Travel and Tourism Industry News

The Hotel Panorama by Rhombus has launched a summer promotion offering travellers to Hong Kong the chance to stay in a Platinum Room for 2 nights and get the 3rd night for free. Running until August 31, 2009 (based on availability); travellers can stay in a Platinum or Family Room for just HK$1988. This 3 [...]

Accor has launched a competition for travel agents throughout Asia Pacific giving them a chance to win a free trip to Hong Kong for two. Agents just have to book rooms (on any public rate and including agents based in Hong Kong) at any Novotel hotel in Hong Kong between May 20 and August 19th [...]

The Hong Kong Marine Department has warned that maritime traffic in Victoria Harbor, in the center of the southern Chinese city, could be halted to prevent harm to a stranded whale, the South China Morning Post said on Friday. The 10-meter humpbacked whale first surfaced in Hong Kong’s busy shipping lanes on March 16. This [...]

Officials from Hong Kong and Japan launched here Friday the Hong Kong-Japan Tourism Exchange Year 2009 to foster tourism and cultural interflows between the two places. Commissioner for Tourism of Hong Kong Margaret Fong and Commissioner of Japan Tourism Agency Yoshiaki Hompo signed a memorandum of cooperation to signify the two sides’ commitment to drive [...]

Marriott officially opened the 658-room Hong Kong SkyCity Marriott Hotel on Thursday. The new hotel is Marriott International’s fifth hotel in Hong Kong but its first Marriott branded property. Marriott is managing the hotel under an agreement with the owner, Union Sky Holdings, a partnership between Shun Tak Holdings, and a joint venture of Dragages [...]

Outbound travel to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao remains popular with mainland travelers during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday season, an online survey has showed. About 11 percent of people polled in an online survey released by market research firm Nielsen during the weekend picked overseas travel destinations over domestic ones for the coming vacation, [...]

As air tickets become more affordable and some exchange rates turn in Asia’s favour, travel agencies have boosted their efforts to attract holiday travellers post high season. One agency, Hong Thai Travel Services, has already offered 600 “buy two, get one free” package deals to Thailand. Despite experiencing a 15 percent revenue slump, Hong Thai [...]