Yeoh Siew Hoon battles snow, strikes and budget airline blues to make it back to Berlin.

Yeoh Siew Hoon may be no early-riser but sometimes it has its compensations

You know, those cards in the bathrooms that tell you what to do with your towels? Well, they don't really work, says Yeoh Siew Hoon. But before we throw in the towel, let's see if Accor's new tactic will.

Is a vegetarian diet a path to riches and success in the bedroom? Yeoh Siew Hoon gets to the root of the debate.

From the lofty heights of Jaan, Yeoh Siew Hoon looks at a changing landscape and wonders how one “C” word and two “F” words will change life down below.

Yes, Yeoh Siew Hoon is dreaming of the day when she can quit the rat race and commute between beach hut and home office.

Lion City feels like Tinsel Town these days, says Yeoh Siew Hoon, who hopes the stage hands don’t get overwhelmed by the hype.

Yeoh Siew Hoon learns that everyone craves the genuine article these days – if only they knew what it is they want

As she prepares for a return to ITB Berlin, after a three-year hiatus, Yeoh Siew Hoon recounts those precious moments which still warm the cockles of her heart – or not.

Yeoh Siew Hoon spent the past week going from one travel event in one city to another - and in the process, has done nothing but eat. Now a new study tells her she is not to blame for the over-eating, it's the fault of hoteliers for making it so easy and available.

Yeoh Siew Hoon pleads for Beijing’s restaurants to stick with those wonderful, whacky menus that turn every meal into a Chinese opera.

Yeoh Siew Hoon searches for the nekkid truth in her efforts to keep up with net lingo.

What happened to all those getaway holidays? Yeoh Siew Hoon reckons that it's getting harder to escape from the madding crowd these days because everyone's following the crowd.

It may be too late to make those new year’s resolutions, but if you’re like Yeoh Siew Hoon you resolve to take a different approach.

Yeoh Siew Hoon couldn't get to where she really wanted to be for the new year so she made the best out of staying home.

Yeoh Siew Hoon looks back on the year that was and comes up with her list of great hospitality moments to remember.

Drenched but not downhearted, Yeoh Siew Hoon takes a gamble on some fickle weather.

Yeoh Siew Hoon wonders what goes on behind the magic door of a cool, new haunt in Singapore.

Yeoh Siew Hoon takes the road well-travelled by every business executive who's ever been to one of the world's fastest growing economies, and finds it riddled with contrasts and surprises.

In Part Two of Yeoh Siew Hoon’s Incredible India story, she bonds with fellow passengers having to cope with an 11-hour flight delay. Never mind, at least the champagne took off.

Yeoh Siew Hoon reflects on the lessons from last week's Web In Travel (WIT) in Singapore.

Yeoh Siew Hoon finds that laughter and travel is the best cure for a restless spirit.

Event organiser Yeoh Siew Hoon is tempted to sell using the suck-it-and-see Patong Principle.

They're not only getting older but they're also getting younger. Yeoh Siew Hoon reckons the whole Facebook thing could be this evil and insidious thing that just sucks up our time and lines us up, one by one, as target practice for clever marketers. But who's complaining?

Whether you are a romantic or a cynic, or just “men with big egos who love fancy toys”, there's no denying the magic of flight, as Yeoh Siew Hoon learns from an aviation pioneer and a hardened businessman.

What do fish heads and hotel rooms have in common? Yeoh Siew Hoon makes the connection.

As she learns to walk before she can run, Yeoh Siew Hoon ruminates about what she's gleaned from her spell as a one-legged traveller.

An unfortunate incident in a hotel bar in Singapore has left Yeoh Siew Hoon wondering why some things just can't change in the hotel business, especially when it comes to having two sets of rules, one for foreigners and one for locals.

There's no feeling sorry for Yeoh Siew Hoon as she ventures out on crutches and learns to see life from a one-legged perspective.

As Senior Analyst for Asia/Pacific for PhoCusWright Inc, Ram is a student of travel trends, as well as human behaviour.

Yeoh Siew Hoon recalls her first visit to Myanmar when she was tailed and fear was palpable. How the clock has turned back and with it, a gentle people's hopes.

This month, Radiohead put their album on the Internet and let their fans decide what price to pay for it. Can the travel industry learn something from this? For sure, says Yeoh Siew Hoon.

One young guy is having all the fun – and making all the money – while we just fritter our time away with friends from all over the world. Yeoh Siew Hoon gets caught up in the world of poking, mooning, throwing sheep, instant causes and voyeurism.

It has taken a sporting mishap to ground globe-trotting Yeoh Siew Hoon but her fingers do the walking while she waits for the wounds to heal.

Whether it's in Vegas, Macau or Singapore the winds of change blowing through the casino world mean the corporations have truly hit town. Yeoh Siew Hoon recalls the words of a favourite Hollywood movie character.

