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  • News: WTTC 2013: Etihad at vanguard of fixing world

    The global air travel map is being redrawn as new markets evolve, traditional markets decline and the airline industry reshapes itself to house changing conditions, in line with Etihad Airways’ president James Hogan.

    Speaking in Abu Dhabi today on the World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit, Hogan told greater than 800 senior travel executives that legacy airlines were unlikely to progress unless they radically changed the best way they did business.

    In addition to the continuing challenges of commercial instability and uncertainty surrounding fuel prices and provide, Hogan said the rapid growth of air travel in markets along with India, Africa and the center East meant airlines would have to reshape their networks to house changing traffic flows.

    He explained among the many fastest-growing regions was the center East, where major new hubs including Abu Dhabi were developing to support rapid economic growth within the Gulf region and to attach both new and standard markets.

    In order to take part inside the new world of air travel, Hogan said the subsequent generation of airlines would wish “the vision and willingness to be different”, to be able to cut costs, improve productivity and find affordable ways of accessing new markets.

    “Airlines the world over have to adapt to ‘the new world’ and identify and faucet into growth markets. The industry must source and train staff for this new growth, in addition to explore cost-effective growth opportunities,” Hogan continued.

    He said Etihad Airways’ had created a brand new three-pillared business model, in keeping with organic growth, codeshare partnerships and minority equity investments in other carriers.

    This strategy was underpinned by development of Abu Dhabi as a brand new global air transport hub, connecting the networks of partner airlines,

    Currently, Etihad Airways has 42 codeshare agreements in place, in addition to equity investments in four airlines: airberlin, Air Seychelles, Virgin Australia and Aer Lingus.

    These partnerships have brought considerable benefits to Etihad Airways’ financial results, with codeshare and equity partner revenue in quarter one in every of 2013 up 34 per cent to US$182 million and partner contributions representing 20 per cent of the entire.

    Hogan said: “Our equity investment proposition ensures commitment and obligation from both airlines and streamlines our entry into new markets, affordably and within foreign investment limits.

    “This strategy helps us avoid the drawn-out process which applies for mergers and bigger investments, and enables our continued expansion via established and revered global brands, while delivering reciprocal benefits to our partners, including access to our growing network and critical savings through activities including resource sharing and joint purchasing.”

    Hogan said the Etihad Airways strategy was to concentrate on growth markets and continue to construct “a new ‘Silk Road’ that connects markets via the Abu Dhabi hub”.

  • UNWTO and Casa Arabe to advertise tourism development within the Arab world

    UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai and Casa Arabe Director General Eduardo Lopez Busquets have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advertise sustainable tourism development and strengthen institutional capacity in Arab countries.

    Signed at UNWTO headquarters in Madrid, the Memorandum furthers cooperation between UNWTO and Casa Arabe in common interest areas, including sustainable tourism and institutional capacity building aimed towards socioeconomic growth and poverty alleviation.

    The agreement places a different give attention to improving public policy and management models for tourism development and promotion, in addition to supporting strategic alliances throughout the framework of selling and investment in Arab countries to foster economic progress and job creation.
    “This agreement is a favorable step in developing tourism as a superior instrument for economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability within the Arab world,” said the UNWTO Secretary-General.

    “Tourism development involves the growth of trade between our societies in any respect levels: economic, cultural and sociopolitical, three dimensions that constitute the core work of Casa Arabe,” said Eduardo Lopez Busquets, Director General of Casa Arabe.

    Casa Arabe and its International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies is a consortium of Spain´s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the Spanish Agency for International Development (AECID), the autonomous communities of Madrid and Andalusia and town councils of Madrid and Cordoba. Its main goals include strengthening bilateral and multilateral policies and promoting economic, cultural and academic relations within the Arab and Muslim world.

  • News: WTTC 2013: Scowsill requires private and non-private partnership

    “The private and public sector must come together and concentrate on long run strategies, infrastructure and initiatives, not only short term goals, with the intention that our industry is previous to the expansion curve,” World Travel & Tourism president David Scowsill has argued.

