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06. Czech Cultural events to be held inHanoi

02.Hanoi plans to let off fireworks on

National Day

VIETNAM NEWS

04.Golfplan breaks ground on Saigon

resort 18

03.Local tourists to opt for budget tours

08. Human resources look for qualifiedworkers

10 culture and customs

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36 - 37Spanish culture is widely known for Flamenco music and

dance, bullfights, fantastic beaches and lots of sunshine.

But what is Spain known for? It has much more to offer

than that. It is - and has been for thousands of years, one

of the cultural centers of Europe. Live in and experience

your emotion.

Con Dao Six Senses Hideaway is a new luxury real

estate development and spa in Vietnam. Located 180km

off the Southeast coast of Vietnam in a dramatic archi-

pelago of 14 islets, Con Dao offers spectacular views,

protected tropical forests and pristine beaches and

stunning coral reefs. Six Senses will welcome its first

guests in December.

Six Senses Hideaway Con

Dao set to open in December

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Lets say your parents have decided to take you abroad

for a year, maybe because they have a sabbatical or

maybe just for fun. To an adult, it may seem like the

perfect opportunity for you to learn a new language and

make new friends but its a whole different story! What

about the whole part where you have to LEARN A NEW

LANGUAGE?

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11. Travel expo expresses heritage sites

and river tourism

12 . Vietnam Hotel Expo 2010 delayeduntil December

15. Key programs for the capitals grand

anniversary

16. Hanoi sprints last days to its an-niversary

1,000 YEARS OF

THANG LONG - HANOI

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

18.Bangkok Airport Rail Link begins fullcommercial operations

19.Hong Kong sees visitor arrivals up

21.Australia lures more Chinese tourists

to Gold Coast

22.Hawaii welcomes visitor arrivals

growth

24.WTM introduces Technology & Online

Travel Theatre

28. Indonesia to build 14 new airports

29.Korean Air enhances Skypass loyalty

scheme

AVIATION NEWS

30.Garuda Indonesia launches directflights to Tokyo

31.LOT Polish Airline launches Hanoi -Warszawa direct route

32.Chiles LAN and Brazils TAM launchLATAM Airlines

40 - 41.Medical Tourism ~ Solution forHealthcare

42 - 44.Vegetarian Festival - For Healthand Environment

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DESTINATIONS

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US$1,8 billion invested

in Eco-tourism project

A vegetarian festival themed For

Health and the Environment will

be held in HCM City from 26-29 Au-

gust, attracting the participation of

famous vegetarian restaurants in the

city and nearby localities. Nearly

100 dishes will be introduced at

80 pavilions during the festival.

The event aims to raise publicawareness of the benefits of eating

vegetarian food and is expected to

be held annually on the 15th day of

the seventh lunar month towards the

Vu Lan festival to show childrens

gratitude to their parents.

Hanoi will organise firework displays in four locations on 2nd

September to celebrate the 65th anniversary of National Day.

According to Vice Director of the municipal Culture, Sportsand Tourism Department Nguyen Khac Loi, high-range fire-works will be set off by Hoan Kiem Lake (Hoan Kiem District),

Thong Nhat Park (Hai Ba Trung District), Ly Tu Trong monu-ment (Tay Ho district) and Van Quan Lake (Ha Dong District).

To celebrate the August Revolution (19th August) and NationalDay as well as to mark 30 days ahead of the 1,000th anniver-

sary of Thang Long-Hanoi, many cultural activities will takeplace in the centre of the city and 29 Districts.

Thirsty Thursday, Southeast Asias biggest tourism industry

networking event, returns to HCMC on 16 September 2010.

Following a successful first event at the New World Hotel inMay, Septembers Thirsty Thursday will take place at oneof Vietnams newest and most stylish venues, Roof Garden

Saigon at Kumho Plaza (next to Intercontinental Saigon), andis sure to attract a big crowd from the citys tourism & hospi-tality industry.

The event, organised by Saigon Tourism Industry NetworkingGroup and Travel Daily Asia, features complimentary beer

provided by Tiger Beer, complimentary wine provided byThe Warehouse, and free snacks/soft drinks provided by the

venue and sponsored by TRG International/eHotel Alliance.There will also be a lucky draw with prizes donated by LifeResorts, Victoria Hotels, Bhaya Cruises, Duxton Hotel, Petit

Fute, The Boathouse and Come & Go Vietnam.

Entrance is free of charge to anyone working in the tourism &

hospitality industry, while non-tourism guests can enter for anominal VND100,000 fee.

For more information, please contact Tim Russell on [email protected] , telephone 0903 393723.

Eurowindow Nha Trang Investment

and Tourism Joint Stock Co broke

ground on the Ocean Window Spa

and Resort. The 34.2-ha project has

VND1 trillion (US$51.28 million) in

investment capital. It will include

a five-star hotel, spa, restaurant

and bar, shopping centre, eventscentre, sports centre and beaches.

The resort, in central Khanh Hoa

Province, is expected open for

business in 2013.

Tour operator Asian Trails Co will

organise tours for more than 300

MICE (meetings, incentives, con-

ventions and exhibitions) organis-

ers from Germany who want to

look over Vietnamese destinations.

The group, which will be here on

4-10 September, will visit Hanoi, HaLong Bay, Hoi An, and HCM City.

Bui Viet Thuy Tien, managing direc-

tor of Asian Trails, said Germany

and Belgium are the companys

biggest customers for MICE tour-

ism to Vietnam.

Polaris Kty Vietnam has recently

broken ground for a large Eco-

tourist project in Ky Thinh Com-

mune, Ha Tinh. The Eco-tourist

project, named Tau Voi Tourist and

Services Resort, drawing US$1,8

billion in investment. Under the

schedule, parts of the project willbe operational in 2011, while other

sub-projects will be wrapped up in

December 2016.

HCM City hosts

vegetarian festival

Work starts on Ocean

Window development

German tour operators

explore MICE

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on National Day

Thirsty Thursday

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According to a survey releasedthat the number of local people

making plans for vacations thisyear has increased strongly, but

they tend to spend less on travel.

Nearly 64,5% of the respondents

in the survey said they and their

families made frequent trips everyyear, compared to over 54% of last

years similar survey.

While more people are travellingthis year, they tend to spend lesson travel, as more people bought

budget tours and fewer peopleagreed to pay a higher cost, ac-cording to the survey. It showed

that 19,9% of the respondentsagreed to spend more than VND10million per trip, down from 20,2% of

2009, and 46,3% of the respondentsagreed to spend VND5-10 million

per trip compared to over 57,4% inlast years survey.

Meanwhile, the proportion ofpeople willing to pay VND2-5 mil-

lion per trip increased from 22.3%of last year to 33.8% in this years

survey.

The budget-saving trend is clearerwith 24% of respondents sayingthe most uncomfortable thing in

travel is the additional charges

from service providers, followedby complaints about the unprofes-

sional service from tour guides andfood quality.

Despite the price-conscioustrend, travellers still choose well-

established brands rather thancomparing prices. More than 52%of respondents said they selected

tours from the trustworthy brandswhile only nearly 17% of travellerssaw prices as a decisive factor.

The survey had been performed

with people from 18 to 64 yearsold, who were divided into differ-ent income categories, from VND3

million to VND5 million per month,from VND5.1 million to VND8 mil-

lion, then under VND3 million andover VND8 million.

Up to 43% of respondents

searched for travel information onthe internet, while 40% obtained itfrom friends or relatives, accord-

ing to the survey. The marketing

method via leaflets and advertis-ing is less influential on customers

as only nearly 9.3% of the peoplelooked for travel information by

this way.

As for domestic destinations, local

travellers still preferred familiarplaces such as Halong Bay, PhuQuoc, Nha Trang, Hanoi, and Phan

Thiet.

The survey handed out the Viet-

nam Favorite Trademark Awards2010 to 61 companies, including

travel firms, hotels, restaurants, re-sorts, supermarkets, banks, insur-ance service providers, and other

consumer service providers.

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Local tourists to opt

for budget tours

Tourist tend to

spend less ontravel, as more

people bought

budget tours

and fewer

people agreed

to pay a higher

cost, accord-

ing to a survey

released

by the local

newspaper Sai

Gon Times.


