The News Review:

- Thailand Hotel Guide: From Luxury to Budget From Bangkok to Phuket
- Hotels protest booze ban
- Unique to manage three new boutique hotels
- Afghanistan Launches ffensive…for Tourism
- Tenth flu death case confirmed

Thailand Hotel Guide: From Luxury to Budget From Bangkok to Phuket
Peter Greenberg.com Travel News
Kind helpful and welcoming with Buddhist values of compassion care and humility are ingrained in the national personality which translates into a hospitality industry known for outstanding service. Many visitors to Thailand try to spend time in the big city on the beach and in the north so a typical itinerary would include Bangkok Phuket and Chiang Mai. With plentiful hotel choices Ann Cochran scoped out examples of high-end moderate and economical options:BANGKKThe sprawling Thai capital can be exhausting even for fans of big cities. Zen acceptance of the crowds noise traffic and street cooking is helpful. For more information on traveling in Bangkok don’t miss our.

Hotels protest booze ban
Bangkok Post
The government should consider this issue” said Mr Prakit. Many hotels especially in cities have been relying mostly on their food and beverage businesses because their room occupancy rates have fallen sharply since political tensions escalated late last year. The THA reported the average hotel occupancy nationwide had declined to 50% for the year to date compared to 69-70% in the same period of last year. “We must accept that the government may not approve our proposal because we understand that some people will rally against it” he said. “But we hope the government will put information on the tourism calendar year about what holidays have bans on alcohol sales to inform tourists. In the past Mr Prakit said many THA members found several foreigners were unhappy when hotels declined to serve alcoholic beverages on some Buddhist holidays and before election days. “They didn’t understand the reason and said tourism operators and the government should have provided this information.

Unique to manage three new boutique hotels
The Nation
The Bangkok-based firm founded by hotel guru Peter Kaelli now looks after 10 hotels and resorts in Chiang Mai Hua Hin Pattaya Koh Samui Trang Sukhothai and Krabi. Since all of the properties are unique in style and targeted at different markets they are not in competition with each other. "Hotels in Thailand particularly independent ones need marketing and sales-networking skills to reach out to targeted customers. The group helps by initiating new activities and packages so they can survive the current economic downturn" Kaelli who is also group CE explained. "We expect to increase our hotel-management as well as investment-consultancy services by two or three projects every year. "Kaelli explained that even though the number of guests at each of the hotels had dropped significantly due to the Bangkok airport closures late last year and the global economic slump the group was confident its revenue would grow about 5 per cent each year. The group has recently established a subsidiary called Variety aimed at offering management services to run-of-the-mill hotels and expecting to take on at least four or five management contracts in its first year.

Afghanistan Launches ffensive…for Tourism
FXNews
He has vacationed in Lebanon and Congo. The 44-year-old said in a phone interview that his trip to the north with a tour company this spring was his attempt to understand the people and the culture of a country he’d heard so much about. “It’s some sort of adventurous traveling so it’s of course more interesting than going to Thailand. Which is actually quite boring isn’t it?” Schneider said. Schneider would like to go back and see Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. But he said he’ll wait until it’s a bit safer.

Tenth flu death case confirmed
Bangkok Post
I'd be careful anywhere I go as the virus is not contained like in the movies. Actually Thailand is far from containment stage. Its too late for a quarantine. Strategies have long shifted from containment to racing for a cure (around the world). As for Thailand its useless to try to inform people on how to be careful even about little things like covering your mouth or frequent washing of hands. Hands up to the folks at Impact Arena and large venues that seem to promote those antibacterial hand gel upon arrival at the venues.
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