Resorts open in Myanmar
November 30, 2011 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under Mekong Region, Myanmar
YANGON, 30 November 2011 – New resorts have opened in time for the peak season at Myanmar’s key tourist destinations – Inle Lake in the northern Shan State and Ngapali Beach in southern Rakhine state.
Myanmar Times reported, Monday, Amara Group opened its second property, Amara Ocean Resort on Ngapali Beach about 4 km north of Thandwe Airport .
The resort’s general manager, Dominik Dell, says the resort has strong advance bookings up to the close of the peak season in March 2012. Read more
Sofitel So team line-up
September 28, 2011 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under Hospitality, News, People, Trade Talk
BANGKOK, 28 September 2011 – Sofitel So Bangkok, due to open early next year announced, Tuesday, its pre-opening management team including general manager, director of sales, director of business and development, marketing communication manager and social manager.
The five team members are:
• Gilles Cretallaz, general manager who has completed assignments at the rebranded Sofitel the Grand Amsterdam, now Sofitel Legend; Read more
Reliance buys into Oberoi
MUMBAI, 1 September, 2010 – A unit of India’s largest private firm Reliance Industries has bought a 14% stake in one of the country’s most luxurious hotel chains in a US$217-million deal, the companies said last Monday.
The giant conglomerate, headed by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, said its unit Reliance Industries Investment and Holding had acquired a 14.12 % stake in East India Hotels, which owns the Oberoi and Trident brands.