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Golfplan breaks groundon Saigon resort 18



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The course architects at Golfplan have

stepped up construction of 18 resort

holes here in the Vietnamese capital.

Jeong San Vina Golf Club takes up unique

residence on an island in the Saigon River,

directly between the citys expatriate dis-trict and its new international airport.

The course at Jeong San Vina GC will

stretch out along a man-made waterfront

that Golfplan will outfit with a 50-meternatural buffer and overarching tropical

garden landscape. The golf will serve as

anchor to a high-rise condominium and

hotel development overlooking course,

river and city.

The plan is for Jeong San Vina to be very

high-end but still very accessible resort

facility, which is just what the golf culture

in Vietnam needs, said Golfplan partnerDavid Dale, who expects the course to

open for play in late 2011. When the hotel

component is finished, it will function as an

urban golf resort, and theres nothing like

that in Ho Chi Minh City today.

Dale and the Korean development consor-

tium backing this project, Taekwang Vina

Industrial Co. Ltd., have been poised to

begin course construction in earnest for

better than a year, but a series of factorshad slowed matters until this spring. Most

important, the bridge linking the island with

the mainland - Ho Chi Minh Citys District

2, just north of downtown - was not com-

pleted until March 2010.

In reality, Jeong San Vinas progress wasadditionally complicated by the extraordi-

nary engineering efforts the site requires.

According to Dale, more than 1.5 millioncubic meters of fill were required to build

up the site and in some ways create the

waterfront landscape.

All of this sand was dredged from theSaigon River north of our island, then trans-

ported by boat and pumped onto the site

in watery slurry, which is spread around

the property by a network of giant piping,

Dale explained. Its a pretty impressive

process. There were some 20 cubic metersof fill per boatload. Do the math. When you

do, you can understand why its taken two

years to complete the reclamation.

Spreading the fill around this site, in thecontext of golf construction and shaping,

is nearly as complicated as getting it there.

According to Dale, because of the very

high water table, no more than 4 meters of

fill are allowed anywhere on the site, lest

that spot recede. This is not the sort of

project that can be improvised in the field,

Dale said. The grades of our architecturaldrawings must be extraordinarily precise,

and each green site will be supported by

pilings to support and reinforce elevations

that will exceed the 4-meter limit.

At the other end of the spectrum, Golfplan

is the firm that dredged Singapore Har-

bor to create the man-made acreage that

under-girds the famed Serapong Course at

Sentosa Golf Club.

At Sentosa, we were reclaiming mangrove

swamps and a portion of Singapore Harbor,

but the exercises there - and here at Jeong

San Vina - are comparable, Dale said. Wetook a similar approach at Oulu Golfklubb

in Finland, home of Nokia and one of the

northernmost golf courses in the world.

There, we reclaimed peat bogs and used a

geo-tech style sheeting to create a floating

pad to support the sand fill on 27 holes.There is no need for geo-tech sheeting in

Ho Chi Minh City but you can see were

pretty darned experienced in engineering

these types of courses.

Jeong San Vina will play 6,595 meters

from the championship tees and feature

a diverse mixture of bunkering, from

enormous, sandy waste areas that tie into

greenside hazards, to the free-standingbunkers that dictate strategy in the fairways

and off the tee.

Its a beautiful finishing flourish, not

unlike what we created at the SerapongCourse, or what Pete Dye created at the

TPC Sawgrass in Florida, said Dale. But

the beauty and compelling strategy of

the golf holes must work in the context

of practical environmental matters. The

wetlands at Jeong San Vina, for example,were created so that when the river rises

to its highest point, water will be accepted

onto the course site and into this network

of wetlands. Its a very attractive, totally

golf-centric form of stormwater retentioncapability.

Whats more, our lakes are set higher than

the wetlands. When the lakes overflow, they

release into the wetland network.


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VIETNAMNEWS


The Hanoi Children Palace will join thePrague Arts Troupe from the Czech Re-public to host a series of events to mark

the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The ten-day programme which will laston 10 October will include a painting ex-

hibition, a water puppetry, a concert anda Czech traditional gastronomic festival.

Le Quang Tuan, Vice Director of the

Palace expressed the hope that follow-ing the programme, his palace wouldcooperate with its Czech counterparts

to organise exchanges between the twocountries children to enhance mutual un-

derstanding and assistance.

The Czech friends have helped built the

palace which has become a major centrefor cultural and sports activities for Ha-noian children.

Travel agencies reported that inboundand outbound short-day tours during the

holiday of 2nd September are attracting75% of visitors and the number of touristsduring this special holiday is expected to

increase by 15% in comparison with thesame period last year.

Destinations are Hong Kong (China), Ma-laysia, Singapore, the Republic of Korea,Cambodia and Taiwan.

Ms. Doan Thanh Tra, a representativefrom the Saigontourist, said that the com-pany introduced 35 inbound tours and 12

outbound tours, departing on 30th Augustand the company expects to attract 2,500tourists. Nearly 1,000 tourists have to date

registered for tours to Thailand, Singa-pore, Cambodia and Hong Kong (China).

Meanwhile, inbound tours to Sa Pa luresmore tourists than tours to the sea due tostormy weather during that time, accord-

ing to Ms. Duong Mai Lan, the head of theVietravel Hanoi Market Development Re-search Department.

Ms. Lan added that the number of touristsis expected to rise thanks to various pro-

motion tours in August such as Thousandyears of Thang Long-Hanoi (a discountof 30%) or tours to Thailand and China (15

to 20% discount).

According to the Vietnam National Admin-istration of Tourism (VNAT) said nearly 140

contestants from 26 provinces and cities na-

tionwide will join a contest to select best hotel

receptionists in the tourism sector.

The event, which will be held from 12nd -15th

September in Hanoi, is part of activities to cel-

ebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-

Hanoi and National Tourism Year-Hanoi 2010.

It aims to honour outstanding receptionists

who have contributed to improving the qualityof tourism services.

The qualifying rounds, which include profes-

sional skills and foreign languages, will take

place in Hanoi from 12nd - 14th September. The

top ten contestants will go on to enter the finalround scheduled for 15th September.

Czech Cultural

events to be held in Hanoi

Czech Cultural

events to be held in Hanoi

Best hotel receptionists

contest to be held

More tourists choose

short-day tours

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VIETNAMNEWS 7

Six Senses Con Dao, the first luxury

resort on the famous Con Dao Is-land in the southern province of Ba

Ria-Vung Tau will welcome its first guestsin December.

The spectacular Con Dao archipelago ofislands is located to the south-east of Viet-

nam. The largest and most beautiful, ConDao Island, hosts the Six Senses Hide-away Con Dao along a one-kilometre,white sand beach surrounded by dramatic

mountain landscapes. The remote settingand preserved natural landscape provides

an extraordinary sense of seclusion, creat-ing an ideal place to escape, relax andlive close to the natural elements.

The five-star resort boasts ultra-contem-porary architecture designed to enhance

the natural beauty of the site. All mate-

rials and resources have been locallychosen, and from sustainable sources, theresort developers say.

The resort has 50 villas, each with its ownprivate infinity pool and unobstructedviews of the East Sea with a total capacity

of 200 guests. Each villa has both space

and privacy along with indoor and out-door bathrooms.

Accommodations and Rates

Six Senses Hideaway Con Dao presents

elegantly designed modern accommoda-

tions offering generous personal spacewith lush tropical mangrove vegetation

and breathtaking views. There are 35 vil-las with Private Pools plus 16 Residential

Villas, each with two Private Pools. Stylesrange from single-level to duplexes andoffer one, two and three bedrooms, many

with indoor-outdoor bathrooms and sev-eral with personal spa suite salas.

Dining and Refreshments

The arrival and main guest area of Six

Senses Hideaway Con Dao recreatesa fishing village and local market, andfeatures truly Redefining Experiences

concepts. At the Fishery, guests view thewhole preparation process of local sea-food to be served in the restaurant. The

Vietnamese Coffee Shop is furnished with

traditional low-sitting chairs and tables,

while at the Deli, guests have the option tograb a bite to go.

