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Published on October 6, 2023
Hong Kong lights up with excitement every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This cherished celebration, also known as the Mooncake Festival, brings families together to enjoy age-old traditions and create new memories under the full moon.
A Festival of Gratitude and Unity
The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which usually falls in September or October. Hong Kongers use this time to express gratitude for the harvest and pray for luck. Families eagerly reunite after time spent apart, making it a special occasion.
Mooncakes: A Symbol of Unity
Mooncakes are the festival's stars. These round pastries symbolize unity and are typically filled with lotus seed paste and salted egg yolk. Over time, innovative flavors like ice-cream mooncakes and snow skin mooncakes have emerged.
Lanterns That Illuminate the Night
Traditional paper lanterns add to the festival's charm. They come in various shapes and sizes and can be found in parks, streets, and along the waterfront. Some lanterns even feature modern LED lights, creating mesmerizing displays.
The Fire Dragon Dance: A Dazzling Tradition
Hong Kong boasts a unique tradition—the Fire Dragon Dance. This captivating dance, over a century old, features a 200-foot-long dragon adorned with thousands of burning sticks of incense. It's a vivid display of culture and heritage.
Moon Gazing and Lantern Riddles
The full moon serves as a backdrop for moon gazing, a time for reflection and inspiration. Families and friends often gather at parks like Victoria Park to enjoy this serene moment. Lantern riddles, attached to colorful lanterns, challenge participants with their wisdom and good fortune messages.
Delightful Mid-Autumn Delicacies
The festival is incomplete without indulging in mooncakes, but it's also a time for enjoying fruits with auspicious meanings. Star fruit and pomelo are popular choices. Families often end their reunion meals with glutinous rice balls, symbolizing togetherness.
Celebrating Resilience and Unity
In recent years, the festival has taken on new significance, symbolizing resilience and unity, particularly after the challenges posed by the pandemic. It's a testament to Hong Kong's unwavering spirit.
As the lanterns light up the city and families come together, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong continues to be a cherished tradition—a time to express gratitude, celebrate unity, and look to the bright future under the moon's gentle glow.
Image Source - Hong Kong Tourism Board
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Published on February 23, 2026
A memorable hotel stay begins with restful sleep. King Koil, one of the world’s most trusted hospitality mattress brands, helps hotels deliver consistent comfort backed by more than a century of global bedding expertise. With millions of hotel rooms furnished worldwide, the brand is built to meet the expectations of guests, GMs, and housekeeping teams alike. Through Palaniappa electronics, hotels can access these reliable and long-lasting sleep solutions.
King Koil mattresses are designed to provide proper back support, pressure relief, and undisturbed sleep. In simple terms, guests can sleep peacefully without tossing, turning, or being disturbed by movement from the other side of the bed. Advanced spring systems and carefully layered comfort materials help absorb motion, reduce noise, and maintain shape even after years of use. For guests, this means waking up refreshed. For hotels, it leads to stronger reviews and repeat bookings.
Unlike retail mattresses meant for homes, King Koil hospitality mattresses are built for high-occupancy usage. They are designed to retain firmness and comfort over a long life cycle, helping hotels reduce replacement frequency and overall ownership costs. With durable construction, fire-retardant fabrics, and dependable warranties, they are suitable for business, premium, and luxury properties.
Rollaway beds are often an area where guest expectations fall short. King Koil addresses this by offering the same comfort-grade mattress used on regular beds for its rollaway beds as well. This ensures that extra guests receive the same level of comfort, avoiding dissatisfaction. The rollaway units are sturdy, easy to handle, and suitable for repeated use without compromising on sleep quality.
A good mattress also needs a strong foundation. King Koil platform bed bases are built to provide a stable and noise-free base that enhances mattress life and sleep quality. Made with durable materials and precise sizing, they support housekeeping efficiency during cleaning and room turnover while reducing wear and tear.
Each King Koil mattress is customized according to the exact measurements provided by architects or interior designers. This ensures a perfect fit with bed frames and room layouts, avoiding gaps or last-minute adjustments and maintaining brand standards.
Many King Koil models are designed for one-side usage, reducing the need for frequent flipping. This makes daily operations easier for housekeeping teams, lowers physical strain, and helps rooms remain guest-ready at all times. For management teams, this translates into smoother operations and predictable maintenance cycles.
