Absolute Resorts & Hotels, Thailand's premier Resort Management Company, is positively upbeat about tourism in Thailand which is borne out by its recent announcement of a significant portfolio expansion for 2009 and 2010. Following recent senior management appointments, the dynamic Management group is now progressively adding four properties , bringing the total to six resorts under the Absolute brand name in Phuket alone. In expanding its geographical coverage, Absolute will open one property each in Koh Samui, Krabi and Jomtien.

Absolute Resorts Management Co Ltd. provides comprehensive hospitality solutions for property owners and developers of resorts, hotels, condominiums, villa estates and mixed use estates throughout Thailand. Absolute Resorts owner-operates, leases and manages properties for third parties, and provides management services, project marketing, resort/hotel sales & marketing, pre-opening services from A-Z, legal structuring, juristic structuring, hotel rental pools and a host of other services. The company maintains a corporate head-office in Phuket, as well as a fully functional sales & marketing facility in Bangkok. Please visit the corporate website at: arm.co.th

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HOSPITALITY TECHNOLOGY FORUM @ HOFEX 2009

 

Amboseli, Lake Manyara, Serengeti, N’gorongoro Crater

10 days.
Beginning in Nairobi, Kenya (‘Safari Capital of the World’), this unforgettable safari takes participants through some of the Kenya’s most well-known regions. Destinations include Amboseli National Park (with Mount Kilimanjaro ever-looming in the background) offering a multitude of wildlife, including the park’s vast populations of elephants, giraffe, lion, cheetah, zebra and wildebeest. Other wondrous destinations include the winged wildlife of Tsavo West National Park; the hippo, elephant and world-famous tree-climbing lions of neighboring Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park within the Great Rift Valley; the grassland-filled greatness of the Serengeti National Park; and the spectacular, contained eco-system of the N’gorongoro Crater – offering some 30,000 wildlife species!

," then Kenya Youth Hostel Association Volunteers and Tour programs can make your dreams come true!

Mount Kenya, Samburu, Lake Nakuru, Maasai Mara

Youth Hostels Volunteer Program Accommodation.
Accommodation for Youth Hostels volunteers is basic and at the Masai village (Manyatta). The volunteers have the opportunity to learn about Maasai people and Maasai culture. They also see Masai warriors in the community
At the end of the volunteer period, volunteers will be able to relate to the issues that affect the Masai tribe of Africa.
Volunteers may also be able to visit the Masai Mara, interact with Masai warriors, Masai girls and Masai women.
Volunteers may also relate well with the white Masai movie and the book.
Volunteering amongst the Masai will help you build new skills and add balance and variety to your CV.

Teaching Program.
Other volunteer work available includes teaching at both primary and secondary schools. All children at the schools come from local villages {communities}.
Subjects taught include English, Mathematics, Science, Christian Religious Education, Arts & Crafts, Music and Social Studies. Volunteers are also encouraged to use their initiative to come up with extra-curricular activities, sports and other learning activities.

Discover Kenya: Nairobi, Amboseli, Lake Nakuru, and Maasai Mara.

1. 7 Days/6 Nights
Covering some of the most appealing and amazing parks in Kenya over the course of seven (7) days, participants are treated to the Kilimanjaro-boasting Amboseli National Park – overflowing with elephants, giraffe, cheetah, zebra, and wildebeest. Other amazing destinations include the rhinos and flamingos of Lake Nakuru National Park, the geological wonderment of the Great Rift Valley as well as the unfettered culture of the Maasai Mara and its epic kaleidoscope of wildlife species – zebra, antelope, buffalo, wildebeest, hyena, etc.
Proposed Itinerary
Day One: Preparation for Safari: Volunteers prepare for the safari – picked up from their respective host families/hostels.
Day Two & Three: Amboseli National Park: For the duration of these two days, participants will reside in accommodations arranged and approved by Youth Hostels Tours and Volunteers, where breakfast, lunch & dinner will be available. The day’s safari will begin with a drive to Amboseli National Park near Kilimanjaro – jutting skyward and dominating the horizon with its glorious peak reaching approximately 19,340 feet. The afternoon unfolds – treating participants to numerous wildlife-viewing opportunities, including: the area’s massive elephant population as well as giraffe lions and cheetahs. The wildlife experience continues the next morning as participants are treated to even more of Amboseli National Park’s wonderment – zebra and wildebeest run amok as the safari continues into the afternoon and early evening.
Day Four: Lake Nakuru: After breakfast, participants will travel to Thompson Falls, followed by a descent to the floor of the daunting Rift Valley and onto Lake Nakuru National Park. The remainder of the day will consist of exploring the wonderful diversity of birds as well as opportunities to observe Lake Nakuru’s famed population of rhinoceros, leopards and flamingo. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.
Day Five & Six: Maasai Mara Game Reserve: For the duration of these two days, participants will reside in accommodations arranged and approved by Youth Hostels Tours and Volunteers where breakfast, lunch & dinner will be available. This particular stretch of the tour – guaranteed to supply lasting memories – explores the enchanting, awe-inspiring land of the world-renowned Maasai – a cattle-herding culture still defiantly untouched by the trappings of the western world. This stretch of the journey will commence in a grand finale at the Maasai Mara – an amazing park brimming with Kenya's most concentrated, most diverse examples of wildlife. Within the realm of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, multiple safaris provide opportunities to observe Africa’s largest pride of lions as well as herds-upon-herds of zebra and antelope, buffalo, wildebeest, giraffe, cheetah and hyena.
Day Seven: Maasai Mara/Nairobi: Participants awake for an early morning game drive, followed by breakfast. Here, participants say their good-byes and express their gratitude to their guides before being escorted back to their respective project locations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.
NOTE: This is a sample itinerary and may be altered to accommodate changes in field conditions.

