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  • Windstar Cruises Introduces Three New Itineraries in the Baltic

    Capitals of Scandinavia, Best of the Baltic, and Treasures of Northern Europe SEATTLE, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Windstar Cruises, which operates a fleet of three luxury sailing yachts that explore hidden harbors and secluded coves of the world’s most treasured destinations, introduces three new Baltic itineraries this summer on the 312-guest Wind Surf at exceptional values. From the glittering styles and [...]

  • DFDS named world’s leading ferry operator

    Now you can travel with the world’s best ferry company between Oslo and Copenhagen; the Danish ferry company DFDS came out on top at the 2011 World Travel Awards. DFDS also won the award for Europe’s leading long sea ferry operator for the fifth year in a row. The World Travel Awards are voted on by travel professionals from [...]

  • London & Partners strengthen support of motivational association Site

    London & Partners the official convention bureau for the UK’s capital strengthened its on-going strategic relationship with the global meetings and event professionals association Site with the announcement that London & Partners Head of Business Development for Europe Barbara Jamison will become Site GB Chapter President in February this year. Site, the global association represents [...]

  • SPANISH CONFERENCE CENTRES ELECT THEIR NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    The Spanish Association of Conference Centres (APCE), which currently has 37 members and represents Spain’s main congress venues, has unanimously elected its new Board of Directors during its annual general assembly in Madrid. Fifteen years after the Association was founded, the Valencia Conference Centre’s CEO, José Salinas, has been unanimously re-elected as the Chairman of the [...]

  • ABC Solutions® announces the Best of M.I.C.E Networking Forum® will take place in Athens (3-5 May)

    ABC Solutions® announces the Best of M.I.C.E Networking Forum® will take place in Athens (3-5 May)

    The Best of M.I.C.E Networking Forums® bring together some of the main players of the M.I.C.E segment in Europe. The fifth edition of the Best of M.I.C.E Networking Forum will be held in Athens from 3rd to 5th May with an estimated attendance of 120 European decision makers. For Laurent Fuchs, Director of ABC Solutions, [...]

  • VOK DAMS Berlin enlarges team

    VOK DAMS Berlin settlement enlarges its team. Marieke Fiona Wittneben supports the experts for institutional events of Director Dr. Frank C. Wintgens.  30-year-old Marieke Fiona Wittneben is qualified management assistant in event organization and studied Marketing and Communications. She has long experiences in event business. At last Marieke Fiona Wittneben worked as Manager Live Communication [...]

  • euromic begins 2012 with Annual General Meeting in Jordan

    euromic begins 2012 with Annual General Meeting in Jordan

    BRUSSELS, January 2012: – euromic, one of the world’s premier associations of destination management companies, met on January 13 – 15, 2012 for their Annual General Meeting in Aqaba, Jordan. The gathering provided euromic’s members and World Affiliates to welcome new members, set strategies and plans for the coming few years, discuss association and industry issues with clients and media [...]

  • Britain Seeks a Larger Slice of £18bn Outbound Russian Market

    Looking to tap into one of the world’s fastest growing outbound travel markets, a group of major tourism businesses from across the UK will head to Russia today as part of a VisitBritain led trade mission that the national tourism agency hopes will allow the UK to capitalise on the world’s ninth most valuable tourism [...]

  • Nobu to Host Ultimate Luxury “Foodie” Cruise Aboard Crystal

    Nobu to Host Ultimate Luxury “Foodie” Cruise Aboard Crystal

     Master Chef Nobu Matsuhisa is coming aboard Crystal Serenity this May to serve as in-person Executive Chef in Silk Road and the Sushi Bar, his specialty restaurants with ultra-luxe partner Crystal Cruises.  The world-famous Japanese chef plans to give cooking instructions, personally prepare dishes, take pictures with guests, and sign autographs during a 12-day western European/Mediterranean voyage [...]

  • British Airways Unveils Winning Dove Design for London 2012 Aircraft

     The design of the British Airways aircraft to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be ‘The Dove’ by up and coming British designer Pascal Anson. His artwork beat hundreds of entries in the BA Great Britons Programme, and was chosen by a judging panel including Turner-prize nominated artist and Royal Academician Tracey Emin, the Royal [...]

  • Barcelona Becomes the Fourth European Destination from the Miami Hub

    AA to Operate Barcelona-Miami as Iberia Adds Additional Miami-Madrid Flight MIAMI, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — American Airlines, a member of the oneworld® alliance and trans-Atlantic joint business partner with Iberia and British Airways, will expand its operations at Miami International Airport (MIA) with the launch of Miami -Barcelona (BCN) service on April 3, 2012. The flight will operate five times a week until June [...]

