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...GLOBAL ADVISOR Holidays: Champagne supernova Kyrgyzstan: R and R in Bishkek Malaysia: Hip hotels in Langkawi...
...GLOBAL ADVISOR Holidays: Champagne supernova Kyrgyzstan: R and R in Bishkek Malaysia: Hip hotels in Langkawi...
...Langkawi has an air of bucolic sleepiness that is the opposite of Penang's bustle. Visitors looking to experience something of the rural way of life followed for generations by the island's native Malays can book one of the four traditional all-wood houses at Bon Ton, a hotel and spa run by spunky expatriate Australian Narelle McMurtrie. The chalets range from $50 to $85 (tel: 60-4-955 3643/6787; www.bonton resort.com). Each house is different and all were brought in from remote villages and reassembled. Bon Ton also has a spa, a small shop selling artifacts from around...
...reduced schedules have followed, but the market for mass leisure travel is built on unshakeable optimism?the macroeconomic equivalent of a Coke and a smile. Holiday destinations have attributes that exist only in the dreams of focus groups and tourism executives: no one actually needs to go to Langkawi or Lombok; vacationers in the U.S. and Europe have the sunny beaches of Hawaii, the Caribbean or Greece, all within a medium hop. Yet the urge to holiday far from home, plus a desire to feel adventurous or chic, continues to be tapped to endow places many Western travelers have never...
...bookings in the past few weeks, while bellboys and concierges across the region are spending a lot of time twiddling their thumbs. "We don't see any new bookings coming in for October at all," says Melvin Iskander, manager of the Tanjung Rhu resort on the Malaysian island of Langkawi. "Everyone is waiting to see what happens when the fighting starts." This is horrible news for the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand, all of which are heavily dependent on tourists' foreign currency...