Mercedes Hutton

Pipes thought to transfer sewage to the sea on Boracay Island, in the Philippines, before the popular tourist destination was closed to tourists for six months. Picture: Kyodo

Opinion

Manila says Boracay sewage clean-up is ‘almost there’. Is it?

15 Aug 2018 - 9:46am 1

The landmark late-Victorian General Post Office, built in 1911, was vacated in 1976 as it could no longer meet Hong Kong’s growing postal needs.

Short Reads

When landmark Victorian Post Office made way for a modern building

10 Aug 2018 - 7:19am

Tragedy and natural disaster have wreaked havoc across the region, and the tourism industry has not escaped lightly

Opinion

Cruel summer: 2018 has not been kind to Asian tourist destinations

8 Aug 2018 - 10:22am

US airlines’ recent concessions to Beijing’s demands on Taiwan suggest that China’s tourism industry has significant clout on the international stage

Opinion

Are tourists China’s most valuable economic weapon in US trade war?

4 Aug 2018 - 4:23pm 12

Women outside a go-go bar in Pattaya. Picture: Reuters

Opinion

Pattaya reinvented? Thailand’s ‘sex capital’ tries to clean up its act

25 Jul 2018 - 8:03am

Grantham Hospital, in Aberdeen, where Hong Kong’s first hole-in-heart operation was performed. Pictures: SCMP

Short Reads

Hong Kong’s first hole-in-heart surgery ‘years behind China’

27 Jul 2018 - 12:52pm

Vietnam's biggest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City, hopes to triple Chinese tourist arrivals in the next two years.

Opinion

Despite recent hostility, Vietnam wants more Chinese tourists

18 Jul 2018 - 8:45am 2

Tourists crowd Maya Bay in Thailand ahead of its closure due to overtourism on June 1.

Opinion

Is the media to blame for overtourism? Or the travellers?

11 Jul 2018 - 2:04pm

Chinese tourists near the Harbour Bridge in Sydney. Picture: Reuters

Opinion

Sustainable tourism: is it possible with 1.6 billion tourists by 2020?

4 Jul 2018 - 10:07am

A low-season trek in the Annapurna region presents encounters with few fellow hikers but plenty of Himalayan fauna, including rather too many leeches

Travel

Nepal in low season: occasional peak sightings, many leeches

29 Jun 2018 - 10:46am

A woman from Beijing receives the Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine at a hospital in Hainan province on May 30, becoming the first person to obtain the injection in mainland China. Picture: Reuters

Opinion

Medical tourism brings Asia big bucks despite hiccups in Hong Kong

28 Jun 2018 - 2:31pm

A photo of Chinese tourists wearing T-shirts bearing Beijing’s controversial “nine-dash line” at Vietnam’s Cam Ranh International Airport in May went viral, sparking anger and calls for a China-specific code of conduct. Picture: Twitter / Nga Pham

Opinion

Do Chinese tourists need a ‘code of conduct’? Vietnam thinks so

20 Jun 2018 - 10:17am 13

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un at the Capella Singapore on Sentosa Island. Picture: AFP

Opinion

Kim, Trump and tourists – Singapore cashes in on historic summit

13 Jun 2018 - 7:47am

Queues at Phuket International Airport are often excruciating.

Opinion

Fighting fire with fire: Thailand combats overtourism with more tourists

6 Jun 2018 - 10:16am

Elephants perform in a show at Bali Elephant Camp, one of the tourist attractions found to offer inadequate care to the animals in its charge by charity World Animal Protection.

Opinion

From Bali to Lombok, Indonesia’s appalling record of animal cruelty

29 May 2018 - 8:15pm 1

Mainland Chinese tourists in the Golden Bauhinia Square, in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Picture: AFP

Opinion

A few badly-behaved tourists aside, Chinese visitors are reshaping economies

24 May 2018 - 5:04pm 10

Much like the stereotypical millennial, Kim Jong-un has recently seen an increase in work-related travel, giving him ample opportunity to indulge in ‘bleisure’. Picture: EPA

Opinion

‘Bleisure’ is not millennial, it’s a bad name for business and leisure

16 May 2018 - 10:15am

Tourists on a busy street in Asakusa, Tokyo, contributing to what Japan is calling its “tourism pollution”. Picture: Kyodo

Opinion

Is wooing Chinese a good idea if Japanese see tourists as ‘pollution’?

10 May 2018 - 1:35pm 1

The South China Morning Post headline on May 11, 1927. Picture: SCMP

Short Reads

How 1927 Hong Kong steamer tragedy claimed more than 100 lives

4 May 2018 - 7:01am

In pursuit of the perfect picture to post, a tourist blocks the glass-bottomed Coiling Dragon Cliff skywalk in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Hunan province, China. Picture: EPA

Opinion

How social media is ruining your holiday, especially in Asia

2 May 2018 - 5:12am 3

Locals and tourists in front of bronze statues of former North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Grand Monument on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Opinion

How safe is North Korea – and is it an ethical tourist destination?

25 Apr 2018 - 2:01pm 1

A holiday in Hong Kong ended in tragedy when 15 people – servicemen, their family members and aircrew – were killed after the Douglas DC-3 they were flying in crashed into Mount Parker

Short Reads

When a US Air Force plane crashed in Hong Kong in 1961

20 Apr 2018 - 7:19am 2

Plus, Singapore outranks Hong Kong – and the rest of the world – in terms of passport power, and Bali undergoes a makeover ahead of annual IMF meeting

Opinion

How Chinese tourists and mobile payments are changing the way we travel

20 Apr 2018 - 9:44am 2

A double-decker bus in Tsim Sha Tsui in the 1950s. Picture: courtesy of KMB

Short Reads

Why Hong Kong’s first double-decker buses arrived 12 years late

17 Apr 2018 - 4:14pm

Also, some ill-considered advice from Thai authorities ahead of this week’s Songkran celebrations

Opinion

Why is tourism so bad for Southeast Asia’s beaches?

11 Apr 2018 - 9:47am

Plus, Airbnb China will soon be sharing guest and host details with authorities and Maya Bay, of The Beach fame, set to close

Opinion

Is Bangkok becoming the next Singapore or Tokyo?

4 Apr 2018 - 10:49am 7

Chinese tourists in Tokyo’s Ueno Park during cherry blossom season. Picture: Kyodo

Opinion

What does Japan have against Chinese tourists?

27 Mar 2018 - 8:51pm 38

Scavengers sift through piles of rubbish on the Philippine resort island of Boracay. Picture: AFP

Opinion

Duterte’s ‘cesspool’ Boracay Island set for closure. Or is it?

6 Apr 2018 - 4:14pm

Ocean Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui in 1970. Picture: SCMP

Short Reads

Why Ocean Terminal was a symbol of Hong Kong’s success

16 Mar 2018 - 11:50am

Hong Kong skier Arabella Ng.

Post Magazine

Quiz: how much do you know about the Winter Olympics?

12 Feb 2018 - 12:47pm

A response to rising demand for water from a growing population and an increase in homes with running water, High Island Reservoir was opened in 1978

Short Reads

Why Hong Kong needed High Island Reservoir

8 Feb 2018 - 10:53am