Begin to circulate the first names of exhibitors and partners for the 2011 edition of Meeting Luxury. From the Tourism board of Argentina, which focuses on Meeting Luxury to present the country’s luxury offer in Europe, to the very elegant Villa d’Este in Cernobbio, through the luxurious Brenner’s Park Hotel in Baden Baden: everything is ready for the third edition of the most awaited and prestigious event dedicated to the luxury travel industry, in Lugano from March 31st to April 2nd, 2011.

Tourism offers an effective and viable regional development tool through boosting economic growth and creating quality jobs. This was the central message coming out of the UNWTO Seminar on ‘Tourism as a Tool for Sustainable Regional Development’ (Tirana, Albania). “Albania has the potential to build a new tourism sector for the 21^st century and set an inspiring model for other countries,” said the Prime Minister of Albania, Mr. Sali Berisha opening the Seminar alongside UNWTO Secretary-General, Mr. Taleb Rifai.

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According to an urgent message of the management of Yangon Airways, it was said that “Much to our regret, we would like to inform you that all our
schedule services will be temporarily suspended with effect from 3rd December 2010 until further notice with the suspension of the Aircraft
Operator Certificate ( AOC) by the authority. Hence, all agents are requested to transfer the confirmed bookings with us to other domestic
airlines available for seats. We will be prepared to assist you in transfer of bookings as far as we can manage.

the Radisson Hotel Pudong Century Park hosted an appreciation party to hotel corporate clients at the beautifully decorated Christmas Village of the hotel. The village will be officially open to public and a lighting ceremony to be held on November 26. The Christmas village offers a wide selection of Christmas gifts and goodies.

New hall for congresses during renovation of the ICC Berlin

The congress and exhibition metropolis Berlin is expanding with a further event hall. This will also be used for conferences from 2014 to 2016, since the International Congress Center ICC Berlin will be closed for refurbishment during this period. The new hall is set to be completed by the end of 2013 in place of the Deutschlandhalle. After the ICC Berlin re-opens, Berlin will then have access to almost twice as much congress space.

With only a matter of days until EIBTM (www.eibtm.com), some of the world’s most influential industry organisations have announced that they are to hold events in Barcelona during EIBTM (30 November – 2 December 2010) to make the most of their attendance at the exhibition. EIBTM has provided the seed funding to set up Project Meeting Architecture, where part of this sponsorship will see the first annual board meeting taking place during EIBTM in Barcelona.