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Clouds Threaten Clear Skies over Vientiane’s Hotels

December 12, 2011 by MTCO Communications

“The forecast for Vientiane’s hotels looks sunny,” Horwath HTL’s Shyn Yee Ho-Strangas told the 5th Lanith Quarterly Symposium at Vientiane’s Settha Palace on Friday, 9 December 2011. “But …
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Lao Airlines Puts New A320s into Service

November 25, 2011 by MTCO Communications

Lao Airlines took the keys to a pair of new Airbus A320s at a ceremony in Vientiane on 8 November, and on 24 November the national carrier sent flight QV535 on its maiden voyage to Singapore, thus …
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Kaye Chon to Keynote 4th LANITH Symposium

August 10, 2011 by MTCO Communications

Renowned tourism educator and recent recipient of the prestigious UNWTO Ulysses Prize Professor Kaye Chon will present the keynote address at the 4th Lanith Quarterly Symposium on Friday, 9 September …
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How Do Host Communities Feel about Tourism

August 2, 2011 by MTCO Communications

Samantha Chen, founder of Local Perspectives on Tourism (LPT), reported to TRAVPR that LPT is launching an online travel project, featuring in-the-field interviews with local residents in the Mekong …
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Lao Airlines Expands Regional Network

July 21, 2011 by MTCO Communications

Lao Airlines has resumed services from Luang Prabang to Xishuangbanna in China’s Yunnan Province and plans to start a service from Vientiane to Singapore this November. Lao Airlines now serves …
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