The travel trade publication will move from a weekly to a fortnightly publishing schedule and focus on circulation in Southeast Asia.
It will also shorten its name to Travel Weekly.
In other changes, editor Yeoh Siew Hoon has been promoted to publisher, taking over from Fiona Rankine, who is leaving to have a baby. Rankine will return next year as a consultant. Ian Jarrett, previously the journalist handling its aviation and international sections, will take over as editor.
Yeoh claimed the reduced frequency would give its writers time to produce special reports and features. She said it was more cost effective to deliver news, statistics and short analysis pieces through Travel Weekly's daily and weekly emailed bulletins.
As the title shifts its circulation focus, only those in the Southeast Asian travel sector and travel agents in Hong Kong and India will receive the magazine for free. The Northeast Asian travel industry will receive Travel Weekly China. Yeoh said Reed was looking at launching similar titles in Japan and Korea.
She added that the expansion proved Reed was committed to retaining its travel titles in Asia although it sold its US titles in October 2001, saying they were no longer assets of strategic importance.
