Monthly Archives: January 2018
Nepal is now taking Chinese language training programme to boost the tourism
Nepal is going to imbibe Chinese language with a hope to boost the tourism and travel industry. About 40 tourism entrepreneurs in Nepal have graduated from the course on basic Chinese language training provided by the Chinese government. …
1 out of 5 Brits have been approached about making a compensation claim for holiday illness
As many as 9.5 million British adults have been approached about making a compensation claim for being sick while on holiday, finds ABTA – the Travel Association. New figures from a YouGov survey of British adults reveal …
ITE Hong Kong 2018- Asia’s top travel trade fair targeting for more tourism business
FIT dominates outbound of Hong Kong, World’s 10th largest market by total spending! For examples, FIT account for some 80% of the 1.8 million Hong Kong’s outbound to Japan in 2016, and chosen by 87% of the nearly 90,000 visitors …
Jason Hsiang joins Yotel development team
Jason Hsiang has been appointed as the senior vice president of development for North America by Yotel. Hsiang will spearhead the acquisitions and development team. Working from New York he will be responsible for sourcing, negotiating and closing …
Brazil offers e-visa to the tourists visiting from US
South America’s hot spot Brazil is now making easier and cheaper for the Americans to apply for an e-visa as in recent years there was a decline of tourists visiting from United States. Starting from Thursday, the tourists …
River Seine causes bank burst, Paris on flooding alert and travel disruption
The water levels touched 5.2 metres at the Seine River and the capital’s authorities warned it was expected to reach 6.1 metres by Saturday which will be three times its normal height. As the river Seine is continuously …
Sabre is the global leader in best fare flight search options shows new study
Outperforming the competition, global travel technology provider Sabre Corporation consistently delivers the lowest fares with a large selection of attractive flight options, as found by a wide-scale qualitative and quantitative competitive global distribution system (GDS) study conducted across 18 countries …
US travel decline blamed on their President
As the new report of the US National Travel & Tourism Office, the number of international visitors fell by 4% in the first seven months of 2017. And, the fall in the travel to the US is majorly to be …
Tourism boom in China –Vietnam border
China-Vietnam border port of Dongxing in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had a number of people passing through reaching 9.97 million in 2017, up 28 percent year on year. China has allowed foreigners to conduct visa …
Peter Mansbridge named the featured speaker at GBTA Conference 2018 Toronto
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry, announced Peter Mansbridge as a featured speaker for its 14th annual conference in Toronto from April 16-18 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. His appearance is …
