Bhutan

Singapore, Bhutan call for carbon credit project applications

These credits may be used by companies to offset their taxable emissions

At the National Memorial Chorten, people turn prayer wheels – a spiritual practice believed to accumulate merit and cleanse negative karma.

Bhutan’s double bet: Mindfulness and nature to drive tourism and investment

At the heart of the country’s transformation is the Gelephu Mindfulness City, an urban project thrice the size of Singapore

Ed Sheeran on stage in Bhutan.
TRAVEL

Ed Sheeran and Bhutan show the way ahead for music tourism

The isolated nation and first-time concert host is showing developed countries how to make music tourism more meaningful and sustainable

Ed Sheeran performing in Bhutan.

Music tourism the Bhutanese way

IF YOU’RE a music fan who travels wherever your favourite star goes, you’re well familiar with the routine: ridiculously expensive tickets, cookie-cutter stage setups, portaloos and long queues for me...

Since Bhutan started welcoming tourists in 1974, it has built its reputation on low-volume crowds and high-paying guests, drawn to sweeping Himalayan mountain vistas and Buddhist monasteries perched on cliffs.

Bhutan making it easier to visit to revive economy

Bhutan welcomed 103,000 visitors in 2023, about two-thirds below its pre-pandemic record reached in 2019

Bhutan said the “Gelephu Mindfulness City” (GMC) will lie in a special administrative region with separate rules and laws that will aim to be an economic corridor linking South Asia to South-east Asia.

Buddhist Bhutan to build ‘mindfulness city’ to woo investment, create jobs

BHUTAN, the Himalayan kingdom that brought the world the concept of gross national happiness, is set to build a “mindfulness city” and began raising funds on Monday (Nov 11) to help start the ambitiou...

Former Changi Airport Group (CAG) and Surbana Jurong chairman Liew Mun Leong (left) has been appointed as CEO of Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City. Former CAG CEO Lee Seow Hiang (right) has been appointed as a board member.

Liew Mun Leong, Lee Seow Hiang appointed to board of Bhutan’s new economic hub

Liew was the founding CEO and president of CapitaLand Group, and Lee was CEO of Changi Airport Group

The luxurious tented suites of andBeyond Punakha River Lodge bring guests closer to Bhutan's flora and fauna.
TRAVEL

andBeyond in Bhutan: Fusing luxury and sustainability 

Its newest lodge places guests in lavish tented suites on the banks of a famous river

A hiker on the Trans-Bhutan Trail
TRAVEL

Legendary Trans-Bhutan Trail reopens to the world

The 403 km trek is one of the greatest cross-country journeys to take in a lifetime

What Bhutan offers the world is not a top-of-the-world ranking, but a very useful holistic way of analysing every state initiative for society.
PERSPECTIVE

Covid’s 'great reset': Taking a leaf from Bhutan

What the kingdom offers is not a top-of-the-world ranking, but a very useful holistic way of analysing every state initiative for society.