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Founder of Banyan Group Shares Insights on Changing Travel Trends Among Modern Tourists
Kwon Ping Ho, 72, is the founder and executive chair of Banyan Group. Ho said the backpacking travelers of today are a different breed from the checklist sightseers of yesterday. Singapore Institute of Directors This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Banyan Group founder Kwon Ping Ho has spent over 30 years in the hospitality industry. Ho's luxury hotel chain launched its first resort in 1994 and now operates over 90 hotels globally. Ho told BI that tourists today have vastly different expectations from their parents' generation. Kwon Ping Ho has...

President Trump Booed at FIFA Club World Cup Final 2025 in New Jersey
President Donald Trump was booed by some spectators at the FIFA Club World Cup Final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sunday, as English soccer club Chelsea capped off the controversy-plagued tournament with a dominant 3-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain. FIFA President Gianni Infantino present medals to the players following the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Final match between PSG and Chelsea at MetLife Stadium.Less Anadolu via Getty Images The president attended the final along with First Lady Melania Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Trump was first met...

Unveiling the Cyber Scam Epidemic in Southeast Asia: A $37 Billion Global Threat
Southeast Asia has become a global epicenter of cyber scams, where high-tech fraud meets human trafficking. In countries like Cambodia and Myanmar, criminal syndicates run industrial-scale pig butchering operationsscam centers staffed by trafficked workers forced to con victims in wealthier markets like Singapore and Hong Kong. The scale is staggering: one UN estimate pegs global losses from these schemes at $37 billion. And it could soon get worse. The rise of cybercrime in the region is already having an effect on politics and policy. Thailand has reported a drop in Chinese visitors this year, after a Chinese actor was kidnapped...