After a stable, valuable presence of 27 years in the field of tourism exhibitions, PHILOXENIA is redefining its thematic content this year, by setting new goals and aspiring to become the greatest Forum on Tourism in the region, with Thessaloniki at the centre. The main theme of the 28th PHILOXENIA, that will be held from [...]
If the last several years are any indication, corporate travel trends are pointing in one direction: online. A recent Global Edition report from PhoCusWright reveals that a combination of recessionary pressures, advances in technology and changes in U.S. business traveler behavior has driven strong growth in the online corporate travel marketplace. According to PhoCusWright’s U.S. Corporate Travel Report: [...]
Key facts Australian operators are being offered the chance to promote their tourism business or region using Tourism Australia’s record breaking fan base by listing themselves in a ‘things to do’ section on its Facebook page. There are lots of ways operators can now engage with Tourism Australia on social media – through YouTube, Twitter, [...]
When changing your hotel name, performing a full-on web overhaul is a must to avoid harming your site performance, web traffic, and overall revenue. There are many critical steps to follow when changing your hotel’s name. Before you do, notify your internet marketing agency of the upcoming name change and coordinate with them so that [...]
DALLAS – Hotel rates paid for vacations in May 2012 exceeded those paid in May 2011 across all global regions according to The Pegasus View, released byPegasus Solutions. Worldwide, average daily hotel rates (ADR) paid in May rose by +5.6% over 2011, while leisure booking volumes closed the gap from nearly -8.0% in March to just [...]
Seville Conference and Exhibition Centre FIBES, received a Fam Trip yesterday (27th June) within the visit scheme to congress destinations after the meetings at Fitur Congresos in Madrid. This specific PR action has been carried out through Turismo Andaluz, jointly coordinated with Prodetur and Sevilla Congress & Convention Bureau (SCCB), for a group of MICE [...]
LONDON, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — New regulations require drivers to include two breathalysers in vehicles when driving in France . Motorists planning to drive in France must carry two breathalysers in their vehicles from 1st July 2012, in order to conform to the latest safety regulations in French law, warns Comparecarhire.co.uk. This new regulation means drivers must ensure they [...]
RetailMeNot.com (www.retailmenot.com), released the Summer Travel Edition of its Shoppers Trend Report. The survey, conducted jointly with Ipsos Public Affairs (www.ipsos.com), found that 74% of respondents plan to take a vacation this year. Although 32% of Americans surveyed plan to spend $1,000 or more per family member in costs, 68% of respondents do not pay or set [...]
DUBAI, U.A.E., 28th June 2012: Emirates Air Line, the UK’s first urban cable car, has been launched, bringing a new and innovative way to cross London’s River Thames. As of today, passengers can take a “flight” up to 90 metres above one of the world’s most famous waterways, capturing dramatic views of the City, Canary [...]
Bangkok: International arrivals into Asia/Pacific1 destinations grew by 10% year-on-year during March 2012, according to preliminary data released by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). All sub-regions reported solid gains with North America, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific showing double-digit growth. Despite its very large base of arrivals, Northeast Asia still managed to show healthy [...]
ACC Liverpool is set to welcome thousands of international delegates to a medical conference after one of the city’s ambassadors campaigned for it to come to the city. The European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) will hold its four day International Meeting from October 17 to 22 2013, bringing around 2,500 attendees from more than [...]
The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) has again been announced a finalist in the AIPC Apex World’s Best Convention Centre Awards. This is the sixth time MCEC has been named a finalist, taking out Best Convention Centre in 2000, and is one of only 18 finalists worldwide. The 2012 winner and top three centres [...]
Courage, passion and innovation – these are characteristics not only of successful inventors but also of successful events. The European Patent Office placed the European Inventor Award, one of the most renowned competitions that honours every year the creativity of inventors from around the world, again into the trusted hands of the event specialists of [...]
With 3 months to go and a guest list of unbelievable travel products from across the world already confirmed, International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) latest launch ILTM Americas has reached maximum capacity. Taking place 1 – 3 October 2012 in the luxury resorts that comprise Mayakoba on the Mexican Riviera Maya, the invitation only ILTM [...]
For the second consecutive year The Paros Jazz Academy comes to the Paros Park and the outdoor Archilochos amphitheater on Tuesday July 10, 2012 at 21:30 with the Jasser Haj Youssef Quartet for an evening of oriental jazz. The evening holds great promise as the virtuoso of the viola d’amore, Jasser Haj Youssef weaves [...]
The most important sporting event in the world, the London 2012 Olympics is fast approaching – and travelling to London for the Games could turn out much cheaper than expected. HostelBookers.com, the budget accommodation specialists, have cheap hotels, hostels and apartments available – all within 35 minutes’ travel time or less from the Olympic Park. Properties still with availability for [...]
