The News Review:

- Ambitious Growth Plans for Thailand’s Astudo Hotel & Resort…
- South Thai violence toll tops 3000
- Chefs lose taste for gala as Thai fundraising tour turns sour
- Hyatt breaks ground on New Hotel in Vietnam
- Mall hopes to raise spending rate

Ambitious Growth Plans for Thailand’s Astudo Hotel & Resort…
ASIATravelTips.com – Mar 21, 2008
Thailand-based Astudo Hotel & Resort Management is looking to expand their management services to 10 new hotels and resorts in the coming 2 years. Specifically the company is aiming to manage hotels and resorts in all the major Thai tourist destinations within the next few years. Specifically the company is aiming to manage hotels and resorts in all the major Thai tourist destinations within the next few years. airline hotels travel news.

South Thai violence toll tops 3000
Aljazeera.net – Mar 21, 2008
“They are stressing the message that the land of the south does not belong to Buddhist Thai or ethnic Chinese. ” The hotel bombing left Chalerm Yubamrung Thailand’s interior minister admitting he did not have “any idea how to solve” the situation. “The southern unrest is a very serious problem” he told reporters. “It’s based in their religion their beliefs and their complaints regarding discrimination. Chalerm held talks with security officials in Songkhla in the south on Thursday but stayed out of the most volatile provinces of Narathiwat Pattani and Yala drawing criticism that he was afraid of travelling in the region.

Chefs lose taste for gala as Thai fundraising tour turns sour
Guardian Unlimited – Mar 21, 2008
Invite the wealthiest and most loyal guests from around the world feed them a 10-course dinner cooked by three French Michelin-starred chefs and give them a luxurious place to lay their heads for the night all on the house. Then whisk them off to the slums of Kolkata or Bangkok’s backstreets so the 50 high-rollers could witness life on the other side of the tracks and perhaps put their hand in their pocket. But the luxury Bangkok hotel lebua at State Tower hit a snag with the event it coined “emotional tourism”. It got more emotion than it bargained for when the French media saw it as a poverty tour for the rich triggering a mighty furore. Within days the trio of elite French chefs withdrew. Alain Soliveres of the Michelin two-star Taillevent in Paris Jean-Michel Lorain of the three-star La Côte Saint Jacques in Burgundy and Michel Trama from the three-star Les Loges de L’Aubergade in south-west France all made their excuses. Suddenly the menu of their signature dishes was in jeopardy.

Hyatt breaks ground on New Hotel in Vietnam
ASIATravelTips.com – Mar 21, 2008
The golden sands of Vietnam’s 3400-kilometer coastline scored its first internationally renown brand March 19 when Hyatt Hotels & Resorts broke ground on an expansive beach resort in Vietnam. Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa on China Beach joins the Park Hyatt in Ho Chi Minh City as the second Hyatt property in Vietnam. Worldwide Hyatt operates 750 hotels. Its other beach resorts in Southeast Asia include Hyatt Regency Hua Hin in Thailand Grand Hyatt Bali and Bali Hyatt in Indonesia and Hyatt Regency Kuantan Resort in Malaysia. Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa on China Beach joins the Park Hyatt in Ho Chi Minh City as the second Hyatt property in Vietnam. Worldwide Hyatt operates 750 hotels.

Mall hopes to raise spending rate
Nation Multimedia – Mar 21, 2008
Published on March 21 2008 The company has been working with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) by joining the TAT's international roadshows. At the same time it is cooperating with more than 30 hotels belonging to the local hotels' association by granting special privileges to all hotel guests including coupons for free gifts at the shopping mall. Phuket Square also operates the 400-room Millennium Resort Patong Hotel a five-star hotel nearby Jungceylon and this provides another major channel for attracting wealthy shoppers. The shopping mall opened last April and its major customers are middle- to upper-level foreign travellers because of its proximity to Phuket's popular Patong Beach. They account for 70 per cent of Jungceylon's visitors in the high tourist season from November to April and 60 per cent during the rest of the year… Published on March 21 2008 The company has been working with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) by joining the TAT's international roadshows. At the same time it is cooperating with more than 30 hotels belonging to the local hotels' association by granting special privileges to all hotel guests including coupons for free gifts at the shopping mall. Phuket Square also operates the 400-room Millennium Resort Patong Hotel a five-star hotel nearby Jungceylon and this provides another major channel for attracting wealthy shoppers. The shopping mall opened last April and its major customers are middle- to upper-level foreign travellers because of its proximity to Phuket's popular Patong Beach. They account for 70 per cent of Jungceylon's visitors in the high tourist season from November to April and 60 per cent during the rest of the year. The remaining visitors are local shoppers.

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