The year 2013 will come to an end and the whole Tourism-Insider team would like to use this opportunity to thank you all for this great year. We want to say goodbye with the last issue in 2013 and wish all our partners, friends and readers contemplative Christmas and a good slide into the new year. We also hope for a further cooperation and may welcome you back again on our website  in 2014 to support you with informative reports and stories out of the tourism-industry.

After strenuous weeks, the Tourism Insider Team is taking its Christmas break. This will be the last issue of this year.

We will continue with the next issue on monday, January 6. 2014, again providing you, our dear readers, with the latest news on the tourism industry.

We wish you peaceful holidays and a Happy New Year.

Joachim Fischer – Max Beier – Robert Raback – Antonin Vogt – Elke Backert – Lars Magnusson – Reinhard Hohler

This year, airberlin is once again flying thousands of guests to their family and friends on the holidays. Between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve alone, the second largest German airline will complete approximately 1,000 flights throughout the route network. The days with the highest travel volume for airberlin are in the Christmas week between 21st to 28th December.

Global Alliance today announces that US$1.49bn is being spent in redevelopments across its five member venues, adding 135,400sqm of meeting and events space.Global Alliance is an international group of conference and exhibition centres that have joined forces to offer a seamless conference and event experience to international associations and event organisers whose events rotate around the world.

Amadeus accelerates move into Hotel IT sector with USD 500m acquisition of Newmarket International
Acquisition of leading IT provider to the hotel sector adds deep industry knowledge, key customer relationships and complementary product set

Argentina gets ready to show off for the third time at EMITT 2014, having participated two years successively in the past, not to mention being a country sponsor at EMITT 2013. Placing great importance to EMITT, Argentina will be represented by the Argentine Tourism Minister, Carlos Enrique Meyer. The country will stage tango performances and portray the country’s far reaching natural and cultural wealth.

Hilton Worldwide has reached an agreement which will see it rebrand the historic Concorde Opéra hotel under its Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand in late 2014.The iconic hotel, in Paris’ fashionable 8th arrondissement, was recently acquired by Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe IV (“Blackstone”). The Concorde Opéra will undergo a significant investment programme to restore and reinvigorate the 124 year old landmark prior to rebranding as the Hilton Paris Opéra next year.