Thailand

The announcement could have come at a better time. Since the end of February, Thailand has been mired in a second wave of coronavirus cases. It is having difficulty controlling the spread of the disease, due to a very late vaccination campaign. The kingdom, which successfully fought off a first wave, is expected to reach the 300 mark before long...

It's hard to believe. After repeatedly announcing its return - and putting it off just as many times - Thai Airways International has announced that it can officially resume scheduled flights to Europe. Admittedly, we are still a long way from a massive return of the Thai carrier, which has been absent from European skies for over a year...

Does Thailand perfectly reflect the way in which the countries of South-East Asia approach the management of tourism at the time of the Covid? One might ask, given that the reopening of the kingdom has been constantly postponed as the government has changed direction. This hesitation and vacillation is not unique to the Kingdom in the...

The pandemic has turned the Thai hotel market upside down. The country has over 750,000 hotel rooms. And year after year, the country has added new capacity. For the period 2020-2022, there are plans for 123 hotels representing more than 31,000 additional rooms. Will they all open? In the current climate, the question is...

In 2020, the Thai national airline began to reduce its workforce. With 29,000 employees, Thai Airways was one of the airlines with the highest number of employees in Asia, compared with carriers of a similar size. Singapore Airlines, for example, has 17,000 employees and Cathay Pacific 19,500. The carrier has...

For many travellers, a possible arrival in Bangkok by train ended with the grandiose hall of Hua Lamphong station. Built between Chinatown and the Silom district, the station was inaugurated in 1915, inspired by Turin's central station with its neo-classical architecture. However, it will now close...

On 18 December, the Four Seasons made its grand return to Bangkok. The group had lost its previous property in early 2015, when the Four Seasons Ratchadamri - in the heart of the city's commercial district - became the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel & Spa, owned by Thailand's Minor Hotel Group. Four Seasons...

In Asia, Singapore and Thailand are among the countries most in need of reopening their borders. For completely different reasons. Singapore is the commercial and financial hub of the whole of South-East Asia. The country therefore needs to re-anchor itself to international movements. The Thai economy, on the other hand, is heavily dependent...

The Thai chain Dusit International has officially set up in Singapore with the opening of the Dusit Thani Laguna Singapore. This futuristic-looking resort comprises 198 rooms and suites as well as eight private pavilions. All set in the heart of the Laguna National Golf & Country Club, one of the largest golf courses in Singapore. The hotel is...

Postponed four times, Thai Airways International's return to the European continent is struggling to materialise. The Thai national airline is mired in a catastrophic financial situation after seven years of losses over the last decade. Political intervention, a lack of strategy and a patchwork fleet of aircraft have brought the company to its knees...

The ASEAN region is the equivalent in principle of the European Union. It is a vast economic zone comprising ten countries in South East Asia. Originally, it consisted of a core group comprising Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. At the time, the association was set up primarily to deal with the threat...

Until now, airlines still serving the Thai capital had to fly empty or only with repatriated Thai passengers. However, they were authorised to carry departing passengers. Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Emirates, Etihad, Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways can once again carry passengers to Bangkok. Since Friday 16...

The hotel industry in Thailand has been adrift since the COVID 19 crisis, which deprived the kingdom of its 40 million international tourists. Hotels are the first to suffer the consequences, as Marisa Sukosol Nunbhakdi, President of the International Hotel Association of Thailand and Executive Vice President of the Sukosol hotel group, explains. Is it...

For several years now, Star Alliance airlines such as Lufthansa, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines and United have been adopting the practice of offering more spacious seats in their economy cabins at an additional cost. It is now Thai Airways International's turn to align itself with the practices of its...

In the end, there is a relatively limited choice of connections between Europe and Australia. From Europe, Singapore Airlines offers the most extensive Australian network, with half a dozen cities and convenient, short connections. But Singapore Airlines also has to contend with competition from Emirates - the airline's partner in...

A forum held earlier this year in Bangkok took stock of developments in the Thai capital, analysing in particular the implications for the hotel sector. According to the forum's organiser, Bill Barnett, Managing Director of consultancy firm C9 Hotelworks, the development of the city's infrastructure will have a lasting effect on the city, which is in the throes of...

Already boasting a network of 12 European cities, including Paris CDG and Brussels, Thai Airways International will be reopening its Vienna-Bangkok route in October. The route was launched in 1988, but ceased operating in 1993. The carrier will operate the new route with four flights a week using Boeing 777-200ER aircraft equipped with...

It's a permanent Scottish shower, from which, strangely enough, only the best is retained, in a city where the surprising ballet of tradition and modernity continues to act like a magnet. Modernity, that is, is the business of Silom and Sathorn, the two great parallels linking the Chao Praya River to Lumphini Park and the...