River bridge makes progress

March 10, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat  
Filed under Laos PDR, Mekong Region

The construction of the third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, linking Khammuan province in central Laos to Nakhon Phanom province in Thailand in the upper northeast region is now five months ahead of schedule.

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Khiri in the Cardamons

March 9, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff  
Filed under Cambodia, Mekong Region

Khiri Travel has launched small group tours to Cambodia’s Cardamom mountains, considered one of the largest tropical forests in Southeast Asia.

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Visa outsourcing vexes agents

March 4, 2010 by Duangrudee Somboonruangsri  
Filed under Outbound

The embassies of Japan and France are outsourcing visa authorisation following the lead of Australia, India and the UK that gives VFS Thailand a virtual monopoly of a  lucrative revenue stream.

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Overland tourism in spotlight

March 3, 2010 by Chanida Sa-ngiamphaisalsuk  
Filed under Mekong Region

Thailand and Yunnan province in China have agreed to establish a joint tourism working group.

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Luang Prabang airport upgrade

March 2, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat  
Filed under Laos PDR, Mekong Region

Work on upgrading Luang Prabang Airport, announced last year,  will start this month and should be ready by 2013.

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Turkey tours in Thai market

February 18, 2010 by Duangrudee Somboonruangsri  
Filed under Outbound

Kuoni Travel has restructured a partnership with Turkish Airlines to promoting five-star luxury travel to southern Turkey.

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Rail pass discounts

February 17, 2010 by Duangrudee Somboonruangsri  
Filed under Outbound

Celebrating its 15th year, Rail Europe, is offering up to 60% discounts when travellers purchase a European rail pass, or train ticket before 31 March.

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MAI adds online bookings

February 12, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat  
Filed under Mekong Region, Myanmar, News

Myanmar Airways International is set to increase capacity between Bangkok and Yangon with one extra morning flight on Friday and introduce an online booking site.

Currently, MAI  operates nine flights a week; one daily flight in the evening and two morning flights on Thursday and Sunday. From 28 March, until the end of the summer schedule, 30 October, it will add a morning flight on Friday.

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Corporate travel recovers

February 12, 2010 by Duangrudee Somboonruangsri  
Filed under News, Outbound

A leading travel management company, FCm Travel Solutions, projects its business will grow 15% in the Asia Pacific region over the next three to five years.

The company hopes to double volume and customers by 2015. It held its annual conference last week in Bangkok bringing together senior leaders and decision-makers from FCm’s partner travel companies across the region, to discuss business growth strategies for the year ahead.

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Nonstop flight to Yangon

February 11, 2010 by Rapeepat Mantanarat  
Filed under Mekong Region, News

Vietnam Airlines announces it will start a new non-stop service between Hanoi and Yangon from 2 March, which will  eliminate  the need to transfer to another airline in Bangkok.

It is part of  wider strategy to connect the Vietnames capital, Hanoi,  to all the main cities in the Mekong region with non-stop services, a development that will challenge Bangkok’s status as the preferred gateway to the  six-country region.

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