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liaison is Raymond Tong, assistant director of sales–travel trade (852-2378-9304, raymond. tong@langham hotels.com). Lanson Place Hotel (www.lansonplace.com) debuted in 2006. The 190-room boutique hotel includes residential apartments; 10 percent of its guests are long stay. “The selling point is its private club atmosphere,” says Musetta Wong, director of sales, Lanson Place. “The boutique hotel is a new concept for Hong Kong—there are only a handful of properties like this in the city.” The rooms that are the best to book are on the higher floors, specifically, 12 and up. These offer the most dramatic city views. As a thoughtful touch, guests are supplied with a personal mobile phone during their stay. The hotel doesn’t have a restaurant: It does have a continental breakfast on site though, and a menu program with 80 Hong Kong restaurants. The hotel’s business center and gym are both open 24 hours a day, and Lanson Place can book advance spa appointments with the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel The $2.4 billion Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel (www.venetianmacao.com) recently opened. At 10.5 million square feet, it claims to be twice the size of the Las Vegas original. The property has 3,000 rooms, a 15,000-seat sports arena, 1.2 million square feet of convention space, multiple finedining venues and a show produced by Cirque du Soleil. Macao and the islands of Taipa and Coloane are connected by a reclaimed strip of land called Cotai. Cotai is the cornerstone of a resort area called the Las Vegas Sands’ Cotai Strip. The Cotai Strip has a slate of projects on the drawing board, including hotel properties from Four Seasons, Sheraton, St. Regis, Shangri-La, Traders, Hilton, Conrad, Fairmont and Raffles. The travel agent contact at the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel is Margaret Lam, the assistant director of sales, leisure (853-8117-2100, margaret.lam@ venetian.com.mo). nearby MTM Spa. Rates start at $295. Travel agents can contact Wong at 852-3477-6828, musetta.wong@ lansonplace.com. I CONNECTING YOU For more information on Hong Kong and Macao, visit www.travelagentcentral.com/Hongkong Interested? Request #016. October 15, 2007 TravelAgent | 53 http://www.lansonplace.com http://www.venetianmacao.com http://www.travelagentcentral.com/Hongkong http://www.chinatravelservice.com http://www.chinatravelservice.com

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