Project Category: Agency News

Say what you will about winning a coveted spot on a list of the world’s best hotels. And then check out what happened for Azerai La Residence, Hue late this summer of 2019. The hotel won a spot on a list of Time magazine’s 100 Greatest Places.  

Balcony Media is now representing the two most prestigious and best known hotels in Cambodia: Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh, and Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor in Siem Reap. Each of these iconic properties is undergoing major restoration work. The Grand Hotel d’Angkor is currently closed and will re-open at the end of September...

In the world of hotel and resort PR, press trips are happening all the time. They’re often organized around the grand opening of a hotel. Or when an airline launches a new route into a destination. Or sometimes when a hotel simply wants more exposure in a given media market, and have a strong story...

All across North America, magazine groups target affluent readers with print magazines that cater to very specific geographies. What’s great about connecting with them is this: That they often publish multiple editions. Landing a story in one means landing a story in as many as…. well, in this case 15 publications.  

Work hard and party harder: Balcony invited 54 attendees to Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort’s grand opening night, including 22 journalists and eight key opinion leaders. Oh what a night!        

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....

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,...

Balcony Media coordinates on questions for a long perspective on Vietnam  

In December 2018, Balcony Media led a group of five freelance travel writers from North America on a 6-day fam for a sneak peek at the soon-to-launch Hyatt Regency Bangkok, before flying down south to the tropical paradise of Koh Samui where they were hosted by Banyan Tree Samui for three nights.  

Balcony Media Group is now representing the new Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort in Vietnam, located two hours from Ho Chi Minh City.  Ho Tram is to Ho Chi Minh City what the Hamptons are to New York City, Naples to Rome, and the Blue Mountains to Sydney.