Hong Thai Travel Services () 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.
History Hong Thai Travel Services was founded in Hong Kong by Jackie Wong See Sum (黃士心) in 1966. Its primary business was booking of airline tickets, ferry tickets and offering services for inbound tourism. Its director was Jackie Wong See Sum and its general manager was his son Jason Wong Chun Tat (黃進達). The father-and-son pair ceased to be primary shareholders in 2011, when they sold Hong Thai's majority of shares to HNA Group, who sold Hong Thai to the Chinese tourism service group Caissa Tosun (凯撒旅业) in a 2019 restructuring. Under the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Caissa Tosun liquidated Hong Thai in October 2022, citing its negative net asset value of over 68 million Chinese yuan reported by the end of June.
Incident
On August 23, 2010, a twelve-hour-long hostage incident on one of the company's buses in Manila, Philippines, occurred.Gregorio, Ann Rozainne R. (August 24, 2010).Timeline: Manila hostage crisis . BusinessWorld. 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.Chong, Dennis (August 26, 2010). "Police may go it alone in deaths probe" Eight of them were killed, seven injured while six left the scene unharmed. – For the names in Chinese, see the versions in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese Mendoza was shot in the head and killed by the police.
References
External links Official website