INDONESIA Indonesian inbound travel companies consider the rapid growth of online travel businesses as their biggest challenge moving into 2018. Eddy Sunyoto, managing director of Terimakasih Indonesia Tours & Travel, said: “The biggest challenge is the international online travel companies [...]

The Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) has asked the Foreign Affairs department (DFA) to restore the 1,000 allotted slots previously provided to travel agents for passport renewals and application processing. PTAA president Marlene Dado Jante said that while they support [...]

FOREIGN Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano may not be too keen to return the 1,200 passport appointments allotted to the accredited travel agencies, despite receiving P128,000 membership fee from 256 travel companies. In a press conference, Cayetano said allowing them might [...]

A group of accredited travel agencies appealed to the Department of Foreign Affairs to reimpose their previously 1,000 allotted slots for passport Philippine Travel Agencies Association president Marlene Dado Jante said the yearly P500 accreditation fee to process passport imposed [...]