Back to Luzi Matzig's Home Photos New beginning for Matzig LM at Bali Opening of Asian Trails on 2.2.2000 Matzig wins awards LM on blades "LM on mule trek in Northern Thailand" LM as "Chef" "Exploring the Tibetean Highlands by 4WD" "Enjoying the glacier views of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Lijiang" Luzi Matzig with his Piper Malibu 'Conquering' Angkor Wat in Cambodia "Emperor" Luzi Matzig together with Barbara Peisert Luzi Matzig in Lijiang, Yunnan "Air Matzig" - Pilot and Plane Luzi Matzig in other news sources Travel Trade Report, August 23-29, 1999 TTG Asia Jul 02 - Jul 08 1999 Travel Trade Report, June 1999 Travel Trade Report, December 28, 1998 Bangkok Post, November 30, 1998 Bangkok Post June 11, 1998 Issue of TTG Asia May 15 - May 21 1998 High flier up above the clouds Issue of TTG Asia Jan 23 - Jan 29 1998 Issue of TTG Asia Oct 03 - Oct 09 1997 Issue of TTG Asia Jul 18 - Jul 24 1997 Send email to LM

Luzi Matzig in TravelAsia TravelAsia, Issue of July 7, 2000 Bookings to Bhutan, a new destination for Singaporeans, pioneered by Ken Air, have been tremendous, says Kevin Bong, product manager of Ken Air Tours. In fact, Ken Air�s first tour to Bhutan in October is 95 per cent booked with only two vacancies left out of 20. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of April 28, 2000 Asian Trails has launched packages to Bhutan � the ninth destination it is featuring. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of February 25, 2000 Sirima Veen asks two Thai players if it�s a good idea to run Amazing Thailand over two years. This year�s Amazing Thailand has the theme, Enchantment for the Next Thousand Years. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of February 25, 2000 Sirima Veen asks two Thai players if it�s a good idea to run Amazing Thailand over two years. This year�s Amazing Thailand has the theme, Enchantment for the Next Thousand Years. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of January 21, 2000 Laos is not most people�s idea of a self-drive destination. Questions about safety, smooth access and comfort levels are real and inevitable. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of October 15, 1999 What�s the top destination in the future for youth and student travellers? According to 800 or so youth travel professionals attending the 49th World Youth and Student Travel Conference in Bangkok recently, it is the Mekong subregion. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of September 3, 1999 Asian Overland Tours Malaysia and Panorama Tours Indonesia are in talks with Asian Trails Thailand and MAS Travel Singapore, as well as operators from Hong Kong, Australia and Burma, to form an alliance. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of August 13, 1999 The "mystery" investor in Asian Trails has turned out to be Evi Diethelm, 33, daughter of Marc Diethelm. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of August 13, 1999 I think one should respect people�s right to travel and let the individual concerned to take the decision whether to make a political statement by not travelling to Myanmar or to simply enjoy a visit to Myanmar without politics. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of June 25, 1999 Luzi Matzig's new company, Asian Trails, has won the Kuoni account, Diethelm Travel's largest account by far, which it has been handling for more than 30 years. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of May 7, 1999 Breakthrough Awards New destination marketer of the year Full text TravelAsia, Issue of April 16, 1999 TravelAsia honoured winners in its third Breakthrough Awards on Monday evening. More than 300 leading tourism figures turned up at the black tie affair at the Hotel Inter-Continental Singapore to salute whom TravelAsia's editorial director Yeoh Siew Hoon called "the crisis busters in our industry". Full text TravelAsia, Issue of April 9, 1999 After 28 years of taking Diethelm Travel to the top of the charts in Thailand and Mekong, Luzi Matzig will leave the company on May 31. Full text TravelAsia, Issue of April 9, 1999 There are few surprises anymore in this business � mergers, acquisitions, management shake-ups, retrenchments � we�ve seen them all in our business, and more so last year since the July 1, 1997 crisis took hold in our region and its rippling effects felt. Full text TravelAsia, February 12, 1999 Diethelm Travel Thailand now runs four sites on the Net, one of which has consistently been listed among the top 100 travel-related websites that generate the most traffic worldwide. Raini Hamdi speaks to group general manager Luzi Matzig about Net benefits. Full text TravelAsia, January 15, 1999 Red tape has snarled up the Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Caravan, but not on the Burmese side as had been expected, but on the Thai side. Full text Interview, TravelAsia, November 13, 1998 A tour operator's view Full text TravelAsia, August 14, 1998 "There�s a lot of potential to build up cross-border business," says Luzi Matzig, group manager for Diethelm Travel, which has subsidiaries in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Full text TravelAsia, August 14, 1998 "You go up and up and up and when you reach the top, the view across Cambodia just opens up in front of you. It�s spectacular." Full text TravelAsia, April 10, 1998 In a bid to consolidate and expand its regional operations, Diethelm Travel has promoted Luzi Matzig to the newly-created