Hong Thai Travel Services

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Hong Thai Travel Services

Hong Thai Travel exclusive bus (Hokkaido, Japan)
Type	Tour Operator
Industry	Tourism
Founded	1966; 56 years ago (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

Hong Thai Travel Services (Chinese: 康泰旅行社) is one of the largest travel agencies in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1966 and today has 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 . 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. 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. Eight of them were killed, seven injured while six left the scene unharmed. Mendoza was killed by the police with a bullet to his head in the end.

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