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UNWTO and the Town Council of Palma signed today an agreement establishing Palma as the first pilot costal destination to join the Hotel Energy Solutions (HES) project. Over the coming months, the twenty five participating hotels in Palma de Majorca will test the beta version of the HES e-toolkit, a specialized online tool enabling them to assess their current energy needs and prioritize investment in…
Business guru Lord Digby Jones is to headline the new World Travel Market Business Day on Thursday, November 11, 2010. Lord Jones will help Britain’s struggling small- and medium-sized travel businesses (SMEs) as the country remains gripped by the longest slow-down on record. “Experts are predicting that up to 20 travel companies will go to the wall by the end of the year in the UK alone – far more than…
LOS ANGELES, CA - Green Globe Certification will introduce its Asian partners at PATA Travel Mart 2010, September 14-17, Macau SAR. PATA Travel Mart is the leading travel industry marketplace. and this year it is being held at the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel, Macau SAR. Green Globe Certification will introduce its new partners who cover the entire Asian region with representative offices in Singapore, Bali,…
Seychelles President James Michel has met with the Honorable Yasutoshi Nishimura of Japan, who is undertaking a tour of the region. The Honorable Nishimura is the Deputy Chairman and Chief Secretary of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Policy Research Council, and he is also a member of the House of Representatives of Japan. Their discussion centered on the opportunities for cooperation between Seychelles…
Alain St.Ange, the CEO of the Seychelles Tourism Board returned to Seychelles on Monday from a working visit to South Africa where he had the opportunity of meeting the South African President, Mr. Jacob Zuma, to discuss cooperation between Seychelles and South Africa and to table the 2011 Seychelles’ “Carnaval International de Victoria." Mr. St.Ange, accompanied by Ms. Masechaba Lekalake, the anchor…
Leisure guests will become increasingly important for hotels in the post-recession years, according to a high-level think tank in London this week. World Travel Market, the premier global event for the travel industry, invited a dozen hotel suppliers and operators from its Meridian Club, which has 24,000 of the travel and tourism industry’s most senior buyers, to the event. The guests – all of whom were at…
Employees working the public sector will get a 9 day Eid ul-Fitr break this year, announced Sayyid Ali Bin Hamoud Bin Ali Al Busaidi, the Minister of the Diwan of the Royal Court, Chairman of the Civil Service Council. There will be granted paid vacation from September 11 till September 15. Work will resume as normal on September 18th, after the weekend. Private sector employees will be off from September 11…
DUBAI, U.A.E: Arabian Adventures, the region’s leading Destination Management Company (DMC) and official safari operator in the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR), has launched its new Tours & Safaris brochures for Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Fujairah. The brochures feature an array of exhilarating excursions, highlighting the many different things to do whilst visiting the Emirates and helping to raise the…
Going green, looking for organic stuff, providing more for kids, doing charity work, and choosing travel destinations to evoke certain emotions have been mentioned as current hospitality trends. There were many successful stories about businesses using these trends that went viral in the media. Pacific Islands Club Saipan, a 300-room, all-inclusive resort in the South Pacific, deserves its name in the headlines…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – ATF 2011 TRAVEX recorded strong interest and rapid take-up rate early in its registration process. To date, exhibitors have snapped up more booths as compared to the same time last year. This 2011 ASEAN leisure travel trade event showcasing the largest contingent of ASEAN destination products and services will also feature a larger show with 25 percent more booths space than last…
World Travel Awards Asia and Australasia Ceremony is coming to The Claridges, Surajkund, Delhi, NCR, in October for what is expected to be the most keenly fought competition ever. The event, the most important night of the year for Asia and Australasia’s tourism industry, will demonstrate just why the region is experiencing unprecedented uplift, regardless of the challenging global economic…
Tony Juniper, one of the world’s best known ecologists and forthright campaigner, is opening this year’s World Travel Market(WTM) World Responsible Tourism Day on Wednesday, November 10 at ExCeL, London. Juniper is the former director of Friends of the Earth UK, campaigning and rallying public opinion, and vice chair of the 70-strong network of national organizations of Friends of the Earth…
The first six months of 2010 saw international tourist arrivals grow by 7 percent according to the August Interim Update of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. This result confirms the recovery trend beginning in the last quarter of 2009 and is expected to continue in the second half of the year at a somewhat more moderate rate. The Interim Update was officially presented at the 4th UNWTO/PATA Forum on Tourism…
LIBERTYVILLE, IL - Want something more than museums and old churches on a European trip? TourCrafters comes to the rescue with a series of affordable off-season “market packages” that focus on local color, authentic food, and real people. Most are 5-days/4-nights and all include round-trip air from New York, fuel surcharges, hotel accommodations, daily breakfast, and more. They are valid from November 1, 2010 to…
VICTORIA, Seychelles - The South Asia and Africa Regional Port Stability Cooperative (SAARPSCO) has established its world headquarters in Victoria, Seychelles, to protect the welfare of the international maritime community. The Seychelles is achieving international acclaim for leadership in the global effort to predict and prevent threats to maritime security throughout the Indian Ocean region and…
The number of overnight stays by GCC nationals in Germany increased by 16.4% during the first five months of 2010. During this time 243,759 overnight stays were recorded. Compared to the same period of 2008, that is before the economic downturn, the number of overnight stays by GCC travellers in Germany recorded a 30,3% increase, from 187,004 to 243,759. With the central European…
DUSSELDORF, Germany - German state North Rhine Westphalia and its capital Düsseldorf are becoming stronger magnets for leisure travel, according to a study released by the State Office of Statistics. More than 1.7 million foreign visitors traveled to the region in the first 6 months of 2010, an increase of 9.2 percent compared to last year. In total, 8.6 million visited the region, an increase of 5.4 percent,…
The Rixos Premium Belek, Antalya, on the Turkish Riviera has been chosen to host Europe’s most important travel and tourism awards. The continent’s leading travel companies, operators, and destinations are battling it out to be crowned the best of them all. World Travel Awards, described by the International Herald Tribune as the “Oscars" of the travel industry, holds the Europe Gala Ceremony on October 1,…
