Travel Daily's latest round-up of hotel promotions and packages in the Asia Pacific region... Seasonal rates from Swissôtel Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts is offering a range of special rates for the winter festive season. Effective immediately and running until 25 February 2013, guests staying a minimum of two nights could receive discounts ...

Asia Pacific, November 23, 2012

  In our latest Face-to-Face interview, Travel Daily chats with Anouk Tenten,  Partnership Manager at the Glion Institute of Higher Education, about the online tourism and hospitality courses currently being offered... Q)           How many students do you currently have? Currently we have 250 students from across 70 countries learning online, with ...

Asia Pacific, November 20, 2012

Travel Daily's end-of-week round-up of hotel deals, packages and promotions from across Asia... Opening rates at new Holiday Inn Krabi IHG has officially opened the Holiday Inn Resort Krabi Ao Nang Beach, and has announced a special opening offer. The former Sala Talay Resort, which rebranded and reopened this week, is ...

Asia Pacific, November 16, 2012

JOHN M. SCOTT III has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Orient-Express Hotels. Scott, 47, is an experienced operator of luxury hotels and most recently served as President and CEO of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. He also becomes a company director. BENIAMINO MALTESE has been promoted to the ...

Asia Pacific, November 15, 2012

Today Travel Daily talks to Rocio Florian Ventura, PromPeru's  Account Manager for Asian Markets, about the tourism board's promotion activities in Asia... Q)           PromPeru recently attended ITB Asia. Which Asian markets are you targeting? Our main Asian market is Japan. We started promoting in Japan in 2004 and it’s our ...

Asia Pacific, November 13, 2012

PATRICK ANDRES has been named as Travelport's new Vice President and Regional Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region. Andres joins Travelport with 25 years' experience, most recently as Sabre Hospitality's Vice President for Asia Pacific. JILL TAN-GUNTER has been named as Pan Pacific Hotels Group's new Vice President of Human ...

Asia Pacific, November 1, 2012

Thai media, socialites and celebrity-spotters were out in force last week as Paris Hilton arrived in Bangkok to endorse a New Year’s Eve party. In an event at the top of Bangkok’s CentralWorld shopping mall Ms Hilton displayed her greatest talent (or at least one of them) – promoting a party ...

Asia Pacific, October 29, 2012

It would be fair to say that urban transport is becoming a bit of a problem in Asia's burgeoning cities. No matter how many underground or elevated train systems get built, the streets never seem to be much clearer. Mind you, that could be due to the thousands of new people ...

Asia Pacific, October 8, 2012