The world’s fastest growing airline adds even more destinations to its route map, joining seven other new destinations previously announced.Qatar Airways connects the world with the industry’s youngest fleet and award-winning service. Qatar Airways, the award-winning and fastest growing airline in the world, today announced eight more destinations for 2017-18, in addition to seven previously announced new cities for a total of 15 new gateways. Joining the Qatar Airways’ route network, which spans more than 150 destinations on six continents around the world, are: Canberra, the airline’s fifth destination in Australia; Dublin, Ireland; Las Vegas, the airline’s 11th destination in the United States; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; Medan, Kualanamu International Airport, the airline’s third destination in Indonesia; and Tabuk and Yanbu, the 9th and 10th destinations in Saudi Arabia.

Double-digit growth in Asian outbound travel led by China – Asians head for the beaches – ITB Berlin exclusively publishes latest results from IPK’s World Travel Monitor®
Asians travelled more than ever so far this year, with a surge in trips to destinations within the region and including many more beach holidays. After a double-digit rise in international trips this year, the outlook remains strong for 2017. Those were some of the results of the 24th World Travel Monitor® Forum in Pisa, Italy (November 3-4).
Outbound travel by Asians grew by a dynamic 11 percent in the first eight months of 2016, according to World Travel Monitor® figures. There was a very strong 14 percent rise in trips to destinations within Asia and also a high 11 percent increase in travel to the Americas. But the number of trips to Europe dropped by 1 percent between January and August 2016.

Four daily flights from Berlin, starting end of March 2017. Codeshare with Czech Airlines for the Dusseldorf – Prague route.Starting end of March 2017, airberlin will offer four flights daily (28 per week) from Berlin-Tegel to Prague. In so doing the airline will double the frequency of its services compared to the previous summer from two to four flights per day. Due to the additional flights, passengers will have a far greater number of flight connections to choose from.

With currently 319 hotel construction projects, the Latin American market cannot compete with other regions worldwide. But with its small number of projects the region still offers a good potential for hospitality stakeholders. A quarter of these projects is currently being built in Mexico (80 projects) but also Brazil (66 projects) and Colombia (23 projects) are looking forward to their new hotel openings.Under Construction: W Hotels takes up residence in the 50-floor Evolution Tower in Panama

For the first time ITB Berlin 2017 will feature a dedicated Medical Tourism Pavilion – Huge growth in medical tourism – Papers and workshops on new trends and developments
For the first time ITB Berlin 2017 will be fully devoting a platform to medical tourism, which has become an important fast-growing market. Medical service providers, hotels and destinations will be able to exhibit their products and services In the Medical Tourism Pavilion in Hall 3.2. Presentations and workshops will be held so that visitors can find out more about the latest trends and developments in this growth market.

Thailand is on course in ensuring quality travel experiences for Chinese tourists.Thailand is on course in ensuring quality travel experiences for Chinese tourists following a raft of initiatives introduced in recent months. Thailand’s commitment is strengthened by the on-going comprehensive cooperation of the related public and private organisations chaired by Deputy Prime Minister General Tanasak Patimapragorn, with the aim of making Thailand the preferred destination for Chinese tourists.