Accor backs Thai tourism
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- Accor backs Thai tourism
- Centara diversifies with plans for budget boutique hotels
- Firefly to give away MAS return trips
- Sean Campbell and Renata Hutasoit join Six Senses
- Accor announces four more hotels for Thailand
- Thailand’s secret coast
Accor backs Thai tourism
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However the group is worrying about expansion due to higher construction costs. The group will finalise the additional projects by the third quarter. Last month Accor said it would develop seven properties in Bangkok Samui Phuket and Krabi under the Novotel Mercure and ibis brands. These hotels – the Novotel Bangkok Platinum Novotel Phuket Kamala Bay Mercure Samui Buri All Seasons Samui Chaweng ibis Bangkok Nana ibis Kata Phuket and ibis Krabi – are all scheduled to open by 2011. These 11 projects will extend Accor’s existing Thai network of 39 hotels and resorts. Accor’s three-day mega-sales campaign has just ended with 85000 rooms booked from the offering of 1 million rooms Issenberg said. More than 20 per cent were in Thailand.
Centara diversifies with plans for budget boutique hotels
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It will be the first time in 30 years that the group will depart from the four- and five-star categories. The group is setting up a joint venture with a foreign hotel-management firm to run budget properties. The group plans to operate 20 budget hotels throughout the Kingdom. Centara will develop its own first property expected to open next year but most of the properties will be run under a management contract. Centara's budget hotels will be competitive with some present rivals. "The economic crisis is affording us new opportunities" said executive-board chairman Suthikiat Chirathivat adding that the group also planned to operate boutique hotels.
Firefly to give away MAS return trips
Asiane
Firefly managing director Eddy Leong said the carrier expected sales of RM6mil at the three-day fair. "We are expecting more sales this year compared to the previous one" he said. Leong said Firefly's latest routes were to Kuantan Alor Setar and Phuket. "The twice-daily flights to Kuantan and Alor Setar will start on March 29 and to Phuket on May 1" he said. All fights are from Subang. The Matta fair would be held at the Putra World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur from March 13 to 15.
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Sean Campbell and Renata Hutasoit join Six Senses
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Six Senses Resorts & Spas has appointed Sean Campbell as Group Director of Learning and Development and Renata Hutasoit as Director of Sales Six Senses Destination Spa Phuket Thailand. hotels business travel news trade industry agents operators airlines daily latest.
Accor announces four more hotels for Thailand
Asia Property Report
In February, Accor announced the development of seven projects in Bangkok, Samui, Phuket, and Krabi under the Novotel, Mercure, and ibis brands. The four latest properties will be developed in partnership with Fico Group, owner of Le Fenix Hotel in Bangkok. They are the Novotel Bangkok Fenix Ploenchit, Novotel Bangkok Fenix Silom, Mercure Samui Fenix and Hotel Muse. Michael Issenberg, Chairman and Chief perating fficer for Accor Asia Pacific, said: “We are very pleased to have strengthened our partnership with Fico, whom also own Le Fenix Hotel in Bangkok, which Accor has managed since 2007. These new hotels fulfill the geographic needs of business and leisure travelers to Bangkok and beyond, with some of Thailand’s best known hotel brands.
Thailand’s secret coast
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fctAdTag(”bigbox”MyGenericTagVar1); This is a piece of paradise — the gulf coast and islands of Thailand. Yet few visitors know it or take the time to savour its beauty and charm. They race through on their way to the delights of Thailand’s hot tourist beach towns Phuket and Krabi on the other coast the Andaman Sea side of the peninsula. I was staying in the middle of nowhere in a magically beautiful hotel called the Away Tusita Chumphon resort near a little fishing village called Pak Tako. The main resort is a complex of elegant luxurious suites in huts (for lack of a better word) on stilts. Each air-conditioned suite has a roofed terrace that is essentially an outdoor living room. Some suites have outdoor bathtubs and rain showers (as well as indoor ones of course) Jacuzzis and private steam rooms.
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