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Centara Hotels & Resorts has announced a partnership with airasia rewards offering airasia members 40% off all-inclusive packages at Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives and Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives.

Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives

A palm-fringed tropical wonderland, Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives is a family-friendly destination featuring stunning overwater villas. Dedicated children’s activities ensure younger travellers are kept entertained with outdoor games and eco-friendly activities, while watersports, diving courses, snorkelling, whale shark and turtle sighting excursions delight the whole family.

The all-inclusive plan at Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives allows travellers to enjoy everything the island has to offer, including daily breakfast, dine around options for lunch and dinner, plus afternoon tea with a selection of pastries, sandwiches, and cakes. Lunch and dinner are complemented with a choice of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and guests can also enjoy a wide choice of drinks from the resort’s two bars from 11.00 to 23.00 hrs. To enjoy one of the Maldives’ best all-inclusive deals, the Grand All-Inclusive offers unlimited dining and premium beverage indulgences and water sports, and guests staying for a minimum of three nights also enjoy a choice of complimentary excursions.

Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives

For couples seeking a romantic retreat, Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives offers an idyllic adults-only experience just a short speedboat ride from Malé. Here in the North Malé Atoll, guests savour unforgettable moments in a beachside or overwater villa looking out over the sparkling blue lagoon, as well as indulge in world-class scuba diving, intimate dining experiences, and couples spa journeys at SPA Cenvaree.

A choice of meal plans includes a full board meal plan complemented with beverages, as well as daily resort credit for additional culinary options. The in-villa minibar is stocked once per day, including a selection of snacks, soft drinks and mixers, mineral water, chocolates, and beer. As part of the All-Inclusive package, guests also enjoy daily afternoon tea as well as canapés and flavourful tapas every evening. For pure island indulgence, the Gold All-Inclusive package at Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa includes daily spa credits for treatments at the award-winning SPA Cenvaree, a complimentary house reef snorkelling excursion by boat, and four pieces of complimentary laundry per room per day.

The partnership is the latest addition to Centara’s growing airline network which already includes Thai Airways, Singapore Airlines, and Thai Vietjet.

“As travel restrictions continue to ease around the world, we are thrilled to expand our marketing network with partner airlines.  Leveraging our Centara The1 loyalty platform to provide exclusive privileges to Air Asia’s vast customer network, we look forward to offering excellent savings and welcoming even more guests to The Place to Be in the Maldives,” said Tom Thrussell, Vice President – Brand, Marketing & Digital of Centara Hotels & Resorts.

“This partnership emphasizes airasia rewards’ continued aim to offer lifestyle privileges to airasia members, so that they can enjoy our benefits to the maximum according to their lifestyle needs—whether it’s travel, dining, or shopping. airasia members who desire to vacation at these 2 Centara resorts can easily redeem their airasia points for the discount code from Rewards on airasia Super App. Once they have their code, they can proceed to book their rooms and enjoy this exclusive discount.” said Ba-wornpak Siripanich, airasia rewards Country Head for Thailand.

Under the Centara x airasia rewards promotion, airasia members receive a 40% discount when booking an All-Inclusive package for all room types plus 20% discount on selected spa treatments at Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives or Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives, exclusive to airasia members for bookings and stays from now until 20^th December 2022.

Travellers also enjoy a 20% discount on seaplane transfers to Centara Grand Island Resort & Spa Maldives or speedboat transfers to Centara Ras Fushi Resort & Spa Maldives for stays from now until 31 October 2022.

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The post Agoda and Alipay+ expand on their partnership to offer greater rewards appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily.

Agoda and Alipay+ today announced a new partnership that will leverage Alipay+ solutions on the Agoda platform for better customer benefits and rewards.  This is in addition to the existing integration of multiple digital wallets, namely the AlipayHK, GCash and TrueMoney, through Alipay+ on Agoda’s platforms.

With this new partnership, multiple Alipay+ marketing solutions, including Alipay+ Rewards and its in-cashier marketing services, can be used for discounts distribution and redemption on Agoda. This enables Agoda to enhance its transaction conversion rate, while travelers can enjoy great returns in countries and regions like Hong Kong SAR of China, the Philippines, and Thailand – with the possibility of more regions to come in the future.

As the global economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, the online travel industry has seen a vigorous rebound. In some key countries across the region, bookings have increased nearly tenfold since the start of the year, according to Agoda data and this number is only expected to increase.

“As we gear up for the return to travel, we want to offer our customers greater choice and flexibility in their bookings. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the digitisation of travel and we are committed to keeping with the times as we continue to onboard more diverse modes of payments globally. We value this partnership with Alipay+ as it helps us offer more benefits to the end user through the clever integration of new payment solutions and rewards programs – allowing us to reach out to and target a wider network of customers”, said Damien Pfirsch, CCO, Agoda.

Introduced by Ant Group in 2020, Alipay+ is a suite of global cross-border digital payments and marketing solutions designed to enable businesses, especially small and medium-sized businesses, to process a wide range of mobile payment methods and reach hundreds of millions of regional and global consumers. Other leading e-wallets supported by Alipay+ include Boost (Malaysia), Rabbit LINE Pay (Thailand), Touch ‘n Go (Malaysia), Kakao Pay (South Korea), Klarna (Europe) and more.

