Khiri Travel unveils new sensory and colonial heritage tours in Southeast Asia

Khiri Travel has launched two major series of tour products ahead of ITB Berlin.

The first is Asi­an city day tours that indulge all five senses. The second is a series of multi-day travel exper­i­ences where guests vis­it or stay in charm­ing colo­ni­al man­sions and hotels from the era of 19th cen­tury European explorers in Asia.

Five senses, five countries

The senses series has been launched in five coun­tries — Indone­sia, Sri Lanka, Cam­bod­ia, Thai­l­and, and Viet­nam — with Laos, Phil­ip­pines, and Myan­mar to come. 

In each of the private, guided tours, guests will exper­i­ence sights such as sun­sets from golden stu­pas, the smell of fresh tur­mer­ic as they make a herb­al drink, the sound of Balinese gamelan or Sri Lankan baila music, mind-bog­gling tastes (need we say more, this is Asia), and the phys­ic­al touch of a good mas­sage or yoga session.

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Colonial history and heritage

Con­sol­id­at­ing its role as a product-first DMC, Khiri Travel has also launched a series of her­it­age and his­tory tours ran­ging from nine to 13 days in Indone­sia, Sri Lanka, Cam­bod­ia, Thai­l­and, Viet­nam, Phil­ip­pines, and Laos, with Myan­mar to fol­low. The focus is on colo­ni­al-era man­sions, antique decor, and grand estates from the times of Henri Mouhot, Fran­cis Garni­er, and others.

Guests get to stay at her­it­age-era build­ings repur­posed as hotels, such as The Phoenix Hotel in Yogyakarta, Azer­ai La Res­id­ence in Hue, 137 Pil­lars in Chi­ang Mai, and Las Cas­as Filip­i­nas de Acuz­ar in Bataan. They can also enjoy expert insights from his­tor­i­ans such as Fran­cis Engel­mann in Luang Pra­bang and, in Hoi An, Rehahn, an award-win­ning pho­to­graph­er spe­cial­ising in the eth­nic groups of Vietnam.

“Wheth­er you are an archi­tec­ture enthu­si­ast, a his­tory lov­er, or simply seek­ing a jour­ney through time, our his­tory and her­it­age man­sion house tours prom­ise a deep con­nec­tion to the eleg­ance, intrigue, and time­less beauty of Asia’s colo­ni­al-related past,” says Sofia Tan, Group Product Coordin­at­or at Khiri Travel.

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Enhanced Agent Hub

In-depth details on each of the senses and man­sions tour series have been uploaded to Khiri Travel’s online Agent Hub, which is being upgraded and will be soft-launched at ITB Ber­lin, March 4 – 6.

The new Agent Hub will fea­ture a more user-friendly exper­i­ence where agents and tour oper­at­ors can fil­ter tour inform­a­tion based on their pref­er­ences, use a soph­ist­ic­ated keyword search func­tion, or choose between dif­fer­ent cat­egor­ies of exper­i­ences such as “Wow!”, “Sig­na­ture”, and “Per­son­al­ity”.

Agents can also see all the new Khiri spe­cial­ist tours, sample itin­er­ar­ies, and an online photo gal­lery. Agents can use the Hub’s images to do their own mar­ket­ing and pro­mo­tions that sell Khiri products.

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Meet Khiri Travel at ITB

Khiri Travel will be rep­res­en­ted at ITB Ber­lin (Hall 26B, Stand 204) by Willem Niemeijer, CEO and Founder of Khiri Travel.

Join­ing Mr Niemeijer will be:

• Owen Mor­ris, Part­ner­ship Devel­op­ment Manager; 
• Nad­ine Haugg, Product and Account Man­ager, Thai­l­and; and 
• Nic­ola Scara­muzzino, Gen­er­al Man­ager, Vietnam.

For more inform­a­tion and to book an ITB appoint­ment, click here.

About Khiri Travel

Since 1993, Khiri Travel has earned a repu­ta­tion as a des­tin­a­tion man­age­ment com­pany ded­ic­ated to provid­ing qual­ity leis­ure travel exper­i­ences across Asia. With 17 offices in Thai­l­and, The Phil­ip­pines, Laos, Myan­mar, Viet­nam, Cam­bod­ia, Indone­sia and Sri Lanka (which has respons­ib­il­ity for the Mal­dives), Khiri Travel’s entre­pren­eur­i­al asso­ci­ates craft innov­at­ive itin­er­ar­ies that reflect their pas­sion for authen­t­ic, loc­al, and sus­tain­able experiences.

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