    In his closing speech on the 13th WTTC Global Summit in Abu Dhabi, Scowsill explained that, by 2050, there’ll be three billion people enjoying middle class wealth – meaning more middle class consumers, enjoying more travel, creating more jobs and generating more GDP.

    He said the expansion opportunities ahead must be a wake-up call to the non-public and public sector to hitch together and plan sustainable, longer term strategies: “The industry must interact to drive investment in infrastructure, that is conducive to sustainable growth, not only now, but for the following ten, 25, even 50 years with the intention to be sure that tourism continues to make a very important economic contribution to global GDP and jobs and that the recent wave of middle class consumers from emerging markets can cross borders with ease”.

    By 2023, WTTC forecasts tourism’s total economic contribution will account for ten per cent of world GDP, $10.5 trillion US dollars and one in ten jobs.

    Total tourism employment is forecast so as to add over 70 million jobs over a higher decade, with two-thirds of these additional jobs in Asia.

    Asia will continue to guide growth of the industry, with annual average growth of over six per cent.

    The WTTC 13th Global Summit has seen government ministers and private and non-private sector executives from everywhere in the world come together in Abu Dhabi during the last two days to talk about the various issues and challenges facing the industry within the immediate and longer term.

    In his closing speech, Scowsill also explained that lobbying governments to prevent seeing tourists as a soft target for generating treasury cash would remain a key central strategic priority for tourism over a higher year: “WTTC will develop finance models over the following twelve months a good way to demonstrate, country by country, the negative economic impact on tourism of punitive taxation on travellers.

    “This data would be used to teach government leaders, that taxing the tourist doesn’t result in positive economic growth – actually, it results in the other.”

    Scowsill also said that visa facilitation would greatly remain on its agenda for the subsequent year: “Too many of us still find it too complex and too difficult to cross borders as international tourists. Governments must balance security needs with a transformation in mindset and implement visa waiver and trusted traveller programmes.

    “The tourism industry should continue to lobby for change and demonstrate to individual countries the commercial opportunities, that allows you to be generated, through improvements to visa processes.”

  • DoubleTree by Hilton arrives in Catalonian National Park

    Hilton Worldwide continues its expansion in Spain with the advent of DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center La Mola, a hotel taking its name from one of the crucial highest peaks within the nearby Catalan Pre Coastal mountain range. Having recently opened Spain’s first DoubleTree by Hilton in Emporda and primary Hilton Garden Inn in Sevilla, Hilton Worldwide now has eight properties trading across Spain. 

    With a contemporary design inspired by the natural great thing about its setting, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center La Mola (formerly La Mola Hotel & Conference Centre) features 186 guestrooms and suites, an 800 square metre spa, plus 4,500 sqm of meetings and events space which recently underwent an important renovation. With its close proximity to the distinguished Real Club de Golf El Prat golf course, under 30 miles from Spain’s second busiest airport, Barcelona El Prat, and only 17 miles from Barcelona, the hotel is perfect for both business and leisure travellers.

    Simon Vincent, president, EMEA, Hilton Worldwide, said, “Our continued Spanish expansion is seeing us open some exceptional properties in superb locations. While this beautifully designed hotel benefits from excellent meeting and events facilities, its picturesque mountain setting is additionally within easy reach of a main international airport and town of Barcelona itself.”

    Guests on the search for relaxation may be ready to utilise the hotel’s Sensations Spa and Wellness Centre, which includes a 24-hour health club, several treatment rooms, a heated indoor pool, a chromotherapy thermal circuit, a steam room, a sauna and a seasonal outdoor swimming pool. For those fascinated with absorbing the local culture, the hotel’s L’Obac restaurant serves exciting culinary delights using fresh, native produce including vegetables from its own garden. The outdoor terrace bar, Sòfora Gastrobar, can be an awesome option for relaxing and socializing within the Catalan sunshine.

