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Bangkok is World’s Best Luxury City
Travel & Leisure Magazine, which caters to the luxury travel market, has released its 2010 “World’s Best” list, with Bangkok voted by readers as the top city in the world, followed by Chiang Mai.
Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribathra received this award at The Trump Soho Hotel in New York on July 21, Thai News Agency reports [...]
5 Luxury Beaches Yet to be Discovered
One may have travelled far and wide, but even the seasoned traveller is always in search of undiscovered, pristine shores that have never known crowds.
Paradizo.com, which is claimed to be the premiere resource for luxury vacations, specialising in all memorable holiday experiences, from ski trips to luxury beach vacations, suggests the following top Undiscovered Beaches [...]
Luxury on the Nile
Luxury hotel chain Kempinski has opened the first five-star boutique hotel in Egyptian capital Cairo, the Kempinski Nile.
Offering 137 rooms and 54 suites, the Kempinski Nile overlooks the banks of the famous river and is the latest hotel to open in the city, which is undergoing something of a tourism boom.
The hotel is designed by [...]
Cruising Antarctica
A visit to Antarctica used to involve a long and sometimes uncomfortable crossing of the notorious Drake Passage on a small expedition ship or icebreaker. And it was expensive. As demand from less-intrepid travellers grew, mass-market cruise ships offered more affordable and smoother ways to venture to the White Continent.
From August next year, however, that [...]
ASEAN Hot Spots, Boracay
Luxury Villa, snorkelling, white sandy beaches and sitting back to enjoy the sunset at the seaside, Boracay Island in the Philippines is the perfect getaway from the hussle and bustle of the city.
Even famous Hollywood celebrities have holiday homes on this island. Boracay is scenic and boasts luxury condominiums and homes like the Monaco Suites De [...]
ASEAN Travel Outlook Improves
After a slight decrease in tourist flow in 2008, Asia is once again emerging as a very popular luxury tourist destination. The recent survey by the ALTM (Asia Luxury Travel Market) shows a major increase in business in 2010 which is unlikely to stop any time soon.
Asia has been a tourist hotspot for many years [...]
ASEAN Travel, Road to Mandalay
o travel in Burma is to travel in both time and space. This is old Asia, how it must have looked and felt 60 years ago. Arriving in the capital, Yangon, better know as Rangoon, is to find almost every man and woman, of every class, wearing the longyi. On such a slim people, the [...]
2010 Cannes Boat and Yacht Show
The biggest names in international boatbuilding have already signed up for the show. Along the pontoons, visitors will therefore once again be able to find the symbols of exceptional know-how: Azimut Benetti, Baglietto, Beneteau, Cantieri di Pisa, Ferretti Group, Jeanneau, Peri Yachts, Pershing, Princess, Riva, Rodriguez Group, Sanlorenzo, Sunseeker, Heesen Yachts, and Wally,… They will [...]
Luxury on Sale in Bangkok
Bangkok bargain-hunters will be pleased to know that the frowns have gone from the Land of Smiles.
Only three weeks or so after the end of violent anti-government protests in Bangkok, the welcome mat is being rolled out.
The city’s tourism industry is wasting no time in dishing out big discounts to woo tourists. Five-star hotel chains, [...]
Visit Heffo’s Thailand
It is no secret I love Thailand and the Thai lifestyle, Bangkok is one of the world’s great cities, and on the weekends or on rare holidays you get to hang out at one of dozens of supremely luxurious resorts from pool villas overlooking the Andaman Sea to tiny boutique hotels so exclusive they don’t even want [...]
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