  • 25 thousand international visitors in Florence for Art and Tourism, the international fair of cultural tourism

    25 thousand international visitors in Florence for Art and Tourism, the international fair of cultural tourism

    More than 25 thousand international visitors are expected at the first edition of Art&Tourism, the art and cultural tourism fair making its debut in Florence from 18 to 20 May 2012. Art&Tourism will be the ideal showcase for Destinations to display and promote all their cultural heritage, and so encourage an increase in tourist flows [...]

  • First Alliance Online Booking Tool for Conventions Travel

    FRANKFURT, Germany – January 24th, 2012 - Star Alliance, the way the Earth connects, has become the first global airline alliance to offer online booking and ticketing to convention delegates. The new booking tool allows the convention organisers to direct their participants to a dedicated online booking and ticketing site for all air travel contracted under [...]

  • UNWTO joins industry voices in support of Obama’s move to facilitate travel

    UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, has joined industry voices in support of the decision taken by the Obama Administration to implement the necessary measures to improve visa and foreign visitor processing in order to create jobs and spur economic growth in the USA. “It is extremely encouraging to see President Obama calling for a coordinated policy [...]

  • Online visitor registration for GIBTM 2012 now open

    Visitors can now register for GIBTM, the Gulf Incentive, Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition and reap benefits leading up to and during the show on March 26-28th2012. For more information and to register, please visit www.gibtm.com/registration. Visitors are requested to complete a questionnaire detailing their organisation’s activities, target geographic markets, industry segments and products of [...]

  • Business travel success factors in 2012

    ITB Berlin Business Travel Days address hot topics Berlin, 23 January 2012 – Rarely have changes affecting the overall situation in politics, society and the economy had such a dynamic impact on the business travel world as in present times. How are they influencing travel management decisions? From 7 to 9 March, at a panel [...]

  • Dubai International Registers a Record 51 million Passengers in 2011 – 8 per cent increase over 2010

    Dubai, UAE – January 24, 2012 – Dubai International registered another record year for passenger traffic with the airport’s 2011 passenger numbers reaching an historic 50.98 million, up 8 per cent over the 47.2 million passengers who passed through the facility in 2010. According to the annual traffic report issued today by Dubai Airports, December [...]

  • RYANAIR HITS BIG 50 WITH BASE AT PAPHOS (CYPRUS)

    14 ROUTES & OVER 600,000 PAX P.A. AT RYANAIR’S FIRST CYPRIOT BASE  Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, announced it would open its 50th base (and first in Cyprus) at Paphos (Cyprus’s third largest city) in April 2012 with two based aircraft and 14 routes which will initially deliver over 600,000 passengers p.a. and sustain over [...]

  • Construction has Started at Alexander Heights!

    Construction has Started at Alexander Heights!

    Construction at Alexander Heights – the final and most luxurious real estate installment at the multi-award winning Aphrodite Hills Resort, Cyprus – has officially started! Paphos, Cyprus (PRWEB UK) 22 January 2012 Thιs prime-location development, Alexander Heights, is set in one of the most desirable locations of South West Cyprus’ prestigious lifestyle resort. Inspired by [...]

  • Innsbruck 2012, the First Ever Winter Youth Olympic Games Exceed Expectations

    Innsbruck 2012, the First Ever Winter Youth Olympic Games Exceed Expectations

    The inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) came to an end today in Innsbruck, Austria, with a memorable Closing Ceremony watched by an enthusiastic crowd at the Medals Plaza on the city’s famous Maria-Theresien-Straße. The Ceremony brought a close to 10 days of world-class sporting competition and cultural and educational activities specifically designed for the [...]

  • Young professionals to benefit from AIME and ICCA partnership

    23 January 2012: Ambitious young professionals and newcomers to the global meetings industry are being offered valuable career development at the annual International Congress and Conventions Association’s (ICCA) Forum for Young Professionals, which takes place over two days prior to the Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo (AIME) in Melbourne. The Forum, which will be held [...]

  • Rent-a-Monster – A new type of car rental in Iceland

    Rent-a-Monster – A new type of car rental in Iceland

    Nice Cars is a new type of car rental service in Iceland that is changing the way car rentals work by giving tourists in Iceland the chance to try a real Icelandic and fully adapted vehicle with tires up to 38″. PRLog (Press Release) - Jan, 2012 - For generations the Icelandic people have adapted their 4x4s to [...]

  • Costa Concordia: How Travel Insurance Can Help

    WARWICK, R.I., Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Travel insurance is a safety net when trouble like this happens and InsureMyTrip offers a wide selection of quality insurance options, all with important benefits that can help travelers when they need it most. Trip Cancellation Package Policies: are the most comprehensive plans available including coverage for trip interruption, [...]

  • EFAPCO Congress Shrugs Off Global Stresses

    Over 190 participants from more than ten countries across Europe helped EFAPCO to explore all manner of ways to help drive the events industry to survive and thrive in the current wildly uncertain times. They included some of the brightest up-an-coming students in the international meetings and incentive travel industry, from across Spain and Portugal [...]

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