Yearly Archives: 2016
Not business as usual
To effectively grow Maharashtra as a leisure tourist destination and spur business travellers to stay longer, more efforts should be made to court new...
Jumeirah appoints regional VP, GM in China
DUBAI-BASED Jumeirah Group has appointed Graham Kiy as regional vice president, Greater China and general manager of Jumeirah Nanjing.
The British national moves into his...
Radisson Blu Resort Hua Hin gets opening GM
HOTEL veteran Preet Inder Singh has taken the helm at the soon-to-open Radisson Blu Resort Hua Hin.
Prior to this, he was already general manager...
Marco Polo promotes Christoph Hoeflich to GM
HONG Kong-based Marco Polo hotels has promoted Christoph Hoeflich to the post of general manager at Marco Polo Shenzhen.
Hoeflich was most recently the hotel...
GSS most attractive to travellers from Japan, China
JAPAN and China holds the potential to be the strongest source market for Singapore during the Great Singapore Sale (GSS) period, which comes to...
New hotel openings: August 8 to 12, 2016
The latest hotel openings and announcements made this week
Mercure Singapore Bugis
AccorHotels has opened the new-build Mercure Singapore Bugis, a 395-room hotel located in the...
Small travel start-ups, hotels invited to exhibit at PTM 2016
INDONESIA’s Ministry of Tourism is inviting small travel start-ups and hotels to take part in the upcoming PATA Travel Mart (PTM) 2016.
The ministry’s deputy...
Series of bomb blasts kill at least three in Thailand
Paramedics taking care of wounded in Trang. Credit: Facebook/สามล้อกู้ภัย บรรเทาศูนย์สอง
MULTIPLE explosions went off in cities and popular tourist spots around Thailand Thursday afternoon continuing...
B2B mobile app Tineri helps tour operators sort out itineraries
DISSATISFACTION with how tour operators are presenting their itineraries to clients is what led travel entrepreneur Tim Russell to create Tineri, a B2B mobile...
Gagfare lets you reserve airfares, seats for just US$10
HONG Kong-based travel company Gagfare has launched a ‘book now, pay later’ smartphone app for air travel, allowing users to reserve seats and airfares...
