Overview: As the Asia Pacific travel industry moves deeper into 2026, tourism growth is increasingly shaped by geopolitical uncertainty, economic volatility, aviation constraints, and shifting traveller behaviour. Building on the forecasting themes introduced in the beginning-of-year webinar, this mid-year session revisits the latest tourism outlook considering evolving global conditions.
The webinar will examine how inflation, exchange-rate fluctuations, regional tensions, visa policies, and changing outbound travel patterns are reshaping tourism demand across the Asia Pacific region. Attention will be given to intra-regional travel growth, destination competitiveness, aviation recovery, and the strategic repositioning of destinations competing for resilient, high-value markets.
Participants will gain updated, evidence-based insights to support strategic planning and decision-making in an increasingly uncertain global tourism environment.
What You'll Learn:
How the latest Asia Pacific visitor forecasts have evolved during 2026 and which destinations are outperforming or slowing.
How geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and aviation constraints are influencing tourism demand and destination competitiveness.
Why intra-regional travel and changing Chinese outbound travel patterns are becoming increasingly important drivers of growth.
Which destinations are best positioned to benefit from shifts toward value-driven, resilient, and sustainability-focused travel demand.
June 17, 4 PM Singapore (8 AM London | 1:30 PM New Delhi | 3 PM Bangkok | 7 PM Sydney | 9 PM Auckland)
Speaker:
Professor Haiyan Song, Mr and Mrs Chan Chak Fu Professor in International Tourism in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management and Director of Research Centre for Digital Transformation of Tourism at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Haiyan Song has a background in Economics with a particular focus on tourism demand modelling and forecasting. He has played significant roles in a number of international collaborative research projects, covering tourist satisfaction and service quality indices, tourism demand forecasts, web-based tourism demand forecasting systems, and tourist satellite account development. Prof. Song has published more than 250 journal articles in both mainstream economics journals as well tourism and hospitality journals. Read More