May 2022: In Review
Blog Published on 11 Jun 2022
“Our Man in Vientiane” tops the list again! Three times, we’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Rolan on The South East Asia Travel Show. Three times, Jason’s on-the-spot insights about travel in Laos have taken the respective month’s No.1 podcast title. November 2020. August 2021. Now May 2022. Congrats to Jason, who topped the Deciphering South East Asia’s Hottest Travel Buzzwords pod, which placed second in May.
Click the links below to listen to our top-rated May 2022 shows - listed in ranking order (for total listens during the month):
- Ep 133: Laos Reopens to International Tourists, with Jason Rolan
- Ep 132: Deciphering South East Asia’s Hottest Travel Recovery Buzzwords
- Ep 134: South East Asia Seeks to Build Momentum For A Travel Recovery
- Ep 130: Talking All Things Travel & Tourism in Thailand in 2022, with Vincent Vichit-Vadakan
Here are our top 4 May podcast stats:
- The show was downloaded in 61 countries during the month.
- Top 10 listener markets were: US, Australia, UK, Thailand, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Philippines.
- Just outside the Top 10 were Kenya, New Zealand, Japan, Denmark, UAE and Netherlands.
- 36.4% of listeners tuned in via Apple Podcasts, 19.3% on Spotify, 10.0% on Google Podcasts, 3.1% on CastBox & 2.9% via Overcast.
Latest Episodes Catch up with the pods you may have missed
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10 Oct 2025 • 34m24s
Ep 271: Chinese Holidaymakers Jet Off, Multiple Muslim Tourism Initiatives & Fiscal Relief for Travel Workers: September + Golden Week in Review
After three weeks in Japan, Singapore and Italy, Gary and Hannah are back in KL to recap the top travel talking points from September and early October. China’s Mid-Autumn Golden Week has just wrapped up, so we assess the current state of play in a diversifying Chinese outbound market.
Elsewhere, we discuss a raft of new Muslim-friendly tourism initiatives being introduced across South East Asia, note a shift towards waterborne transport innovation and crunch the numbers of a tax relief scheme for travel industry workers in Indonesia.
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25 Sep 2025 • 32m29s
Ep 270: From Japan to South East Asia to South America: Confronting the Cumulative Challenges of Tourism, with Joao Romao
Economic and social processes shape tourism development, but - in turn - tourism reshapes economic spaces, and that is creating new challenges in South East Asia and beyond. This week, Gary welcomes Joao Romao, Associate Professor at Yasuda Women’s University in Japan, to discuss his new book, Economic Geography of Tourism. An economist, tourism strategy advisor and former travel documentary maker, Joao assesses contemporary tourism through a lens of shifting global economic, technological, societal, environmental and political challenges.