Six Senses Spa

The uniquely designed Six Senses Spa

provides a truly relaxing and revitalizing

experience presenting some of Vietnamsspecialty treatments, such as cupping,

together with an extensive menu of tradi-tional and signature treatments. Skilled

therapists create sensory journeys forguests with a range of holistic wellnessprogrammes and pampering therapies

using products made only from naturalingredients and at one with ecologicalresponsibility.

How to get there

Con Son Island, which hosts the SixSenses Hideaway, is around 230-kilome-tres, or 145-miles, from Ho Chi Minh City

and is served by Co Ong Airport. It can bereached by the resorts private airplane,45-minutes from Ho Chi Minh City.

Six Senses Hideaway Con Daoset to open in December

Six Senses Hideaway, Con Dao Island


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Nowadays, tourism industry needs more high-qual-

ification staffs to meet the increasingly demand of

hotels and resort, however, its really difficult to

find a excellent trained manpower.

In order to solve this fact, investors focus on train-

ing a labour force and retain qualified workers, un-

fortunately, they faced limited supply - a problemfor the travel industry throughout the central coast

region.

Resorts are looking for qualified workers

According to Tran Thi Canh, Human Resouces (HR)

Manager of Nam Hai Resort said the key positions

are held by people who once worked for Furama,

the first five star resort in the central region, or for

other resorts or hotels in HCM City or Hanoi.

Canh said that before long in the central region,

more posh resorts will be put into operation by big

name chains. She expects competition in the labourmarket to become very stiff, and many key staff to

jump to other jobs.

Anticipating this, Nam Hai and other top resorts and

hotels are reconsidering their labour force policies.

They are recruiting assistants to key staff in anticipa-

tion of possible defections and improving benefits

and promotion opportunities. And the managers ofrestaurants, hotels and luxury resorts in the central

region all express worry about their chances of re-

cruiting ordinary staff in the next several years.

The central region is especially short of top manag-ers. Big resorts and hotels in Da Nang City and adja-

cent Quang Nam province are raiding workers from

other resorts and hotels by offering attractive wages

and job promotion opportunities.

The director of a travel firm said that said that onenew complex has been looking for a general direc-

tor for many months, but no candidate has turnedup. A whole team of managers has to come from

Taiwan to run another resort that has just opened in

Da Nang.

Whether supplys and demands regulations

solve the problem or not?

Huynh Tan Vinh, General Director of the Bac My An

Furama Resort, is chairman of the Da Nang Tourism

Association. He says Da Nang is now the promised

land for tourism development.

The Da Nang Planning and Investment Department,

by the end of June 2010, counted 55 tourism projects

registered in the city, with US$2,8 billion dollars in

capitalization. It is expected that Da Nang will gain

another 45 more projects in 2010-2012, two-thirds of

them along the coast from Son Tra to Dien Ngoc. Inthe next three years, four and five star beach hotels

alone will need 8000 workers.

Unskilled workers are abundant, while qualified andtrained workers are scarce.

According to Vinh, students graduated by local

schools meet only ten percent of the demand. Most

study to become receptionists or tour guides, while

few are trained to become cooks, chambermaids or

security guards.

Vitours chief Cao Tri Dung says the central region

lacks tour guides that can work with tourists from

new markets like South Korea, Thailand and Spain.

At the Huong Giang Travel Agency, Nguyen Hang

Quy says 40 percent of his clients are from Thailand,

but hes unable to find tour guides who can speakThai.

Tourism sector firms seem to have lost faith in the

market to meet their needs. Many urge that local

authorities should apply suitable policies to attracthighly qualified workers from HCM City and Hanoi.



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Vietnamese cultural

showcase to open in RoK A Vietnamese cultural showcase scheduled toopen at the end of August in the Republic of Koreas

(RoK) National Folk Museum in Seoul to promotethe countrys many different cultures.

The Welcome to Vietnam showcase and anotheron Mongolian culture (Senbeno Mongolia) are the

first two items launched this year in the RoK, wherealmost 1,2 millions foreigners live.

With this programme, children in the RoK will beable to find out more about the countrys range ofdiverse cultures, which will help to stamp out cul-

tural problems in the country.

Through the showcase, the visitors will have chanc-

es to find out about Vietnams history, its language,environment, cuisine, customs, religions, musical

instruments and traditional games by examiningthe plentiful and vivid documents and artefacts.

At present, there are over 90,000 Vietnamese peo-ple living and working in the RoK, the second larg-est foreign community after China including 35,000

Vietnamese brides married to Korean men.



Sixteen artists, eight from Vietnam and eightfrom Japan, have collaborated for an art show

at HCMCs Museum of Fine Arts.

2010 Japan & Vietnam Contemporary Art Ex-

hibition 8+8 displays work from La Nhu Lan,

Lam Triet, Nguyen Minh Phuong, Tran TrungTin, Hua Thanh Binh, Tran Van Thao, Nguyen

Thanh Mai and Khai Doan and Takata Yoshiki,

Hiratsuka Ryoichi, Tatsukuhama Yohichiro,

Takashima Yoshiyuki, Kudo Mashide, Miwa

Aki, Hashimoto Kenji and Suganuma Minoru.

Takata Yoshikis art installation is a small

room with a chair, a fan and some thin white

thin curtains with landscapes projected on

them. He took the photos in small villages in

Indonesia and France and said the fan repre-

sents the wind in Indonesia.

Female artist Miwa Aki uses green. Light

green describes the spring wind in Japan and

dark green describes the twilight.

Another female artist, Thanh Mai, paints oldwomens faces and cats.

Tran Thi Huynh Nga, owner of Blue Space

Contemporary Arts Center, the organizer of

the show, said the collaboration had beenreally positive and there would be more tocome.

The exhibition starts from 20th - 29th August at

97A Pho Duc Chinh Street, District 1, HCMC.

The annual International Travel Exposcheduled for 30th September to 2nd Oc-

tober in HCMCs District 7 will highlightriver tourism and health tourism in the cityas well as the world heritage sites in the

country.

Nguyen Bao Anh, Deputy Head of the Tour-

ism Promotion Division under HCMCs De-partment of Culture, Sports and Tourism,

told that the organizing committee wouldset up booths to promote above-mentionedproducts and tourist sites alongside the

booths of tourism service providers.

The event at the Saigon Exhibition and

Convention Center will also incorporatea conference to promote destinations of

Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with a focuson river tourism with an aim to link up theriver routes of the three countries.

Under the title Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam- Three Countries, One Destination, the

travel expo will feature a tourism exhibi-tion, meetings between travel buyers andsellers, free-show tours and seminars. The

expo will also include the ASEAN TourismInvestment Forum.

The event organizers are the citys Tour-ism Department, IIR Exhibitions Pte Ltd

and VINEAX.

Anh said 266 tourism service buyers from

43 countries put their names down to jointhe travel expo. Up to now, 62 exhibitorshave booked booths at the expo, includ-

ing tourism service providers and provin-cial tourism promotion departments from

Binh Thuan, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam,Khanh Hoa, Lam Dong, and foreign tour-ism promotion departments of India, Cam-

bodia, Taiwan, and South Korea. Anh saidthe organizing committee would continue

to receive registrations of exhibitors.

In addition, five international media agen-

cies named Travel News Weekly/TravelWorld (China); MICE in Asia (Malaysia),Travel for Life (Russia) and CNN Trav-

eler (America) have registered to join theexpo.

The citys Department of Culture, Sportsand Tourism is asking international airlines

like Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines,Singapore Airlines, and Turkish Airlines tosupport guests and organize familiariza-

tion trips during the event.

Japan & Vietnam Contemporary ArtExhibition on display in Vietnam

Travel expo expresses

heritage sites and river tourism

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Because of the special reasons and as per

requests of key exhibitors, the Organis-ing Board of Vietnam Hotel Expo 2010 has

decided to delay the event until 6-8 Decem-

ber 2010 instead of 22-24 September at the

Hanoi National Convention Centre.

This year the event is held alongside thethird annual Tourism and Camping Asia Ex-

position, allowing travellers an even greater

opportunity beyond simply exploring all that

there is regarding hotels and tourism.

