Carlson Hotels Worldwide - Asia Pacific has announced it will open seven new hotels in Thailand.
Martin Rinck, President and Managing Director of CHW-AP said: "Thailand's hospitality market remains buoyant despite a number of challenges and continues to hold enormous potential for accelerated growth."
The new hotels will add more than 1,500 hotel rooms in Bangkok and Phuket by 2010. ...
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news about flights in Thailand: Bangkok Airways, Asia's boutique airline, has increased the frequency on its Bangkok-Phuket route with another daily service during weekends. The additional flights will be available on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and will be operated by an Airbus 320 (one is pictured here) with 162 seats. PG 273 will leave Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport) at 13.45 and ...
Low-cost airline One-Two-Go has suspended its operations until September 15, blaming the rising price of oil as the reason. The airline said it would resume operations when the situation improved. Industry analysts said the carrier had been losing money for months and doubted the situation would improve greatly by September 15.
One-Two-Go was one of Thailand's no-frills first airlines, starting service in December 2003 with flights between Bangkok and Chiang Mai. ...
Nok Air, Thailand's no-fills airline has stopped its daily Bangkok to Krabi flights. In an effort to reduce costs, the airline also stopped its flights from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and to Ubol Ratchathani. The flights ceased operating from July 1, 2008.
Those booked on flights are being offered seats on Thai Airways or a refund. The airline also announced it would cut management salaries by 20 percent and said it ...
The government has given the go ahead to Bangkok taxi drivers to increase their charges. The new rates will start at 35 Baht ($1) for the first kilometer, not two kilometers as before. Even with the increase, the taxi costs here will be among the lowest of capital cities of the world.
The Department of Land Transport works together with Mahanakorn University of Technology on resetting the taxi meters. The work ...
Thai Airways International has launched a bogof (that is buy one got one free) promotion. The special deal is available to royal first and royal silk travelers and even includes full royal orchid plus mileage accumulation on both tickets.
Under plan passengers who buy one international ticket from Bangkok to all cities in Europe, Japan and Korea, Johannesburg, Auckland, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Taipei between 25 June and 30 September 2008, ...
InVision Hospitality, a Thailand-based consultancy and management company has acquired the Swiss Park Hotel on Bangkok's Sukhumvit Soi 11.Swiss Park Hotel is a 108-room full-service hotel. The new owners plans to expand and modernize the number of rooms with a completion date in the last half of 2009. Renovations of the existing rooms and public areas will be in two phases. ...
The Bangkok-based Joe Louis puppet theatre troupe has won the top award at the World Festival of Puppet Art in Prague. This is the second international award for the troupe, which presented The Birth of Ganesha, a famous episode from the Ramayana, at the sam
e competition two years ago. The Ramayana (or Ramakien in Thai) is the Indian epic tale, filled with all ...
Many have believed that the Tourism of Thailand (TAT) was only concerned about increasing numbers of tourists - it was a question of quantity not quality. Now that may be about to change.
The new Minister of Tourism Weerasak Kowsurat has had discussions in Bangkok with the people that run the TAT about the future directions of tourism and what the new government hopes could be achieved.
He said there is a ...
Thai Airways International is now operating flights to Ko Samui. The national carrier is providing two round trips services a day from Bangkok's Suvanaphumi International Airport. Up until now Samui has been the exclusive airline destination of Bangkok Airways, which owns the airport on the island.
Thai Airways is using its Boeing 737-400 aircraft, capable of carrying 149 passengers. Flights depart Bangkok at 7.45am and 4pm. The return trips depart from ...
