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Experience Macau’s Dual Heritage
When I first visited Macau almost 30 years ago, it was a sleepy Portuguese enclave, with pedicabs serving as taxis for the locals and a potholed road leading from the ferry terminal into town. Visitors...
View ArticleTokyo’s Neighborhoods Transform After Hours
At dusk, Tokyo is transformed. The drab, smog-gray cityscape bursts into color. Neon signs flash and glow, and staid streets morph into a kaleidoscopic wonderland. By daylight, you will already have...
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Seoul: Leading Edge of Global Economy
We have been dancing to a South Korean beat for years without even realizing it. Over the past three decades, the country’s influence in the electronics industry, the automobile industry,...
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Shanghai Attracts New Investment
Zipping from the airport to downtown Shanghai on the world’s fastest maglev train seems a most appropriate way to enter China’s largest, hippest and fastest-growing megacity. Once a backwater fishing...
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MICE Yokohama
Every leisure traveler knows of Tokyo and Kyoto, but few are familiar with Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city with 3.7 million residents, a glittering and vibrant downtown, attractive hotels,...
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Beijing: Sky’s The Limit
Though Beijing has been doing business for more than 3,000 years and served as China’s capital since the reign of Kublai Khan, it never seems to stop growing at breakneck speeds. The first...
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Entertain Clients On Hainan Island
Once populated by exiled poets and politicians, Hainan Island would scarcely be recognizable to the banished officials who called it home. China’s only tropical beach destination now boasts 4- and...
View ArticleOmotesando, Tokyo
On my first visit to Tokyo 30 years ago, I was so blown away by the city’s energy, I knew I had to stay. I got a job at a travel magazine and lucked into an apartment belonging to a friend of a friend....
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Guangzhou Grows In New Directions
When Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta visited Guangzhou in the 14th century, the city had already begun its transformation from ancient port to modern boomtown. The large ships he saw manufactured for...
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Taipei: Indispensable Global City
Horace Greeley’s advice to enterprising Civil War veterans — “Go West, young man” — might also apply today. But in this century, it points further west, across the Pacific to Taipei, where enterprise...
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