Organized by the GFC International Fair and

Communication Company Ltd., the Viet-

nam Hotel Expo is specifically organized

for the international hospitality community,

showcasing such vendors as bakery andconfectionery equipment manufacturers and

suppliers; products including bar and coffee

Eight northwestern provinces; include Lao

Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho, Ha Giang, Hoa Binh,

Son La, Dien Bien and Lai Chau; held a

seminar in Sa Pa town on August 18 to dis-

cuss measures to build tourism trademarks

and products.

The focus of the seminar was on expand-

ing tourism in connection with culture and

environmental protection in remote areasin the lead-up to sustainable development,

hunger elimination and poverty reduction.

Under the plan, the provinces reached

consensus on mechanisms and policy for

the management and development of tour-

ism products that conform to the current

regulations and demands of each locality.

The localities also agreed to promote

co-operation in investment projects for

boosting community and cultural tourism in

mountainous and remote areas to support

sustainable development, environmental

protection, hunger elimination and poverty

reduction.

They will focus on creating typical and

unique tourism products for each ethnic

group to attract more visitors and enhance

co-operation in tourism events to exploit

the regions potential.

Also under the plan, twenty-two travel

agents from the eight provinces will be

provided training to improve 13 tourism

skills.

A slogan and logo design contest for each

locality will be launched to create a brand

for the whole region and improve the ad-

vertising of tourism.

The action plan is part of the Tourism

Development in the Northeast Region proj-

ect, sponsored by the Vietnam National

Administration of Tourism and the Euro-

pean Union.

bar and coffee equipment and supplies,

display and shop fitting equipment, vari-ous food service equipment, furnishings

and fixtures, guest amenity services and

information on hospitality systems. Visitors

range from hotel and resort management

to golf club managers, restaurant owners,food importers and wholesalers, caterers,

management of supermarkets and grocerystores, not to mention private investors.

For further information, please feel free to

contact:

Vietnam Hotel ExpoAdd: Room 404, 4th Floor, IBC Building,

35 - 37 Trang Thi Str., Hoan Kiem Dist., Ha-

noi, VietnamTel: +84 462753439Fax: +84 462753246Event website:www.vietnamhotelexpo.comOrganizers website:www.gfcexpo.com

Vietnam Hotel Expo 2010

delayed until December

Vietnam Hotel Expo 2010

delayed until December

Northeastern provinces join hands in

building tourism trademarks

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Every citizen in the capital takes respon-

sibility for preserving and promoting Ha-nois 1000-year history and culture, de-clared Politburo member Pham QuangNghi at the Thang Long Hanoi Culture

Festival held at the Hanoi Friendship Cul-ture Palace.

The festival was held on the 5-year re-view of Programme No. 08 of the Hanoi

Party Committee on Developing Cultureand Creating an Image of Elegant andCivilized Hanoians in Anticipating of the

1000th Anniversary of Thang Long-Ha-noi and to honour the traditional culturalbeauty of Hanoians.

Addressing the ceremony, Politburo

member Nghi, who is also Secretary ofthe Hanoi Party Committee, stressed thatHanois cultural traditions are a priceless

treasure not only for Hanoians but also theentire population. He urged all sectorsand the public to raise their awareness

of the cultures significance and use it as

the spiritual foundation, target and drivingforce of the countrys socio-economic de-velopment.

Also at the festival, outstanding collectivesand individuals were presented with cer-

tificates of merit for their contributions tothe campaigns The Whole Nation Unitesto Build up a Cultural Lifestyle and the

Day for Poor People. They shared theirexperiences lessons learnt from the cam-paigns in their localities.

The programme also featured various per-formances of music and dance, a dragon

dance, a drum dance and Bai Bong tra-ditional dance performed by folk artists

form Thanh Tri and Phu Xuyen districts.

The event was held jointly by the Party

Committee, the Peoples Council, thePeoples Committee and the FatherlandFront of Hanoi.

Over the past 35 years, President Ho ChiMinhs mausoleum has welcomed morethan 40 million visitors, including 7 million

foreigner visitors from many different coun-tries and territories as well as international

organizations.

The mausoleum was inaugurated on 29th

August 1975. It has become a place forgenerations of Vietnamese to convergefeelings and beliefs with Uncle Ho the

national liberation heroine and a world cul-tural activist.

Implementing the renewal policy initiated

and led by our party, the national economyincreased, peoples lives were improved.More and more people from localities na-

tionwide went to President Ho Chi MinhsMausoleum to pay tribute to Uncle Ho.

About ten thousand people per day visitPresident Ho Chi Minhs Mausoleum dur-ing days-off, festivals, his birthday and the

anniversary of his death.

It is also a place where important activi-

ties of the party and state, meetings andparades take place. Political and cultural

activities are also usually held here.

Thang Long - Hanoi Culture Festival

promotes the Hanois cultural values

President Ho Chi MinhsMausoleum draws huge visitors
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Historical relics of Hoa Lo prison and the traditions

of Thang Long - Hanoi

Artisans donate bells, drums and gongs to Hanois

millennial celebration

The Relics Management Board under the Hanoi City Department of

Culture, Sports and Tourism launched a contest to study the historical

relics of Hoa Lo prison and the traditions of Thang Long Hanoi on

18th August.

The contest has three main components, including studying about

Thang Long Hanoi, about the Hoa Lo prison and eloquence about

the 1000-year culture capital, Hoa Lo relics and heroes who have sac-

rificed their lives for the national liberation, drawing the participation

of over 70 young people from different agencies such as the Military

Joint Stock Bank and the Vietnam Nature Museum.

30 multiple choice questions about Hoa Lo relics helped young peo-

ple understand more about patriotism and serving the struggle of

communist soldiers.

The contest aimed to educate the revolutionary and patriotic tradition

of the older generations, and improve peoples awareness of pre-

serving and promoting values of historical and revolutionary relics

in the capital.

As approved by the Hanoi Peoples Com-

mittee and the Preservation Center of Co

Loa Hanoi ancient capital relic, to wel-

come 1,000 years of Thang Long Hanoi

and to welcome Thang Long Royal Cita-

dels recognition as World Cultural Heri-

tage by UNESCO, the Handicraft Asso-

ciation of Hanoi trade villages will donate

bells, drums and gongs to the Thang Long

Royal Citadel.

According to the organizing committee, thelarge drum, with a diameter of 2,35 meters

and a width of 3 meters, made by artisan

Pham Chi Tinh in Doi Tam drum village in

Doi Son Commune, Duy Tien District, Ha

Nam Province, is expected to be com-

pleted on 15 September to be available in

the Thang Long Hanoi handicraft villages

and streets festival.

The copper gong with a diameter of 2.01

meters and the copper bell weighing 3,000-

3,500 tons and having a width of 3,050 me-

ters and a diameter of 1,650 meters is made

by artisan Nguyen Tan Thinh, the director

of the Phu My Loc joint-stock company.

The bell will be cast from 12-18 September

before being presented to the Kinh Thien

Palace in the Thang Long royal citadel on

25 September.


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Key programs for the capitals grand anniversary

1,000 Hanoi enterprises to be announced in late September

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung,

Head of the National Steering Committee of

the celebration of 1,000 years of Thang Long

Hanoi, told that the preparations for the

celebration must focus on three important

programs, these are the opening ceremony

on 1 October, the meeting and parade on

the morning of 10 October and the art and

cultural performance on the evening of 10

October.

He instructed the Hanoi Peoples Committee

to closely coordinate with relevant agencies

to well organize the 10-day grand anniversa-

ry which consists of 30 cultural activities and

festivals to solemnly show peoples affection

and gratitude to ancestors, and highlight tra-

ditional historical and revolutionary values of

the Vietnamese nation.

The art performance is expected to be last

for 100 minutes. It will finish with a 20-30 min-

ute firework performance.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the

meeting and parade on October 10 will be

prepared by the Ministry of Culture, Sports

and Tourism, together with the Hanoi Peo-

ples Committee and relevant agencies.

