Bruce Stanley
Asian Wall Street Journal

Bruce Stanley reports about developments in travel and tourism for the Asian Wall Street Journal. Based at the newspaper's Hong Kong bureau, he keeps one eye fixed on China, and the businesses implications of the expanding opportunities for travel to and from that country, while the other eye roams the wider region. Bruce has studied the impact that Asia's proliferating low-cost airlines are having on the aviation industry, and he reported most recently about the bonanza that international casino operators foresee in Singapore and other potential gambling and tourism centres. He spent several weeks earlier this year reporting exclusively about the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, focusing on the impact of the disaster on hotels and other tourism-related businesses in Thailand and the Maldives and on the efforts that hotel operators have made to rebuild and to win back customers.

Prior to his current assignment, Bruce covered the airline industry from London, where he was based for five years while reporting in Europe and the Middle East. He began his 12 years as a business journalist in Vietnam and had an inside view of that closed society as it began opening up to foreign tourists in the early 1990s. Before he began writing for a living, Bruce worked in international banking and in shrimp aquaculture in the Philippines.