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2.49M visitors and record 69.5% occupancy, the airport doubled to 11.9M, Khorgos at 800K TEU — and ₸300bn of hotels under construction.
A 43.8M-passenger airport growing international traffic 24%, India’s sharpest hotel rate gains and a metro past a million riders a day.
Aman aai Lert, Ritz-Carlton and the riverfront Four Seasons make Bangkok Asia's densest luxury cluster per kilometre of skyline.
Two airports past 124 million passengers, a 909-km subway — and the visa-free wave filling hutong courtyards at ¥15,000 a night.
A record 24.88-million-TEU port, the first regional airport past 10 million international passengers, and Asia’s liveliest festival October.
China’s third aviation city past 90 million passengers, a metro built from zero to 721 km in fifteen years — and teahouse value a third below the coast.
The vertical city ships out: the world’s largest station and satellite terminal both opened in 2025, a 593-km metro rides the mountains, and Chaotianmen pier sends a million cruise passengers down the Yangtze.
78.15M-passenger air hub, 2.35bn metro journeys and India’s top port of entry at 28.8%.
Japan’s fastest-growing big city: airport five minutes from Hakata, a doubled international terminal and second runway — and a Ritz-Carlton on the skyline.
A record 83.6M passengers and the world’s largest terminal, a metro moving 14 million trips a day — and the Canton Fair doubling every rate twice a year.
The lake city, digitized: a 50-million-passenger airport, 516 km of metro built in a decade, the Grand Canal’s southern gate — and 236 million visits monetized by the ecosystem behind DeepSeek.
A record 33.7M visitors, Fairmont breaking a ten-year luxury freeze, Four Seasons bound for Hoan Kiem Lake and 303.5 km of metro arriving by 2030.
The engine gets its rails: Vietnam’s first metro, a 50-million-capacity airport with a Southeast-Asia-record successor rising, and 8.6 million foreign guests in a record tourism year.
The RevPAR recovery lags Singapore, but Rosewood, Regent and the St. Regis hold the flag line — and Kai Tak brings the first new district in decades.
Southeast Asia’s biggest urban machine: CGK climbing toward 94M capacity, Whoosh past 12M passengers, and a metro growing 15% a year.
KLIA’s record 63.3M passengers and a six-place leap into the world top 20, a 6,209-room pipeline led by Waldorf Astoria and Regent, and Malaysia’s ASEAa-topping 42.2M visitors.
A record airport, a rail network finally joining its fragments — and a hotel wave where the mid-market discounts and luxury holds firm.
A record 55.5M-passenger airport plus a brand-new twin, the world’s busiest commuter railway and India’s top hotel rates.
Japan’s engine room gets its luxury deck: Conrad atop Sakae, ESPACIO by the castle moat, Andaz signed for the maglev station — and Tokyo 40 minutes away by 2035.
The river capital relearns crowds: 181 million visits in ten months, Asia’s largest high-speed station, the planet’s biggest inland port — and the first metro to cross a provincial border.
Japan’s kitchen got its hardware: record 34.1M through a rebuilt KIX, an Expo that rode the metro at +15%, and three luxury flags in ten months.
JW Marriott's Jeju playbook meets the capital: Banyan Tree, Signiel and a wave of lifestyle brands chase K-culture's inbound boom.
China’s front door reopened: a record 135M-passenger airport system, the world’s busiest integrated hub at Hongqiao, and foreign arrivals up 40% on the visa-free wave.
Record everything at Bao'an, China’s densest metro, Rosewood landing on Shennan Boulevard — and a market that defied the national hotel dip.
Raffles Sentosa, the Standard and a second Edition extend the city-state beyond Marina Bay — while Changi's expansion rewrites arrival math.
A 50-million airport doubling itself, a five-level mega-station and Asia’s easiest first Chinese-speaking city.
11.68M foreign trips and +46.8% growth, an airport at its ceiling with a $2.5bn replacement rising — and a whole second city on the eastern horizon.
Janu, Bulgari and the Edition Ginza landed within two years; inbound records keep Tokyo's luxury pipeline the deepest in Asia.
The Silk Road clock restarts: 327 million visits, an airport terminal bigger than three others combined, a metro past the London Underground — and the continent’s busiest China–Europe rail port.
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