ASEAN countries are to develop three cruise corridors as part of a strategy of bolstering cruise traffic in the region, with leisure and MICE sectors targeted. The strategy also features co-operative marketing efforts, notably joint participation in key cruise industry events.
Chris Peacock, co-founder and director of Conference Care, is to lead the UK-based Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA) as chairman for the next 12 months.
A new global study released today outlines how transformative technologies and evolving social values and trends will combine to establish a new era of collaborative travel over the next decade and beyond.
Lan Colombia, a new Lan affiliate carrier, is to launch seven weeekly direct flights from Bogota to Miami, USA from 01 February.
A new phase of ASEAN tourism marketing, taking on joint marketing outside the region, has been heralded by ministers meeting at the ASEAN Tourism Forum in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Europe's Air France-KLM Group says it will cut fleet size and capacity, freeze pay and hiring and enter into productivity talks with unions as it restructures to meet predicted challenges to the sector.
Changes to visitor arrivals source markets for Australia have seen New Zealand stay in top spot with more than 100,000 visitors, while the UK and China tied for second place with about 50,000 each, although that may prove to be a crossover figure.
Malaysian low-cost long haul carrier AirAsia X is to pull out of Paris, France; London, UK and Mumbai and New Delhi, India, citing taxes and other government impediments to growth as well as falling passenger demand from Europe.
The UK is to have a new high-speed train service, initially running between London and Birmingham, with stage 2 - and beyond - plans to extend the line eventually to Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland.
A new domestic Fly In Fly Out air charter carrier says it will launch in Australia within months. JetGo Australia is expected to will offer services from Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.
A mechanical engineering expert says cracks developing on the wings of A380 need to be monitored, but they are very small.
UAE-based Emirates airline is to introduce a second daily non-stop flight - and will introduce first class on both services at the same time, a Scottish airports first - from Glasgow to Dubai from the beginning of June. The new service increases capacity on the route by 47 per cent, an extra 199 seats each way.
ASEAN countries are to develop three cruise corridors as part of a strategy of bolstering cruise traffic in the region, with leisure and MICE sectors targeted. The strategy also features co-operative marketing efforts, notably joint participation in key cruise industry events.
Chris Peacock, co-founder and director of Conference Care, is to lead the UK-based Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA) as chairman for the next 12 months.
A new global study released today outlines how transformative technologies and evolving social values and trends will combine to establish a new era of collaborative travel over the next decade and beyond.
Lan Colombia, a new Lan affiliate carrier, is to launch seven weeekly direct flights from Bogota to Miami, USA from 01 February.
A new phase of ASEAN tourism marketing, taking on joint marketing outside the region, has been heralded by ministers meeting at the ASEAN Tourism Forum in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Europe's Air France-KLM Group says it will cut fleet size and capacity, freeze pay and hiring and enter into productivity talks with unions as it restructures to meet predicted challenges to the sector.
Changes to visitor arrivals source markets for Australia have seen New Zealand stay in top spot with more than 100,000 visitors, while the UK and China tied for second place with about 50,000 each, although that may prove to be a crossover figure.
Malaysian low-cost long haul carrier AirAsia X is to pull out of Paris, France; London, UK and Mumbai and New Delhi, India, citing taxes and other government impediments to growth as well as falling passenger demand from Europe.
The UK is to have a new high-speed train service, initially running between London and Birmingham, with stage 2 - and beyond - plans to extend the line eventually to Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland.
A new domestic Fly In Fly Out air charter carrier says it will launch in Australia within months. JetGo Australia is expected to will offer services from Sydney, Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.
A mechanical engineering expert says cracks developing on the wings of A380 need to be monitored, but they are very small.
UAE-based Emirates airline is to introduce a second daily non-stop flight - and will introduce first class on both services at the same time, a Scottish airports first - from Glasgow to Dubai from the beginning of June. The new service increases capacity on the route by 47 per cent, an extra 199 seats each way.