Yeoh Siew Hoon revisits an old friend with whom she had several first experiences – first golf game, first lie-ins in a “golden” suite, first encounters with crystal camels – and thinks the Empire is a hotel whose time has finally come.

Yeoh Siew Hoon visits The Venetian Macao and runs out of adjectives to describe BIG. This is a place where there is no night and day but make no mistake, a new dawn has broken for Asian tourism.

Singapore Girl is going extra big for extra price; AirAsia is going Xtra long for Xtra low. Will we see Extra Long Tiger and Super Kangaroo next, Yeoh Siew Hoon wonders as she wallows in the world's biggest flat bed.

Our Bond girl is feeling lucky. Three things have happened to her that's convinced her she's going to beat the house at the Venetian, Macau. She, along with a million others, of course.

Yeoh Siew Hoon only heard her once but it was enough to resonate and to carry within her words from a most remarkable and passionate woman.

Can one gadget or indeed one person do everything well? No, says Yeoh Siew Hoon, who's decided to remain a conspicuous communicator.

Yeoh Siew Hoon gives voice to her fantasy about having dinner with Mel Gibson – the one she nearly had but never did.

At the end of her damp holiday in France, the sun shines and Yeoh Siew Hoon falls in love again with the French capital where she has conversations with waiters about a dead crab and sip tea in a Morrocan-inspired cafe.

Yeoh Siew Hoon has become what she has long scorned, a chain texter and emailer, a serial communicator. In other words, a downright anti-social species.

Undaunted by howling gales, Yeoh Siew Hoon tucks into great seafood and four Frenchmen.

So you want to be a global brand? Here are some tips from John Quelch, Senior Dean of the Harvard Business School who spoke at the Global Brand Forum.

What do Nigel Parsons, managing director of Al Jazeera International, and Dato’ Tony Fernandes, Group CEO of AirAsia, have in common? Yeoh Siew Hoon finds out.

Yeoh Siew Hoon picks up some love tips from the Global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, who believes Asian brands have the most to learn. Here’s Lovemarks 101.

Yeoh Siew Hoon experiences lessons from an instant combustion of inspiration, energy and thought. In other words, a brilliant alchemy.

Yeoh Siew Hoon listens and learns as former US Vice President Al Gore says that global warming is everyone’s problem: yours, mine, the CEO’s and those pesky senators.

As Yeoh Siew Hoon prepares to head for Paris, she's all excited about the changes she'll find in the city of femininity and love.

Even iguanas are paying the price as Singapore races to become the hub of the universe, Yeoh Siew Hoon discovers.

Enough of the fun and games, even reality check happens in Second Life. And as Yeoh Siew Hoon writes, the virtual world is out there persuading companies to use their universe as a marketing medium. You want to give it a go?

Yeoh Siew Hoon comes up with a list of questions you must ask if you are thinking of setting up business in the virtual world.

Yeoh Siew Hoon returns to the Rainforest World Music Festival in Kuching to commune with music, nature, flying squirrels and ageing hippies.

When did the great outdoors become such a dangerous place when we have to fear the air we breathe, the gadgets we own, the liquids we carry and the doctors in our midst, Yeoh Siew Hoon wonders?

Yeoh Siew Hoon shares a story of how one customer encounter gone wrong is symptomatic of a bigger challenge facing Singapore.

We are working longer hours, we are getting more emails. Time, it seems, is passing us by. Which is why being stuck in traffic for two hours is not such a bad thing after all, as Yeoh Siew Hoon discovers.

Blackstone doesn't mean “the heart is made of stone” in any language. It does mean we might all end up working for seriously rich people though. Yeoh Siew Hoon gets stuck into the sale of the year – the Blackstone-Hilton transaction – concluding, we may be better off as shareholders than employees these days.

Yeoh Siew Hoon finally catches up with the Peace Hotel’s old jazz band – and experiences a bittersweet moment.

Reading between the lines, would-be self-help author Yeoh Siew Hoon discovers there’s a book out there for everyone – even duck lovers.

Yeoh Siew Hoon has just read that first-born children are the smartest. As a third-born, she wonders whether she should have spent so much time making doll’s dresses from her first-born brother’s physics books.

It’s amazing what a good scandal will do to bring out the crowds, says Yeoh Siew Hoon.

Yeoh Siew Hoon dedicates this article to all fellow travellers and those hoteliers who look after us while we are on the road.

Yeoh Siew Hoon scans the reaction from the hotel community to the news of Patrick Imbardelli’s fall from grace.

Yeoh Siew Hoon says that in today’s squeaky clean, politically-correct corporate jungle, there is no hiding place for mistakes, errors of judgement or little white lies. And there is no shortcut in life, too.

Yeoh Siew Hoon tackles the prickly subjects of money, passion and love by getting close to nature and learning from hedgehogs.

