Singapore (PRWEB) July 03, 2013
Agoda.com, Asias major hotel booking web site and element of Nasdaq-listed Priceline Group (Nasdaq:PCLN), is showcasing a handful of lovely hotels in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, one of the most fascinating capital cities in Asia and one particular that is gradually being transformed from a crumbling capital into the countrys initial real hub of travel and industry.

1st emerging as an important settlement in the mid 1300s, Vientianes fortunes rose and fell with different kingdoms and the numerous tumultuous battles that have been fought across the area. The Siamese (now Thai), captured Vientiane in 1779 but it was burned to the ground in an 1827 rebellion and essentially abandoned to the jungle.

Nonetheless, when French Indochina added Laos to their territory after the Franco-Siamese War in 1893, the city benefited from a surge of new building and renovation of broken temples. The population grew all through the 20th century, and the country declared independence in 1953. In 1975 the Pathet Lao party overthrew the royalist government, and remains in energy today as the Lao Peoples Revolutionary Celebration, with Vientiane as the administrative capital.

Whilst alter in Vientiane has been slow over the previous numerous decades, the final ten years have noticed increasingly speedy improvement, with economic development in 2012 of 8% and the GDP rising from $ 300 in 2001 to $ 1,200 in 2011. Of course, tourism is a key business, and this is a single of the ideal reasons to go to Vientiane. Though expansion is altering the city, its character is still defined by broad, tree-lined streets and beautiful, crumbling colonial mansions. French p