Record numbers – 440 buyers, 20% more than last year – attended this year’s ILTM Asia, or International Luxury Travel Market Asia, the cousin to the leading luxury travel conference, ILTM. It is easy to see why: as much of the world teeters on the brink of a second dip of the Great Recession, the economies of the Asia Pacific region continue to boom. And as they do, they are creating ever more luxury travellers.