LONDON, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –A stunning snap taken from the top of the iconic Blackpool Tower has given one lucky family the unique chance to experience a £20,000 holiday of a lifetime with Thomas Cook The winner of Thomas Cook’s biggest Facebook competition to date, mother-of-two Gill Camm, is now planning the holiday of her dreams after members of the public picked [...]
CRAWLEY, England, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Holidaymakers looking to getaway after the summer of sport can grab a great value holiday with British Airways which has launched its 12-day summer sale. The flight and holiday sale offers savings of up to 25 per cent on flights and holiday packages travelling after September 10, 2012. With a choice [...]
No one else like Poland Convention Bureau (PCB), the office that promotes all Polish conference destinations, should know the best of all Polish conference facilities. Therefore, July 19-21 Gdansk Convention Bureau invited Poland Convention Bureau team for a study tour to Gdansk and Region to present conference facilities in a unique way. The programme of study tour will be related [...]
British Airways is bringing a bit of winter sunshine to London City Airport by extending its popular Palma and Ibiza flights to a year-round service. At present the two Balearic Island destinations are summer-only but from October they will continue through the winter with two flights a week on Thursdays and Sundays. The news will [...]
54 per cent aren’t aware of immediate interest applied when using a credit card to withdraw cash abroad** from an ATM £10.2bn spent by Brits abroad on their plastic every year*** MoneySupermarket reveals holidaymakers using their credit card abroad are making a costly mistake and risk turning their holiday into a financial nightmare, simply by [...]
Prague, 27th June 2012 – Czech scientists, doctors and other experts met yesterday at the first educational and networking breakfast in history organized by the Prague Convention Bureau in cooperation with the Czech Convention Bureau, under the auspices of the City councillor Mr. Václav Novotný and the support of the Prague Airport. The meeting of leading [...]
The Zürich Festival is sponsored by various Zürich cultural institutions and takes place over a period of three weeks. The program is compiled by the Opera House, the Schauspielhaus, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and the Kunsthaus museum. The Museum Rietberg, the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee and the Theater Neumarkt and Rigiblick are also involved. Furthermore, the festival [...]
Art and the City – the festival of art in public spaces in Zürich – West. This art and exhibition platform focuses on the up-and-coming district of Zürich – West, presenting more than 40 works and performances by artists from around the globe. Art and the City features the development of this district undergoing transition. [...]
The chain has just purchased a plot in Manhattan, next to Times Square, where it will build a hotel from its Riu Plaza city product line RIU Hotels & Resorts touches down in the city of New York. The chain has just entered into a contract to purchase a plot in the heart of Manhattan, just a stone’s [...]
VOLUME OF EVENTS WILL GROW BUDGETS WILL DO MORE WITH LESS CENTRAL, SOUTH AMERICA, EUROPE ARE FAVOURITE DESTINATIONS The IBTM global meetings industry research presented its first report on the Americas at AIBTM last week with the highlights concluding that whilst the majority of US business tends to stay in the US, albeit widespread [...]
Dubai, 26 June 2012: On Friday 29th June 2012, the Dubai Turtle Rehabilitation Project (DTRP) will host its annual summer turtle release which will be open to the public for the first time. At the event, which is hosted by Kris Fade from Virgin Radio, over 100 Hawksbill Turtles will be released by children back [...]
Eastern Mangroves Hotel & Spa is Anantara’s newest retreat in the Middle East which blends a convenient urban location with an inspirational waterfront setting. Anantara’s third property in the UAE is located in Abu Dhabi city, and is part of an integrated marina, retail and residential destination, situated along a 1.2 km stretch of protected [...]
NORWALK, Conn., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Big cities, with their spectacular fireworks displays, and beaches from Key West to Maui, dominate priceline.com’s (Nasdaq: PCLN) 2012 list of the top 50 destinations for the upcoming July 4th holiday. New York City’s Midtown West neighborhood was the most popular destination this year, edging out the Chicago neighborhoods that had occupied the top spot in 2010 and 2011. Priceline.com’s annual [...]
BASEL, Switzerland, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The era from the end of the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century was the heyday of anthropological expeditions. Scholars from Basel too set out to study foreign cultures, bringing home with them rich collections of artefacts. The exhibition Expeditions. The World in a Suitcase follows on the trail of four of these journeys. The exhibition Expeditions. [...]
BTC 2012 CLOSES WITH RESULTS IN LINE WITH EXPECTATIONS With 5,436 business meetings between hosted buyers and exhibitors conducted, BTC has started to receive positive feedback from exhibitors. The education programme was very well-attended, confirming the effectiveness of combining professional content with business opportunities. The planning of BTC 2013 already under way. 27 JUNE 2012 [...]
