(TDN): Zendai Art Hotel, a luxury 5-star hotel opening next year in Shanghai, has recently joined Preferred Hotels & Resorts. Zendai Art Hotel is one of only four hotels in China admitted to this prestigious collection of 222 luxury independent hotels and resorts.
Developed by the Zendai Group, the owner, Mr. Dai Zhi Kang, has placed significant emphasis on making this hotel a living, thriving display of Chinese art. The building (more…)
(TDN): New research from Hotels.com has revealed that relaxing on holiday should be easy, but more than half of British travellers (55%) find it hard to switch off from work and rely on their laptops and Blackberries to keep in contact with the office.
Hotels.com research has revealed that in tough economic times, people are finding it harder than ever to switch off, and want to feel they are at work even when (more…)
(TDN): An award-winning scheme designed to help visitors find their way around Belfast more easily, is literally signposting the way for other cities across the world to do the same.
Belfast City Council’s unique visitor signage scheme, which features signposts and information boards (more…)
(TDN): Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will begin services from its Abu Dhabi home-base to the South African city of Cape Town on 30 September 2009. The new Cape Town flights will operate via Etihad’s current daily, Airbus A330, service to South Africa’s commercial capital Johannesburg.
It will be Etihad’s second destination in South Africa and its fifth on the African continent, joining Khartoum, (more…)
(TDN): Tourist destination VisitBrighton hopes to become the “First Photosynth City” as its use of Microsoft’s cutting-edge technology gathers pace. All eyes are on the vibrant, forward-thinking city and its destination management supplier New Mind as they put brand new Microsoft technology to its best effect and take e-tourism into a new era.
New Mind has incorporated Photosynth, a new feature of Microsoft’s Bing Maps for Enterprise, into its Destination (more…)
(TDN): American Express Business Travel, a global leader in business travel management, announced “Meetings Month”, a month-long online event profiling discussion forums, white papers, community blogs and a Green Meetings Group aimed at providing insight and advice on managing meetings programs and delivering return-on-investment in meetings spend.
The initiative is hosted on businesstravelconneXion.com (btX), the online corporate travel community (more…)
(TDN): US Airways, is turning aircraft into Wi-Fi ‘hotspots’ by partnering with Aircell to provide Gogo Inflight Internet service beginning in early 2010. Full Internet access including Web, Instant Messaging, email and VPN access will be available for purchase to passengers with laptops, smartphones and other Wi-Fi enabled devices.
“Gogo Inflight Internet will allow our customers to make the most of their flying time by catching (more…)
(TDN): Lufthansa and Brussels are now offering codeshare flights on selected long-haul routes as part of their agreement to expand their cooperation and open up their networks to each other’s passengers. The first jointly operated long-haul services are Brussels Airlines flights from Brussels to Entebbe.
Flights on both theses routes can be booked with immediate effect under the partner’s flight number. Lufthansa passengers can thus fly to Entebbe via Brussels under a Lufthansa (more…)
(TDN): A tourism campaign depicting the areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights as part of Israel has been banned by the advertising watchdog following hundreds of complaints.
The poster campaign, run by the Israeli Government Tourist Office, ran with the headline “experience Israel” with a picture of a boy snorkelling with dolphins. The ad featured a map of Israel that included the West Bank, Gaza Strip (more…)
(TDN): Britain is the prize for 1,300 employees from Perfect China, a major manufacturer headquartered in Guangdong province. Every year they send their successful direct sales representatives on an international trip as a reward for their achievements and have chosen Britain for 2009. It is further evidence that Britain remains a world-class destination – not just for holidays, but also for business travel – despite recent figures showing a 12% (more…)
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