Ko Si Chang, a small island off Chon Buri province, best known for once being home to the royal summer palace of King Rama V the Great, is set to celebrate the 161st anniversary of the birth of King Chulalongkorn or King Rama V the Great – one of the most revered monarchs in Thai history. […]
SEADREAM Yacht Club that already includes wines with lunches and dinners, drinks from the open bars, use of a wide variety of power and sail water-sports, and even crew gratuities (tips) in prices, is now offering guests complimentary escorted shore-side walking and mountain biking excursions during its upcoming Caribbean season between November this year and […]
#restaurantaustralia . Later this month (September) sees the international roll-out of Tourism Australia’s ‘Restaurant Australia’ campaign gather momentum with high profile launch events taking place across the world, including the United Kingdom, Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong. Australia’s food amd wine will be the focus of ‘Restaurant Australia’ launches around the world Australia’s top chefs, […]
*updated * A bogus Qantas birthday promotion scam is currently doing the rounds on social media. Viewers are presented with this authentic-looking promotional banner and asked to like and share to win a prize. The viewer is then taken to a page to fill out a series of intrusive questionnaires and surveys about everything from […]
On sale now for budget conscious travellers is Helen Wong’s Tours’ new series of packaged group tours to Indochina, prices starting at $2880 per person twin share for a 12-day Discover Vietnam tour from Australia. Each tour is detailed in an eight-page mini brochure for 2015, a one-off series featuring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar […]
On sale now for budget conscious travellers is Helen Wong’s Tours’ new series of packaged group tours to Indochina, prices starting at $2880 per person twin share for a 12-day Discover Vietnam tour from Australia. Each tour is detailed in an eight-page mini brochure for 2015, a one-off series featuring Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar […]
#expeditioncruising Pitcairn Islands Tourism has confirmed dates for their passenger shipping services to Pitcairn Island through to 2016. The new shipping services were announced recently at the Pitcairn Islands Tourism launch in Sydney. Making the announcement during the launch of Pitcairn Island as an emerging tourism destination for Australians, Richard Hankin, of Tropics Marketing who […]
Five new touring routes highlighting the best of South Australia will encourage more interstate and overseas visitors to visit. The South Australian Tourism Commission has developed five self-drive routes highlighting wine regions, scenic coastal and Murray River drives, outback discovery routes, and the state’s freshest seafood and produce. Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said self-drive tourists […]
(Bangkok – 12 September, 2014) Secret Retreats, a collection of independent luxury boutique hotels, boats and villas across Asia, has reached a new milestone with over 50 properties in 12 countries. Established in 2012, this month Secret Retreats has added 10 new properties and 5 new restaurants under Secret Tables in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, […]
#expeditioncruising #oneoceanexp Sir John Franklin disappeared in 1845 One Ocean Expeditions are delighted to announce that there has been a ‘find’ on the Victoria Strait Expedition taking place in the Northwest Passage in Canada over the last two weeks. The company’s ship, Akademik Sergey Vavilov was one of four vessels supporting the search to find […]