The Founding Director and the team of the Biennale of Santorini have the great pleasure to announce the inaugural Santorini Biennale of Arts that will be organized between 01 August 2012 to 30 Sept 2012. The concept is an idea of Kikos Papadopoulos (artist, designer and economist) now supported by public and private art foundations that will be [...]
The world’s best urban artists gather again this year on the 29th of September 2012 in the unique ambience of the immaculate white city perched on the rocky cliffs. Rooftops, domes, terraces and swimming pools will all be part of the extended course with a height differential of more than 50 meters that the athletes will again [...]
Maastricht is the host city for roughly 2,000 participants of the four-day congress of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine (EAPM) in 2016. This was recently announced in Paris, after the city presented itself as a candidate there. Winning this convention is the result of close cooperation between the Maastricht University Centre+, the Maastricht Convention [...]
The climbing park of ‘‘Kavomalias – Zobolo’’ held its first open presentation where they played host to more than 70 climbers who were invited to attend. The event took place on Sunday 3rd of June, at the Ag. Nikolaos Vion school of the Monemvasia Municipality. Amongst the climbers and key note speakers was the well known [...]
New meta-meta flight search engine compares Google flights with Kayak, Hipmunk, Bing, Fly.com and more Cheapflightsfinder.com revealed a new meta-meta search engine today that allows consumers to quickly compare prices from 16 metasearch engines including Google flights, Kayak, Fly.com, Hipmunk, Bing, Momondo, Mobissimo, Skyscanner, Tripadvisor, Travelgrove, Easyvoyage, Liligo and more. The new meta-meta search engine is [...]
Wembley Stadium recently played host to the Craft Guild of Chefs annual awards dinner – the first time the event has been held at the venue. The Craft Guild of Chefs is the leading chef’s association in the UK and the awards recognise the leading talent working in kitchens across the industry. More than 690 [...]
Bangkok, June 26, 2012 – Contestants from Croatia, Taiwan and Australia each have won free week-long holidays in Thailand after participating in an online competition designed to promote the kingdom as a “Creative Tourism” destination. The campaign, bearing the theme “Discover the Other You”, was organised by the Tourism Authority of Thailand in a global effort [...]
World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, will this year be celebrating the 21st Anniversary of WTM Meridian Club. WTM Meridian Club – The leading global business network: making contacts, concluding deals - is World Travel Market’s business club for senior travel industry buyers, who have direct responsibility for purchasing products. WTM first opened its [...]
KYIV, Ukraine, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – “With a thriving contemporary art scene, a new generation of chefs taking innovative approaches to Ukrainian cuisine, and a delirious dance-til-dawn night life, Kyiv – currently a co-host of the 2012 European Soccer Championship – is a weekend magnet for European and Russian fashionistas,” this is how The New York Times begins its account [...]
oneworld enters events and conventions travel market
• Big benefits for organisers and attendees of conferences, events and exhibitions • Attractive discounts on flights • Easy-to-use online booking and management systems • Travel on a collection of the world’s leading airlines serving 850 destinations oneworld®, the premier global airline alliance, unveiled a new, one-stop, easy-to-use service to meet the travel needs [...]
ICCA announces destination for 2016 Congress
Frankfurt, 20 May 2013 After presentations from the two shortlisted destinations, Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia, and the Czech Republic capital Prague, ICCA President Arnaldo Nardone on behalf of the ICCA Board of Directors today announced at the mid-year ICCA meeting held alongside IMEX,
Smartphone and Tablets Prompt Mobile Rethink, WTM Round Table Concludes
The move away from desktops towards smartphones and tablets is changing how the travel industry uses technology to connect with today’s multi-device consumer, concluded board-level travel industry participants at the recent World Travel Market Round Table into the Future of Mobile.
ICCA 2012 statistics: international association sector shows significant growth
With the release of the 2012 Top 20 Rankings for cities and countries, ICCA is reporting another year of continued strength in the international association meetings market.
World’s Second Largest LGBT Tourism Market Comes Out at WTM Latin America
Brazil’s USD$23 Billion Gay Travel Market – World’s Second Largest LGBT Tourism Market Comes Out at WTM Latin America
Bosch TownHall Meeting 2013 with VOK DAMS China
The experts for events and live marketing from VOK DAMS China have realized the TownHall Meeting 2013 for their client Bosch in Wuxi.
Seth Mattison to keynote on day two of AIBTM 2013 in Chicago
Educating Attendees on How to “Rock the Workplace”
Keynote Speakers Deliver Context for AIPC 2013 in Cape Town
The lineup of exemplary speakers on hand for the 2013 AIPC Annual Conference in Cape Town, South Africa this coming July 1-3 will provide delegates with a comprehensive insight into how the country is emerging as a major factor in both the global economy and the meetings industry.