With earning of valuable customers and diverse brands through providing best in class products, Palaniappa electronics is the name of trust built by long years in business, delivering quality products, state of the art technology for ever evolving hospitality, and on time assistance and delivery.
For property owners, King Koil represents a long-term investment in durability and brand reputation. For GMs, it supports improved guest satisfaction scores. For executive housekeepers, it offers practicality and ease of management.
King Koil does not simply provide mattresses; it delivers dependable sleep experiences that guests remember, and Palaniappa electronics continues to bring such trusted solutions to the hospitality industry.For more details, contact Palaniappa Electronics | Mr. Muthu at 9003045685 or muthu@palaniappagroup.com.
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Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Limited (MHRIL), India’s leading leisure hospitality company, has announced the launch of Club Mahindra Nadiya Parao Resort in Jim Corbett, further strengthening its footprint in Uttarakhand. This marks the brand’s second resort in the region, reinforcing its focus on expanding across high-demand leisure destinations.
The launch is part of the company’s accelerated expansion strategy and aligns with its ambition to become India’s #1 leisure hospitality player. The growth plan is driven by steady resort additions, portfolio premiumisation, and disciplined capital allocation. With Jim Corbett emerging as one of India’s most preferred destinations for immersive, nature-led travel, the new property adds depth to the brand’s presence in the region.
The addition of Club Mahindra Nadiya Parao Resort supports MHRIL’s near-term goal of adding 1,000 rooms by FY26 and contributes to its longer-term vision of scaling to 10,000 keys under Club M and 12,000 keys overall by FY30.
Commenting on the launch, Manoj Bhat, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Limited, said, “Our ambition is to lead leisure hospitality in India, with families at the heart of everything we do. The launch of Nadiya Parao is another step forward in our expansion journey, in a destination where demand is strong and growing. As we expand, we’re not just adding resorts; we’re delivering superior experience, sharpening execution, and building for the future”.
Spread across approximately 10 acres, the 57-room resort blends premium leisure stays with extensive event infrastructure. The property features large landscaped lawns, a banquet hall, and riverfront access, allowing it to cater to a wide range of guests. From holidaying families to destination weddings and corporate offsites, the resort is designed to serve multiple demand segments within a single asset.
With this launch, Club Mahindra continues to strengthen its portfolio while responding to the growing demand for experiential and nature-centric travel across India.
Published on February 21, 2026
Nestled in the calm hamlet of Ramgarh on the edge of the Kumaon range, Seclude Willows, Ramgarh invites travellers to slow down and enjoy a serene mountain escape along with their beloved pets. Surrounded by nature and away from the rush of city life, the retreat offers a setting where both humans and animals can truly unwind.
Spread across 2.5 acres of lush hillside, the boutique property features 11 uniquely themed rooms, wide open outdoor spaces, and an atmosphere that encourages mindful and relaxed travel. As pet companionship becomes an important part of longer and more immersive holidays, the retreat has formally transitioned into a fully pet-friendly destination. While pets have always been welcome at Willows, the experience has now been thoughtfully enhanced to focus on comfort, convenience, and care for four-legged guests.
The property offers two specially curated stay options: Paw Premium Package and Royal Woof Package, designed to suit different travel preferences. Both packages include pet-friendly accommodation along with essentials such as cosy pet beds with disposable covers, nutritious meals, fresh drinking water, bowls, leashes, towels, napkins, toys, and welcome kits filled with treats to make pets feel at home from the moment they arrive.
To further elevate the experience, guests can opt for guided pet walks, grooming and bathing accessories, pet-safe shampoos, and additional care amenities. These offerings ensure pets are well looked after while preserving the calm and peaceful vibe of the retreat.
Speaking on the initiative, Rohit Sethi, Founder of Seclude Hotels, added, "A vacation feels complete only when the family is together, The pet parents and their babies". With this initiative, we aim to ensure that pets are not just accommodated but truly welcomed and pampered.
With more travellers choosing meaningful and extended getaways with their pets, Seclude Willows, Ramgarh offers a space where guests and their furry companions can relax, explore the mountains, and reconnect with nature together, making it a thoughtful choice for modern pet-friendly travel.
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