The News Review:

- Regent Hotel to occupy Dallas’ Tower Petroleum Building
- HVS EMEA Hospitality Enews – Week Ending 28 March 2008
- Romance on the rient Express
- Asia Pacific Hospitality Enews – Week Ending March 28 – 2008
- The Himalayan Times: Breaking News Views Reviews Sports Business…
- Going down the river
- For big surgery Delhi is dealing

Regent Hotel to occupy Dallas’ Tower Petroleum Building
Dallas Morning News – Mar 28, 2008
Dallas City Hall has agreed to provide Mr. Sweeney with nearly $15 million in various public subsidies to develop the project. There are existing or planned Regent Hotel facilities in 16 cities worldwide including Boston; Taipei Taiwan; Beijing; Bangkok Thailand; Berlin; Shanghai China; and Bordeaux France according to the hotel’s Web site.

HVS EMEA Hospitality Enews – Week Ending 28 March 2008
Hospitality Net – Mar 28, 2008
MINT is the leading hotel operator in Thailand (16 hotels under brands including Anantara Marriott and Four Seasons) and one of the largest spa operators in the Asia Pacific region. So MINT should surely know how to rub Kempinski up the right way. It will look for locations in Asia and Kempinski will reciprocate by focusing in particular on the Mediterranean region and sites suitable for the Anantara brand. Fattal Buys A Couple f Tulips | Fattal Hotel Management is reported to have paid a total of US$60 million to take ownership of two hotels in Israel that are already under its management. The 282-room Golden Tulip Club Eilat and the soon-to-be-open 247-room Golden Tulip Privilege Eilat which both stand in the resort of Eilat were sold by Israeli property billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva.

Romance on the rient Express
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 28, 2008
I’ve got a train to catch. The Eastern & riental Express as it happens… Looking out of the window of my compartment I saw rows and rows of coconut trees and the occasional flash of a temple roof. I caught a tantalising glimpse of the Gulf of Siam. At crossings I saw young Thai men in brightly coloured shirts impatiently revving up their motorbikes. For company I wandered back down to the outdoor observation deck. A British couple (celebrating his 40th) told me they loved the fact they didn’t have a busy itinerary. “It’s great to be confined with no choices to make and no need to rush around and see things” they said. “For the first time in ages we had some real time together time to talk.

Asia Pacific Hospitality Enews – Week Ending March 28 – 2008
hotelnewsresource.com – Mar 28, 2008
In this joint venture Host Hotels and Resorts Inc will own 25% interest and an affiliate of Host Hotels and Resorts will provide asset management services and earn management fees for these services. Banyan Tree Bangkok Announces Expansion Plans Banyan Tree Bangkok has announced its expansion plan to add 80 more guestrooms to the existing 216 guestrooms and another 32 residential units which will be targeted at the foreign expatriates working in the Sathorn and Silom areas in Bangkok Thailand. The additional guestrooms are expected to increase the leisure travellers which currently make up 25% of the hotel’s guests to 40% upon completion. In addition a new childcare centre is expected to be located on the hotel’s 14th floor to aid staff with children between the ages of one to six to dedicate more time to their work and enable the hotel to maintain staff turnover rate of around 15%. These new additions are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009… In this joint venture Host Hotels and Resorts Inc will own 25% interest and an affiliate of Host Hotels and Resorts will provide asset management services and earn management fees for these services. Banyan Tree Bangkok Announces Expansion Plans Banyan Tree Bangkok has announced its expansion plan to add 80 more guestrooms to the existing 216 guestrooms and another 32 residential units which will be targeted at the foreign expatriates working in the Sathorn and Silom areas in Bangkok Thailand. The additional guestrooms are expected to increase the leisure travellers which currently make up 25% of the hotel’s guests to 40% upon completion. In addition a new childcare centre is expected to be located on the hotel’s 14th floor to aid staff with children between the ages of one to six to dedicate more time to their work and enable the hotel to maintain staff turnover rate of around 15%. These new additions are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009. The hotel is expected to achieve an average occupancy of 80% in 2008 a four-percentage-point increase from 76% last year.

The Himalayan Times: Breaking News Views Reviews Sports Business…
Himalayan Times – Mar 28, 2008
Managers of top hotels said bookings for rooms started from the beginning of this month. Election observers and journalists have booked most of the rooms. International election observers including those from the European Union Thailand and Japan have booked around 50 rooms at the Hotel Yak and Yeti. European Union has taken up a huge complex of the Yak and Yeti. Prahlad Kunwar general manager of Hotel Yak and Yeti said this is the first time after Jana Andolan-II that hotel entrepreneurs are observing a huge influx of foreigners. Among the international media Al-Jazeera team has booked rooms. The team will stay in the hotel from April 1 till 15.

Going down the river
Jakarta Post – Mar 28, 2008
Visitors to the province?s capital of Palembang can take a river tour along the historic Musi River get an up-close look at the iconic Ampera Bridge and stop in at a historic ethnic Chinese community. After all that traipsing around treat yourself to a plate of pempek the local culinary specialty. The place to stay today is the 174-room Aston Palembang Hotel and Convention Center. The latest will no doubt thrill on-the-road Beatles fans who can finally check into a boutique hotel that pays homage to the band. Located in where else but Liverpool England the two-month old Hard Days Night Hotel has been two years in the making and features 110 rooms a bar a restaurant and even a wedding chapel… harddaysnighthotel. com)Smoke-free zoneThailand is the latest country to stub out smoking in pubs restaurants clubs and open-air and air- conditioned marketplaces. The country had introduced the no smoking law for public buildings and air conditioned areas previously but the ruling now extends to F&B establishments too. As in Singapore those in need of their nicotine fix can only light up in designated smoking areas. therwise errant smokers can expect to pay as much as 2000 baht (US$65) for flouting the law. Tuning InPerth?s own musical claim to fame the Fairbridge Festival celebrating all kinds of music from around the world opens April 24 for three days of fund.

For big surgery Delhi is dealing
chicagotribune.com – Mar 28, 2008
companies struggle to find cheaper ways to provide high-quality medical care to their employees according to the American Medical Association. Mexico has long attracted American travelers looking for cut-rate cosmetic surgery or dental work and countries like Malaysia Thailand and the Philippines continue to lure medical tourists as well. But India—15 hours away from the U. by plane—is fast becoming the destination of choice for patients seeking complicated high-end procedures they can’t afford or can’t manage to schedule with a doctor they trust at home. These include things like heart surgery organ transplants and orthopedic procedures like knee replacement or hip resurfacing… But India is working hard to make traveling for surgery as appealing as possible for foreigners. The country recently created a special medical visa classification for tourists seeking health care. Some top-of-the-line hospitals and hotels are teaming up to build joint facilities. And many hospitals and medical tourism sales firms offer package deals—from airport pickup to translators and airline bookings—designed to insulate visitors from some of the country’s more trying aspects. At Apollo Hospital in New Delhi one of the most popular medical tourism facilities in the country the cavernous open-air foyer surges with a United Nations of patients: turbaned Sikhs women in form-fitting bright West African garb hip young Chinese women in low-slung jeans Indian mothers cradling their newborns and Afghan patients in woolen pakul hats. Upstairs on the fifth floor a spacious modern lobby gives way to air-conditioned hospital rooms that would look at home anywhere in the United States. Appetizing-looking club sandwiches—not curry —glide in and out of the rooms on trays delivered by attendants.

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