Best Western aims at doubling Asia operations
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- Best Western aims at doubling Asia operations
- Blissed out on the South China Sea
- A Hippie Haven Goes Upscale
Best Western aims at doubling Asia operations
Antara – Aug 19, 2007
“Best Western has an excellent growth rate in Asia” said Best Western president and CE David Kong at a Bangkok press conference. “In 2006 the company’s revenue from Asia was around 1 billion dollars which is growth of about 18 per cent. In Thailand Best Western plans to add three new hotels to its management portfolio by the end of this year which will boost the number of Best Western hotels in the kingdom to 11. It hopes to have 25 Best Western hotels by 2008. “Thailand in particular is a priority market for Best Western because the country’s share of global travel arrivals continues to increase” Kong was quoted by DPA as saing. Tourist arrivals to Thailand have been increasing at about 15 per cent annum in recent years. Besides Thailand Best Western hopes to expand its hotel operations in China India Japan South Korea Indonesia and Vietnam the CE said… “Thailand in particular is a priority market for Best Western because the country’s share of global travel arrivals continues to increase” Kong was quoted by DPA as saing. Tourist arrivals to Thailand have been increasing at about 15 per cent annum in recent years. Besides Thailand Best Western hopes to expand its hotel operations in China India Japan South Korea Indonesia and Vietnam the CE said. A typical Best Western management contract lasts for ten years.
Blissed out on the South China Sea
guardian.co.uk – Aug 19, 2007
f course I was forgetting Vietnam’s incredible resilience and determination. It has long since recovered from the war and is keen now to attract upmarket tourism and to pitch itself as ‘the new Thailand’. Like Thailand it has glorious beaches charming scenery and brilliant food – even better in the street cafes than in the hotel restaurants. The currency sounds expensive – you ask the price of some tourist tat and reel back in horror when you hear it is 100000 dong but then you realise that means under £4 and anyway you are meant to haggle. Actually most tourist places don’t bother with dong preferring dollars but I got fond of my dong. I spent one of the most blissful mornings of my life on the South China Sea off Nha Trang lying on a mattress under a white awning on a creaking fishing boat while the boatmen trailed lines in the water.
A Hippie Haven Goes Upscale
New York Times – Aug 19, 2007
Visitors to Khao San Road “are more hi-so now” says Pattamon Yaidaeng invoking the local term for “high society. ” She would know having worked at the front desk of… com) since it opened five years ago. Rooms there costing up to 2500 Thai baht a night or about $83 at 31 baht to the dollar are fairly basic but certainly more comfortable than a typical Khao San Road hostel. Amenities some at extra cost include Wi-Fi a gym with personal trainers available a sauna and a rooftop pool. A stroll down the street reveals the changing tourist demographic. “I thought it would be more of a backpacker ghetto but it’s not” said Mandy Hunter a 40-year-old audio-visual technician from.
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