(TDN): Specialist tour operator Japan Journeys has launched its first ever Gourmet Tour after spotting a gap in the UK travel market. The ten-day itinerary will include a cookery class in Tokyo, as well as a tour of a sake brewery, a visit to the biggest fish market in the world and the opportunity to eat at one of Tokyo’s Michelin-starred restaurants.
The group will visit Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara, and have the chance to travel by Japan’s famous Bullet (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): 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…)
(TDN): Hotelzon UK, the global corporate hotel online booking company has won a two year contract with Statesman Travel, one of the UK’s top 20 travel management companies.
Following a detailed evaluation process, Statesman selected Hotelzon’s online booking system as its preferred solution. The new programme has not only enhanced the agency’s service platform for existing clients but has allowed it to win a significant (more…)
(TDN): Abu Dhabi’s tourism authority is eyeing up the nation’s cruise industry as a key way to bolster tourism earnings in the coming season. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) has forecast that in the 2009/2010 season, which will run from the end of November to the beginning of May, will see a 59 per cent growth in cruise arrivals. According to the body, there will (more…)
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