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The Annual Skålite ‘Quality in Tourism’ Awards were presented at the ceremony held at Çırağan Palace Kempinski. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Intra Tours DMC received 2010 Skålite Award in the Incoming Travel Agency category. Intra Chairman Ertugrul Karaoğlu, who received the award, commented that he is very happy to receive Skålite Quality Award second year in a row.
→ read more...ETOA will be running several events in 2011 looking at various aspects of city tourism, with City Fair in London being the highest profile of these. City tourist boards and operators will come together for a full-day workshop following ETOA’s tried and tested model.
“City tourism is, and will be, the key driver to recovery in European tourism, be it short breaks or tourism from longer haul markets”, said ETOA Executive Director, Tom Jenkins. “In these challenging economic times, city administrations will feel the pressure to exploit tourism and impose last minute taxes such as we have seen in Rome.
by Reinhard Hohler, Chiang Mai
Two of Thailand’s finest resorts – Sofitel Centara Grand Resort & Villas and InterContinental Hua Hin Resort – have joined “It’s in Hua Hin,” a publicity campaign comprising eight posh hotels, an award-winning golf club and a singular vineyard. The membership development comes nine months after “It’s in Hua Hin”
→ read more...The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has renewed its memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Africa Travel Association (ATA) to encourage the sustainable development of the travel-and-tourism industry to Africa. The MoU was signed this week by Greg Duffell, PATA chief executive officer, and Edward Bergman, ATA executive director. The MoU offers the two associations a reciprocal membership affiliation together with their products
→ read more...“There is huge potential for the industry in post recession growth, the global economy is improving and CEO’s are signing off discretionary spend, people are cautiously optimistic”. These were just three of the key points to emerge from the first presentation at the annual EIBTM CEO Summit held in Barcelona last week. The new format this year included three powerful presentations to the global group of 60 CEO members who represent every part of the meetings and events industry.
→ read more...Knowledge management has become an essential instrument for developing effective tourism strategies; particularly important for strengthening the sector’s ability to respond to current global challenges, from the economic crisis to climate change. Against this background, UNWTO, Tourism Portugal and the University of the Algarve are organizing a conference on ‘Tourism and Science: Bridging Theory and Practice’, to advance a global knowledge management framework for tourism (Faro, Portugal, 1-3 June 2011).
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