Indian millionaire weddings key niche

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• TOURISM Indian millionaire weddings key niche

  04/02/2010 : The Indian wedding business could bring in 30-40 billion baht to Thailand, says Satish Sehgal, president of the India Thai Business Association.

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  TRAVEL MONITORGoodbye 'Brand Asean', hello southeast asia

  01/02/2010 : Asean tourism ministers have admitted failure in their efforts to promote Asean as a single destination and develop the Asean tourism brand. As a result, they have embarked on a new campaign built on the fact that "Southeast Asia" has greater recognition in international source markets than "Asean".

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  Recovery gathers pace in December

  30/01/2010 : The economy grew steadily and more broadly in December in line with stronger exports and a better domestic economy, says the Bank of Thailand.

• TRAVEL MONITOR

  'War on terror' exacts heavy toll on travellers

  25/01/2010 : A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council last week paints a shocking picture of how the "war on terror" has affected the global movement of people. It says that surveillance, watch-lists, racial profiling and biometrics, "once the exception have now become customary" and warns the situation could get worse unless safeguards are built in now.

• TOURISM

  Outrage at Sasithara's transfer

  22/01/2010 : Private tourism operators are calling on the government to reconsider the transfer of Sasithara Pichaicharnnarong, the permanent secretary of the Tourism and Sports Ministry, to an advisory post at the Prime Minister's Office.

• TOURISM

  Travel fair a test of confidence

  20/01/2010 : The travel industry is pinning its hopes on healthy customer spending at the Thai International Travel Fair 2010, which it says will reflect demand and confidence in Thai tourism in 2010.

• TOURISM

  TAT sees very happy Chinese New Year

  18/01/2010 : The Tourism Authority of Thailand expects at least 100,000 Chinese tourists to spend the coming Chinese New Year in Thailand, up from 60,000 last year, with the easing of H1N1 flu fears and a perception in China of a calmer political situation in Thailand.

• TOURISM

  Asean overhauls its promotion strategy

  07/01/2010 : Asean is attempting to redefine the collaborative marketing of the region as a tourism destination with support from the United States.

• TOURISM

  Museums lag global standards

  05/01/2010 : Thai museums must meet international standards with their presentation and promotions to attract more local and international tourists, says Pichet Turongkinanon, managing director of the museum specialist C-Mex.

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  TOURISM & AVIATION

  Direct links with Brussels seen as untapped opportunity

  04/01/2010 : Many of the passengers flying out of Brussels to Asia travel to and from Bangkok, creating a currently untapped opportunity for point-to-point flights, says Bernard Gustin, co-chief executive of Brussels Airlines.

• TOURISM

  Minimum tour charges seen as wrong solution

  29/12/2009 : Setting a minimum charge for package tours of US$25 or 825 baht per day will do more harm than good to the industry as it attempts to combat low-quality packages offered to Chinese tourists, says the Federation of Thai Tourism Associations (Fetta).

• TOURISM

  Chumpol confident of gain to 16 million arrivals next year

  23/12/2009 : The number of foreign tourists to Thailand should reach 16 million next year as the global economic crisis and local political problems have eased, Tourism and Sports Minister Chumpol Silpa-archa said yesterday.

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