    The hotel’s 26 meeting rooms boast a combined capacity of 250 people, including 14 multi-function meeting rooms, two 54-seat auditoriums and a consultant video conference room. With the most recent state-of-the-art equipment, the hotel is certainly one of only three Spanish members of the International Association of Conference Centers (IACC).

    Guests may also book weddings or events inside the adjoining 17th century manor house Mas Bonvilar, complete with a small chapel, which gives an enthralling venue to interchange nuptials and for other private functions.

    John Greenleaf, global head, DoubleTree by Hilton, said, “Having introduced the DoubleTree by Hilton brand to Spain just a matter of months ago with DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Spa Emporda, we’re especially pleased to celebrate our second hotel opening within one of these little while. The beautiful new DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center La Mola joins our growing portfolio of 38 hotels operating in 13 countries across Europe.”

    Guests of DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center La Mola will benefit from the characteristic features of greater than 330 DoubleTree by Hilton locations all over the world, including a caring service culture it is demonstrated to each guest at check-in with the brand’s signature chocolate chip cookie welcome, an array of upscale amenities and guest services, and rewards from the Hilton HHonors guest loyalty program. Gold and Diamond HHonors members can enjoy complimentary, continental breakfast and all guests of the hotel will receive complimentary high speed internet access in all guest rooms, public areas and meeting spaces.

    Hilton Worldwide has experienced strong growth in Spain recently, with numerous exciting new hotel openings, including DoubleTree by Hilton & Spa Emporda and Hilton Garden Inn Sevilla. The corporate now operates eight hotels in Spain with five Hilton Hotels & Resorts properties located in Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo and Palma, Mallorca.

  • News: WTTC 2013: Global Summit heads for Hainan

    Officials from Hainan have taken at the mantel of the realm Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit because the 2013 event involves a detailed in Abu Dhabi.

    Following two days of intense discussions at Jumeirah at Etihad Towers within the emirate, responsibility for the 2014 summit was symbolically passed to Yibo Chen, special representative, Hainan Tourism Commission, in the course of the closing ceremony of the once a year event.

    According to the WTTC, Hainan is heading in the right direction to become one of the vital world’s leading tourist resort destinations by 2021.

    According to a report from the organisation – ‘Hainan: Travel & Tourism Development Potential 2011 – 2021’ – tourism expenditure in Hainan would be roughly resembling that of Singapore today by 2021, and the industry will support as many roles as in Malaysia and Italy today.

    In December 2009, China’s State Council issued a decree that Hainan within the South China Sea – the most important Special Economic Zone in China – was to be elevated right into a world-class international tourist resort destination by 2020 and the Provincial Government is now well so as to reaching these goals, in line with the WTTC report.

    WTTC president David Scowsill said: “Hainan is obviously well on-track to succeed in its aim of changing into an international-class international tourism destination by 2020.

    “With rapid growth in employment, visitor expenditure and contribution to GDP, it’s not surprising that this tropical island has already attracted the eye of just about every major international hotel brand.

    “The government of Hainan Province clearly recognises tourism’s potential for economic and social contribution and great steps has been taken during the last three years to develop Hainan as a global-class destination.

    “The opportunity is now to develop a sustainable, diverse product which pulls at the Province’s unique cultural and natural heritage, burgeoning business tourism sector and high profile new attractions.”

    Tourism is of growing importance in China.

    Duan Qiang, president, Beijing Tourism Group, explained to delegates in Abu Dhabi: “We are more than happy to determine that many member companies of WTTC have already taken the initiative to develop human resources in width and depth.

    “We want to join hands with these companies and other tourism enterprises with same philosophy and ambition to succeed in win-win, and meet the challenge of financial wave and population restructure.

    “We will keep our efforts in creating more products with high added value, raising service quality, efficiency and benefits, promoting full employment, developing the total potential of human resources, adding the price of mental and human capital of staff, in an effort to run tourism market large and powerful, and to accumulate a more friendly image of enterprise citizen and a global brand with higher fame, recognition, reputation and loyalty.

    “Let’s try our greatest to further promote the recovery of economy and stability of society, and welcome the brilliant future.”