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About Outrigger Hotels and Resorts
Outrigger Hotels and Resorts is a privately held leisure lodging, retail and hospitality company with corporate offices in Hawaii and operating globally in the Asia‐Pacific, Oceania and Indian Ocean regions. From its Outrigger Signature Experiences to its Outrigger DISCOVERY loyalty program, the values‐based company invites guests to escape ordinary with exceptional hospitality and authentic cultural experiences, incorporating local […]
About Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts
The Banyan Tree Group is a leading international operator and developer of premium resorts, hotels, residences and spas, with a collection of award-winning brands. Banyan Tree offers a Sanctuary to rejuvenate the mind, body and soul in awe-inspiring locations around the globe. Rediscover the romance of travel as you journey to iconic destinations where authentic, memorable experiences await. Angsana brings the adventure back into travel whatever […]
About Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways, the national carrier of the State of Qatar, is celebrating 20 years of Going Places Together with travellers across its more than 150 business and leisure destinations. The world’s fast growing airline will add a number of exciting new destinations to its network in 2017/18, including Dublin, Nice, Skopje, Sarajevo and many […]
About Veriu Hotels & Suites
Veriu Hotels & Suites are inspired by the authenticity of local experiences combined with the convenience of traditional hotel service and excellence. From June 2017 Veriu will offer hotels located in Sydney’s vibrant village precincts of Broadway, Camperdown and Randwick with further hotels opening in Sydney Central and Pyrmont in 2018. An exciting new build […]
Travel Industry News
MOVERS & SHAKERS / IN BRIEF: Veerapol Poungvarin is now the new Hotel Manager of Centara Kata Resort Phuket. Acumen Republic has been appointed as Singapore Airlines’ New Zealand PR agency. Krabi’s Centara Anda Dhevi has appointed Thong Aek Seneewong Na Ayuthaya as Head Chef. Chow Group Management has awarded the hotel management contract for […]
Discover Thailand’s newest resort brand – Manathai
Located in some of the most stunning areas of Thailand, MANATHAI properties embody the epitome of Thai hospitality. Each of the tropical sanctuaries offers natural splendour, authentic culture and aesthetic refinement. Gracious, heartfelt service makes every visit an unforgettable getaway.We welcome you to explore our collection of boutique retreats, each embodying its own charm and […]
Is it Safe to Visit Jordan?
We Meet At The Olive Tree By Jon Killpack Bombarded daily by images of a violent interpretation of Islam, Islamophobia is digging deeper into many Western nations. Fear creates a chasm of distrust that keeps us far from one another. Even before we look across to the other side, we associate the other with the […]
Struth! Light dims in Spain
SOMETHING you’ve always wanted – your own lighthouse. This one at Cabo de Palos near Cartagena is one of over300 being put up for sale by the cash-strapped Spanish Government. (Photo: Keeping-tabs.blogspot) IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says authorities in Spain have […]
The People of Papua New Guinea
by Ann MallardJacaranda Press 1969NLA link When the first Europeans sailed into the Pacific Islands hundreds of years ago, they found many people here, a strange mixture of races whose origins have tantalized historians and anthropologists ever since. Everyone agrees that the Pacific Islanders must have migrated here, probably in several different waves, but as […]
A Corinna Legend: The Lone Ferryman of the Pieman River
JOHNNY AHRBURG ‘Yarns – they fell from his lips like ripemulberries from a shaken tree …’ Born in 1839 in Stockholm, Sweden, Ahrburg took to the seas early and his stories of racing tea clippers from China, of cargoes of fossilised bones from South America to Europe for ‘fertiliser’ purposes, of ships frozen in the […]
