 A distinctive eight-metre-tall sunflower topiary sculpture at Terminal 3 Departure Hall adorned with over 1000 sunflowers, offers a vibrant welcome spot for visitors. Photo courtesy of Changi Airport Group (CAG) Singapore Changi Airport has been transformed into a blooming spectacle with its first-ever flower-themed showcase from now till 30 September. ‘A Sunflower Sojourn’ features over 5,000 sunflowers of more than 10 exquisite varieties, beautifully arranged at over 20 locations across all four terminals. The showcase extends outdoors to Hub & Spoke, making it the largest sunflower showcase ever held in an airport. At the Departure Halls of Terminals 2 and 3, visitors will be treated to stunning floral displays featuring larger-than-life sunflower topiary sculptures, towering at five and eight metres tall respectively.
 Photo credit: ITB Asia 2023 As the travel industry continues to evolve at an unparalleled pace, the ITB Asia Conference 2024, running from 23 to 25 October in Singapore, provides the key platform to stay on the cutting edge and shape a resilient and dynamic future for global travel and tourism. Under this year’s theme “Innovating for Tomorrow: Strengthening Future Resilience in Travel and Tourism", the agenda of the three-day conference comprises ground-breaking knowledge and insights across three focused tracks on how to adapt to changing consumer expectations, improve operational efficiency and create more sustainable and immersive experiences.
 TCEB and 4 alliances' MOU on carbon credit trading platform for MICE and the business sector Marking sustainable events in Thailand with carbon offset that generates benefits for local communities will soon become a possibility when the five Thai alliance organisations made a soft launch of Thailand’s first carbon trading platform designed particularly for enterprises wishing to trade carbon in medium and small batch. The platform is now partially experimented among individual travelers and is expected for trial among MICE entrepreneurs at the end of this year.
 Photo courtesy of Changi Airport Group Singapore Changi Airport handled 16.5 million passenger movements from April to June 2024, an increase of 13.4 percent compared to a year ago. This was 98.2 percent of passenger movements for the same period in 2019. Aircraft movements, including landings and take-offs, totalled 89,300 for the quarter, up 9.7 percent year-on-year, and was 94.5 percent compared to the second quarter of 2019.
Max 90-Day Stay for MICE Visitors, Max 1-Year Stay for MICE Organizers Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) and three alliance organisations jointly announced their aligned measures to provide easier access to Thailand for overseas MICE travelers under TCEB’s umbrella initiative “Thailand MICE One Stop Service”.
The three alliance organisations are the Department of Consular Affairs, Airports of Thailand (AOT) Public Company Limited and Immigration Division 2. The announcement was made during the press conference TCEB held in July 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Sukhumvit Bangkok Hotel.  Photo courtesy of Changi Airport Group Changi Airport Group (CAG) and SGX Mainboard-listed OUE Limited (OUE) announced today that OUE has been awarded the tender by CAG for the lease and development of a new hotel to be located at Changi Airport Terminal 2 (T2). The new hotel, Hotel Indigo Changi Airport, is expected to be completed and fully operational by 2028.
 Photo courtesy of Changi Airport Group Singapore Changi Airport registered 16.5 million passenger movements from January to March 2024, surpassing what was registered for the first quarter of 2019 (Q1 2019) by 0.5%. The airport handled 5.43 million, 5.35 million and 5.73 million passenger movements in January, February and March 2024 respectively. These were 96%, 104.3% and 101.7% compared to the same month in 2019.
IT&CM China and CTW China 2024 in-person event took place in Shanghai over three days from 26 to 28 March, 2024. Aside from business and knowledge components, this year’s programme featured a wide array of activities and entertainment by major pavilions, networking sessions with the different exhibitors and knowledge sessions.
The show saw more than 250 exhibitors from Abu Dhabi, Hainan, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, Malaysia, Nanjing, New Zealand, Perth, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, amongst others. Along with that, there were more than 400 MICE, Association and Corporate Buyers from 23 countries/territories, who took advantage of the bountiful procurement and networking opportunities.  TCEB's recent press conference on the Festival Economy Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) is targeting festival sector to drive growth of Thai MICE industry. Partnering with four associations, the bureau will develop Thai festivals into a platform of business, attracting high-spenders and making Thailand a festival destination of global scale.
Following five years of grooming and supporting Thai festivals under “Festival Economy” initiative, TCEB announced during its recent press conference in Bangkok that it is joining hands with four associations to enter Phase-II of the initiative by uplifting Thai festivals into business festivals. This is where business to business or B2B platform is created for people in festival industry to meet and get involved in business transaction for festival products and services. |
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