Thailand has actually been voted Asia’s Leading Dive Location 2018, changing Indonesia, which won the award in 2017.
The award was just recently revealed by the World Travel Awards, developed in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and commemorate quality throughout all crucial sectors of the travel, tourist and hospitality markets. Each year the World Travel Award hosts a “Grand Trip”, which is a series of local gala events to identify quality within each continent, culminating in a “Grand Final” at the end of the year.
For the Asia’s winners, Vietnam won the leading location while Sri Lanka was called the leading experience tourist location. The Philippines was voted leading beach location. Hong Kong was called leading city break location and conferences and conference location. Singapore was crowned the leading celebration and occasion location.
Amongst 100 classifications in the local winners, Thai Airways was granted the leading airline company for economy class, InterContinental Samui Restriction Taling Ngam Resort was the leading beach resort and the most romantic resort. The Sarojin in Phangnga was called the leading shop hotel. Melati Beach Resort & & Day Spa on Koh Samui was called Asia’s leading shop resort.
Hilton Pattaya was voted Asia’s leading style hotel. Tower Club at Lebua in Bangkok was called the leading high-end all-suite hotel and King Power Responsibility Free was called Asia’s leading airport responsibility complimentary operator. AirAsia was voted Asia’s leading low-priced airline company and the leading low-priced airline company cabin team.
The Grand Final of the 25th World Travel Awards and the Travel Innovation Award are still open for online votes till Oct 24.
Check Out http://worldtravelawards.com/vote.
Maggie Q honoured
Maggie Q. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
Hollywood starlet Maggie Q will get the World Tourist Humanitarian Award as part of the yearly World Tourist Awards event in London on Nov 5. For many years, she has actually assisted raise funds for Kageno, an organisation that changes impoverished neighborhoods, particularly in Kenya and Rwanda, by concentrating on programs for tidy water, health care, preservation and education.
Airlines upgrade
– Thai AirAsia will introduce its very first direct flight from Bangkok to Visakhapatnam and to Bhubaneswar in India on Dec 7.
The flight will leave from Don Mueang airport to Visakhapatnam, the port city in Andhra Pradesh on the eastern coast, at 10.15 pm and will show up in Visakhapatnam at 11.45 pm. The service will be readily available every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The return flight will be readily available every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 12.15 am. The travel time has to do with 3 hours.
The flight to Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha likewise in the eastern part, will leave Bangkok at 10.35 pm every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and will return from Bhubaneswar at 12.25 am every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The travel time is 2 hours and 50 minutes.
On the other hand the airline company likewise has actually introduced a relief fund to support tsunami victims in Palu in Indonesia.
Till Oct 31, the #ToIDwithLove fund will gather contributions online by means of AirAsia Structure (airasiafoundation.com/relieffund) and on-board money collections. AirAsia will match the overall public collection, which will be revealed in January.
The cash will be contributed to the Yayasan Arkom Indonesia (Indonesia Neighborhood Architects’ Structure) to assist reconstruct houses and enhance catastrophe strength in impacted locations.
– Bangkok Airways introduces the “Let’s Go Samui” promo. It provides all-encompassing fares beginning with 2,750 baht one method from and to Koh Samui. The airline company flies from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and U-Tapao airports to the island daily.
The promo will last till Nov 30 and taking a trip duration stands in between Nov 1-30.
Check Out http://bangkokair.com.
Hotel offers and upgrade
– Bangkok-based Onyx Hospitality Group has actually signed a contract with a joint endeavor business led by Panchshil Real estate to introduce Ozo Maldives.
Set up to open in the 3rd quarter of 2020, the resort will inhabit a personal island in the Raa Atoll, situated northwest of the Maldivian capital of Male.
Placed as a family-oriented resort, it will include 200 vacation homes, dining outlets, bar, island farm offering natural fruit and vegetables, medical spa, physical fitness centre, yoga center, dive centre and a lagoon swimming pool. There will likewise be an activity centre, an observation tower, a lighthouse, kids’ club, academic sundial and weather condition station.
Check Out http://onyx-hospitality.com.
– The Hotel Association of Portugal has actually introduced Click2Portugal.com, an online hotel reservation platform.
The goal is to assist travelers from Thailand and worldwide book lodging straight with hotels and to enhance hotel exposure to global visitors, according to the association president Raul Martins.
Supported by the Portuguese federal government, the site was introduced after the association performed research study with 1,500 hotels and discovered that more than a 3rd of the hotels had no direct online reservation ability. “Lots of hotels either do not yet have a proper online existence, have no direct reservation ability, or no translation function– all of which serves to restrict their availability to travelers,” stated Martins.
The brand-new website will likewise assist make Portugal a far more available nation, he stated.
The site is readily available in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. It supplies deals from 300 hotels with information of centers, evaluations, rankings and maps.
Check Out http://click2portugal.com.
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