As a real family owned and operated independent Thai hotel group, they are proud to offer discerning guests a meaningful and memorable hotel experience at The Sukosol Hotel in the middle of Bangkok.The “feeling like home” starts not only when you arrive the hotel: even when you contact via email or telephone to make your booking you can feel the original Thai Hospitality of a very old and traditional family business in Bangkok.

airberlin has announced today that Thomas Winkelmann (57) will become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of airberlin group.
Mr. Winkelmann will take over as CEO of Air Berlin PLC from 1 February, 2017, assuming full accountability for all group activities. He will succeed Stefan Pichler, who decided to leave the company after working for two years on the strategic turnaround of the group. Mr. Pichler achieved this by entering into a wet-lease agreement with the Lufthansa Group for 38 aircraft and through selling the short and medium haul touristic business to Etihad Aviation Group, in order to create a new European leisure airline group in a joint venture with TUI AG. The new airberlin will focus on developing its long haul network out of Berlin and Düsseldorf, with initially 75 aircraft.

IBEROSTAR Hotels & Resorts is set to take over management of its second hotel in Havana in January 2017. With a total of 352 rooms and a prime location on the Cuban capital’s Malecón seafront esplanade, the future IBEROSTAR Riviera will have 5* status and be part of the company’s Premium Gold category.The IBEROSTAR Riviera will be IBEROSTAR’s twelfth hotel in Cuba, further establishing the Majorcan chain’s commitment to this rapidly growing tourist destination.

Research at MODUL University Vienna shows value of Google Analytics’ data for predicting tourist numbers
Data extracted by Google Analytics from travel information sites can contribute to better and more accurate predictions of tourist numbers for large cities, especially for time periods within the next three to twelve months. This is the recently published result of a research project conducted at MODUL University Vienna that analysed the use of selected Google Analytics data sets in estimating future tourist numbers for large cities. The project formed part of the university’s research focus on the use of new media for modern management.

Convention Centers associated with the SPCVB shine through with modernizations performed in the recent years.
São Paulo is the biggest metropolis in Brazil, with 12 million inhabitants, according to the last survey conducted by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). In order to adjust to this reality and be able to host the approximately 90 thousand events held every year, event spaces have frequently invested in expansions, modernizations and improvements, which offers more quality and possibility of increasing the number of events captured for the capital city. (left Sao Joao Street in Sao Paulo)

Thailand was announced as official host country for the SITE Global Conference 2019 after the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (Public Organization) or TCEB won the bid to host the world-class annual conference that features diverse representation from global incentive travel professionals. The event helps to emphasis Thailand’s regional leadership position in terms of readiness and capabilities as a high quality MICE destination to global incentive travel players. Mr Nopparat Maythaveekulchai, president of TCEB revealed that the bureau recently won the bid for Thailand to host the “SITE Global Conference 2019” – an annual association meeting of the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE), the only global organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting the incentive travel industry. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, SITE global communities comprise 2,000 incentive travel professionals, operators, and entrepreneurs in 90 countries across the globe – from the US, to Europe, and Asia – including meeting planners, organisers, cruises, tourism boards, convention and visitor bureaus, and incentive houses.