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Brazil highlights positives from Confederations Cup

May 10, 2016 • admin
The president of Brazilian tourist board Embratur, Flávio Dino, has highlighted the financial returns made by the destination in the course of the recent Confederations Cup. Dino confirmed numbers exceeded expectations, with Embratur recording $329 million in more spending, including income from hotels, food faraway from home, and other related expenditure. Spending by tourists – Brazilians and foreigners – was estimated by Embratur at $145 million. “A study by Embratur showed tourism had a miles greater impact than anticipated,” Dino told local radio show Brasil em Pauta. There were 16 games in the course of the two weeks of the Confederations Cup, with the hosts eventually crowned champions. “This is significant because a return is immediate and goes straight into the pocket of the entrepreneur within the long chain associated...
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Reunion Island launches eco tour

May 7, 2016 • admin
A new eco-tourism tour is being offered by Reunion Island along side the already rich leisure activities of nature on offer at the west side of the island. The point of at the present time tour is to find (or rediscover) in an academic way the advantages of the island’s coral reef. A tour organizer will share the secrets of the reef and the island of Reunion in this journey of discovery of the coast, from Cape la Houssaye on the Hermitage lagoon. This is a brand new tour, which through innovative teaching will raise awareness of our environment in a fun way. The tour features a meeting with officers of the Marine Nature Reserve, which includes a guided tour followed by a lecture on the Aquarium of los angeles...
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‘Last minute holidays’ make up almost 3% of consumer searches for a break

May 4, 2016 • admin
The latest quarterly online search data from leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight, reveals the hunt term ‘last minute holidays’ accounted for just about 3% of a complete of four.4 million searches made on Google UK for holidays, in May. The findings from the agency’s latest ‘Holidays Sector Report – Issue 17’ come at the back of stories reports that travel firms have seen last-minute bookings for summer holidays drop as a result of hot weather, with some tour operators saying they could be forced to discount packages if the heatwave continues for one more week. Others have speculated the elements can have an analogous impact at the industry as that of the 2010 ash cloud. Greenlight’s report reveals the preferred search terms consumers used once they went online to...
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UK Royal baby on board

May 1, 2016 • admin
As the nation waits with bated breath for the now-overdue Royal Baby, it seems that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy has sparked the largest baby boom in 40 years. New figures suggest that greater than 700,000 babies shall be born in England this year – the top number since 1971, in line with the Royal College of Midwives. In anticipation of the coming of the newest addition to the Royal Family, VisitEngland rounds up the superior holidays and experiences on offer for brand spanking new families, as two become three… Baby in TowHis or Her Royal Highness the Prince or Princess of Cambridge will likely spend a lot of their childhood at London’s Kensington Palace where the Duke and Duchess will reside. To mark the occasion, the nearby...
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momondo pinpoints popular summer destinations

April 28, 2016 • admin
Leading meta-search momondo.co.uk this week analysed its UK flight search data of the last three months, for travel throughout the UK Summer holiday period, which generally lies between 24 July 2013, and 1 September, 2013. Within this information, momondo was capable of pinpoint popular destination airports for UK summer travellers, for 6 of the united kingdom’s largest airports. Starting points for the UK-wide evaluation were here airports; London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow and Birmingham. Bangkok, Thailand’s buzzing Capital, proved popular for Brits this summer, being most-searched on momondo for summer travel from Manchester airport, and second-most-hunted for summer travel from London Heathrow. Sunny Madeira was the main-searched airport on momondo for summer travel from Gatwick airport. New York’s JFK was within the Top 5 lists of most-searched destination...
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