly Airport in the northern part of Sri Lanka is scheduled to start operations by the end of August. Its expansion was partially financed by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Fund in a bid to attract more tourists to the Jaffna Peninsula.

Special train service between Colombo and Badulla will run till September, 1. It is meant to meet the demand for rail travel during August school vacations in Sri Lanka. 

Shanghai's top three tourist attractions – Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower, and Shanghai Wildlife Park – launched a new city pass ticket program with joint ticktes available since August, 8.

The number of Chinese visitors to Myanmar is growing – and so in the number of direct flights between the two countries. Now Hefei and Mandalay have a direct air link, too.

Villagers of Samiran on the slopes of Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu, Java, Indonesia, invite tourists to their homes in the frames of tourist village program launched in Samiran in 2017.

Bandung, the capital of West Java province in Indonesia, now enjoys better connectivity with Sumatra after four new direct routes by Wings Air, Surabaya-based low cost airline, were inaugurated last Friday, August, 9.

Over 3.3 million tourists visited Cambodia in the first six months of 2019. According to the Ministry of Tourism's data, it is an 11.2 percent hike on year-to-year bases.

Airports in Cambodia recorded strong growth of passenger traffic during January–June 2019 supported by opening of new air routes that connect the Kingdom with destinations across Asia.