During the meeting, while the national an-

them is being sung, 21 gun shots will be fired

at the Hanoi Flag Tower Stadium. The Dep-

uty Prime Minister specified that no gong,

drum or horn sound should be used during

the meeting, VGP reported.

The three large programs are expected to be

rehearsed in late September.

1,000 typical enterprises, 1,000 typical businessmen and 1,000 typical products of Hanoi will be awarded on 24th Septem-

ber 2010 to welcome the great festival of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long Hanoi.

This is the main content of a program named: Thang Long Hanoi Intelligence, co-organized by the Vietnam Associa-

tion of Young Scientists and Engineers (VAYSE), the Vietnam Intellectual Property Association (VIPA), and the Vietnam

Culture and Information Ltd., Co.The 1,000 typical businessmen are young businessmen who are brave and innovative in their work or who are excellent

leaders that lead their teams to overcome difficulties in the economic crisis period, contributing to promoting the coun-

trys socio-economic development.

On September 18th, the organizing board of the program: Thang Long Hanoi Intelligence will select 100 young intel-

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Giant embroidered picture on display

Hanoi sprints last days

to its anniversary

An enormous embroidered piece named

Coi xua (Old Origins) to mark the 1000th

anniversary of Thang Long Hanoi will be

on display at the Viet Xo (Vietnam-Russia)

Friendship Cultural Palace at 91 Tran Hung

Dao Street from 25th 29th August.

This is an opportunity for Hanoians andvisitors to see the giant embroidered piece

made by hundreds of artisans from the Coi

Xua Handicraft and Export Co in Van Lam

craft village in the northern province of

Ninh Binh to express their love for the capi-

tal city.

The 5.5 by 31 meter embroidery, weighing

1.5 tons, was begun in 2009 and has used

nearly 170 square meters of Italian wool and

around 250 kilograms of thread. The picture

contains images of the ancient capital Hoa

Lu and important historic landmarks in the

dynasties of Dinh, Tien Le and Ly. The pic-

ture also features the establishment of the

state of Dai Co Viet; Hoa Lu capitals land-

scape including two temples worshipping

two kings Dinh Tien Hoang and Le Dai

Hanh; and the typical traits of the capitals

terrain. The last part is the royal decree by

King Ly Cong Uan to move the capital to

Thang Long. .

The embroidery is proposed to the Bui Xuan

Phai entitled For the love of Hanoi 2010.

The Hanoi Peoples Committee on 20 Augustlaunched an emulative campaign in the last days to

the 1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long - Ha-

noi.

Vice Chairperson of the municipal Peoples Com-

mittee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang said: Celebrating the

1,000th founding anniversary of Thang Long - Hanoi

not only means to construct grandiose buildings but

more fundamentally and profoundly to make the so-

ciety more beautiful, to beautify each and every per-

sons soul, awareness and behavior.

At the campaign launching ceremony, Municipal

Party Committee Secretary Pham Quang Nghi asked

agencies and people to raise awareness of emula-

tive movements and popularize cultural, sports andtourism activities.

The campaign is part of the Thang LongHanoi Cul-

tural Festival and the sum-up of the Municipal Party

Committees Program 08 on cultural development.

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Newsweek revealed Best Coun-

tries list for 2010, measuring the

worlds nations based on five fac-

tors: education, health, quality of

life, economic dynamism & political

environment. In the Asia Pacific

region, Australia was the highest

rank, coming 4th in the global list.

Japan was 9th followed by New Zea-

land (13th), South Korea (15th) and

Singapore (20th). Thailand ranked

58th, one place ahead of China. Fin-

land was rated as the worlds Best

Country, followed by Switzerland

and Sweden. The USA was 11th.

Total passenger movements at

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

(KLIA) increased to 8.31 million

in the second quarter of 2010, up

16,6% from the 7,13 million pas-

sengers it catered for in the same

period last year. International pas-

sengers accounted for 68.8% of thetotal throughput.

The Airport Link connecting downtown Bangkok and Suvarn-

abhumi airport began its first day of commercial services on 23

August after four-year delay, with trains now running from 6am

to midnight.

Two services will be offered. The first is the 15-minute Express

service between Suvarnabhumi Airport and Bangkoks city

centre, priced at THB150 (US$4.69), with a promotional fare

of THB100 (US$3.12) offered until year-end. The second is the

30-minute City Line commuter trip, priced between THB15

(US$0.46) and THB45 (US$1.40) for each station stop, but for

the meantime, with a promotional fare pegged at a flat fee of

THB15 also until year-end.

The Makkasan Station is the designated City Air Terminal.

Phaya Thai Station, close to the Victory Monument favouritesite of mass civilian rallies is the last stop on the route.

The City Line will make eight stops across the capital, start-

ing at Phaya Thai, before heading to the airport. The trains

take 30 minutes from Phaya Thai to Suvarnabhumi. Passengers

using the City Line pay a flat rate of 15 baht for a trip during

the promotion period. Fares will range from 15 baht to 45 baht,

depending on the distance travelled, after Jan 1, 2011.

Teething problems have been noted, however, including the

lack of a downward escalator connecting the BTS Phaya Thai

skytrain station and the Phaya Thai airport rail link station as

well as the absence of a single commuter ticket combining the

services of the airport rail link, BTS and MRT (subway). Thismeans a traveller has to buy tickets separately at each inter-

change.

The Indonesian island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara will

again host the annual Tourism Indonesia Mart and Expo(TIME) (Pasar Wisata Indonesia) from October 12 to 15.

Chairman of TIME 2010s Steering Committee, Meity Robot,said TIME promotes Lombok and West Nusa Tenggara to

the international market and speeds the development and

improvement of infrastructure, tourism facilities and tourism

attractions in the region.

A new international airport is expected to be operational laterthis year, and this development is expected to attract more

tourist arrivals to the island and speed improvements to infra-

structure such as new hotels and tourism attractions.

To be held at Santosa Villa & Resort Lombok, TIME is aimed

at promoting Indonesia as a tourist destination in international

markets and at the same time raising the countrys image as a

global travel destination and be expected to attract 150 inter-national buyers and 150 sellers from all over Indonesia.

The show attracted 127 buyers from 25 countries and 250

sellers from 15 provinces last year. Robot said the number of

buyers attending TIME for seven consecutive years has been

relatively steady.

Beijings famous Forbidden City is

planning to open more areas to the

public. Authorities will open 70% of

the once strictly off-limits imperial

palace to tourists, up from just 30%

currently. The Beijing Morning Post

reported the Head of the Adminis-

tration of Cultural Heritage, ShanJixiang, as saying that the newly-

opened areas could see visitor

numbers rise by 30,000 per day, to

around 130,000.

Expedia.com has announced that a

first batch of 300-plus Hilton World-

wide properties using LightStay

will be added to the Expedia.com

Green Hotel programme. LightStay

is Hiltons sustainability measure-

ment system, which calculates and

analyses the environmental impact

of its properties. It is currently be-

ing rolled-out and will be in place

at Hiltons entire portfolio by 31

December 2011.

Australia named in

worlds top

Best Countries

KLIA passenger traffic

climbs 16.6% in Q2 Lombok looks forward

to hosting TIME 2010

Lombok looks forward

to hosting TIME 2010

Bangkok Airport

Rail Link begins full

commercial operations

Forbidden City to open

more areas to public

Hilton Worldwide joins

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Visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in July 2010reached the highest ever single-monthlevel at 3,136,794, a robust increase of

31,9% year-on-year. For the first sevenmonths of this year, total visitor arrivals

amounted to 19,992,810, representing a24,4%-rise compared to the same periodlast year.

The arrivals base for comparison this Julyis relatively lower, given that visitor arriv-

als in the same month last year were im-pacted by the human swine flu pandemic.

The gain in visitor arrivals in July 2010 isstill strongly encouraging; with arrivalssurpassing the July 2008 figure by 15,8%.

The growth in overall arrivals in July wasled by Mainland China, with more than2 million visitor arrivals. The figure was

not only 40% more than in last July, butwas also the highest monthly figure for

the market. This significant growth couldbe attributed to the fact that summer is apopular travel season among Mainland

visitors. In addition, the implementationof measures under the Individual Visit

Scheme in Shenzhen has made it easierfor Shenzhen residents to visit Hong Kong.

