As part of its on-going initiative to ensure that its guests enjoy the best of services and facilities, The Pacific Sutera Hotel has embarked on a refurbishment programme for all its 500 guestrooms and suites. The refurbishment programme to be carried out in different phases is expected to be fully completed by end of December 2011 with 50 rooms coming on line by end May 2011. The refurbished rooms exude an effortless contemporary elegance combining dark woods and fittings in warm overtones of crème and brown.  The spaciousness of the room is accentuated with the elegant textured carpet in appealing shades of lime green and during the day, the guestrooms are imbued with natural light as the large windows allow streams of light in thus creating a bright, open environment.

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Hosted Buyer and visitor registration has opened for this year’s CIBTM (China Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition) www.cibtm.com. Considered to be the leading and largest international event for the business travel and meetings, incentives, conferences and events industry in China and the wider Asia region, last year it welcomed over 275 Hosted Buyers from America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific who undertook more than 5000 Pre-Scheduled Appointments with over 300 international and regional exhibitors. This year the event is set to provide a similar business environment.

by Reinhard Hohler, Chiang Mai

The 19th edition of SATTE (www.satte.org), India’s leading travel & tourism event, will be held in New Delhi at Pragati Maidan from 10-12 February 2012. SATTE 2012 will be organized by UBM India. UBM India is a part of UBM plc (www.ubm.com), the leading global business media company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Over the years, SATTE has grown both in terms of exhibitors and visitors (including buyers), and is today the biggest networking forum for the travel & tourism industry in South Asia. The Indian travel & tourism market is on the verge of becoming one of the fastest-growing markets in the world.

Calderwood added: “It is now over two months since the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Tohoku region in Japan and the situation appears to be slowly returning to normal. Thankfully, many countries have eased travel restrictions. The larger part of Japan remains physically unaffected by the disaster,” he said. The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) today released preliminary figures for international visitor arrivals into Asia and the Pacific1 for the first quarter of 2011. The results show a year-on-year increase of five per cent. The sharp fall in arrivals to Japan following the March 11th earthquake and tsunami

Research confirms Hosted Buyer appointments could head for 10% increase on 2010
Research following the success of EIBTM 2010 (www.eibtm.com) has shown that both buyers and suppliers want the organisers Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) to find ways of achieving even more opportunities to do business during the event.  65% of Hosted Buyers did or will do between €50,000 and €1m of business as a result of their attendance at EIBTM according to the research.  RTE is now set to make changes to its Pre-Scheduled Appointment system and has announced that it will increase the number of matched appointments from 6 to 7 per day of attendance for all buyers.

Exclusive strategic partnership with MPI delivers exceptional attendee value. Building upon its role as strategic partner and premier education provider for IMEX America, today Meeting Professionals International (MPI) announced that the mobile applications and mobile website developed for IMEX in Frankfurt opening 24 May are available for download and that the development for IMEX America’s app has begun.