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Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa announces promotions
The Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa announced the
appointment of Natthanon Chansorn to the position of front office manager at
the Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa.
 Natthanon
Chansorn
Natthanon has extensive hotel experience from Star
Cruises Bangkok, JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok and most recently with the
Peninsula Hotel Bangkok as assistant revenue manager.
Sathit Mansuwan has been promoted from rooms division
manager to executive assistant manager.
Before his promotion to rooms division manager at the
Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa, he was front office manager at the Royal
Garden Resort & Plaza, Pattaya until the hotel re-branded in 2001.
 Sathit
Mansuwan
Krisanapong Muadtaisong was promoted from assistant
director of sales to director of sales.
Krisanapong worked with the Royal Garden Resort Pattaya
since June 1997 as a sales executive, assistant sales manager, catering
manager, senior sales manager and later promoted to assistant director of
sales in October 2002.
In the role as director of sales, he will be working
alongside the sales teams in Bangkok, Hua Hin and Pattaya, and working
closely with the Marriott Global Sales Offices and Global Sales Agents.
Emirates launches new routes in 3 continents
Soonthorn
Suree (center), manager of Emirates Airlines in Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia
and Laos and Emirates staff in their Songkran costumes.
Suchada Tupchai
Emirates Airlines has started services to new
destinations in Europe, Asia and America.
At a recent press conference and annual seminar for
travel agencies in Pattaya, Soonthorn Suree, manager of Emirates Airlines in
Thailand, Myanmar and Laos said, “Emirates is proud to offer more new
destinations around the world.
“We are opening five more routes to Glasgow, Shanghai,
Vienna, New York and Budapest. This will meet the need in traveling,
business and cargo transportation.
“Passengers, especially from Thailand as well as other
parts of Asia and the Middle East, will be able to travel to their
destinations on faster and more convenient routes.”
To mark these inaugural services, the carrier is offering
special promotions such as special ticket prices, deluxe rooms and free car
rentals to passengers who travel with Emirates before July 10.
“Now Emirates possesses 66 airplanes, of which 60 are
for passenger flights and the rest for cargo. However, we have planned to
buy more to increase our fleet. Emirates will have over 100 aircraft in the
future,” said Soonthorn.
Currently, the carrier flies to 74 destinations in 52 countries, covering
Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa, India and Asia Pacific. It
is regarded as the fastest-growing intercontinental airline with its
excellent convenience and services.
Central Wongamat welcomes new GM
Suchada Tupchai
A party recently held at the Central Wongamat Beach
Resort was also the opportunity to introduce the hotel’s new general
manager, Viranut Limprasute, to the local community.
 Viranut
Limprasute, the new general manager of the Central Wongamat Beach Resort.
Many members of the travel and business fraternity
attended the poolside party.
The new general manager mingled with guests and members
of the media in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
Viranut is a graduate of tour and travel management from Honolulu
University, Hawaii and has held the position of hotel manager at the Amari
Trang Beach Resort, general manager at Amari Mae Sot Hill and director of
sales and marketing for the Capital Club in Bangkok. He has also served in
several other capacities.
Malaysian and Thai tourism sign Memorandum of Understanding
Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents’ president,
Tunku Dato Seri Iskandar, Malaysian Association of Hotels’ president Mohd
Ilyas Zainol Abidin, the Association of Thai Travel Agents’ president,
Suparerk Soorangura, and the Thai Hotel Association’s president, Chanin
Donavanik met over the weekend in Bangkok to sign a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) between the four parties.
The MoU focused on enhancing two-way tourism and greater
collaboration between the members of the respective associations.
The four groups agreed to cooperate and support each other
through the exchange of information and proposals for the enhancement of their
respective travel trade industries, while suggesting movement of tourists and
travellers to each other’s countries be further controlled through members of
the respective associations so as to provide quality service to customers. (TTG
Asia)
Road links believed to boost regional tourism
The number of tourist arrivals in Thailand from neighboring
countries will greatly increase in the foreseeable future, thanks to road link
projects in the region. As tourism businesses in Thailand are preparing
marketing strategies to attract more foreign tourists from the region through
the road link projects, which will be materialized within coming years, their
counterparts in Vietnam, for example, are also discussing measures to attract
more tourists from Thailand and Laos.
One of the regional road link projects is to connect
Thailand’s northeastern Mukdahan Province with Suwannakhet in Laos, and the
Danang Port City in Vietnam through the Second Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, which
is scheduled to be opened in 2006.
The Thai government is also working out more road links
projects with other neighboring countries, including the one connecting Thailand
with Kunming in southern China through Myanmar, and the one going from Thailand
straight southward to Singapore through Malaysia.
However, to raise the number of tourists traveling by road,
the Thai and Vietnamese governments must have an agreement on right-hand drive
vehicles from Thailand to Vietnam. While awaiting the agreement, Vietnam has
been encouraged to take suitable methods to welcome visitors from Thailand, who
will travel by road, to take part in major tourism programs in Vietnam, namely
the Year of Dien Bien Phu 2004, the Hue Festival, and Heritage Roads in the
Central. The number of Thai visitors in Vietnam and vice versa is expected to
remarkably increase if the right-hand drive vehicles deal becomes effective in
the future. (TNA)
SRT suspends services to three southern border provinces
The Labour Union of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), Hat
Yai Branch, announced on April 18 that it had suspended train services to the
three southern border provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, and Pattani until the
government takes measures to ensure the safety of SRT officials.
The SRT Labour Union, Hat Yai Branch, announced the urgent
resolution followed an incident when an SRT official in Narathiwat was shot by
two unidentified attackers riding on a motorcycle when he was travelling to
work. The 50-year-old official, Yongyudh Tiamtad, was seriously injured, and was
later pronounced dead on arrival as he was rushed to Sungai Padi Hospital. The
incident took place in front of a market in Paluloo Sub-district in Sungai Padi
District. Yongyudh was the third SRT official in the three southern border
provinces being attacked by perpetrators in recent weeks.
The SRT had continued its services to the three border
provinces until this latest incident. However, on April 18 local police also
found that 50 rivets were removed from sleepers on part of a railroad in
Narathiwat, an act apparently aimed at causing a train derailment. Last week, 80
rivets were also removed from sleepers on a railroad located between the Ban Pa
Rai and Ban Kong Sai Railway Stations in Muang District of Pattani. Local
officials, however, managed to repair the railways after the incidents.
SRT Governor Chitsanti Dhanasobhon will visit to Hat Yai to
hold talks with the SRT Labour Union, Hat Yai Branch, on the issue. Reporters
said with the suspension, hundreds of passengers wanting to travel to the three
border provinces had been stranded at the Hat Yai Railway Station and
authorities are acting to assist the people. (TNA)
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