Yantai Penglai International Airport’s Terminal 2 in China has been named the “world’s most beautiful airport,” according to a ranking by global architecture award Prix Versailles.

A Philippine tourist who got lost in Hanoi during the New Year holidays took a taxi 26 km to Noi Bai airport and waited overnight there hoping to reunite with his family.

Malaysia has begun enforcing stricter penalties on littering to safeguard its tourism image, with authorities aiming to make the country “even cleaner” than Singapore.

Japan’s Okayama Prefecture was named the second fastest-growing destination after Vietnam’s Sa Pa, according to digital travel platform Agoda.

A fire that broke out in the early hours of Jan. 7 at Chalong Pier in the southern Thai province of Phuket has destroyed more than 20 speedboats.

The Philippines, known for its incredible biodiversity and pristine coral reefs, has been voted the world’s leading dive destination at the 2025 World Travel Awards.

The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of up to US$15,000 to apply to enter the U.S., the world’s largest economy.

Five people, including three Singaporean tourists, were slapped with fines of RM2,000 (US$490) each for littering in public places in Malaysia’s Johor Bahru on Monday.

Sa Pa was named Asia’s fastest-growing tourist destination in 2025, reflecting growing interest among international visitors in Vietnam’s culturally rich highland town, according to online travel platform Agoda.

The Philippines welcomed 5.6 million foreign visitors in 2025, nearly equal to the figure it logged in 2024, but lagged behind Southeast Asian peers.