(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): 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): The newest addition to Victoria’s accommodation market, central Sky Lounge Apartment Hotel is open for business and is welcoming visitors to its sky-high apartment-style hotel rooms located in the heart of Melbourne.
Sleek in its design and boasting stunning views of the city from almost every room, the stylish Apartment & Hotel complex is a spectacular new fixture on the Melbourne (more…)
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