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Low-cost airlines dump fares

BANGKOK, 17 May 2013: Low-cost carriers are dumping their saver fares for travel show goers who book and pay for the fares at the show no later than this Sunday, 19 May. The fare specials are the most interesting incentives at a show called “Wanthamada Thi Mai Thammada” (An ordinary day turns special) hosted at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre over the weekend . Nok Air se...

Prizes pack domestic travel show

BANGKOK, 17 May 2013: Tourism Authority of Thailand hopes its consumer domestic fair Wan Thammada Thi Mai Thammada (An ordinary day turns special) to boost tourism during the up-coming low season. The domestic fair opened Thursday and runs through to Sunday 19 May at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, Plenary Hall zone C, 1000 to 2000. At the opening ceremony, TAT domestic market d...

Fairs boosts dive and golf travel

BANGKOK, 17 May 2013: The Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre organiser expects its 10th Thailand Travel & Dive Expo together with Golf Expo 2013 will encourage more year-round travel and help to close the revenue gap between peak and low seasons. NCC Exhibition Organiser Co Ltd board, Sakchai Pattarapreechakul, said the fair organised with the Tourism Authority of Thailand should...

Global tourism earnings grow 4%

MADRID, SPAIN, 16 May 2013: Receipts from international tourism worldwide grew by 4% in 2012 reaching US$1,075 billion, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometre released Wednesday. The revenue growth is equal to a 4% increase in international tourist arrivals which reached 1,035 million trips in 2012. An additional US$219 billion was recorded in receipts from international pa...

PG heads for Mandalay

BANGKOK, 16 May 2013: Bangkok Airways will introduce a new service to Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar, in September offering four flights weekly. The airline will launch the Bangkok-Mandalay route, 15 September, using an Airbus A319 aircraft. The flight will depart Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport at 1200 and return from Mandalay at 1410. Flight time is one hour and 50 minutes. ...

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Prizes pack domestic travel show

Fairs boosts dive and golf travel

Pacific Leisure moves office

BANGKOK, 17 May 2013: Pacific Leisure (Thailand) Limited will move to new office space, 27 May through to 29 May, at Empire Tower located on South Sathorn Road at the edge of the capital’s main business district, the company announced today. Pacific Leisure managing director, Eckard Kremer, said the move would mean only limited services would be available... [Read full story]

Myanmar to host F&B trade show

YANGON, 17 May 2013: Travellers who think they will be able to beat the fast food chains to Myanmar will need to think again. If the fast food chains are not already there they are clamouring at the door to set up shop as fast as possible. Organisers of the MYANFOOD ’13 EXPO, an international food & drinks Show that will be hosted in Yangon, this... [Read full story]

Centara tops atoll pack

Bangkok, 17 May 2013: Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives, which opened 15 April, gained the number one ranking from TripAdvisor out of a total 31 resort hotels in North Male Atoll. The adult-focused resort has gained most of its reviews from couples, and averaged four-and-a-half stars out of five. “For a resort to have been open for only... [Read full story]

SQ warns of bleak outlook

SINGAPORE, 17 May 2013: Singapore Airlines said Thursday its net profit in the year ending March rose 12.8%, boosted by surplus from the sale of aircraft, spares and spare engines, but warned the outlook remained bleak. Net profit was S$379 million (US$302.6 million) on revenue of S$15.10 billion, up 1.62%, the carrier said in a statement. For the fourth... [Read full story]

Nepalese aircraft dives into river

KATHMANDU, 17 May 2013: Twenty-one people were hurt, including eight Japanese tourists, when a small plane skidded off an airport runway in northwest Nepal on Thursday and plunged into a river, police said. All 21 people aboard the Nepal Airlines Twin Otter aircraft were injured, five seriously, police spokesman Keshav Adhikari said. The plane’s... [Read full story]

EU: Emissions drop slightly

BRUSSELS, 17 May 2013: EU greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming, dropped slightly last year, but the much-vaunted system for cutting such pollution ran into even more trouble, the European Commission said on Thursday. It said that total carbon dioxide output from industrial installations covered by the EU’s Emissions Trading System... [Read full story]

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