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TDHC execs eye more China flights
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Posted on Jun 01 2005
TINIAN—Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino chairman Michael Kwan and general manager Tom Liu disclosed yesterday that the hotel is negotiating with airline companies to bring in tourists from the Chinese capital in Beijing, which might possibly kick off by mid-July.
The hotel executives also disclosed that TDHC will build a waterpark as part of further improving its facilities and attractions. They said the project is currently at the design phase.
Kwan and Liu said that the hotel has been working with Century Travel and Tours in chartering flights from Beijing to the CNMI.
The hotel would target businessmen and the upper middle class of Beijing as clients. Kwan and Liu also disclosed that the hotel’s sales team in China has been targeting big companies, which provide package tours as incentive for their employees and clients.
Tinian Dynasty charters the China Southern Airlines for two flights weekly from Guangzhou. It partners with Century Tours in chartering two China Eastern Airlines flights weekly from Shanghai.
Tinian Dynasty plans to have two flights weekly from Beijing by mid-July, which would bring from four to six the weekly flights from China. In the past, the hotel only chartered flights from Beijing during long Chinese holidays—the Chinese New Year, and the periods May 1-7 and October 1-7. The new chartered flights will result in an additional seating capacity of up to 29,120 yearly.
Tinian Dynasty’s disclosure of the new chartered flights comes in the heels of reports of Japan Airlines’ possible pullout from Saipan. Kwan and Liu said they hope that JAL would not pull out its flights, an occurrence that would significantly impact on the CNMI’s economy.
