Travel and Tourism Industry News

In January, the Mandarin Spa at the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong is to launch a special Sleep Ritual treatment for guests needing a little help relaxing properly. Priced at HK$1,400 for a 90-minute treatment, the ritual is designed to induce sleep through the use of music, scents and massage, thereby relaxing the mind and body [...]

Despite it being what should be Phuket’s busiest period of the year, a time when discounts are traditionally unheard of, the luxury Trisara resort has launched a promotion it hopes will tempt tourists back to the sunny blue skies of Thailand. Available now until the end of April 2009, this limited time only discount makes [...]

Zest Air, the Philippine local low cost airline formerly known as Asian Spirit, presented today its 4 newly acquired aircrafts that will soon serve its regional flights from the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA), the country’s alternative premier airport located in Clark, Pampanga. Zest Air president and CEO Alfredo Yao led the presentation of the [...]

Travel and fly Cebu Pacific! Cebu Pacific (CEB), the country’s leading domestic airline, is offering a Php500 all-in ‘Go Lite’ fare for flights from Cebu to Cotabato, Dumaguete, Iloilo, Legaspi, Ozamiz, Siargao and Tacloban. The seat sale is from December 17-19, 2008 and is good for travel from January 1-March 18, 2009. This marks the [...]

Turkey’s tourism industry has been growing and will continue to do so despite negative effects of the global financial crisis, local newspaper Today’s Zaman reported on Monday. Turkey has seen a significant growth of tourists in 2008, attracting 14 percent more visitors than in the last year, Kerim Cavusoglu, president of the Turkish Association of [...]

Based on a worldwide online poll of more than 167,000 travel agencies and front-line travel agents across more than 160 countries, Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has been named the “World’s Leading Credit Card” by the 2008 World Travel Awards (WTA). The World Travel Awards honors leading travel-related organizations in worldwide and regional categories, which range [...]

Virgin America, the new airline on a mission to make flying good again, today took the award for “Best Low Cost Airline in North America” among domestic carriers in Business Traveler Magazine’s 2008 “Best in Business Travel” Survey. “We’re honored to be recognized as the top low-fare carrier choice by the most selective and experienced [...]