In codeshare with SkyTeam partner China Southern Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is offering three extra direct flights to Guangzhou in Southern China with effect from today. In so doing, KLM is further increasing the frequency of its network of flights to and from China. Through its new scheduled service, KLM now offers 53 weekly flights to Greater China. With eight destinations in Greater China and in cooperation with SkyTeam and our partners in China, KLM continues to cater to the ever-increasing demand for flights between Europe and China.
econd nonstop connection to Macedonia started
With immediate effect airberlin is commencing a service between Düsseldorf and Skopje in partnership with Kosova Airlines. Every Saturday a Boeing 737-700 with 144 seats will fly to the capital of Macedonia and will then return to the Rhine city on Sunday morning. This is the second new nonstop flight to Skopje which airberlin has had on offer since the start of the summer timetable: airberlin also flies the route between Zurich and Skopje twice per week.
→ read more...The third edition of CULTOUR, Global Heritage and Cultural Travel Exhibition, will start in just two weeks, June 22nd, in Quito, Ecuador. CULTOUR is sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism of Ecuador and the City of Quito, as part of the program of activities to celebrate Quito as the American Capital of Culture 2011.
The event is directed to professionals only, where worldwide travel and tourism exhibitors will meet by one-to-one appointments with invited, also worldwide, tour operators and travel agents specialized in heritage and cultural travel. www.cultourfair.com
For more information, please contact: Charo Trabado, Commercial Director, gsar@gsamark.com
→ read more...The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has entered a partnership with STR Global, as part of PATA’s new strategic direction to “Build the Business” for members. PATA members will benefit by receiving access to accommodation sector indicators that will enable better decision making. STR Global is the recognized leader in providing accurate, actionable information and analysis to the lodging industry. PATA members will now have access to key business indicators including room supply, the development pipeline, occupancy rates, average daily rate (ADR), and revenue per available room (RevPAR) right across Asia Pacific.
→ read more...The company changes its corporate name to win the future and compete with the largest international chains
Sol Meliá, Spain’s leading hotel chain, has changed its name to Meliá Hotels International: a new corporate name to mark the start of a new future for the company which has emerged from the economic crisis even stronger than before and now embarks on a journey to achieve unprecedented globalisation on a par with the most important multinational hotel chains. Gabriel Escarrer, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, unveiled the new corporate name today at the Palacio de la Bolsa de Madrid (Madrid Stock Exchange), opening trading by ringing the bell on the first of trading for the new Meliá Hotels International.
→ read more...The seven Central and Eastern European countries sharing the Carpathian mountain range have agreed to jointly manage the sustainable development of tourism; a sector of fundamental importance to the region. Meeting at the 3rd Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention, the countries adopted the Protocol on Sustainable Tourism, drafted by UNWTO and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which lays the foundations for a coordinated approach to tourism (Bratislava, Slovakia, 25-27 May).
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