Among other short-haul markets, Southand Southeast Asia achieved nearly40% increase in arrivals, as there were

greater travel sentiments resulting fromthe improved economic conditions and

increased flight capacity. Taiwan alsorecorded growth of 10,4%, a sign thatthe effect of direct cross-strait flights is

stabilising.

Meanwhile, visitor arrivals from the long-

haul markets also grew steadily. Overallarrivals from these markets in July went

up by 10,6% compared to the same monthlast year. As for the emerging markets,Russia, the Middle East and India reg-

istered growth of 86%, 47,5% and 44.9%respectively, as propelled by such factors

as economic recovery and more frequentflights.

In July 2010, overnight visitors exceeded1,82 million. The figure represented 58.3%of all visitors to Hong Kong and was 35,7%

more than in July 2009. The increasewas contributed by the rise in overnight

visitors from most market regions, espe-cially short-haul markets, such as Taiwan(+46,1%), Mainland China (+44,9%) and

South and Southeast Asia (+42,7%).Cumulatively, between January and July this year, overnight visitors amounted to

11,3 million, or 56,6% of all visitors to HongKong, a year-on-year increase of 23,3%.

Hong Kong sees

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The Tourism Authority of Thailand(TAT) has confirmed that the Thailand

Travel Mart Plus Amazing Gateway to theGreater Mekong Subregion (TTM+ 2010)

will be held from 8-10 September 2010, atthe IMPACT Convention Centre (Hall 9),Muang Thong Thani in Bangkok.

The most important development this year

is the changing mix of buyers. For the firsttime, buyers from India will head the list.

341 buyers from 49 countries registered to

participate in the event including India (70buyers), followed by the United State (26),the UK (24), Russia (22) and South Korea

(16). TAT will invite new buyers from Bra-zil, Mexico, UAE, Turkey, Lithuania, and

Kazakhstan to test the tourism products of

Thailand.

TAT has also sought to ensure qualitybuyers by requiring them to pay a nominalregistration fee of USD 200. A number of

buyers invited from the domestic Thaimarket will be charged USD 50 for regis-tration.

The buyers will meet 428 registeredsellers from various business categories

such as hotels and resorts, tour operatorsand travel agents, eco and adventure,

wellness and spa, airlines, entertainment/theme parks/culture products, golf cours-es, associations, other travel services and

the Greater Mekong Subregion/ NTOs.

Suraphon Svetasreni, Governor, TAT said,

This years TTM Plus is important for usbecause it comes as part of our recov-

ery programme from the recent politicalunrest.

It is also part of our strategy to diversifythe sources of visitor arrivals and exposeThailand and the GMS region to new

buyers from countries and regions whichcould deliver promising results in the

future.

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India to head buyers list at

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The Chinese tourism market on the Gold Coast candouble in three years if local businesses can pro-

vide a more Chinese-friendly service.

Last year, 106,000 Chinese tourists spent overAU$60 million on the Gold Coast, exhibiting growth

of 15 percent for the tourism hot spot, compared toChinese visitation to Australia which grew by a rela-tively subdued 2,8 percent over the same period.

Gold Coast Tourism (GCT) said it was not alonein recognising the business and tourism potential

of China and was one of the few Australian travelagents preparing the local industry to maximise theopportunity.

As parts of its preparations, GCT will bring togetherdozens of front-line tourism staff for a workshop on

Chinese Culture and Customer Service, to heightencultural intelligence of Chinese social customs andnuances. This builds on the recent Chinese Culture

and Business workshop attended by 30 staff from various Gold Coast businesses seeking to better

their trade relationships with China.

It is one thing to increase Chinese visitor numbers,

it is another thing to develop a prosperous and sus-tainable market, GCT Marketing Manager - China,Taiwan, and Hong Kong, John Chan said.

We need to break down barriers between GoldCoast businesses and our Chinese visitors andtourism distribution partners. Our ability to raise the

Gold Coasts profile in China and attract a largerquantity and quality of Chinese tourists is as much

about Gold Coast businesses being able to effec-tively engage the market as it is about destinationbrand marketing.

If Gold Coast Tourism can help foster an aware-ness and appreciation amongst local tourism busi-

nesses for how best to interact with both Chinesetourism businesses and consumers, then withoutdoubt we have a far greater chance of achieving

more lasting and sustainable tourism growth for theGold Coast.

The Gold Coast has achieved greater growth than

most areas in Australia because of targeted cam-paigns at specific cities in China. Aspects of the

workshops include educating key players that:

Chinese people focus on building a sincere rela-

tionship before negotiating business deals.

How to say hello in Chinese, because they ap-preciate efforts made to communicate in their lan-

guage.

Mutual respect must be established before do-

ing business.

Australia lures more

Chinese tourists

to Gold Coast

Australia lures more

Chinese tourists

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Hawaii said aloha to 625,522 visitors in June 2010, a 13,6 percent up over June2009 and testament to the industrys recovery from recent events which haddampened travel to the region.

Elvis and the Brady Bunch have been there (though perhaps not together) as hasany sitcom worth its set budget, but Hawaii, like other US destinations, suffered visi-

tor declines due to the recent economic downturn and last years H1N1 epidemic,which it is now showing signs of besting.

According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, the efforts of Hawaiis tourism industry toboost arrivals during the recession have been successful.

Our focused efforts to increase travel demand to Hawaii in our major market areas

are paying off with increases in arrivals from US West, US East, Canada, and Japan,

Hawaii Tourism Authority chief executive Mike McCartney told Bloomberg.

Oahu recorded the strongest June growth at 18,3 per cent over June 2009, followedby the Big Island with 8,9 per cent, Maui with 5,9 percent and Kauai with 5,8 percentincreases.

Although we still have a ways to go to make up for what has been lost during these

challenging economic times, our visitor industry is on the right path and there isreason for increased confidence in Hawaiis economic recovery, Hawaii TourismAuthority spokesperson Marsha Wienert told the newspaper.

Ms Wienert said higher per person per day spending and higher overall visitor ex-

penditure in June was a sign the industry was strong.

For the first half of 2010, total tourist expenditure in the state climbed to USD5,3 bil-

lion, a 7,8 percent increase compared with the same period last year.

International tourism to Hawaii continued to grow by 33,5 percent, led by a 47,8 per-cent increase in Japanese visitors.

It is also encouraging to continue to welcome more visitors from developing tour-ism markets in Asia, specifically Korea, China and Taiwan, Ms Weinert said.


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World Travel Market, the premier global event for the travel industry,

is expanding its technology seminar programme for 2010 with theintroduction of a presentation theatre on the exhibition floor within thetechnology and online travel section.

Its the first time a conference venue has been positioned on the WorldTravel Market exhibition floor in the events 31 year history.

The new Technology and Online Travel Theatre at WTM is an exclusiveplatform for exhibitors to promote their products and services in 45

minute slots to technology and online travel buyers (member of WTMsMeridian Club), other exhibitors and visitors.

Leading social media site TripAdvisor and travel industry website de-sign and development company ZOLV are two technology also signed

up to the Technology and Online Travel Theatre.

The 80-seat theatre is part of a much expanded technology and online

travel conference and events programme which also includes presenta-tions from British Airways, lastminute.com, Tui Travel, Google, Yahoo!

and WAYN on a range of topics including social media and mobile.

World Travel Market Exhibition Director Simon Press said: The new

Technology and Online Travel Theatre is a great initiative to help ex-hibitors communicate the benefits of their products and services to theglobal travel and tourism industry.

World Travel Market is a leader in innovation in the exhibition industry,

and Im delighted to be launching such an innovation to the travel andtourism industry in 2010.

WTM introduces Technology

& Online Travel Theatre

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The Singapore economy has seen a boost in foreign visitor spendingduring the days leading to the opening day of the Singapore 2010

Youth Olympic Games, according to spending data from Visa. More

than US$8,3 million was spent by international visitors to Singapore

on Visa-branded payment cards on the Opening Day of the Singa-pore 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

The money spent by visitors on their Visa Credit, Debit and Prepaid

cards on 14 August 2010, showed an increase of nearly 50 percentover the same day in 2009.

