Banyan Tree and China Vanke have established Banyan Tree Assets (China), a 50/50 joint venture incorporated in Singapore.BTAC holds a 40 per cent stake in each of Banyan Tree’s operating compani…
Faircity Hotels welcomes new addition
Kievits Kroon Country Estate and Spa in Pretoria has been taken over by the Faircity Hotel Group, effective August 1.Kievits Kroon is down the road from Faircity Roodevallei.The takeover is part of th…
Why Vogue, GQ, and the New York Times Have “Discovered” Placencia
You’ve seen this trajectory before: a place is completely unknown, then is discovered by a few pioneers who move there, then word of mouth and a few travel articles bring more and more visitors …
Check it out: Proper Hotel, San Francisco
Following a four-year overhaul of a listed 1926 hotel building in San Francisco’s resurgent Mid-Market neighbourhood, Proper’s flagship opens later this northern summer with captivating in…
Norwegian Cruise Line reports strong increase in earnings
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings has reported GAAP net income of $198.5 million, or earnings per share of $0.87, for the three months to June 30th, compared to $145.2 million or $0.64 in the prior year.…
Belize welcomes growing number of overnight European arrivals
Belize’s latest visitor statistics indicate that April has seen the highest level of growth so far in 2017, with overnight arrivals increasing by 24.2 per cent year-on-year, compared to April 20…
Eurowings to boost long-haul offering with Cologne/Bonn-Munich connection
Following the launch of more than 30 new flights at the end of March this year and the decision to use Munich airport as the second base for its long-haul offering, next summer the low-cost airline wi…
Qatar Airways to add Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, to global route network
The historic city of Sarajevo is set to join Qatar Airways’ expanding global network as the airline announces the famous Balkan city will now launch in October as part of the carrier’s exp…
New accommodation in Mountain Zebra National Park
The Mountain Zebra National Park outside Cradock in the Eastern Cape, celebrated its 80th birthday on July 31, by unveiling new accommodation.There are two luxury rock chalets accommodating two guests…
Couchsurfing in Iran: A country of culture
Iran is not the first place on most people’s list of travel destinations. The Middle-Eastern nation has been virtually cut off from the majority of the Western world since the Islamic revolution…