Cape Collection Property introduces in-house magazine.
Trends and travel with cape+kantary
Look for the cape+kantary lifestyle and travel magazine when you check into any Cape, Kantary and Kameo collection property. The in-house magazine is edited by Caron Lau, and published by Kasemkij - a home grown hotel and serviced apartment group. The magazine offers features on trends, travel and lifestyle around Thailand.
Kasemkij owns luxury resorts such as Cape Panwa in Phuket and the affordable and exceedingly comfortable serviced apartments such as Kantary Hills in Chiang Mai.
For editorial enquires, e-mail: editor@lifestyleandtravel.com.
New craft for national carrier
Thai Airways International has ordered seven Airbus A330-300 aircraft for its routes in the Asia-Pacific region. The aircraft will be delivered starting at the end of 2011.
The deal was finalised recently at the Farnborough Air Show in the UK.
"Thai Airways has selected the A330-300 to meet our medium haul requirements," notes Captain Montree Jumrieng, managing director of THAI. "This will lead to improved efficiency as well as reducing the average age of our fleet."
The modern and efficient A330 is one of the most widely used widebodied aircraft. The national carrier already operates 20 A330-300.
Tourism up despite turmoil
Thailand's tourism industry enjoyed an increase in the number of international visitors during the first half of the year, although there was a sharp decline in arrivals during the political unrest in May and also in June.
The arrival of foreign visitors increased 13.7 per cent compared with last year's record, according to the Ministry of Tourism and Sport.
From January to June, about 7.5 million foreign travellers visited Thailand, of which 3.6 million were from East Asian countries.
Thailand expects 14.5 million foreign travellers this year.
Holidays for babes
Outrigger Laguna Phuket Resort and Villas in Thailand has launched a unique baby and child-sitting service to let parents enjoy their Phuket vacation.
Nannies With Heart teaches children about Thai culture for eight hours a day for four days. Professional nannies occupy the kids with one-on-one "edutainment" soft learning activities such as Thai language lessons, batik painting, leaf weaving, necklace making, coconut leaf designing, balloon animal making, plaster figurine making and activities in the outdoor play area. The service is for children aged between 12 months and 12 years only.
Call (076) 318 230 or e-mail: laguna@outrigger.co.th.