The Board of AirAsia Berhad (“The Board”) today announced the appointment of Datuk Mohamed Azman Yahya as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mohammed Rashdan bin Mohd Yusof, an Executive Director at Malaysian Airline System Berhad, will be appointed as his Alternate Director. The appointments take effect from 11 August 2011.

CITS International M.I.C.E. Co., Ltd. recently inked a deal as a new partner with TTG Asia and MP International in Shanghai on jointly organizing the future IT&CM China. The 2012 event will run at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, former Shanghai World Expo Them Pavilion, from April 17-19. The signing ceremony was attended by Shanghai Municipal Tourism Administration (SMTA).

Executives involved in organizing and arranging international  incentive travel, meetings, conferences, product presentations and events are being invited to apply to attend as hosted buyers to the 17^th edition of MITM Americas, Meetings & Incentive Travel Market to take place in San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America, next  November 15^th to 18^th.

MITM invitation includes:

Thailand has signed an MOU with the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (World Philately Federation) or FIP to serve as host of the World Philatelic Exhibition in Bangkok in 2013. A cooperation agreement with the Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) was also signed in support of the event. With the full backing of the private sector, the event will provide a boost to Thailand’s MICE industry and attract tourists as well as stamp lovers and collectors from around the world. It is projected that the event will generate over 2 billion baht in revenues.

Thomas Zhang, Tourism-Insider Office, Guangzhou

About 32.21 million Chinese mainland residents made overseas trips in the first half of this year, up 19.9 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Public Security. China’s Hong Kong, China’s Macao, the Republic of Korea, China’s Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, and Cambodia were the 10 most visited destinations by Chinese mainland residents, said a statement released Thursday by the ministry’s Bureau of Exit-Entry Administration.

Thomas Zhang, Tourism-Insider Office Guangzhou, China

China’s southernmost costal resort of Sanya in Hainan Province has seen over 5.12 million tourist arrivals in the first half year, according to statistics released by the the city’s tourism committee on Thursday. Sanya is the only tropical coastal tourism city in China. The city has generated a total tourism revenue of 8.766 billion yuan (U.S. dollars) in the first half year, according to the statistics.