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La Residence Hotel & Spa, Hue inaugurates its Residential Suite

 
La Residence Hotel and Spa in Hue City has inaugurated its 76-square-meter Resident’s Suite a year after the hotel’s renaissance as one of grand, colonial-era hotels in Vietnam.

The hotel’s general manager Carmen Marienberg has described the opening of the Resident’s Suite as the final piece in the comeback of a grand, old hotel.

‘In the past year, we’ve opened our spa, fitness center and pool bar as complements to our dining venues, tennis court, lounges and game room,” he said.

The suite commands the upper story of the hotel’s main building and features two rooms with curved walls, well-lit nooks furnished with desks and reading lamps.

The high-ceilinged rooms contain a four-poster bed, a plasma television and a DVD player, French drapery and art-deco appointments. The bright bathroom includes three sinks, a freestanding tub and a glass shower booth.

The suite’s French doors and multi-paned windows yield to a spacious, private terrace that provides panoramic views of the Perfume River, the landmark Trang Tien Bridge and the Citadel of Hue.

The 122-room La Residence Hotel and Spa celebrated its grand opening late last year after the restoration of the former colonial governor’s mansion. Since La Residence has established itself as the preferred port of call in Hue for a host of European ambassadors, celebrities, writers and artists.

National Geographic, the world’s prestigious publisher of travel literature, hailed the hotel as one of Vietnam’s five most distinguished addresses, in league with the five-star Sofitel Dalat Palace and the Sofitel Metropole Hanoi.

Set on a two-hectare site with 200 meters of frontage on the fabled Perfume River, the hotel also boasts a saltwater swimming pool, an upscale Comfort Zone spa, as well as the city’s most compelling watering hole at Le Gouverneur.

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(Source: SGT)

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Vietnam Airlines will begin to sell e-tickets as of February 2007

VietNamNet Bridge – The national air carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced it will begin selling e-tickets in February, or one month later compared to its previous plan.

The plan to sell e-tickets has been delayed as the Ministry of Finance still cannot define the specific payment procedures for e-tickets.

When booking an e-ticket, passengers will receive a receipt with the certified stamp of Vietnam Airlines. This will be the lawful payment voucher, which is considered as the red bill.

Vietnam is now also planning to launch a specific website serving e-ticket sales. When passengers enter their names and ticket numbers into the website, they will be able to print the information relating to their flights. The main information like the date of flights, ticket numbers will also be printed onto A4/A5 papers to be delivered to passengers, or will be sent to passengers’ e-mail or mobile devices.

According to the Passenger Marketing Division under Vietnam Airlines, the selling of e-tickets in the trial period from December 4 to 31 has been showing good results with several thousands of tickets having been sold. An official from Vietnam Airlines said that the rapid development of e-tickets in the world has been worrying Vietnam Airlines and forcing the airline to apply the e-ticket selling system as quickly as possible.

The official said that in 2006, 75% of the total tickets issued by BSP, the agent system belonging to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), have been e-tickets.

BSP in the Republic of Korea (ROK), for example, plans to issue 100% e-tickets in 2007, while Vietnam has not implemented any detailed plan on selling e-tickets yet.

IATA has announced that it would not accept paper tickets as of 2008. Therefore, issuing e-tickets is one of the most important tasks of Vietnam Airlines in 2007.

(Source: VNE)

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Pacific Airlines plans budget flights in February 2007

Viet Nam, which has seen a recent influx of foreign budget airlines, is set to get its first low-cost carrier. Pacific Airlines (PA), now a full-cost carrier in which the government owns over 86 percent and Saigon Tourist over 13 percent, will make the switch to a budget carrier in February 2007. 

Ta Huu Thanh, deputy head of the PA northern branch, said: “The company can offer even one-dollar tickets on some flights. It then expects to carry 8 million passengers, twice the current figure.” Industry insiders said Pacific Airlines’ decision was aimed at pre-empting a take-over of domestic air routes by foreign budget airlines in the near future. 

Some foreign airlines had expressed a desire to provide low-cost air transport within Viet Nam, experts said.
Malaysia’s AirAsia was one such airline, they said. Its director, Tony Fernandes, is on record as saying: “If the company is allowed to open a budget air route linking Ha Noi and HCM City it would be able to offer the service at just 500,000 VND (31 USD), inclusive of service charges,” Tony said. 

Within Malaysia, a one-hour flight costs just 10 USD plus service charge, while a similar service by Vietnam Airlines costs 830,000 VND (52 USD), he said. According to the Asia Pacific Airlines Centre, several new budget airlines would enter the market in the next five years. 

There would be some 650 cheap flights daily in the region compared with the current 290, it said.(Source: VNA) 

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