News in Asia

The Dusit Thani Bangkok, located at the corner of Silom and Rama IV Roads, once the tallest hotel in the capital of Thailand, bids farewell to Bangkok giving way to a new development.

Within one year the Punjab Tourist Ministry will renovate 30 tourist attractions in Punjab, a nothwestern Indian state bordering Pakistan. 

Coal mine tourism is gradually becoming the main type of activity for those visiting the Western Indian state of Maharashtra.

Hue, in the the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam, is putting a lot of effort to attract more visitors with its walking streets and tourists attractions now getting more light at night during weekends and public holidays.

This year, Thailand's annual shopping festival will have a totally new twist with TAT's campaign 'Thailand Shopping and Dining Paradise 2018'.

The annual Phi Ta Khon festival, held in Dan Sai district in the northeastern province of Loei, Thailand, starts this Saturday, June, 16 and will last for three days till Monday, June, 18.

Starting from August, 16 this year AirAsia will add to their expansive regional flight network a direct Bangkok, Thailand – Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian Borneo flight.

Great news from Vietnam for those wishing to make a quick jump from Hanoi to Ha Long Bay: a new highway opened on June, 1st, cuts the previous four-hour journey in half.

The Chedi Club Tanah Gajah Ubud, a luxury GHM resort in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, sitting amid breathtakingly beautiful rice fields, has started offering its guests hot air baloon tours to experience the aereal view of Ubud.

Yangon Regional Parliament will study feasibility of the construction of a new multi-purpose port in Kawhmu township, southwestern Yangon.

Starting from August, 11 this year AirAsia launches three weekly flights on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday between Chiang Mai in the northern Thailand and Yangon in Myanmar.

According to the new ranking of the world's most visited theme parks released recently by AFP Relaxnews, a well-know French news agency specializing in all things leisure related, 4 out of 10 leaders are located in Asia – and the rest are all in the USA.

From September this year, Bangkok Airways will get the monopoly on serving Bangkok–Koh Samui route when Thai Airways, the second operator that is currently flying between the capital and the island, quits.

Da Nang Tourism Department will organize a 5-day festival in Da Nang on June 16-20 to attract more tourist to the city and show a huge tourist potential of the region.

The feasibility of a sky train project in the capital of Cambodia is well under way. It may be completed before the end of the year and the sky train line will then be built in the course of the next two years.

Singapore is ready for raucous fun and revelry as ULTRA, a grandiouse electronic dance music will hit the city-state the next weekend, June 15-16, bigger and crazier than ever.

The harbour authorities in Thailand have proposed to introduce six new ferry routes which will connect ports in Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi provinces.

The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) has recently inaugurated the first ever biodiversity museum in India.

Here comes another version of top-10 most popular tourist destinations in Vietnam – this time based on statistics of bookings through a powerful Agoda web-site. Do you agree?

'The Amazing Thai Uniqueness', a mobile application launched recently by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will help tourists to better research and plan their travel to the Land of Smiles. But it is only in the Thai language, oups.