Press release -
Northstar Travel Media announces the relaunch of Travel Weekly Asia
Secaucus, NJ USA, October 27, 2014 – Northstar Travel Media announced today the relaunch of Travel Weekly Asia as a fully-integrated media platform for the Asia-Pacific travel market. Among the new initiatives in the relaunch are Travel Weekly Asia, a monthly print publication, a redesigned website and a responsive e-newsletter.
Travel Weekly Asia provides the Asia Pacific travel market with up-to-date news and market intelligence. The print publication, which will be distributed to 11,000 qualified and authorized travel professionals across the Asia-Pacific region, offers a variety of editorial segments such as agency stories, leaders in travel, social media and destination reports. It primarily targets senior and middle management.
The Travel Weekly Asia responsive e-newsletter, delivered daily to over 15,000 travel industry leaders, takes a global wrap of news headlines from the Northstar Travel Media family of brands, including Travel Weekly (U.S.A), Web in Travel, Business Travel News and others.
The redesigned website features a comprehensive cruise and hotel directory with over 300,000 hotel listings and global cruise listings.
“This is an exciting time for Travel Weekly Asia,” said Irene Chua, the group publisher of Travel Weekly Asia. “We have redesigned our print and digital platforms so that Asia’s travel professionals have instant and convenient access to travel industry information on a daily basis.”
Northstar Travel Media, the leading business-to-business information company serving the travel and meetings industries, acquired Travel Weekly China, Travel Weekly Asia, and Events China from Contineo Media, a multi-platform information provider based in Singapore, with locations in Beijing and Shanghai.
“We’re very excited about the increased impact a renewed Travel Weekly Asia will have across the Asia Pacific travel industry,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, editorial director, WIT and Travel Weekly Asia. “It demonstrates our dedication to providing the best information to our global audience.”
“Irene Chua and the Travel Weekly Asia team have done an outstanding job,” said Bob Sullivan, executive vice president of the Travel Group/Travel Weekly. “We can now provide unique content to our readers on a cutting edge platform.”
According to PhoCusWright’s Asia Pacific Online Travel Overview Seventh Edition, the Asia-Pacific region is projected to surpass Europe to once again become the world's largest regional travel market in 2014, with US$390 billion in gross travel bookings by 2016.
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- Business enterprise
Categories
- northstar travel
- relaunch
- travel weekly
- fully-integrated media platform
- asia-pacific travel market
- asia-pacific
- travel market
- monthly print publication
- monthly print
- publication
- monthly
- redesigned website
- website
- responsive e-newsletter
- e-newsletter
- enewsletter
- newsletter
- web in travel
- yeoh siew hoon
- irene chua
- siew hoon yeoh
- group publisher
- editorial director
- asia pacific
- singapore
- asia
About Travel Weekly Asia
Travel Weekly Asia ranks as Asia's leading travel industry b2b information brand, headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
As a multi-platform information provider, Travel Weekly Asia connects buyers and sellers through print products, websites, electronic newsletters, e-books, video channels, conferences and leading industry awards including the China Travel Weekly Industry Awards.
About Northstar Travel Media
Northstar Travel Media LLC is the leading provider of news, information and data for the travel, meetings and hospitality industries and parent of brands including Travel Weekly, Travel Weekly China, Travel Weekly Asia, M&C China, Business Travel News, Travel Procurement, PhoCusWright, Meetings & Conventions, Successful Meetings, Meeting News, Incentive, TravelAge West, Family Getaways, Explorer, Your Travel Insider and Luxury Cruise News, Marketing Solutions, Web in Travel and Inntopia.
Northstar’s electronic directories — Travel Weekly’s Hotel and Travel Index, Official Cruise Guide, and M&C Facilities Search and Successful Meetings Facilities Search— provide in-depth data on hotels, meeting and convention properties, and business travel in the United States and internationally.
In addition to its directories and periodicals, Northstar publishes a number of online subscription information resources, including The Beat, travel42, STAR Service Online, Intelliguide Corporate and BTP24.
Northstar produces more than 40 face-to-face events including The PhoCusWright Conference, PhoCusWright Europe, CruiseWorld, Global Travel Marketplace, Global Travel Marketplace West, M&C InterAct, M&C Events, M&C Asia, Successful Meetings Universities, The Beat Live, Tech Talk, Business Travel Trends and Forecast Forums and the Travel Weekly Leadership Forums, the Web in Travel conferences, WITX: Women In Travel, WIT Hospitality Roadshow and WITNext, and Mountain Travel Symposium.
Northstar also is an industry leader in marketing services, custom communications, content licensing and database management serving the travel and meetings industries. Based in Secaucus, NJ, the company also has offices in New York, NY; Glen Ellyn, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Winston-Salem, NC, Beijing and Shanghai, China; and Singapore. Inntopia is based in Stowe Vermont.
Northstar Travel Media, LLC is a portfolio company of Wicks Group of Companies LLC, a leading private equity investor in the information and business services, communications, and media sectors.
Contact:
Irene Chua
Group Publisher Travel Weekly Asia
Northstar Travel Media, LLC
ichua@ntmllc.com
+65 6521-9786
