With less than one week to go to World Tourism Day (WTD) on September 27, preparations for the official celebrations in host country Spain are well underway.
In the presence of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias, Maspalomas, one of Spain’s famed seaside towns on the island of Gran Canaria, will host the official celebrations of World Tourism Day 2012 under the theme Tourism & Sustainable Energy, coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
2nd and 3rd tier cities join China Meetings Week for the first time. New strategic association partners increase education content
CIBTM, organized by Reed Travel Exhibitions and held in Beijing last week, enhanced its position as the only domestic and international event for the MICE industry in China welcoming the largest participation from exhibitors and a surge in the quality of regional Hosted Buyers.
The new Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore.(photo credit: Truong Quoc Viet, RSP Architects Planners and Engineers)
The cruise industry in Southeast Asia is set to grow, with the region’s countries committed to upgrading its cruise infrastructure as intra-regional demand for cruising within ASEAN rises. → read more...
Vice President Operations, Dusit International, Jiri Kobos, has been recognised by Hotelier Middle East in its fourth annual Hotelier Middle East Power 50 as one of the regions most influential hoteliers.
In 2012, the Power 50 list is dedicated to hotel operators, judged on their management merits, as determined by the editorial team at Hotelier Middle East.
The numbers show that the interest in exhibiting at Conventa is now bigger than ever. Almost 80 percent of the available exhibitor stands at the trade show have already been booked. Conventa’s organizers are especially excited to welcome the first ever exhibitor from Turkey making sure hosted buyers attending the trade show truly get acquainted with the meeting industry offer of the entire region of South East Europe.
Meeting industry providers from South East Europe that intend to exhibit at Conventa don’t have a lot of time left for registration.
airberlin is entering the Baltic region by offering nonstop flights to Riga with the new codeshare partner airBaltic. airberlin adds its code on flights operated by airBaltic to the Latvian capital from several German cities: Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin.
In return, airBaltic flight guests are – for the first time – able to book a connecting airberlin flight to various German cities in combination with an airBaltic flight to Germany.
“The new codeshare partnership is another step for airberlin towards the growing markets of Eastern Europe and adds another new destination to our codeshare route network for our guests” says Paul Gregorowitsch, Chief Commercial Officer of airberlin. He adds: “We look forward to welcoming even more guests from this region on board our flights in Germany”.
