Southeast Asia Grand Award Winners Announced

BANGKOK, 16 August 2010 – The inaugural Southeast Asia Travel Photography and Writing Awards run by the ASEAN Tourism Association (ASEANTA) have concluded with the announcement of the Grand Prize winners. In the People’s Choice category for photography, Ms Tan Poh Wan from Butterworth, Malaysia, won the grand prize for her image Feeding Time, which [...]

Thailand Hotel Rate Debate Raises Awkward Issues

BANGKOK, 5 August 2010 – Dropping rates to fight Bangkok’s low hotel occupancies and airline load factors is a failed strategy. But Thailand seems doomed to repeat its history of pricing mistakes due to a myriad of issues. These were some of the insights revealed by travel industry leaders with long and bitter experience in [...]