Thailand-based ONYX Hospitality Group appoints Ingo Domaschke as general manager of the soon to re-open Amari Koh Samui.With a career spanning over 20 years in the hospitality industry, Mr. Domaschke has worked in Europe, USA and Asia before joining ONYX in 2008, where he held management roles at both Amari Watergate Bangkok and Amari Residences Bangkok before serving as general manager of OZO Chaweng Samui in 2014.

At ITB Berlin :Europe has continuously been eyed as a significant market to the Thai tourism industry despite the economic impact. This is underlined by the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s (TAT) strategic plan to open a new office in Prague, the Czech Republic. The TAT Prague Office is scheduled to open in August, this year, and will join the TAT’s current network of 35 offices in Thailand and 27 offices overseas.

The 6th Silk Road Ministers Meeting held at ITB Berlin on 9 March 2016 focused on the role of public and private sector partnerships (PPPs) in the development of tourism along the Silk Road. Participants discussed how PPPs can advance the issues of infrastructure, product development and marketing.
Addressing the meeting, UNWTO Secretary-General said “governments must lead and direct tourism policies, but the engine behind tourism development is the private sector, and thus one cannot work without the other”.

Fully booked exhibition halls, more trade visitors than ever before, and record sales.c Global travel industry withstands geopolitical crises and remains on course for vigorous expansion. Record attendance by some 120,000 trade visitors over five days .ITB an international success story: in addition to ITB Asia in Singapore, ITB China will take place in Shanghai from 2017

Most of our readers will be staying and working here in Berlin in the next week (8.-13.of march) for a few days. The most important trade show of global tourism, ITB,is about to open its gates. In order to facilitate your work here, we will be offering you, dear readers, our ITB support because Berlin is our home town.

The Plaza Hotelgroup, which currently operates 23 hotels in three countries, is expanding significantly. The Yalaz family, founders of the group, headquartered in Heilbronn, Germany, intend to add four new Best Western hotels in Ruesselsheim, Raunheim, Bottrop, and Amsterdam with 580 rooms to grow to over 2,300 rooms under the Best Western banner. After these additions, at 19 Best Western hotels the Plaza Hotelgroup will be one of the biggest hotel operators within Best Western Hotels Central Europe GmbH.