In an effort to attract new international aviation capacity Tourism Australia has taken the lead to promote with ¡®one voice¡¯ at Asia¡¯s aviation route development forum in China next month.

The Philippines hopes to attract nearly five million tourists this year after welcoming more than 400,000 visitors to its shores in January, a record for any month.

In a sudden move, Fiji's military government changed airline ownership rules yesterday, in a bid to reduce Qantas' power over the country's national airline.

The screening processes of TripAdvisor remain firmly under the spotlight as the travel review website faces renewed allegations of manipulation of reviews and ratings by hoteliers.

Servicing over 380 companies worldwide, including airports and airlines, Sabre Airline Solutions (SAS) are targeting ways to improve customer gratification.

As part of plans to tap into the growing travel market, Air New Zealand has released plans to operate daily flights between China and New Zealand.

Promoting its worldwide connections, Emirates has released plans to launch a new global brand platform themed, ¡®Hello Tomorrow¡¯.

As one of the world's fast growing BRIC countries, India needs to open up over 188,500 additional hotels to cater to 1.747 billion expected visitors by 2021.

Carnival Corporation & plc has announced the deployment of Australian-based Sun Princess to Japan for a spring to summer season of cruising from April 2013.

The "Year of Russian Tourism" cooperation forum began last week in Beijing; organised to develop relationships and expand tourism opportunities between the two countries.

As part of its Middle East expansion plans, Sofitel Luxury Hotels opened its first property in Abu Dhabi.

The Chinese market will continuously be "an important source market" for Port Stephens, according to the region¡¯s tourism board, particularly after reaching record arrivals from the Asian country last year.

Jetstar Asia has announced Barathan Pasupathi will step in the role of chief executive, replacing the airline's current acting head Paul Daff.

Abu Dhabi is hoping to double the region¡¯s MICE arrivals over the next five years as part of its recently developed 2020 growth plans.

Sharing links into Asia, American Airlines (AA) and British Airways (BA) have announced a new code share agreement on flights from London to five Indian cities.

Tourism into Egypt will continue to stabilise this year, according to Eastern Mediterranean Tourism Association (EMTA) founder David Beirman.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has reported a 10 percent increase in passenger numbers in 2011.

Etihad Airways and China Eastern have contracted a Memorandum of Understanding to code share on flights between the UAE and China.

Philippine Airline, Cebu Pacific (CEB) has launched direct flights between Hong Kong and Boracay, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Philippines.

China Eastern has teamed up with Australian carrier, Qantas to create a new Asia-based budget airline, Jetstar Hong Kong.

TripAdvisor has launched a new hotel booking site called 'Tingo', designed to guarantee its customers receive automatic refunds if hotel rate drops.

New research carried out by Horwath HTL has shown the influx of new rooms over the past four years has had a negative impact on individual hotels operating performance.

A Pakistani entrepreneur is set to launch a new airline in the UAE called MMA airlines, with flights scheduled to start from Ras Al Khaimah airport in May 2012.

Silk Air, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, has launched its new Singapore to Darwin service which is set to boost tourism to Top End Australia.