Sanya Expat

A quick glance from Travel Daily Asia at what's happening in the travel/leisure industry around the world ...Cheers, Mario

A Good Week For

Best Western: The hotel chain launched a new hotel
in Pattaya and announces plans for the roll-out of several
properties in Laos.
Taiwan tourism: The country announces record
tourism arrivals for 2009, and starts developing an
international terminal at Taichung Airport.
Iraq: In a further sign of the improving situation,
Lufthansa announcing plans to launch flights from
Frankfurt to Baghdad and Erbil.
US hotel staff: Starwood announced plans to add more
than 12,000 new jobs to its global workforce in 2010, with
half of these jobs to be located in the US.

A Bad Week For

Shanghai Expo construction workers: The Expo
site’s 30,000 workers have been asked for forego their Spring
Festival holiday plans to make sure deadlines are met.
Claustrophobia sufferers: Fourteen people were
stuck for an hour in a lift, 430 metres up the world’s tallest
building - Burj Khalifa.
Vietnamese bathers: Three suspected shark attacks
were reported this week off Quy Nhon Beach in central
Vietnam.
Dreamliner 787-3: Boeing announced that they would
review the “market viability” of the shorter-range Dreamliner,
after its only customer, ANA, decided against using it.

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