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The Grand Hyatt Erawan replaced the government-owned Erawan Hotel, which had been established on the southeast corner of Ratchaprasong Intersection in 1956. One of Bangkok's top luxury hotels in the 1960s, by the 1980s the Erawan was unable to keep up with competition from private enterprises, and The Syndicate of Thai Hotels and Tourists Enterprises, the state-owned company that operated the ...
The Erawan Hotel in 1960. The Erawan Hotel (Thai: โรงแรมเอราวัณ) was a luxury hotel in the Thai capital Bangkok.It was one of the first modern hotels built to accommodate the expansion of international air travel, and was operated by the government-owned company The Syndicate of Thai Hotels and Tourists Enterprises.
The Erawan Group was founded as the Amarin Plaza Company in 1982, a partnership between the Vongkusolkit and Wattanavekin families, in order to build and operate the Amarin Plaza shopping mall. It was the Vongkusolkits' first diversification into real estate, as the family, owners of the Mitr Phol Group , mainly did businesses in the sugar ...
Erawan is the Khmer and Thai name of the mythological elephant Airavata. The name may also refer to: Erawan Hotel, a former hotel in Bangkok; Erawan Shrine, a shrine to the god Brahma in Bangkok, located at the hotel; Grand Hyatt Erawan, a hotel in Bangkok, replacing the Erawan; The Erawan Group, a Thai hospitality company which owns the new hotel
In 1952, the Atlanta was opened in Bangkok by Jewish-German Max Henn, and in 1953 it became the first hotel in Thailand to have a swimming pool. [ 6 ] During the Vietnam War, Thailand saw an influx of American soldiers on R&R breaks, which contributed to the growth of the country's tourism during the 1950s and 1960s, causing a growth in the ...
Ratchaprasong junction and the Erawan Shrine, January 2015 Ratchaprasong (light green) adjacent to Siam District (yellow) in Pathum Wan. Ratchaprasong (Thai: ราชประสงค์, pronounced [râːt.t͡ɕʰā.prā.sǒŋ]; also spelled Rajprasong) is the name of an intersection, and a shopping district named after it, in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, adjacent to the Siam area, at the ...
Chit Lom station (Thai: สถานีชิดลม, pronounced [sā.tʰǎː.nīː t͡ɕʰít lōm]) is a BTS skytrain station, on the Sukhumvit Line in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand. The station is located on Phloen Chit Road at Chit Lom intersection to Lang Suan and Chit Lom Road.
Phloen Chit-Ratchaprasong (เพลินจิต-ราชประสงค์): Top department stores and luxury shopping malls are concentrated in the area, namely Gaysorn Plaza, Isetan, Erawan Bangkok, Peninsula Plaza, all of which together make the largest shopping promenade in Bangkok. Furthermore, Central World Plaza and Narayana ...