In the lead up and first two days of the Games (11-15 August 2010),more than US$42,5 million was spent by international visitors to Sin-

gapore on Visa-branded payment cards. This is a 45 percent increase

from the same period in 2009.

Top contributors to visitor spending in Singapore as measured by

spending on Visa-branded payment cards were:

1. USA2. Indonesia

3. Malaysia

4. Australia

5. Japan6. UK

7. China

8. Hong Kong, China9. India

10. Thailand

Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok is pleased to announce a charityconcert in aid of the Friends of Ratchaprasong Fund on Thurs-

day, 2nd September 2010.

H.E. Admiral M.L. Usni Pramoj, Privy Councillor and accom-

plished musician, began composing his first String Quartet lastApril when the nation was facing its most serious turmoil in recentyears. As work on the music progressed, a story emerged almost

of its own volition.

The first movement portrays rural life, whereas the second move-ment portrays the red shirt tide of demonstrators sweeping overBangkok and occupying key areas of the city. The third move-

ment expresses an outpouring of grief, from all sides, for the hurtinflicted upon the nation, while the fourth and last movementdoes not tell a story, but instead, projects the hope that Thais will

find a fair resolution, come together to rebuild the nation so thatnormalcy shall be restored, to be once again united in peace.

The evening starts at 7:00 pm with a cocktail reception in thePimarnman Room followed by the performance of the String

Quartet after which a four-course set menu will be served.

H.E. Admiral M.L. Usni Pramoj will be on the viola, with Tasana

Nagavajara on the first violin and Siripong Tiptan on the secondviolin, with Kittikhun Sodprasert on the cello.

With the support of the members of the Ratchaprasong SquareTrade Association, tickets are being sold for Baht 3,500 net per

person.

Singapore visitor spending

surged during Youth Olympic Games

Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok

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Minister of Transportation Freddy Numberi has given

an opportunity to the private sector to develop 14 new

airports the government will build starting in 2011.

According to local media reports, the countrysPresident, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, told that the

government has earmarked IDR198 billion (US$22

million) from the 2011 budget for the construction of

14 new airports, and the reconstruction of 18 existing

hubs.

Indonesias Minister of Transportation, Freddy Num-

beri, added that if the private sector wants to join,

just go ahead.

According to a Jakarta Post report, Numberi said that

the new developments would include a second air-

port in Bali and a hub for West Nusa Tenggara. In

West Nusa Tenggara it is still in process. In Bali wewill build another one as the Ngurah Rai airport has

already been in over capacity, the minister was quot-

ed saying by tempointeraktif.com. This appeared to

conflict with another statement issued by the Ministry

of Transportation, however, which listed the 14 new

airport sites, without mentioning Bali. The new loca-

tions were named as Eastern Seram (Maluku), Bone

(Sulawesi), Enggano (Bengkulu), Muara Bungo (Jam-

bi), Muara Teweh (Central Kalimantan), Morowali

(Central Sulawesi), Saumlaki Baru (Maluku), Sinak

Baru (West Papua), Tojo Una-Una (Central Sulawesi),

Tual Baru (Maluku), Wagete Baru (West Papua), Wa-

isai Raja Ampat (West Papua), Nam Niwel and Suma-rorong (West Sulawesi).

The airports will mostly cater for small aircraft to

boost domestic air traffic across the archipelago.

The budget carrier Jetstar Pacific will sell

cheap tickets for flights between three big

cities, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Danang

City, from 7th September to 27th October

on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of

Thang Long Hanoi.

Accordingly, each ticket for the Hanoi - Dan-

ang route or Ho Chi Minh City Danang route

will cost from VND 300,000, while tickets for

flights between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

cost from VND 600,000.

Cheap tickets will be available on the Jetstar

Pacifics website from 9am to 5pm on August

20th, and can be paid for online by credit

cards, such as Visa, Master Card, Amex, and

JCB, and by domestic debit cards, such as

Connect 24 (Vietcombank), E- Partner (Viet-

inbank), and VIB.

The air carrier often launches promotional

programs for passengers at special events

every year.

Indonesia to build 14 new airports

Jetstar Pacific launches cheap tickets for

domestic flights



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Korean Air has made several changes

to its frequent flyer programme, includ-

ing extending the expiry date for earned

miles to ten years, and allowing miles

to be redeemed against lounge passes

and excess baggage.

Under the new terms mileage earned af-

ter July 1, 2008 will be valid for ten years

(up from the current five years), and any

mileage earned before this date now has

lifetime validity.

In addition the carrier has increased the

number of seats available for award trav-

el, and a new online system has been in-troduced allowing Skypass to check the

availability of award seats at koreanair.

com.

The airline says it will also gradually add

new ways of redeeming miles, on ser-

vices including excess baggage allow-

ance, airport lounge access, and KAL

limousine transport and will increase the

selection of redemption travel, accom-

modation and tour packages available.

Korean Air is also enhancing its Skypass

Family Plan, allowing miles to be shared

with wider family members including

siblings, parents-in-law, sons-in-law,

and daughters-in-law.

Finally the carrier is increasing the valid-

ity of award tickets to one year (up from

the current six months), and will also al-

low members to earn miles of additional

seats purchased for musical instrumentsor for convenience reasons.

Korean Air says the changes will gradu-

ally become effective as system updates

are completed.

Siem Reap International Airport will have two per cent more week-

ly flights in the coming October 2010-March 2011 winter timetable,

mainly from regional destinations such as China, South Korea and

Singapore.

SilkAirs additional flight will bring its services from Singapore to nine

a week.

China Southern Airlines will increase its Canton-Siem Reap services

from two to five weekly flights. Meanwhile, Yunnan Airlines has re-

quested for slots for daily flights between Kunming and Siem Reap.

Asiana Airlines will up its Incheon-Siem Reap flights to six a week,

from the previous four. Korean Air will have 17 flights a week through

eight additional services one from Pusan and seven from Incheon.

Airport operator Socit Concessionnaire des Aroports (SCA) has

held two fam trips this year for South Korean agents and media. A

similar fam will be held in Japan next week to spur interest in char-

ter or regular flights into SCAs three airports in Cambodia, including

Phnom Penh International Airport and Sihanoukville Airport.

Etienne Lefort , Airport Manager said Siem Reap Airport International,

in particular, will receive more charter flights in the winter season.

This month alone, the airport will have hosted 60 charters from Hong

Kong, China, Taiwan and South Korea.

Korean Air enhances Skypass

loyalty scheme

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Tiger Airways begins daily

flights between Singapore and

Manilas Ninoy Aquino Interna-

tional Airport (NAIA) from 31st

October 2010.

The low-cost carrier already

flies nine times a week from

Singapore to Clarks DiosdadoMacapagal International Air-

port (DMIA), a 90-minute drive

from Metro Manila.

The new service has a depar-

ture time from Singapore of

1710 and an arrival time in Ma-

nila of 2040. Return flights will

depart at 2110 and arrive in Sin-

gapore at 0040. An Airbus A320

will be used on the route.

Frequency will increase from

December 1 to twice a day,

except on Tuesdays and Sun-

days.

Promotional rates are available

from now till August 25, starting

from S$55 (US$40) for travel

between October 31 and July

31, 2011.

Earlier, Tiger Airways strength-

ened moves to expand in theregion, tying up recently with

THAI Airways to form a new

budget carrier Thai Tiger.

In another development, the

Philippine Civil Aeronautics

Board awarded Philippine car-

riers, Philippine Airlines, Air

Philippines, Cebu Pacific, Zest

Air, more capacity to operate to

Singapore, following the sign-

ing of more bilateral agree-

ments between Singapore and

the Philippines.

Garuda Indonesia will launch direct Jakarta-Tokyo services from 31

August 2010.

The carrier already flies from Denpasar, Bali to Tokyo daily, to Nagoya

three times a week and to Osaka five times a week.

GA884 will depart from Jakarta at 2350 and arrive in Tokyo at 0900.

Return flight GA885 leaves Tokyo at 1200 and arrives in Jakarta at 1745.

