Australia's Tourism Chief Reaches For The Stars
By Ben Packham
Australian celebrities and A-list visitors will be asked to tweet for the nation under an ambitious plan to lure more tourists Down Under.
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Plano Aquarela 2020
By eTN Staff Writer
BRASILIA, Brazil - Major global sporting events provide unique tourism opportunities for host destinations.
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Tourism Ireland
Tourism Ireland has launched an ambitious plan to increase visitor numbers to the island of Ireland by three per cent, or 230,000 people, next year.
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Flybe
LONDON - British budget airline Flybe and five oil companies are planning initial public offerings in London next year which are expected to value them collectively at 1.5 billion pounds ($2.46 billio
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Japan Airlines
Japan’s three largest banks have decided to reject the Transport Ministry’s rehabilitation plan for their loan customer Japan Airlines Corp., the Nikkei newspaper reported.
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Singapore Tourism
SINGAPORE - The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is developing a new road map for 2020. It is also looking for ideas from the public.
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Hong Kong
By xinhuanet.com
HONG KONG - Financial secretary of Hong Kong John Tsang Wednesday proposed a string of measures to boost the city's tourism, including attracting more Mainland tourists through Individual Visit Scheme
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Morocco
By magharebia.com
The Ministry of Tourism has drafted a new plan to protect the Moroccan tourism sector from the effects of the global economic crisis, with just one year to go before the goal of attracting 10 million
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Russia
By ft.com
Aeroflot, the Russian airline, is facing an uncomfortable future as its majority shareholder, the state, appears intent on reviving the rest of the country’s struggling airline sector by creating an
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Gatwick? Wrap it please, I'll take it.
By calcuttanews.net
Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of airline Virgin Atlantic, has said he would be interested in bidding for London's Gatwick airport.
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Iraq
By news.sky.com
Iraq is considering building a giant observation wheel in Baghdad in an attempt to promote the city as a potential tourist destination.
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UK
By travelweekly.co.uk
The travel industry has given a broad welcome to the Competition Commission’s announcement that BAA may be forced to sell off Gatwick, Stansted and a third airport in Scotland.
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Ryanair
By ERIC REGULY, theglobeandmail.com
ROME - Michael O'Leary has been called a lot of things, not all of them polite.
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CLIA
By prweekus.com
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL - The fate of a PR campaign developed for Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) appears up in the air after it was accidentally e-mailed to a Connecticut reporter.
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MITUR Called On All Sectors To Take Active Role
By eTN
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - A national discussion was held July 1, 2008 that mapped out the way for adjusting the Federal Tourism Plan for 2014 and extending it into 2020, with a view toward analyzing
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Jamaica
The tourism ministry is working on an initiative to increase tourist arrivals to five million people in the next four years. This is forecasted to pull in earnings of $5 billion.
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Saudi Tourism Moves Forward With New Governing Authority
Speaking on the final day (May 5 2008) of the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference, special guest speaker His Royal Highness, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Chairman of the Board and Secretary General of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) outlined the strategic plan for tourism development in the ... read more
Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Tourism officials are hoping a newly introduced strategic marketing plan will result in a 10% increase in their returns.
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