When is the right time to leave a job that no longer excites or drives you? Yeoh Siew Hoon talks to someone who needed a little push to make the big jump.

Why did the dog cross the road on a zebra crossing? Yeoh Siew Hoon goes looking for answers in Shangri-La.

Yeoh Siew Hoon is feeling generous this week. She’s decided to share the secrets she picked up at the Internet Summit she sneaked into.

Want to make wads of money while you sleep? Yes, don't just count sheep, count bucks. Yeoh Siew Hoon attends an almost evangelistic-like event that tells you how to make money on the Internet. So, what are you all waiting for?

From cross-the-bridge rice noodles to beef cooked at 60 degrees, and desserts that pop in her mouth, Yeoh Siew Hoon has had her tastebuds challenged of late. But what's the secret to good food? Is it in the passion or the gimmicks?

Like everyone else, Yeoh Siew Hoon is a little overwhelmed by all the talk about climate change. What can we do about it? Should we cancel our holidays? How can we turn guilt to action?

Is the Per Aquum story a best-seller in the making? Yeoh Siew Hoon finds out.

Perched in the new central world between west and east, Dubai’s future fascinates Yeoh Siew Hoon.

Yeoh Siew Hoon thinks Oman is the best-kept secret in the Middle East: an oasis amid the development frenzy that is engulfing the Gulf region. Don’t rush, though, because no one else does.

Yeoh Siew Hoon is suffering from a case of awards ad nauseum as she sits through another meaningless awards ceremony. In fact, she deserves an award.

The man who founded Pegasus is a man on top of the world. And this is a man who knows what he wants and where he’s going, in between the laughs, of course. Yeoh Siew Hoon catches up with John Davis.

Yeoh Siew Hoon just loves her gadgets – if only she could remember where she left them.

Yeoh Siew Hoon experiences life in the fast lane in Dubai where they're still building and people are still coming. And things show no signs of stopping. Unless...

Beijing is determined to have a clean and green city for the Summer Olympics and as Yeoh Siew Hoon finds out, even hotel housekeeping may be enlisted to sweep away the dust.

Kenny Rogers sang, “You have to know when to hold ‘em, you have to know when to fold ‘em”. He was referring to cards in a game of poker. Yeoh Siew Hoon suggests speakers at hotel conferences could adopt a similar philosophy: There is a time to promote, and there is a time to pack away the sales spiel.

Even our intrepid traveller Yeoh Siew Hoon is left foaming at the mouth by the food and the thrills of a city on speed.

Intrepid traveller who runs her own adventure company in China, Mei Zhang shares what moves her in what she does.

So there she was, sipping Domaines Barons de Rotschild (Lafite), Legende R Bordeaux Blanc 2004 when Keith Floyd bounces up to Yeoh Siew Hoon and says, “Darling, you look like a dish tonight. I’d love to cook you.”

Here was Yeoh Siew Hoon’s chance. An opportunity to ask Keith Floyd the questions she’s always wanted to ask. Problem was, she had 1,000 questions and only one hit.

Yeoh Siew Hoon wasn’t sure she appreciated hotel butlers until sound therapy and a girl named Anne helped to change her tune.

Yeoh Siew Hoon tries to ignore the food and display model behaviour (yes, it’s hard, we know) at the Singapore Fashion Festival.

What do two men talk about when they are in a back-to-nature resort? The unbearable lightness of being? Not a chance. They get into weightier issues as Yeoh Siew Hoon listens in.

Claus Sendlinger, founder of the Design Hotels Group, shares what makes him tick with The Transit Cafe.

Yeoh Siew Hoon attends a meeting in a venue that is unlike no other. For one, it helps saves children’s lives.

Yeoh Siew Hoon had one of those surreal Sundays where life begins anew.

Yeoh Siew Hoon dispatches a letter from Angkor Wat, where the first thing she did was not to visit the temples but something else altogether.

Yeoh Siew Hoon sees Shinta Mani with her own eyes, tastes a few tarts, meets some young folks and learns about pigs’ reproducing habits.

Yeoh Siew Hoon gets caught up in the travel web and has to fight her way out.

Red-hot Russians, Thai lady-boys and Koreans wearing designer sneakers: Yeoh Siew Hoon sees it all at Suvarnabhumi.

Yeoh Siew Hoon has decided to come to terms with her porcine nature and refuses to wallow in doubts about the year ahead.

Family reunions are often tricky affairs to negotiate, as Yeoh Siew Hoon discovers.

Has someone recently taken your middle stump? Are you worried about being caught at silly mid-on? Is yours a short leg, long leg or a fine leg? Or do you struggle with no balls? Fear not, Yeoh Siew Hoon has picked up the courage to write about something about which she knows nothing. You have been warned.

Is there a Living Doll for every Bachelor Boy? Yeoh Siew Hoon spends one night ogling at a 66-year-old man and concludes... older men are hot.