Palma de Mallorca, February 9, 2023. Meliá Hotels International has had another successful year in the Booking.com Traveller Review Awards. More than 200 of the company’s hotels have been awarded this year for their exceptional performance and for having achieved a satisfaction rating above 8 in the reviews made by thousands of real customers on...
CAM RANH, Vietnam (Feb. 8, 2023) – Thirty-hectare beachfront resort Alma has cultivated its own onsite farm to produce an array of fruits, vegetables, herbs and chicken eggs, affording organic zero-kilometre vegetables for guests’ meals and beverages. In a bid to make Alma more self-sufficient and sustainable, landscape manager Ngo Duc Thinh and his team...
Wellness-inspired hotel brand Fusion is making sure all is more than well with couples this Valentine’s Day through a range of romantic offerings at their properties in Vietnam. From completing a Love Challenge at the group’s natural hot spring resort in Hue to soaking in an insta-worthy floating tub, there’s no shortage of ways to...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Feb. 2, 2023) — The iconic Elephant Bar at the 90-year-old Raffles Hotel Le Royal has launched a new “World Gin Tour” showcasing highlights from one of Southeast Asia’s most diverse and thoughtfully curated gin collections. The yearlong “World Gin Tour” spotlights select labels from Elephant Bar’s collection of more than 150...
HANOI (Feb. 2, 2023) – Time-honored techniques and rich visual storytelling form the core of new Batik (traditional painting and dyeing) classes at Avana Retreat, a resort set amid the homelands of the Hmong community. Led by a local Hmong artist, the complimentary and deeper-dive paid options are held at the property’s Stilt House, an...
PALMA (Jan. 31, 2023) – Meliá Hotels International, the leading hotel company in Spain, has achieved the highest rating in the global travel industry in the latest S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA), an assessment of the performance in sustainability of companies in 2022. S&P Global’s CSA is the world’s most comprehensive annual assessment of...
HANOI (Jan. 31, 2023) – Taking the plunge when you marry doesn’t necessarily mean the bride and groom at Avana Retreat’s on-site wedding perch are obliged to dive-in after saying ‘I do.’ But the picturesque cascade at the heart of this new venue for nuptials might tempt as much. Flowing through lush tropical foliage, the...
DA NANG, Vietnam (Jan. 19, 2023) — The first all-spa inclusive resort in Vietnam burrowed into the pandemic as Fusion Maia Da Nang, emerged from lockdown as TIA Wellness Resort, and is raising the bar on wellness in the country with a host of new initiatives. “For a while it was hard to see light...
LANG CO, Vietnam (January 17, 2023) — Laguna Golf Lang Co, one of Vietnam’s leading clubs, has strengthened its ties with the Asian Tour by renewing its status as an Asian Tour Destination until 2025. An exclusive network of 12 elite clubs with direct ties to the Asian Tour, the Asian Tour Destinations collective was...
KOH SAMUI, Thailand (Jan. 16, 2023) — Philanthropy lies close to the roots at Banyan Tree. Over the years, the luxury hotel group has sponsored hundreds of causes and projects worldwide through its Banyan Tree Global Foundation. So when the the general manager of Banyan Tree Samui, Remko Kroesen, heard that a tropical storm had...