Every month about 150 new first class and luxury hotel projects will be revealed

Hamburg, Germany - December 16, 2008
Obviously luxury is still a selling point with new hotel construction projects. More than 500 new first class and luxury hotels with nearly 200,000 rooms will be opened worldwide in the next months. According to tophotelprojects.com® 28 percent of the hotel openings happen in Europe, 27 percent in North America and 41 percent in East Asia. Most of the 32 largest hotels (over 500 rooms) will open in Asia. The biggest is the Las Vegas Sands' project Marina Bay Sands Hotel Singapore with 2,600 rooms.

Why should young people volunteer in Kenya?

 

Absolute Resorts Management Co Ltd is Thailand's foremost and fastest growing resort management company based in Chalong, Phuket.  By year's end 2009 Absolute Resorts Management will be managing the following properties:

• Absolute Seapearl, Patong
• Absolute Patongville, Patong
• Absolute Bangla Suites, Patong
• Absolute Sansabai Resort & Spa, Patong
• Absolute David Lloyd Resort, Nakalay (Phuket)
• Absolute David Lloyd Resort, Koh Samui

Absolute Resorts Management is currently negotiating management arrangement with a further 3 properties in Southern Thailand. Absolute's services also include pre-construction advisories, pre-opening services from A-Z, estate structuring, rental pool arrangements with individual owners in juristic entities, recruitment and more.  Please visit our website:

Over 994 million meals served in canteens in Germany

Hamburg/Germany - Dec 05, 2008
The business with meals at work in Germany is expanding. In 2007 has been more than 994 million meals served in the approx. 18,400 canteens (business & industry, health, welfare). The worth of all meals is over 4.4 billion Euro. Die most wanted meals at work are: sausages in curry sauce with french fries, spaghetti bolognaise, Original Nuremburg frying sausages with mashed potatoes, bami goring noodles, beef roles with boiled potatoes, pizza Italian style, coal fish fillet with parsley potatoes, schnitzel with mushroom sauce and fried potatoes and chicken ragout with rice.

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Relaunch of leading web database for hotel construction projects - More than 160 new hotel projects added in November

Hamburg/Germany - November 27, 2008
In Germany the number of new hotel construction projects is increasing evermore. 60 new first class and luxury hotels with more than 7,000 new hotel rooms have been opened this year, e.g. the Capella Hotel Breidenbacher Hof in Dusseldorf/Northrhine-Westfalia or the Swissôtel in Bremen or design hotels like The George in Hamburg and Factory Hotel in Muenster. According to tophotelprojects.com® another 25 new hotels with over 2,600 rooms are scheduled to be opened until the end of this year. Tophotelprojects.com® is the leading online database for top hotel construction projects and provided by the market research company CHD Expert Germany.

SHERATON SAIGON HOTEL & TOWERS UNVEILS NEW GRAND TOWER WEBSITE - WWW.SHERATONGRANDTOWER.COM

I would like to announce that we are currently organizing our second residential tourism exhibition to be held at London Hilton Metropole on the 21st and 22nd of February 2009 and it will be our honor if you would like to subscribe in it if you are a company of visit it if you are and intersted visitor.

For more information regarding the exhibition kindly do not hesitate to contact me.

Dina Amin Gad

First of all, I would like to share a great news:

Victoo is coming to its first benchmark with 1000 member. We have come up from 1 June of this year 2008, and this is a great exposure to Victoo.

More than 220,000 commercial foodservice companies in Germany

Hamburg/Germany - Nov 17, 2008
In Germany there are 221,132 operating companies in the section of commercial foodservice - 82% in gastronomy, 18% in hospitality. The strongest segments in gastronomy are: full-service restaurants (approx. 61,000), bars and pubs (approx. 34,200), taverns (approx. 31,200), snack stands (approx. 21,100) and cafes (approx. 18,500). The main segments of hospitality are full service hotels (tourist/standard/comfort/first class/luxury, approx. 13,400), inns (approx. 8,400) and bed-and-breakfast hotels (approx. 7,600).

A crash course of the amazing lands, wildlife and people of the Maasai Mara, this 4 days, 3 nights safari explores one of Africa’s most spectacular areas within the Great Rift Valley. The stage for the Great Migration, participants witness over a million wildebeest stampeding across the dust-filled region. The people of the Maasai Mara are as amazing as the diversity of animals contained here. Numerous prides of lions, as well as herds of zebra, buffalo, antelope, giraffe, cheetah and hyena await adventure-seekers.

Proposed Itinerary

Want Overseas Experience? Then put yourself in the picture with Kenya Youth Hostels Association Volunteers. Ethics. We strive. >To promote quality awareness, socially responsible and environmentally sound tourism for young people and families. >To keep human relations as a focal point. >To live up to the idea of partnership at all levels. >To strengthen our image and standing us the most important tourist organization for young people and families. >To achieve appropriate commercial results which will ensure the continuation of our organization? Volunteer in Kenya Program Locations The essence of youth is energy directed towards change! Youth Volunteers are very important to our aging population. Old people brighten up and respond positively to the young ones, when a story is shared about a service volunteer project that has been carried out successfully within the country or in a foreign land. Why should young people volunteer? Self – satisfaction after giving time, efforts and energy to be of service to the elderly and community at large. Also the supervisor at your volunteer work station will allow the volunteer to submit their name as a reference when applying for jobs. And when completing those employment applications as it makes positive impressions to the interviewer when the application shows the potential employee was a youth volunteer. Youth Volunteers are a ray of sunshine to our communities especially to the aging population. Kenya Youth Hostels Association Ralph Bunche Road, near Nairobi Hospital P.O. Box 48661 Postal code 00100 nairobi Tel: 254-20 2723012/2738046 TeleFax: 254 20 2738046

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