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Emirates Airlines shows confidence in travel
business in Pattaya and the Eastern Seaboard
The senior management of Emirates and Massic
Travel pose for a photograph after their meeting. (L to R) Primprao
Somsri, executive manager sales and marketing, Pattaya Mail Media Group,
Jirasak Tingsuk, senior sales executive, Khalid Bardan (3rd left)
Emirates Airlines manager for Thailand and Indochina, Marlowe Malhotra,
MD Massic Travel, Afsar Khan (Ali) and Vicky Malhotra and Pratheep
Malhotra, MD Pattaya Mail Media Group.
To motivate and encourage travel agents in Pattaya and on the Eastern
Seaboard, on July 15 Khalid Bardan, Emirates Airlines manager for
Thailand and Indochina, along with Jirasak Tingsuk, senior sales
executive visited Massic Travel, the leading and friendliest travel and
air ticketing agent in Pattaya under the professional management of
Marlowe Malhotra, the managing director. The leaders in their respective
fields of travel held fruitful discussions on the future growth of the
travel industry on the Eastern Seaboard, focussing on the travel needs
of businesspeople and tourists alike. They were both of the opinion that
the future was bright.
Earlier this year Emirates Airline announced a transition in executive
management in Thailand and Indochina with the appointment of Khalid
Salim Saeed Salim Bardan - who now heads Emirates’ operations in
Thailand. Khalid replaced Jeyhun Efendi who has spearheaded the
airline’s growth in the area for the last two years.
Khalid Salim Saeed Salim Bardan brings to Thailand extensive experience
in the aviation industry since beginning his career as commercial
manager with Emirates’ in 2005. During this time, Khalid has held senior
level positions with the airline in the Middle East, India and Africa.
In 2007, Khalid was promoted to area manager for the Ivory Coast, prior
to being appointed as area manager for Thailand and Indochina.
Commenting on his new position Khalid Salim Saeed Salim Bardan said, “It
is an honour and pleasure to work for one of the world’s fastest growing
international airlines and to head the Thai team here. I look forward to
continuing the growth of Emirates in Thailand and across Indochina by
pursuing initiatives that meet the needs of business and leisure
travellers.”
Khalid added, “Although these are challenging times for the industry,
Emirates is strongly positioned to move forward in spite of this and
will continue providing award winning services with added comfort and
convenience for our customers.”
Emirates Airline has been operating in Thailand for over 18 years.
Currently, Emirates operates 21 flights per week to Dubai, 7 flights per
week to Hong Kong, and 7 flights per week to Sydney and Christchurch.
For further information, visit www. emirates.com/th or contact Emirates
Bangkok office 0-2664-1040-4. Massic Travel is also pleased to assist
and serve you in all your travel needs. Tel: 038 426 240, 038 413 330;
email: info@ massictravel.net.
SKÅL International Asia reveals new website
Website page for Board of Officers,
SKÅL International Asia.
Robert Sohn
SKÅL International Asian Area president, Gerry Perez announced
the launch of the club’s new website www.skal-asia.org.
The new website is designed to be especially helpful to members and non
members alike and includes details of how and where to join SKÅL
International in Asia, the world’s largest association of travel and
tourism professionals.
For the first time ever this will be an important reference tool of
SKÅL’s Asian Area including photographs and contact details of the new
board of officers for 2009-2011; the five national committees in Asia
namely: Thailand, India, Philippines, Taiwan and Japan as well as all 42
presidents of SKÅL clubs in the Asian Area.
The website will include a picture gallery of important past events,
such as the association’s World Congress and will be a focal point for
members and media to receive updated news and information of happenings
in the Asian Area.
Regularly updated, the new website will be a window of knowledge on the
activities of SKÅL International Asian Area clubs and will assist in
SKÅL’s core mission of promoting friendship and business between Asian
Skålleagues.
The Asian Area’s flagship event, the annual Congress, will also be
featured, the 39th SKÅL Asia Congress in Cebu, May 27-30, 2010.
“We are proud to be part of the largest association of tourism
professionals uniting all branches of the travel and tourism industry.
And I am especially pleased to acknowledge the return of SKÅL Club No.
13 in Jakarta, the oldest in Asia and first ‘SKÅL Club’ established
outside of Europe in December 1934. With more than 2,500 members, SKÅL
Asia’s 11% growth in recent years is a reflection of the area’s vibrance
despite a difficult business environment. From the small island I call
home in Guam, to SE Asia and the far reaches of Bahrain and Mauritius,
we are perhaps the most diverse area committee to be found in the world
of SKÅL,” said Perez in the new website.
“Our industry is one that accounts for 10% of the world’s GDP and nearly
900 million travelers around the world annually. And as the financial
contagion normalizes in the years ahead, we can expect Asia’s tourism
growth to be significant. The 21st century has ushered phenomenal growth
in Asia, and the prospect for membership growth is full of promise. The
challenge for us all is to assert our leadership roles in the
communities we serve, and to harness the goodness of peace and
friendship while alleviating poverty, exercising proper stewardship of
tourism resources, and inviting others to join our cause,” he added.
SKÅL, founded in 1934, is a professional organisation of tourism leaders
around the world, promoting global tourism and friendship. It is the
only international group uniting all branches of the travel and tourism
industry. Its members - the industry’s managers and executives - meet at
local, national, regional and international levels to discuss and pursue
topics of common interest. Skål International today has approximately
20,000 members in 500 clubs throughout 91 countries.
Scandinavian Airlines Offers Free Travel for Children
Sign up at Bangkok’s Home, Health &Family show 30 July-2 August
SAS Thailand is offering free travel for children. To be eligible, the adults
must sign up at the SAS booth at the Home, Health and Family show at the Queen
Sirikit National Convention Center 10am-9pm, Thursday 30 July-Sunday 2 August.
 Young
people welcome on SAS.
When one adult buys a ticket, one child (age 2-11) travels free. The offer is
available for SAS flights between Bangkok and Scandinavia in September.
Each child’s ticket is subject to tax and surcharges which vary depending on
destination. As a guideline, a child flying Bangkok-Copenhagen-Bangkok with an
adult would be charged 12,500 baht. Both adult and child have to travel together
and tickets have to be booked at the same time.
Booking and ticketing have to be done by the SAS Sales Center, 8th floor, Glas
Haus, 1 Sukhumvit 25, Bangkok. Tel: 02 645 8200. Email: [email protected].
Visitors to the SAS booth at the show are eligible for an additional 5% discount
on all existing SAS Thailand offers for travel 1-30 September 2009.
| For further information, please contact
Supakanda Tongboonrawd, Sales and Marketing Executive,
Scandinavian Airlines. Tel: (+66) 2 645 8221. Email:
[email protected] |
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