Statistics & Trends

Six Senses takes top spot for the first time. 

Hyatt Hotels Corp (Hyatt) drove T&T’s rebound with a sentiment growth of 60% in Q3 2020 (fiscal Q2 2020 earnings transcript) compared to its previous earnings transcript (Q1 2020).

Singapore, Broome and Bandung are among the fastest recovering APAC destinations since last year.

India, with over 4.2 million confirmed cases, is only behind the US in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. High number of cases coupled with limited international flights is keeping away the inbound travelers.

New research by consulting group C9 Hotelworks points to Covid-19’s crippling implications with airport arrivals plunging, the Phuket Model stuttering and 50,000 jobs expected to be lost if there are no overseas visitors this year.

Between 2015–2019, China and the US led the way as the two most dynamic M&A markets accounting for 38% of global transactions.

July international passenger demand collapsed 91.9% compared to July 2019, a slight improvement over the 96.8% decline recorded in June. Capacity plummeted 85.2%, and load factor sank 38.9 percentage points to 46.4%.

Instead of the government mandating who does what, the onus is now on the tourism industry stakeholders – business owners as well as tourists – to ensure that they tread with caution and help in the revival of tourism before the peak season of November to February.

5 smartphone photography tips for great travel photos.

iProperty Management has analysed Google’s Keyword Planner to reveal which countries around the world people are looking to relocate to the most. Spain takes the crown as the top place to invest in property, based on the number of searches by those looking to relocate, with almost 700,000 annual global searches (690,360).