COPENHAGEN, Nov 22, 2011 (AFP) - A Copenhagen hotel will continue reserving a whole floor for women, despite a recent ruling that doing so is discriminatory and illegal, the hotel director said Tuesday. Last May, the Bella Sky Hotel in central Copenhagen opened a floor dubbed the Bella Donna with 20 specially decorated rooms for women, and no men allowed. "The only man who can access this floor...

Keeping its 16-year tradition, the Millennium Seoul Hilton will unveil its Christmas tree and ever-popular Christmas train on Nov. 23. Every year, a grand 10-meter Christmas tree is placed in the center of the main lobby. The highlight, for both children and adults who are young at heart, is the Christmas Train, a collection of more than 120 exquisitely handcrafted locomotives and railroad cars t...

Air Busan celebrates its third anniversary this month, having flown some 55,000 times carrying about 5.6 million passengers. Launching international flights to Fukuoka, Osaka, Hong Kong, Tokyo and other nearby foreign cities, the carrier has been expanding into a “smart, practical” airline. Purchasing two new planes next year, Air Busan plans to expand its flights further into Japan, China and So...

The InterContinental Seoul COEX offers a chance to make your wedding an unforgettable party during December. The package is for couples who prefer to forgo the post-wedding party and have more relaxed weddings. To satisfy couples’ diverse tastes, the hotel will be providing white, navy and even black wedding decorations as well as assorted flower arrangements. The wedding package, available only ...

Hotels.com, the global hotel specialist affiliated with the Expedia, Inc., is offering a short trip to Japan with a 50 percent discount on Japanese hotels in popular destinations for a limited 101 hours through this weekend. Those planning to travel to popular spots in Japan such as Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto until April 30 can also book hotels with affordable prices among Hotels.com recommendations....

For more than half a century, geologists have wrangled over the origins of an astonishing range of mountains found beneath ice up to three kilometers (two miles) thick in East Antarctica. Named after the Soviet geophysicist who detected them in 1958 during the first International Polar Year exploration, the Gamburtsev mountains are 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) long, with jagged peaks up to 2,700...

A South Korean tourist was killed this week in a boat crash off the eastern coast of the Philippine island of Cebu, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday. A banana boat carrying three South Korean tourists, including a 50-year-old woman identified only by her surname Ji, collided with an outrigger canoe on Sunday morning, causing all three to fall into the water, the ministry said in a statement....

South Korea has reached an agreement with Taiwan to further expand air travel between the two countries, the government said Friday. The agreement reached in Seoul involves opening new flight services and increasing the number of seats available on existing routes that have been cited for being chronically congested, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said. Under the latest pa...

Lotte Hotel Seoul said Pierre Gagnaire Soul, a French restaurant by three-Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire located on the 35th floor of the hotel, ranked at No. 8 on Asia’s Top 20 Restaurants list and was chosen as Korea’s best restaurant in the 2011/2012 edition of the Miele Guide, a regional guide book to restaurants in Asia. The hotel said it is the first restaurant in Korea to be listed on ...