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Centara Hotels & Resorts launches new event service
Life, Published on 02/11/2023
» Centara Hotels & Resorts announced the official launch of New Agenda: Meetings Redesigned, an innovative one-stop approach to MICE events dedicated to delivering unforgettable experiences that engage and inspire.
Challenges for Asean
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 11/04/2022
» Over two years after the coronavirus emerged, countries across Asia are slowly beginning to recover. In Southeast Asia, economic growth is projected to pick up to 5.1% this year, from 3.2% in 2021. With 400 million people, or 59% of the population, fully vaccinated, many economies are well on the way to reopening.
OLD MONEY
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 05/12/2019
» The Coin Museum in Bangkok has opened new exhibitions and launched a mobile app.
Bangkok tops travel index 4 years in a row
Post Reporters, Published on 21/10/2019
» Bangkok has been ranked No.1 in the Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index (GDCI) for international overnight visitors for the fourth straight year, and the sixth time in the past decade.
New ports lure Asia’s biggest cruise ship to the Philippines
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/10/2019
» MANILA: The Philippines, a country of more than 7,600 islands where you’re rarely more than a few miles from the sea, wants a bigger slice of Asia’s growing cruise-tourism industry.
Paradise?
Life, Story: Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 05/06/2018
» Leaves sway, sand sparkles as the Sun shines brightly over the blue-green water. The 300m-long white beach of Maya Bay looks quiet and serene. It's a strange sight: Not a single visitor in sight, not a sign or noise from the long-tail or speedboats that usually dump hordes of tourists on the curved beach.
Philippines closes Boracay to tourists under high security
AFP, Published on 26/04/2018
» BORACAY, Philippines: The Philippines shuttered its most famous holiday island Boracay to tourists on Thursday for a six-month clean-up, which the government has imposed with a muscular show of its security forces.
Southeast Asia's idyllic islands buckle under tourism strain
Reuters, Published on 08/04/2018
» SINGAPORE/BANGKOK: The six-month closure of the Philippine tourism island of Boracay for a revamp after the country's president branded it a "cesspool" reflects the growing pressures on beach resorts across Southeast Asia as visitor numbers surge.