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  • Brazil highlights positives from Confederations Cup

    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 to tourism,” said the president of Embratur, in the course of the interview.

    “The long-term return is the principle picture, because the name and attributes of Brazil are reported worldwide in the course of the period of mega-events.”

    Dino added: “From the viewpoint of selling international tourism in Brazil, it is a spectacular gain, which might be achieved only with an exceptionally massive investment of resources in television advertising in those markets.”

    However, it was not all plain sailing for Brazil, with coverage of the events marred by long running street protests against corruption, rising prices and the perceived miss allocation of oil revenues.

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  • Reunion Island launches eco tour

    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 Reunion. a standard breakfast is supplied – a Creole meal cooked over a wood fire with a tasting of clean country juices.

  • ‘Last minute holidays’ make up almost 3% of consumer searches for a break

    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 search for a vacation to domestic, short-haul and long-haul destinations and charts the most well liked websites to these searches, split by queries made on computers (laptops and desktops) and mobile devices (tablets & smartphones).

    According to the report, 80% (3.5 million) of holiday searches were made via computers, 20% (881, 536) on mobile devices.

    ‘holidays’, queried 450,000 times, was the hottest term used to go looking for vacations via computers and accounted for (13%) of searches.  It was followed by ‘cheap holidays’ (10%), ‘all inclusive holidays’ (3%), ‘last minute holidays’ (3%) and ‘city breaks’ (2%).

    On mobile devices, the term ‘cheap holidays’ topped search queries and accounted for 15% (135,000) of holiday-related searches. ‘holidays’ followed with 7%, then ‘last minute holidays’ (4%), ‘all inclusive holidays’ (3%) and ‘weekend breaks’ (3%)

    Holidays to short-haul destinations proved most well-liked with searches totalling 923,259. ‘Turkey holidays’ received the foremost selection of queries both on mobile and computer searches. Other popular destinations included Malta, Croatia, Cyprus and Spain.

    On the long-haul front, queries for holidays to Dubai dominated and made up virtually 6% of a complete of 816,166 searches.

    The most visible sites for overall holiday searches within the organic* listings were travelsupermarket.co.uk, thomascook.com and thomson.co.uk, attaining a 53%, 49% and 47% share of visibility, respectively, on computers and 68%, 59% and 53% on mobile devices.

    In the paid listings**, travelrepublic.co.uk, onthebeach.co.uk and holidaydiscountcentre.co.uk, were the foremost visible advertisers on computers, acquiring a 69%, 55% and 52% share of voice, respectively.

    However, the image was different on mobile devices, with icelolly.com, secretescapes.com and teletextholidays.co.uk taking the lead, attaining a 73%, 65% and 47% share of visibility, respectively.

    Thomson ranked on the top of Greenlight’s Social Media analysis.

  • UK Royal baby on board

    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 Tow
    His 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 Hilton London Kensington has created a ‘Tot-ter Around Kensington’ package. Guests can enjoy a two-night shopping break, ideal for mother-daughter bonding and mums-to-be. The package incorporates a two-night stay on the stylish Hilton London Kensington, with each guest receiving a VIP card for Westfield London Shopping Centre, situated directly opposite the hotel. The VIP card entitles shoppers to offers and discounts of as much as 20% from over 80 stores and restaurants. Stylish mums-to-be can replenish on baby treats from stores including Bébé Bisou, Mamas & Papas and Atelier de Courcelles. Price depending on availability.

    Meanwhile, one of several luxury suites on the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane have been transformed right into a five-star nursery for jet-setting babies. The hotel has teamed up with bespoke nursery designers Dragons of Walton Street and transformed a Premium Park View Suite right into a quintessentially English nursery, designed and tailored with a royal baby in mind. Dragons of Walton Street has a historic association with the Royal Family, with William and Harry, Beatrice and Eugenie all growing up in a Dragons nursery. Inspired by the suite’s idyllic views of Hyde Park and the hotel’s history, this latest creation is fitted with bespoke, hand crafted and painted furniture.  The pièce de résistance is a gorgeous dolls house toy cupboard hand painted to symbolize Grosvenor House’s signature architecture.

    Outside the capital, Cornwall’s Bedruthan Steps Hotel has a ‘Welcome to the World’ break, offering new mums and dads a helping hand through their first year of parenting. The package encourages new parents to deepen their bond with their new arrival through baby massage, swimming and yoga classes. The break includes workshops with psychologist Dr Sarah Mundy on some approaches to the challenges that new parents face. The hotel aims to take the pressures off you and preserve your every need – no use to fret about cooking, washing, cleaning or tidying up here. If you want a while out, the expert childcare team is handy to permit you to experience some ‘me’ time to walk the spectacular coast path, relax by the pool, have a Mama Mio massage treatment or spend quality time together with your partner.

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  • momondo pinpoints popular summer destinations

    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 airport’s on momondo for summer travel, for Heathrow, Manchester and Birmingham airports.

    And traditional sun-spots Gran Canaria and Porto, Portugal were amongst the pinnacle 5 most-searched airports on momondo.co.uk, for summer travel from Stansted airport. Also in that prime 5 were stag party favourites – Budapest, Hungary and Riga in Latvia.

    Please note each Top 5 list varied on specific routes flying out of any particular airport on this specified duration and is subject to switch at other times of the year. Flight prices are true as of 16 July 2013 and can be subject to vary.

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