The News Review:
- W Hotels Heads To Thailand¡¯s Cosmopolitan Capital With The Announceme…
- Langham Hotels signs First Hotel in Thailand
- Interpol identifies suspected pedophile
- Marriott’s new 59 to Asia-Pacific.
- Returning to Asia where changes abound
W Hotels Heads To Thailand¡¯s Cosmopolitan Capital With The Announceme…
eTravelBlackboard – Asia Edition – Oct 15, 2007
The newly constructed 400-room hotel will debut in 2011 as part of a luxurious mixed-use development at the core of the city’s commercial and diplomatic center. wned by North Sathorn Hotel Company a joint venture between Istithmar Hotels FZE and Golden Land Property Development PLC W Bangkok will combine innovative contemporary design and W’s signature services to create a transformative experience for modern travelers visiting Bangkok one of Asia Pacific’s most captivating cities. Gleaming skyscrapers and glittering discotheques stand alongside gilded temples and night markets in this energetic capital city known to natives as the City of Angels. Within walking distance to more than 20 embassies and commercial centers W Bangkok will be ideally located in the prime business district of Sathorn an area with a high concentration of luxury hotels.
Langham Hotels signs First Hotel in Thailand
ASIATravelTips.com – Oct 15, 2007
The hotel’s spa Chuan Spa is where healing hands will pamper soothe and reinvigorate guests with a wide variety of natural treatments. The Langham Place Eco Resort + Spa is also a refreshing venue to host meetings incentive trips and weddings with its balanced facilities and friendly engaged Langham Place Service surrounded by the beauty of a tropical Island. “This is the first step for Langham Hotels International in creating a presence in Thailand. We aim to increase our investments in the country through building our own hotels joint venture partnerships and acquiring further management contracts” said Dr. KS Lo Chairman of Langham Hotels International. Pramote Titayangkurn President of Rawi Warin Resort & Spa said “Rawi Warin Resort is built as a luxury five-star resort amidst the best that nature has to offer.
Interpol identifies suspected pedophile
USA Today – Oct 15, 2007
German police managed to recreate an image of him and four reconstructed photos were released to the public. The Interpol agent in charge of the case Mick Moran said the suspect had taught in Thailand Vietnam and South Korea and entered Thailand last week on a one-way full-fare ticket from Seoul. He entered a false hotel on his Thai immigration form Moran said. “I have no doubt that he left Korea when he saw himself on the Internet” Moran said. “Cambodia Vietnam Thailand — all the countries in this region have all been alerted — they’re all on alert and they all have border controls in place in an effort to spot the movements of this man” said Moran who arrived in Bangkok over the weekend to coordinate the manhunt. He appealed to the suspect to surrender “to have the matter sorted out in a reasonable and adult manner. The international police organization issued an unusual global appeal for help in identifying and tracing the suspect on ct.
Marriott’s new 59 to Asia-Pacific.
4Hoteliers – Oct 15, 2007
Announced today are six hotels in India and Thailand representing the company’s Marriott Executive Apartments brand for extended stay travelers and its deluxe upscale Renaissance brand. All six will operate under long-term management contracts. Marriott Executive Apartments: 300-unit Sukhumvit Park BangkokMarriott Executive Apartments (2008) 100-unit Benchasiri Place BangkokMarriott Executive Apartments (2010)Renaissance Hotels & Resorts: 333-room Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel (2009) 175-room Renaissance Phuket Resort & Spa (2010) 278-room Renaissance Bangalore High Grounds Hotel (2010) 250-room Renaissance Bangkok Sukhumvit Hotel (2010)These hotels join 53 previously announced properties that are now under construction and are expected to open during the same time period in China Fiji India Indonesia Thailand Singapore and New Zealand. Currently the Marriott International hotel portfolio in the region consists of 90 operating properties and five brands offering 31618 rooms in 14 countries. In addition the company’s Ritz-Carlton brand portfolio in the region offers 11 hotels and resorts providing 3786 rooms in seven countries.
Returning to Asia where changes abound
nwsource.com – Oct 15, 2007
Thailand shares borders with Malaysia Myanmar Laos and Cambodia. Its culture is unique in that it’s the only country in Southeast Asia that wasn’t colonized by the Western Europeans. History: Bangkok was a small village on the Chao Phraya River until Burmese armies destroyed Ayuthaya the capital for 400 years in 1767. Thai rules moved the capital to Thonburi on the west bank of the river opposite present-day Bangkok… It was hot crowded and polluted but this was my first morning in Asia and I felt like I had landed on another planet — just as I hoped I’d feel after leaving Seattle one day and arriving on the other side of the world at nearly midnight the next. Sweating after just 20 minutes of walking breathing exhaust fumes and dodging little three-wheeled vehicles called tuk-tuks we stopped inside an air-conditioned 1950s-style art deco hotel called the Royal to ask directions to Khao San Road headquarters at the time for backpackers and budget travelers. The marble lobby and wide wooden staircases told me this hotel was out of our price range but I decided to inquire about the rates anyway remembering that I read how you could negotiate the price of anything in Bangkok even hotel rooms. The desk clerk quoted the equivalent of $40 in Thai baht. “Could you give me a discount?” I asked. He offered me the room for $27 and we checked in later that afternoon. This morning back in Bangkok almost 20 years after that first trip we walked over to the Royal to see what a difference two decades had made.