HUE, Vietnam (Oct. 15, 2020) — Eight hotels and resorts represented by the Balcony Media Group have won coveted spots in the Condé Nast Traveler 2020 Readers’ Choice Awards. Announced in New York on Oct. 6, and in the November print issues of both the US and UK editions, the awards were determined by 715,000...
Commentary from Herbert Laubichler-Pichler, the general manager of the new Alma Resort at Cam Ranh: We are very happy and impressed with the Vietnamese authorities’ initial management and handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Vietnam’s COVID-19 response has been hailed a huge success worldwide, based on quick and thorough action that kept the number of COVID-19...
Not all hotel industry awards are cut from the same bolt of silk. Some are pay-for-play propositions that mean little, at the end of the day, since you pay for what you get. Others are the distillation of a meaningful effort. Among those are DestinAsian’s Readers’ Choice Awards. The 2020 Awards were announced Feb. 2,...
Say what you will about winning a coveted spot on a list of the world’s best hotels. And then check out what happened for Azerai La Residence, Hue late this summer of 2019. The hotel won a spot on a list of Time magazine’s 100 Greatest Places. We repeat: Places. In essence, one of the...
It is approaching high summer in western Oman – one of the driest times of the year on the Arabian Peninsula. But all I can hear on this May morning is the sound of thunder as a deluge of water rains down on me. It is not a freak squall that is causing the cacophony...
All across North America, magazine groups target affluent readers with print magazines that cater to very specific geographies. What’s great about connecting with them is this: That they often publish multiple editions. Landing a story in one means landing a story in as many as…. well, in this case 15 publications. In December, we connected...
In the world of hotel and resort PR, press trips are happening all the time. They’re often organized around the grand opening of a hotel. Or when an airline launches a new route into a destination. Or sometimes when a hotel simply wants more exposure in a given media market, and have a strong story...
It’s not every general manager of a hotel who jumps from the heights of a skyscraper to welcome guests when he opens a new rooftop bar. But Sammy Carolus did just that in Bangkok last week at Spectrum, a new rooftop bar that’s set to emerge as the most sparkling gem in the crown of Bangkok’s rooftop...
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (March 14, 2019)— In the old days, it used to be that international carriers only cared about shuttling travelers into Saigon and Hanoi. Airports across the country added ‘International’ to their name, but that was always a matter of wishful thinking. London really wasn’t all that keen on opening a...