position of group managing director, travel operations Asia effective May. Full text TravelAsia, February 27, 1998 Diethelm Travel Thailand recorded a 50 per cent rise in business in January compared with the same month last year. Full text For and Against, TravelAsia, February 27, 1998 Sure, there isn't a single operator covering the whole ASEAN region and doing only eco-adventure travel. But there certainly are many operators doing eco-adventure travel in several ASEAN countries. Full text TravelAsia, July 25, 1997 As expected, an operator working with Royal Garden, Diethelm Travel Thailand, reacted strongly against the move. Full text TravelAsia, July 18, 1997 Diethelm Travel says it will continue operations as normal in Cambodia, despite the recent political strife. General manager-Thailand and Indochina, Luzi Matzig said the company was in fact preparing to move to bigger premises. Full text Interview, TravelAsia, July 4, 1997 When he was four years old, Luzi Matzig got a glimpse of the Far East when he bought Swiss chocolates which gave him pictures of Angkor Wat to stick in a silver book. Little did he dream that years later, he would become the pioneer into the Mekong region. Raini Hamdi speaks to the group general manager of Diethelm Travel Thailand. Full text TravelAsia, May 23, 1997 The EC Directive remains a hot issue. Raini Hamdi reports on the latest move by Asian suppliers to protect themselves from European consumer compensation claims. Full text TravelAsia, May 16, 1997 Diethelm Travel Thailand has launched a new website on incentive travel in Asia. Full text TravelAsia, April 4, 1997 Diethelm Travel is strengthening its inbound operations in Malaysia by agreeing to buy Borneo Expeditions and appointing two managers to source for new business. Full text TravelAsia, February 21, 1997 A new tour to explore the natural, historical and cultural attractions in Yunnan and northern Thailand has been launched by Diethelm Travel Thailand. Full text TravelAsia, January 31, 1997 I would not participate in a system which requires me to pay a fee to have access to the information. I won't spend money to lose more money. Full text TravelAsia, January 17, 1997 Devaluation of the Thai baht. If this happens, rates will go up, there will be a lot of arguments and the entire pricing structure will have to be redone. - Luzi Matzig, general manager, Diethelm Travel Full text TravelAsia, January 17, 1997 The call to fight back the EC Directive was sparked off by Diethelm Travel Thailand's Luzi Matzig who, in addressing the ASEAN Tourism Conference, charged that overseas tour operators had been unfair in passing the buck of compensation to local agents. Full text TravelAsia, December 6, 1996 Leguan's Asian partners greeted the company's collapse with dismay and said it was a lesson in restraint when granting credit to overseas partners. Full text For and Against, TravelAsia, November 1, 1996 Let's define "political troubles". Are we talking about civil war, revolution, riots or destinations which are, on the whole, safe but perceived to have political problems, as interpreted by the Western media? Full text TravelAsia, November 1, 1996 Diethelm Travel, Thailand/Indochina/Myanmar: Tour Operator of the Year (Inbound); group general manager: Luzi Matzig Full text TravelAsia, August 9, 1996 "This proves that even good, mid-sized operators are having problems in Europe. As an inbound operator in Asia, you have to be careful about credit terms and become stricter." Full text TravelAsia, August 2, 1996 As far as Diethelm Travel is concerned, the Internet works for us. Our home page has generated business for us and we get bookings every day on the Net. Full text TravelAsia, July 26, 1996 "Usually, politics is not discussed, but this time, everything was out in the open. The officials all came prepared with answers." Full text TravelAsia, July 19, 1996 "We now have an Internet department of three people just handling e-mail reservations and enquiries. This will grow to 10 staff by next year and 20 the year after". Full text TravelAsia, May 31, 1996 "Everyone is talking about this new area - and rightly so. The opening up of the Mekong area for tourism and the decision by tourism authorities to position Mekong as a single tourism destination is the most significant event in Asia/Pacific tourism this decade." Full text TravelAsia, May 31, 1996 "They are in a tough market and they try and get better deals from us all the time. So I have more than 1,700 pages on the Web, and we are getting more and more direct bookings as well." Full text TravelAsia, April 26, 1996 "Cooperation is needed to facilitate and ease customs and immigration clearance at the various gateways. While the process is relatively easy at main airports, there is still too much red tape at the secondary border crossings. Full text TravelAsia, April 12, 1996 The issue of compensation has always been around in our industry - tourists who complain about poor transportation or accommodation that does not meet their expectations and want their money or part of their money back. Full text TravelAsia, April 5, 1996 Luzi Matzig, general manager of Diethelm Travel, says the reasonable cost of setting a booth at ITS of 20,000 baht has ensured good participation. Full text TravelAsia, February 16, 1996 "Because of the relief effort, it's not possible to visit Lijiang, but tourism to all other places in the province will be normal," he said. Full text More on Luzi Matzig