Frangipani Hotels: Cambodia’s rags-to-riches success story

Frangipani Hotels: Cambodia’s rags-to-riches success story

Din Somethearith, co-founder and executive director of Frangipani Villa Hotels, holds up a copy of Unfair Advantage, one of many self-help books on alternative methods of financial development and thinking More...

Rithy Chey | | May 15th, 2012
137 Pillars House Chiang Mai joins Top 50 best Hotels list

137 Pillars House Chiang Mai joins Top 50 best Hotels list

137 Pillars House Chiang Mai debuted in the highly coveted Travel + Leisure (USA) Magazine’s 2012 It List of the 50 best new hotels, as selected by T+L editors. The seventh annual It List, covering 29 countries, More...

May 14th, 2012
Boutique hotels are booming in China’s first-tier cities

Boutique hotels are booming in China’s first-tier cities

 [Photo/China Daily]It’s not just the attention to detail but also finding the right staff, say experts “It is one of those destinations that instantly enthralls the visitor, especially More...

May 14th, 2012
TAT’s “Discover the Other You” kicks off to Promote Creative Tourism

TAT’s “Discover the Other You” kicks off to Promote Creative Tourism

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched “Discover the Other You” to promote creative tourism in Thailand. This global digital campaign promotes learning about Thai culture on your holiday and offers More...

May 10th, 2012
Bangkok Airport saw a 15 % rise in Songkran Travelers

Bangkok Airport saw a 15 % rise in Songkran Travelers

Suvarnabhumi Airport saw a 15 percent rise in the number of passengers year-on-year during the Songkran holiday on Apr 9-18, according to the airport’s director of Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT).   Somchai More...

April 30th, 2012
Chinese visitors should reach 2 million in 2012

Chinese visitors should reach 2 million in 2012

A recent meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinnawatra has boosted confidence among China’s leading travel agents and operators concerning tourism situation in Thailand, according to the Tourism Authority of More...

April 23rd, 2012
New Airport planned in Samui

New Airport planned in Samui

The Transport Ministry is mulling a plan to build a new state-run airport on Koh Samui as an alternative to the existing privately-run facility amid complaints of high airport fees. The move is also intended to More...

April 23rd, 2012
Myanmar Tourist boom hampered by poor transportation

Myanmar Tourist boom hampered by poor transportation

Every traveler who has visited Myanmar has at least one, and often many, stories about the difficult and often comical experiences they have encountered with transportation throughout the country. If it were not More...

April 21st, 2012
InterContinental Hotels to Double Properties in Thailand

InterContinental Hotels to Double Properties in Thailand

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is cashing in on the fast-growing hospitality market in Thailand with an aggressive plan to double the number of its hotels and resorts here to 24 over the next five years, thanks More...

April 19th, 2012
Tsunami Alert on Thailand’s Coast Cancelled

Tsunami Alert on Thailand’s Coast Cancelled

(TAT update). The magnitude 8.6 earthquake that occurred in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometers to the west of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia on 11 April 2012, did not result in any tsunami reaching Thailand. Tsunami More...

April 12th, 2012