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GVB and Continental Airlines welcome the Hangzhou inaugural flight Posted: Wed 2 Feb, 2011 3:47 PM A Hangzhou charter made its inaugural flight on February 1, 2011, bound for Guam. Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) and Continental Airlines representatives welcomed the 153-passengers on ...
Accor to expand in the Middle East Posted: Thu 3 Feb, 2011 11:42 AM Accor has revealed their plans to launch 18-hotels with 4,850 rooms in the Middle East, within the next three years. The hotel group is set to open 11 new hotels in the UAE, three in Syria, two in Bahrain, and ...
London Luton goes the holographic way Posted: Thu 3 Feb, 2011 12:07 PM London s Luton Airport has unveiled the world s first holographic announcers, deployed to aid in simplifying airport security. Holly and Graham, the new virtual helpers, will assist in relaying important ...
Air India and Indian Airlines share IA code Posted: Thu 3 Feb, 2011 1:56 PM Air India and Indian Airlines will now share the IA flight code. This move comes almost four years after the two airlines had announced their merger. The test for the shared flight code was conducted on ...
UK to amend ATOL scheme Posted: Fri 4 Feb, 2011 2:02 PM The UK s new government intends to amend the Air Travel Organisers Licensing (ATOL) scheme to protect holidaymakers. Theresa Villiers, Transport minister, UK, was quoted in eTurbo News as having said that reform was needed ...
Update on Yasi Posted: Thu 3 Feb, 2011 6:00 PM Cyclone Yasi which hit North Queensland yesterday and was rated as category five, has now subsided to a category two. Although power lines are down, no casualties have been reported thus far and there has been little or no damage to ...
New Zealand tourist arrivals soar in December Posted: Fri 4 Feb, 2011 4:49 PM New Zealand Tourism has seen an influx of Australian and Chinese tourists that led to a surge in tourists arrivals in December 2010. Statistics New Zealand has reported the number of Australians ...
Zinc InVision to develop 28 hotels in the Middle East Posted: Mon 7 Feb, 2011 12:18 PM Zinc InVision, a joint venture between Thailand s InVision Hospitality and Singapore investment firm Cinnovation CG, is set to build 28 hotels throughout the Middle East by 2020. This ...
Passenger flight upsurge in 2010 Posted: Tue 8 Feb, 2011 10:41 AM The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released figures for 2010 that showed an 8.2% increase in passenger flights throughout the year and planes were in full capacity by 2.7% compared to the ...
TAT to launch stopover campaign Posted: Tue 8 Feb, 2011 9:38 AM The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has revealed plans of launching Amazing Thailand Stopover , a seven-month campaign targeted to attract more transit and stopover tourists to Bangkok. The new stopover campaign ...
Japan reveals Visit Japan Year 2011 Winter Campaign Posted: Mon 7 Feb, 2011 9:18 AM Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) has launched its Visit Japan Year 2011 Winter Campaign that will run through March 31, 2011. The new winter campaign is part of an effort to attract more international ...
Hubei, China draws the Australians Posted: Tue 8 Feb, 2011 11:33 AM Hubei, China has attracted a number of Australian tourists, making Australia one of the most important inbound markets for the Chinese province. The number of Australian tourists who visited Hubei grew by 29.7% ...
South Korea welcomes influx of Indian tourists Posted: Tue 8 Feb, 2011 12:20 PM The Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO) in New Delhi has reported a surge in Indian tourist arrivals in South Korea. South Korea has enjoyed a 19% increase in visitors from India through December 2010 as ...
Northern Ireland unveils spring campaign Posted: Wed 9 Feb, 2011 9:48 AM The Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) has launched a GBP1-million spring marketing campaign to attract people from the north and south of Ireland to holiday north of the border. The new campaign is part ...
Air New Zealand and Etihad Airways to codeshare Posted: Wed 9 Feb, 2011 9:42 AM Air New Zealand and Etihad Airways have signed an agreement to code share on their services between New Zealand and Australia, and Abu Dhabi and London. Rob Fyfe, CEO, Air New Zealand, was quoted in ...
PATA AT&RTCM off to a grand start Posted: Wed 9 Feb, 2011 5:52 PM The PATA AT&RTCM2011 event being held in Pokhara, Nepal, was off to a grand start on February 7 with the welcome reception and dinner hosted by the Nepal Mountaineering Association at the International Mountain ...
PATA Adventure Mart kicks off Posted: Wed 9 Feb, 2011 5:44 PM The PATA Adventure Travel Mart at the AT&RTCM2011 event being held in Pokhara, Nepal, was officially inaugurated yesterday afternoon at the Fulbari Resort. The ribbon cutting ceremony was presided over by Kishor Thapa, ...
Bethlehem bids to be a UNESCO World Heritage site Posted: Wed 9 Feb, 2011 10:28 AM Palestine has submitted a formal bid to add Bethlehem to the list of World Heritage sites recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Khulud Daibes, ...
Short-term trips to Australia rise Posted: Thu 10 Feb, 2011 12:14 PM There was a recorded 5.9-million short-term trips made by international visitors to Australia last year. This figure registers a 5.6-million increase from recorded figures for 2008 and 2009. The Australian ...
Cambodia embarks on eco-tourism Posted: Thu 10 Feb, 2011 5:03 PM The Ministry of Tourism in Cambodia and the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in Australia are teaming up to create a strategy to develop community-based eco-tourism in the northeast and southeast regions of ...
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