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New Client: Azerai Can Tho

Balcony has just taken on a new hotel by Adrian Zecha in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The Azerai Can Tho opened last year on an islet in the Cuu Long (Nine Dragons), as the Vietnamese know the splay of rivers on its southern delta. The resort has a spa on one of the island’s mangrove canals....

Vietnam Airlines Route Map (w/c 05-Mar-2018) - Source: The Blue Swan Daily
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International Airlines Plunge Deeper into Vietnam

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (March 14, 2019)— In the old days, it used to be that international carriers only cared about shuttling travelers into Saigon and Hanoi. Airports across the country added ‘International’ to their name, but that was always a matter of wishful thinking. London really wasn’t all that keen on opening a...

Metropole's bomb shelter
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It’s Your Uncle’s Vietnam

Let’s hear it for the boys. The default lure from any hotel is usually dangling for women, what with spa specials and shopping sprees and romance packages. And the men? Well, there in the corner’s a second fiddle: You go play that. Hotels know from Adam. They understand that 80 percent of all decisions about...

Burton-Race, who has starred in a host of popular television shows including French Leave, Return of the Chef, I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and the BBC’s Great British Menu and Kitchen Criminals, helped create the a la carte lunch and dinner menu on the new President Cruises. Photo credit Matt Austin.
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Luxurious New Halong Bay Cruise Unveils Menu by Celebrity Chef

HALONG BAY, Vietnam (March 7, 2019) – A menu crafted by British Michelin-starred chef John Burton-Race has been introduced on Halong Bay’s largest and most lavish cruising vessel. Burton-Race, who has starred in a host of popular television shows including French Leave, Return of the Chef, I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here and...

New Dive Center Opens in Mergui Archipelago
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New Dive Center Opens in Mergui Archipelago

YANGON, Myanmar (Mar. 6, 2019) — Awei Pila, an exclusive resort set on a remote tropical island, has opened a SCUBA diving center in Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago, offering Open Water courses and certification to first-time divers. The Awei Pila Dive Center will provide all levels of PADI diving courses from DSD (Discover Scuba Diving) to...

The water buffalo act as bio-mowers and help to maintain the rice paddies on the course
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Water Buffalo Eat Up Nick Faldo Design

LANG CO, Vietnam (March 4, 2019) – One of Vietnam’s leading golf layouts, Laguna Golf Lang Co, is staying at the top of its maintenance game by utilizing the talents of a very special group of greenkeepers: a family of water buffalo. As every superintendent worth his or her salt will tell you, prime conditioning...

How to Get on Travel + Leisure’s It List
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How to Get on Travel + Leisure’s It List

In the U.S. travel media, winning a spot on one of two hotel awards lists — the Travel+Leisure It List and the Condé Nast Traveler Hot List — matters more than any other. T+L just published its 14th list. CNT has been publishing the Hot List for 23 years. Getting on one of these lists is a...

Meliá Hotels International
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New Client: Meliá Hotels International

Balcony Media Group is now representing Melia Hotels International in Vietnam, including these brands: Meliá Hotels & Resorts, INNSiDE by Meliá and Sol by Meliá. Meliá has grown particularly quickly in Vietnam, where it already had 13 hotels either open or in the pipeline, making it one of the leading international hotel companies in the country,...

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