Families in war-torn Ukraine face a tough winter, many without power for cooking, and World Central Kitchen is providing them hot meals. Restaurants in Asia are helping fund its work.
"There was no time for formalities," says Cathy Feliciano-Chon, the founder of marketing consultancy CatchOn & Company. She's referring to a frenzied two weeks when the team behind World Central Kitchen – the charitable organisation established by chef Jose Andreas to provide immediate food relief for disaster-struck areas around the world – reached out to her "in a panic". For.
At the forefront of luxury travel trends, International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) Asia Pacific opened in Singapore. To mark the occasion, ILTM released its latest research identifying three consumer archetypes that travel brands should be on the lookout for to capitalize on the escalating wellness and luxury travel sector. According to the latest Global Wellness Institute (GWI) report, wellness tourism is one of the fastest-growing segments in the wellness economy today and Asia Pacific is now the fastest growing market, catapulting its future value to US$252 billion.
Commissioned by ILTM, the report is produced by CatchOn, a Finn Partners company and is available online at view.iltm.com. The study is the result of 50 one-on-one interviews with travelers, luxury tour operators, spa consultants, travel journalists, wellness destination resorts and hospitality brands based in Asia Pacific. The report identifies three consumer archetypes who will be driving the future of wellness tou
An overwhelming majority of global travel writers (94%) plan to resume travel this year for first-hand reporting, a strong indication of the pent-up demand for travel with recognition about safety with the availability of coronavirus vaccines, according to a Finn Partners Global Travel Practice survey released today.