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  • Abu Dhabi tourism investment continues to pay dividends

    Figures just released by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority have revealed Abu Dhabi’s 141 hotels and hotel apartments have turned in a promising quarter one performance with around the board growth in guest numbers, guest nights, average length of stay and revenues.

    During the primary three months of 2013 some 631,417 guests checked into accommodation during the emirate – a six per cent rise on quarter one 2012.

    Guest nights rose 23 per cent to two,119,016, the typical length of stay was up 16 per cent to three.36 nights and total revenues climbed 15 per cent on 2012.

    The UK maintained its position because the emirate’s leading overseas guest source market delivering in quarter one some 39,841 arrivals, up seven per cent on quarter one 2012, a complete of 186,882 guest nights, a rise of 17 per cent and a mean length of stay of four.69 nights, up nine per cent at the comparative period.

    The quarter one results were aided by a healthy March performance when guest arrivals rose nine per cent at the same month in 2012 to face at 230,974 which translated into 761,834 guest nights – a 26 per cent month on month increase with total revenues climbing 18 per cent, average length of stay edging up 16 per cent and occupancy rising seven per cent to 74 per cent.

    The results were also delivered against a background of rising room supply with four new hotel facilities – two resorts, one in Abu Dhabi city another in Al Ain, and two hotel apartments within the UAE capital – opening during quarter one and bringing another 706 rooms online.

    Major events also helped drive March’s performance with the emirate hosting Abu Dhabi International Triathlon, Abu Dhabi Festival, Abu Dhabi Air Expo and Qasr al Hosn Festival in addition to welcoming performances from Sting, Andrea Boccelli and Guns N Roses.

  • Abu Dhabi hotels record double digit growth

    Abu Dhabi’s 141 hotels and hotel apartments generated double digit growth in guest nights, revenue, occupancy and average-length-of-stay last month with guest arrivals nudging up 7% at the same month last year. Figures just released by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi), show 196,518 guests stayed inside the emirate’s hotels and hotel apartments last month delivering 676,445 guest nights – a 23% rise on February 2012.

  • News: JJW Hotels set to extend online bookings with RateTiger’s channel manager

    JJW hotels has selected RateTiger by eRevMax because the channel manager of choice across 23 of its European hotels. The JJW Group now has access to RateTiger’s new Allocation Management feature, enabling them to accurately distribute inventory from a controlled central pool to all sales channels.

    The hotel chain could be in a position to update rates and inventory at property level through RateTiger’s vast distribution network, whilst simultaneously optimising the performance of obtainable inventory from connected channels. Each property should be capable of increase the effectiveness of all third party sales partners, thereby improving both bookings and revenue opportunities.

    In addition, JJW Hotels may even reap the benefits of real-time competitor rate data, allowing their hotels to appropriately manage rates with booking performance, in an effort to maintain the simplest market position.

    Customer experience to extend with profits.

    “We require a competent solution a good way to meet our demands for price shopping in addition to channel management. Having seen the success RateTiger has dropped at other hotels with their streamlined strategy to revenue management, we’re sure that our new partnership with them increases revenue, in addition to the customer’s booking experience,” said Guy Marwood Finance Director for JJW Hotels & Resorts. “This new automated inventory distribution tool will react instantly to ever changing markets, allowing each hotel to profit from occupancy levels and revenue opportunities.”

    JJW Hotels will make the most of eRevMax’s recently released RateTiger RTSuite 3.0; this latest version comes complete with a brand new user interface and integrated channel management functionality, and is designed to maximise usability and effectiveness.

  • United Arab Emirates joins rejoins United Nations World Tourism Organisation

    UNWTO secretary general, Taleb Rifai, has announced the United Arab Emirates has rejoined the organisation 26 years after leaving.

    “The Middle East is without doubt one of the fastest growing tourism regions on the earth regardless of facing countless challenges; much of this dynamism have been led by the strong political commitment awarded to tourism within the region and the vision that tourism is a key pillar of development within the Middle East of which the UAE is an ideal example,” said Rifai. 

    “The UAE play a central role not just within the development of tourism within the region but additionally in linking the center East with other regions and we think that by working together we are going to enhance tourism within and to the Emirates in addition to increase regional cooperation,” he added.

    The UAE and UNWTO will work on several initiatives including the measurement of the commercial impact of tourism, statistics and human resources development.

    The Middle East is among the fastest growing tourism regions on the earth.

    Between 1980 and 2010, international tourist arrivals within the Middle East rose from 7.1 million to 60.9 million, an ordinary annual increase of seven.4 per cent compared with an international average of four.2 per cent.

    According to UNWTO’s long-term forecast, Tourism Towards 2030, this growth is decided to continue; in 2030 arrivals to the center East are expected to succeed in 149 million, a normal annual increase of four.6 per cent compared with a worldwide average of three.3 per cent.

  • News: EagleRider announces new locations within the USA

    EagleRider, the world’s largest motorcycle rental and tour company, has opened two new outposts within the USA in Portland, Oregon and Cleveland BMW, Ohio. Both locations are able to take reservations immediately and should be open as of one April 2013. They’re as well as EagleRider’s 63 existing stateside shops, which span across 28 states including California, Florida, Illinois, Utah and Wyoming.

    With bikes from the classic American steel horses of Harley Davidson, to smooth Hondas and sleek BMWs, there’s a gigantic range of choice on which to live out the final American road-trip dream, with dozens of group or individual tour options around the Usa. Choose between iconic tours including Route 66, Western Highlights (encompassing California, Arizona and Nevada) and a Las Vegas National Park tour taking within the Hoover Dam, Route 66, Red Rocks in Sedona, the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park. Even folks who don’t have a license aren’t skipped over – there’s the brand new technique to ride pillion at the back of a motorbike, with dozens of 1 day itineraries from just £236 per person.

    Brand new for May is the world’s first Easy Rider tour, in line with the Hollywood classic starring Peter Fonda. The 15 day tour will offer participants the opportunity to go to exact locations where the movie was filmed and ride from the highways of Southern California, to Death Valley, Monument Valley to Taos, New Mexico, then around the plains of Texas right down to New Orleans to experience the jazz and blues music and to celebrate Billy and Wyatt style. Furthermore, riders gets to work out backstage movie props and listen to stories told to members of the EagleRider team by the late director, in addition to stand on actual locations the film was shot. Tour participants may also be given the chance to ride the new Captain America bike that EagleRider has commissioned, giving a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relive a section of motorcycling and cinematic history. The tour might be offered six times throughout 2013, starting in May and ending in October.