Hainan-Sanya-Haikou 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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Oct 2009 - Anish V Punnackattu | New Delhi

Sanya Tourism Development Board to promote MICE Tourism in India, brings 14 member delegation for road shows in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru

Sanya Tourism Development Board (STD is currently on a three city road show in India to tap the outbound market. STDB, which is down with a...

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(CNN) President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The first African-American to win the White House, Obama was praised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's...

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Its no secret that during the past year, incoming tourists to Sanya from Russia, Korea and Japan has dropped off substantially while domestic mainland tourists number have continued to rise. Wait a minute, that probably is not common knowledge now that I think about it. I have always maintained that the primary directive for Sanya's development is for the domestic mainland market, however that does not mean I am saying ZERO effort will be made to open up...

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New Photo Gallery: Honoring Sanya's 2009 New Silk Road Modeling Contest

On both mom and dad's side, I'm originally from Italy, where the beauty of women is artfully adored, much appreciated and not forgotten to cause wars and other acts of madness and stupidity through the history of mankind. Ditto China. Enjoy the gallery...

And by the way, enjoy our excellent new World News Live Streaming Video Feeds including Asia Pacific, Europe, and U.S. feeds all on one convenient page. You will find feeds from all the major news and media platforms including Reuters, Bloomberg, AP Newswire, CBC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, AFP, NYFP, TimesTube and more...Cheers, M

(September, 2009, AP) Chinese Yuan spenders eclipse Russians, Arabs in London

Gloom-defying shoppers from China are flocking to the luxury stores of London's West End, outspending Arab royalty and...

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