“We are glad to reach this new partnership with Agoda to support the recovery of the travel industry from the pandemic.” said Jing Yin, General Manager of Global Strategic Accounts of International Business Group at Ant Group, “With innovative payment and marketing solutions, Alipay+ is committed to helping merchants reach global consumers as a cross-border economic connector and allow consumers to make payments on global platforms with their preferred digital wallets.”

Agoda has partnered with Ant Group and integrated Alipay as a payment option in the Chinese market as early as 2013. Since early 2022, Agoda has been integrating Alipay+ payment solutions to accept payments through multiple digital wallets across Asia. On July 4, Agoda also worked with Alipay+ to launch a Brand Day campaign in the Philippines market.

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Viking has announced that its newest river ship, the Viking Saigon℠, has begun its inaugural season in Southeast Asia. Purpose-built for the Mekong River, the 80-guest ship sails between Kampong Cham, Cambodia and Mỹ Tho, Vietnam as part of Viking’s popular 15-day Magnificent Mekong itinerary. With the 2022-2023 season now underway, regular sailing dates are available through to March 2023; the 2023-2024 season begins in July 2023.

“The fascinating cultures of Vietnam and Cambodia have always made this region a favourite destination among our guests,” said Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking. “We are also pleased to welcome back to Southeast Asia our first guests since early 2020. With arrival of the Viking Saigon, we look forward to introducing even more curious travellers to this iconic waterway in the coming years.”

The Viking Saigon

Purpose-built for the Mekong River, the new Viking Saigon hosts 80 guests in 40 outside staterooms. Featuring the clean Scandinavian design for which Viking is known, all staterooms have hotel-style beds and floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors with a Veranda or French Balcony. Guests on the three-deck Viking Saigon also enjoy a Spa & Fitness Centre, Infinity Pool and open-air Sky Bar on the Upper Deck.

Magnificent Mekong

During this 15-day journey, guests explore the cultural treasures of Vietnam and Cambodia with 16 guided tours. Hotel stays in Hanoi, Siem Reap and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) bracket an eight-day Mekong River voyage on this unique itinerary, during which guests can enjoy exploring the Old Quarter of Hanoi and attending a performance by Apsara dancers; tasting the distinctive fresh ingredients from bustling markets and local restaurants; wandering the Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; visiting Ta Prohm, where jungle vines embrace ancient ruins; and seeing the sights of Phnom Penh by cyclo rickshaw. On the river voyage portion of the itinerary, guests can discover silk towns, fishing villages, monasteries and floating markets.

Current Offers

Viking is currently offering a discount of £750 per person across all 2023 river cruises which includes the Magnificent Mekong itinerary. If guests book a sailing departing in 2023 on this itinerary by 31 December 2022 they will save £750 per person and receive a free Silver Spirits beverage package.

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The post Windstar Cruises reveals new Caribbean and Central America Cruises appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily.

Windstar Cruises has just the thing to shake off the winter blahs. The small ship cruise line has drawn up a new beach bum’s delight of an itinerary beginning winter of 2023.

Beach Fun & Sun: A Remote Caribbean Getaway has seven days on some of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean including stops in St. Maarten, Antigua, St. Barts, Anguilla, Jost Van Dyke (overnight), Virgin Gorda, and Tortola. The November 4 sailing only will take place on Windstar’s all-suite Star Pride and the other eight departures are aboard the 342-guest classic sailing yacht Wind Surf.

Both yachts’ Watersports Platforms (which allow guests to jump from the yacht into the sea) will be operational daily on these cruises, except for embarkation/disembarkation days, so the sailings will be very focused on beaches, swimming, watersports, and snorkeling – all the things we want to do in paradise. Current rates are from $2,599 per guest. Beach Fun & Sun can easily be combined with Windstar’s Classic Caribbean for a two-week cruise, as the itineraries alternate and both depart from St. Maarten. Classic Caribbean includes stops in Dominica, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts, and Nevis, as well as a repeat in St. Barts (and who could complain about that).  

“We created this itinerary specifically for people who like to spend time enjoying some of the best tropical beaches, swimming and watersports activities,” said Windstar Cruises’ President Christopher Prelog. Our small yachts visit scenic Caribbean islands for a peaceful, relaxing vacation away from crowds.”

Also new in the Caribbean: Windstar will be sailing from Miami for the first time in December, 2022. 

The small ship cruise line just relocated its offices to Miami from Seattle, with a grand opening in June, which makes the sailings particularly meaningful to Windstar staff and crew. Jungles & Jewels of the Central American Coast stops in Key West before heading to Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, then returning to Miami. The new Central America & the Panama Canal Revealed cruise brings guests from Miami to Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama. 

Starting winter 2023, Windstar is introducing a new, seven-day round trip Costa Rica cruise itinerary (from Puerto Caldera) called Naturally Costa Rica, including inaugural calls in San Juan del Sur and Corinto in Nicaragua. Current rates start at $2,699 per guest. The new option easily combines with a Windstar Panama Canal itinerary for a 14-day adventure in the region. 

Other returning Caribbean itineraries include Windward Island Surfs & Sunsets, a seven-day roundtrip San Juan sailing that’s a quick escape up and down the Windward Islands; Windward Ways & Tobago Cays, sailing through the Windward and ABC Islands; Yachtsman’s Caribbean, a classic voyage to the Caribbean’s private yachting scene; and more.

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