LATTE was privileged to be invited to attend this year’s Thailand Travel Mart Plus from 5-7 June, joining a total of 340 buyers from 51 countries, including Australia and New Zealand, and 370 sellers to meet at the Ocean Marina Yacht Club in Pattaya, the second consecutive year the location has hosted this event.

With Asia Pacific continuing to dominate the world’s high net worth population, the second edition of ILTM Asia Pacific – which took place place in Singapore, 27-30 May 2019 – was 10% bigger than the first in 2018, hosting 572 buyers from across the region who took part in 30,422 one-to-one, pre-selected meetings with some of the world’s latest and most interesting and luxury travel brands.

Aaron Liersemann from Oregon’s Mt Hood Territory and the Australian Travel Portland reps have been busy attending ski shows and meeting and training agents for the past two weeks getting the word out on Oregon’s two ski areas, Mt Batchelor (located near Bend in Central Oregon) and Mt Hood (just 90 minutes from downtown Portland).

Hawaiian Airlines marked 15 years of continuous service between Honolulu and Sydney on the night of Friday 17 May 2019, when HA451 landed at Sydney International Airport.

Tourism Fiji’s annual Fijian Tourism Expo (FTE) kicked off at the Sheraton Fiji Resort, Denarau on Tuesday 21 May 2019. The two-day expo officially opened on Wednesday night at 6pm with a welcome event at the Sofitel Fiji Resort & Spa’s newly expanded Waitui Beach Club.

The Luxperience team hosted an exclusive superyacht experience, in partnership with luxury charter yacht specialists Ahoy Club, for a selected group of premium agents on the Gold Coast last week.

Travel trade partners were given the opportunity to meet Switzerland Tourism’s impending new local chief at a cocktail event and market update in Sydney last night at the West Hotel.

Eight Flight Centre agents were given the special opportunity to spend the night in a Bavarian castle dating back more than eight centuries (“Do they have ghosts here?”) on their recent famil trip to Germany, organised by the German National Tourist Office (GNTO) and Lufthansa.

Seabourn officials held an event in Sydney last Friday where they revealed the first renderings of the Wintergarden, Signature and Owners Suites of the cruise line’s ultra-luxury expedition ships.

Macao is set to stage its largest array of art exhibitions as part of its year-long 20th anniversary celebrations as a Special Administrative Region of China (SAR).