A holiday experience instead of hanging out – Germans no longer want their holidays to be a passive affair. Latest ADAC Reisemonitor survey: round trips, city travel and cruises are becoming more and more popular with German holidaymakers

Summer, sunshine, beaches and the sea… the sort of holiday that has always been popular with the Germans is going out of fashion. Whereas in 1998 64.5 per cent of German holidaymakers spent the nicest time of the year on the beach, only 58.5 per cent will be booking this traditional form of holidaymaking in 2011.

The latest addition to the Korean Air fleet, the eagerly anticipated A380, is pictured taking to the skies for its final phase of flight tests before going into service. The flight and ground tests are being carried out from the Airbus facility in Hamburg , where the aircraft has undergone painting and full cabin furnishing before flying to Toulouse  for the delivery ceremony. Korean Air will become the sixth operator of the A380 when it begins flying the aircraft in June.

The fifteenth edition of MITM Euromed, Meetings and Incentive Travel Market took place in the seaside port of Vigo at the new “Mar de Vigo Congress center”. The just founded Vigo Convention Bureau invited MITM to hold this years event in Mar de Vigo with the purpose to attract international MICE events to the city. The invitation sent to European and North American MICE buyers to participate in MITM attracted numerous and important users and buyers of incentive travel, conferences and congresses from all over the world.

Radisson hotels under Carlson, a global hospitality and travel company, joins millions around the world to kick off the Earth Day by planting 50 trees in Shanghai on 22 April 2011. The trees planting event is jointed initiated by Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century Park, Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai Hong Quan, Radisson Hotel Shanghai New World, Radisson Plaza Hotel Xingguo Shanghai and Carlson Corporate Office in China.  Some 60 Carlson corporate and hotel executives, employees and clients participated in this green event, sending a strong message about a brighter future of the planet.

airberlin is increasing the number of flights to Dubai from Berlin-Tegel, starting with its winter schedule 2011/12. The new connections can already be booked. With this move, airberlin will become the only airline providing service between the German capital and Dubai five times a week. Domestically, the airline offers connections, for example, from Düsseldorf, Cologne-Bonn and Munich. For passengers from other European cities, airberlin also offers connecting flights from airports including Barcelona, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Moscow, Stockholm, Vienna and Zurich.

With the new “City Garden” Apart Hotel, Petul Hotelbetriebs-GmbH are opening another colorful  and lopsided hotel at the Zollverein World Heritage Site in the middle of the Ruhr Metropolis, an urban center heavily influenced by the mining industry, to join the company’s main establishment, the Petul Apart Hotel in Essen’s district of Stoppenberg. Erected in the 1950s as a home for unmarried workers in the Victoria Mathias coal mine, the building has now turned into a location to stay, explore and enjoy.