P&O Cruises – an Australian cruise operator – announced its return to Singapore since 2006. The company offers four roundtrip voyages as part of its 2015/2016 programme. The Singapore season will take travellers to destinations in Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia and see the cruise line’s maiden calls to Krabi, Sabang (Palau Weh), Koh Chang and Sihanoukville. Anne Sherry, CEO of P&O Cruises announced that Australia is the world’s fastest growing cruise markets at nearly 834,000 Australian travellers in total last year.

Myanmar Airways International (MAI) will release its thrice-weekly direct flights to Osaka and Seoul this October. The reason for this is due to the increase of Japanese travellers to Myanmar which was observed. Passengers flying via MAI’s Japan and South Korea routes will also get visa on arrival at Yangon International Airport. This has so far been only applied to Cambodia and Guangzhou’s routes by the airline. Meanwhile, plans are afoot for tie-ups with other airlines and to refresh MAI’s fleet.

Instead of Bohol and Palawan, Bluewater Resorts ventures for further expansions and development opportunities in Siguijor. Bluewater is planning to offer guests multi-resort stays amongst their properties in Cebu, Bohol, Dumaguete and Siquijor, if a common billing system could be worked out. In Bohol, Bluewater has altered its ambitious plans to expand its 54-room property on Panglao Island to 200 rooms and add meeting rooms and a convention hall. This is due to the occupancy rate performance of 40-45% caused by the earthquake which occurred in last October.

From 16th October 2014, AirAsia will fly directly three-times weekly from Johor Bahru to Bandung. Promotional seats have been directly offered on the airline’s main website. The three times weekly direct flights will operate every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, marking AirAsia's fourth Indonesian destination connected with direct flights from the airline’s southern hub, Johor Baru, apart from Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Lombok. Apart from AirAsia, only Citilink Indonesia currently flies to Johor Bahru, also out of Surabaya. In the past, Johor Bahru used also to be connected to Jakarta and Medan.