Wireless (Wi-Fi) access now available at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort
The Royal Cliff Beach Resort has joined forces with KSC
Commercial Internet to bring hi-speed wireless access to guests of the
5-star resort. The installation of the wireless (Wi-Fi) internet service,
titled ‘M-WEB Hotspot, Powered by KSC’, is the first of its kind on
Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard and aims to facilitate and enhance
communication channels for high-end tourists as well as business and
corporate travelers.
Panga
Vathanakul (left), managing director of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, and
Craig White, president of M-Web (Thailand), are all smiles after the
implementation of wireless connectivity at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort.
Currently, ‘M-WEB Hotspot, Powered by KSC’ is
available in public areas of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort’s two largest
hotels - the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel and the Royal Cliff Grand, which
together comprise over 800 rooms. Areas covered include the lobby, poolside
areas, restaurants, and bars of both hotels. Earlier this year, all rooms in
the Royal Cliff Grand were equipped with high-speed internet access. With
the addition of wireless access, the Royal Cliff Grand can now easily stake
a claim as one of the most technologically-advanced hotels in Thailand.
Managing director of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, Panga
Vathanakul, feels a service such as this will take communication standards
and services to guests to a whole new level. Speaking during the recent
signing ceremony, she said, “We have always prided ourselves on being at
the forefront of new developments and advances in technological services
available to our guests. This joint venture with KSC Commercial Internet
will take the Royal Cliff Beach Resort to entirely new levels of
connectivity. Wireless access will offer great advantages to our guests,
particularly corporate travelers and meeting delegates, now and even more so
in the future.”
Speaking on behalf of the service providers, Navee
Srihadung - vice president for business solutions at KSC Commercial Internet
said, “Our partnership with the Royal Cliff Beach Resort marks a new move
for us in expanding our hi-speed wireless Internet service to areas outside
of Bangkok. As the Royal Cliff Beach Resort is a fine hotel and a key
business center - very popular with local and international business
travelers alike - we have launched our first hotspot service here to provide
hotel guests with the luxury of efficient and uninterrupted communications,
even when miles away from home or office.”
As a special introductory offer, the hotspot service will be available at
the Royal Cliff Beach Resort free-of-charge until the end of 2003. Users
will simply need a wireless LAN card and WiFi connection equipment (802.11b
enabled) plugged into a portable computer or PDA, along with a Wireless
Access Card with username and password - freely available at the Reception
Desk of either hotel. M-WEB Hotspot’s 11 Mbps speed makes all data
transfers a split-second affair.
Bangkok Marriott Resort & Spa appoints new GM
Kevin J. Beauvais, CEO of the Royal Garden Resort has
appointed Jonathan M. Wigley as the new general manager of the Bangkok
Marriott Resort & Spa.
Jonathan
M. Wigley
Born in Britain’s West Yorkshire, Wigley grew up in
Hong Kong. Thirty three year old Wigley started his hotel career in 1986,
and has worked for such international hotels as Hilton, Omni Group of
Hotels, Delta Grand Pacific Hotel - recently re-branded Westin Grand
Sukhumvit - and 5 and a half years at the Landmark Hotel Bangkok.
Seventeen years in the hotel industry gives Wigley wide
experience in sale & marketing as well as extensive knowledge of food
& beverage and rooms division. He is also very well versed in Asian
culture and traditions, having worked in Asia since 1991.
Wigley commented, “Bangkok Marriott Resort & Spa is
the only true city resort in Bangkok, with unique restaurants, great
accommodation, stylish conference and meeting facilities, the enchanting
Mandara Spa as well as Manohra Cruises. I believe we really do have it all.
I look forward to building up further on our products and services, so that
we can consistently exceed our guest’s high expectations as well as making
this resort the guest’s preferred choice. Others promise but we deliver -
a real city resort experience.”
Wigley and his wife Michelle have two daughters, 14 and 7 years.
Rolls-Royce powers Red Arrows aerobatic display
As a main supporter of the RTAF air show, “Celebrating
100 Years of Flight”, Rolls-Royce executives welcomed the Royal Thai Air
Force Commander in Chief, Red Arrows pilots and other distinguished guests
following a stunning aerobatics display by the Red Arrows Aerobatic team,
recently. Rolls-Royce supplies its Adour engines for the BAE Systems Hawk
flown by the Red Arrows.
Pictured
from left to right are David C Chapple, customer executive Thailand, Rolls
Royce; Clive Marchant, vice president, regional marketing, BAE Systems;
Colonel Peter Roberts MBE, British defense attach้; Gwendolyn Fall,
wife of British Ambassador to Thailand and Laos; ACM Kongsak Wantana,
commander in chief, Royal Thai Air Force; David William Fall, British
ambassador to Thailand and Laos; Steve Miller, regional executive, Thailand,
Myanmar, Laos & Cambodia, Rolls-Royce; Carl ‘Spike’ Jepson, squadron
leader, British Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, and David Thomas, squadron
leader, British Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team.
ASEANTA Inaugural International Management Summit 2003
The ASEANTA Inaugural International Management Summit
2003 will be held next month on December 4 and 5 at the Mutiara Hotel in
Kuala Lumpur. The summit will address tourism industry-specific challenges
and global business changes for the travel, tourism and hospitality
industries. For more information visit the website www.aseanta.org/summi
Airline to Middle-earth scores flying hat-trick with new Lord of the Rings 747
Air New Zealand, Airline to Middle-earth, unveiled its
latest The Lord of the Rings-themed aircraft on November 14 as it steps up
its worldwide campaign to harness the tourism power of the motion picture
trilogy.
Acclaimed
New Zealand landscape photographer Andris Apse has achieved the ultimate
exhibition space - on the side of a Boeing 747-400!
As the New Zealand world premiere of the final
installment of the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,
approaches, the airline rolled out its third themed aircraft to take the
Middle-earth message around the world.
The stunning design, which stretches 48 meters along the
giant Boeing 747-400 fuselage, depicts the faces of stars Viggo Mortensen
(Aragorn) and Orlando Bloom (Legolas) as part of the giant decal, and covers
an area of 800 square meters.
The third aircraft, which headed to Los Angeles for a photo-call with
Viggo Mortensen, signals the start of an intensive Air New Zealand global
marketing campaign to capitalize on the motion picture trilogy’s huge
profile.
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