Hong Thai Travel Services
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| Company type | Tour Operator |
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| Industry | Tourism |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong |
Key people | Jackie Wong, Founder/ex-Director Liu Mei-Sze, ex-General Manager |
Number of employees | 1100 |
| Website | www.hongthai.com |
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| Chinese | 康泰旅行社 | ||||||||||
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Hong Thai Travel Services (Chinese: 康泰旅行社) was one of the largest travel agencies in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1966 and at its peak had employees in more than 30 sales offices, located in Hong Kong, Macao, China (Guangdong Province), United States, Canada, Thailand and Taiwan. Since 2002, the company has operated out of its headquarters in 95 Queensway, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
History
Hong Thai Travel Services was founded in Hong Kong by Jackie Wong See Sum in 1966. Its primary business was booking of airline tickets, ferry tickets and offering services for inbound tourism. Its director is Jackie Wong See Sum (黃士心) and its general manager is Jason Wong Chun Tat (黃進達).
Incident
On August 23, 2010, a twelve-hour-long hostage incident on one of the company's buses in Manila, Philippines, occurred.[1] Twenty-five people, part of a tour group from Hong Kong, were taken hostage on a bus by the gunman, Rolando Mendoza, a former police officer.[2][3][4] Eight of them were killed, seven injured while six left the scene unharmed.[5][6] Mendoza was killed by the police with a bullet to his head in the end.[6]
References
- ^ Gregorio, Ann Rozainne R. (August 24, 2010).Timeline: Manila hostage crisis Archived September 23, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. BusinessWorld.
- ^ Chong, Dennis (August 26, 2010). "Police may go it alone in deaths probe" Archived October 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Carcamo, Dennis (August 23, 2010). "Lim calls for review of Manila hostage-taker's case". The Philippine Star. Manila, Philippines. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved August 23, 2010.
- ^ Ramos, Marlon (August 27, 2010). "NBI probing who brought hostage-taker to Fort Santiago". Philippine Daily Inquirer.
- ^ "Manila hostage incident victim name list". Hong Kong's Information Services Department Press Release. August 24, 2010. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2010. – For the names in Chinese, see the versions in Traditional Chinese Archived December 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine and Simplified Chinese Archived March 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Conde, Carlos (August 23, 2010). "Gunman and 8 Hostages Dead in the Philippines". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 19, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
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