An Airbus A330-200 with a capacity of 222 passengers, 36 in Business

class and 186 in Economy class, will be used on the route.

The aircraft features Garudas refreshed cabin products, which in-

cludes a 180-degree fully flat bed seat in Business class, touchscreen

LCD monitors in all classes, a state-of-the-art flight entertainment sys-tem with Audio and Video On Demand (AVOD), which offers a choice

of 25 films, 250 audio tracks and 25 video games.

Travellers from Japan can also take advantage of onboard visa-on-

arrival services.

Tiger Airways expands its network to Manila

Garuda Indonesia launches direct flights to Tokyo



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The LOT Polish Airlines will open a new Hanoi-War-

saw direct flight route starting on 15th November

2010.

The Chief Representative of LOT in Vietnam, Krzysz-

tof Kolodziej, said that the Hanoi Warszawa is the

latest among 10 flights the airlines will operate in

2010. LOT is proud to be the unique carrier connect-

ing Warszawa and Hanoi on the occasion of the great

festival of the 1,000 anniversary of Thang Long Ha-

noi.

The Hanoi Warszawa route will have three flights a

week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The flights

on the return route will be on Monday, Wednesday,

and Saturday each week.. LOT will use aircraft Boe-

ing 767-300 with the capacity of 225 economy seats

and 18 business seats.

LOT started selling tickets for direct flights from Ha-

noi to Warszawa as well to other destinations in the

carriers flight network. Round-trip tickets for flights

from Hanoi to Warszawa and Europe start at a price

of USD380, excluding VAT and other charges. The

price is as half as that of other carriers.

LOT is one of the oldest carriers in the world andis now the member of the Star Alliance. In 2010, the

carrier will be the first European carrier operating

aircraft Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

LOTPolishAirlinelaunchesH

anoiWarszawadirec

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T

wo of South Americas biggest airlines,

Chiles LAN and Brazils TAM, an-

nounced they planned to merge to create

Latin Americas largest carrier.

The new parent group would be called

LATAM Airlines but the separate TAM and

LAN logos would be maintained on aircraft

in each country, the airlines said in a joint

statement.

Regulatory authorities and shareholders

would have to give their approval to the deal,

which was outlined in a memorandum of un-

derstanding.

If the marriage goes ahead, the new airline

would have combined revenues of more

than eight billion dollars, and fly passengersto 115 destinations in 23 countries. It would

have a combined workforce of 40,000 em-

ployees and a total fleet of 241 aircraft.

The companies said they believed the merg-

er could save the new LATAM airline 400 mil-

lion dollars.

Sao Paulo-based TAM is Brazils biggest air-

line, controlling 43 per cent of the domestic

market in Latin Americas biggest economy.

LAN, which also has operations in Peru and

Argentina, is one of the biggest airlines in

Latin America, with a strong network of in-

ternational routes which generate more rev-

enue per passenger than domestic flights.

According to the trade review Air Transport

World, TAM carried 29 million passengers

last year, most of them inside Brazil, whose

population of 190 million is Latin Americas

biggest. LANAirlines carried 15 million pas-

sengers.

TAMs revenue passenger kilometers (RPK),

an industry measure, was 42.4 million to

LANs 30 million.

LAN, however, had a 2009 operating profit

of 435 million dollars on 3.7 billion dollars

of revenue, compared with TAMs 98 million

dollars on 4.9 billion dollars.TAM is a member of the Star Alliance airline

cooperation group while LAN is part of One-

world.

Simone Luciano, a spokeswoman for Brazil-

ian investment bank BTG Pactual, told AFP

her bank participated in the merger negotia-

tions.

Under the deal, TAM shareholders would

get 0.90 LATAM shares per TAM share.

TAM would be delisted from the Sao Paulo

exchange, which would instead offer Brazil-

ian Depositary Receipts for the new LATAM

Airlines.

The New York stock exchange would offer

American Depositary Receipts for the new

company. Depositary receipts are the paper

equivalent of shares for companies on for-

eign exchanges.

Last year, LAN had revenues of 3.7 billion

dollars while TAM took in 4.9 billion dollars.

Chiles LAN and Brazils TAM

launch LATAM Airlines



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S tar Alliance partners Lufthansa German Airlinesand Singapore Airlines are joining forces to of-fer luxury travel combining scheduled flights and

private jets to and within Europe.

Passengers originating from Australia can now com-bine their Singapore Airlines travel to Europe with

Lufthansa Private Jet services, connecting them to

over 1000 more airports in Europe and the Russian

Federation. The collaboration provides passengers

with travel service and access to even the remotest

parts of the European continent, while saving time

on the ground and in the air.

Subhas Menon, Singapore Airlines Regional Vice

President South West Pacific, said: With this joint

product that combines premium service with flex-

ibility, customers now enjoy the option to travel in

top-notch comfort from Australia all the way to not

only the popular European gateways but also to theless served European cities.

After arriving at Singapore Airlines European desti-

nations, passengers can continue board a Lufthansa

Private Jet and travel within Europe according to

their own timetable. Kai Peters, General Manager

Lufthansa Australia said: The premium traveller

is increasingly demanding more convenient travel

and the ultimate in service. This exclusive partner-

ship is a response to customers demand for a pre-

mium package tailored to their needs.

A dedicated Private Jet Event Manager provides a

tailor-made solution to individual customer require-

ments and ensures that the entire journey is coor-dinated from start to finish including limousine

services, baggage transfers, customers individual

wishes for catering and in-flight entertainment, ac-

cess to high-quality lounges, and hassle-free pass-

port and customs controls.

Lufthansa Private Jet can be booked at a fixed price

based solely on distance flown starting from 6,900

euros (A$9,900) regardless of the number of travel-

lers, subject to available seating capacity.

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Qantas Group Ltd will in-

crease capacity across its

domestic route network by

9.6 per cent over the next nine

months, including new routes

for Qantas and Jetstar.

Qantas chief executive offi-cer Alan Joyce said the group

would increase capacity by

more than 66,000 seats per

week in response to the re-

covering domestic market.

The capacity will be intro-

duced over the next nine

months and will see about 65

additional return services for

Qantas and around 120 for

Jetstar, including a 30 per cent

increase in the low-cost car-

riers capacity to Cairns next

year.

Qantas chief executive Alan

Joyce said seven additional

aircraft would be added to

the Qantas network this finan-

cial year, including a Boeing

767-300 last month on Sydney-

Perth.

He said an A330-300 would

be added from January, with

a further five B737-800s being

progressively added to the

domestic network from March

next year.

Mr Joyce said Jetstar wouldalso add new routes and in-

crease services to key leisure

destinations as it increased

domestic capacity by up to 30

per cent this financial year.

These included new services

in Perth and Launceston an-

nounced last week and the

additional 25 Cairns return

services from Melbourne,

Sydney and Brisbane detailed

today.

The Qantas boss said the two

brands ensured the group

was able to respond to oppor-

tunities and changing market

conditions and now operated

jointly on more than 20 routes

across Australia.

Qantas to boost domestic capacity


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10 culture and customs of

Spanish to know when

travelling & living in Spain (part 1)


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Lets say your parents have decided to take you abroad for a year, maybe because they have a sabbatical, or maybe just for fun. To anadult, it may seem like the perfect opportunity for you to learn a new language and make new friends, but you its a whole different story!

What about the friends youre leaving behind? What about the whole part where you have to LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE?

2, Evaluate other people: There are always some kids who want tobe the first to know the new kid, to veto them or accept them. Its usuallythe popular ones. The great thing about a new school is that they dontknow the first thing about you! So, watch them, and either laugh at them(this always helps in a pinch) or mold to them. They are actually usuallynicer to you than the other kids.

3, Beware of the opposite sex, especially if youre a girland especially in France: They can get pretty crude, and donttake no for an answer. Just brush them off if you need to. Getting flustereddoes NOT help.

6, Enjoy yourself: Reminisce about your old home, but dont dis thenew one. Its got its quirks, sure, but mostly its an okay place. As long asyou work with everyone around you, youll catch on faster than you hadEVER imagined.

5, Talk:Talk. Talk. Talk

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