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Category: Holidays

  • Thomas Cook to slash thousands of jobs

    U.K. travel organisation Thomas Cook plans to chop approximately 2,500 jobs and shut down 195 retail travel agencies.

    The job cuts would amount to a 16% reduction in Thomas Cook’s 15,500-person workforce.

    “It isn’t easy to make decisions that impact directly on our people, but we also owe it to our customers to shape the business effectively and confirm that after they book their holiday with us, our administrative costs are as little as possible,” said Thomas Cook CEO Peter Fankhauser.

    “Even after these changes, we can still have among the many largest retail networks in U.K. travel.”

  • TCA launches Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau

    The Authority has launched a brand new force to drive its business events ambitions forward because it looks for the emirate to be ranked by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) as among the many world’s top 50 association meetings destinations in five years.

    Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau – a brand new dedicated, one-stop-support-shop inside the Authority – will assist the expansion of exhibitions and conferences in the emirate by forging closer links with the industry and providing financial and non-financial support.

    The bureau will provide a number of services to the industry including bid presentation support, delegate generation campaigns, local stakeholder co-ordination and data, on-site destination advice, government support co-ordination and marketing assistance.

  • Cape Town Tourism within the spotlight at ITB

    December 2012 marked the only billionth international tourism arrival globally and competition between destinations is more fierce than ever. Staying relevant by maintaining with future trends is a key focus at this year’s ITB tourism trade exhibition in Berlin, set to attract some 170,000 visitors between March 6-10, 2013. As in previous years, Cape Town Tourism and Wesgro are representing the region’s tourism industry at ITB.

    As portion of ITB’s strong cope with etravel, Cape Town Tourism CEO, Mariette du Toit-Helmbold (pictured), is presenting a conversation called “How Tourism Boards Work With Social Media, Local Citizens And Travel Bloggers To inform The tale Of A Destination” on March 9.

    The talk follows a year by which Cape Town Tourism caught the notice of world tourism trend watchers through its #LoveCapeTown social media campaign. The campaign included an iambassador campaign that saw the DMO bringing respected international bloggers to Cape Town to experience the destination first hand. The main factor that differentiated the campaign is that Cape Town’s twitter community felt a swelling of pride about their town and engaged heavily with the visiting e-journos about what to do and notice during their stay.

    The #loveCapeTown program has since been included in a White Paper on travel blogging and used for instance internationally on how DMOs can work with travel bloggers. Plans are afoot to continue the #loveCapeTown campaign during 2013, along with South African Tourism and a gaggle of international and native bloggers. Most significantly the tag is now a part of the social media lingua franca when pertaining to Cape Town.

    In addition to the strong specialize in social media and digital marketing, Cape Town Tourism is (at the side of Blue Yonder, India) a co-partner of ITB’s Responsible Tourism program and could feature as portion of their CSR day program on March 7. Up for discussion stands out as the need for tourist interactions with local communities and problems surrounding water shortages and rising energy costs.

    Councillor Grant Pascoe, Mayoral Committee Member for Tourism, Events and Marketing on the City of Cape Town, says: “The City of Cape Town is driving responsible tourism with the support of industry players like Cape Town Tourism. The purpose is to maneuver from pockets of excellence to a complete destination approach.

    “This means the adaption of RT principles as a core way of doing business – not just by a chosen group of responsible operators but by all of the tourism industry. The Responsible Tourism Pilot Project is an example of ways the responsible tourism principles were adopted on a large scale by the industry.” Added Grant.

    Speaking at the broader objectives in their visit to ITB, Du Toit-Helmbold said: “Our key challenge within the industry is to stimulate jobs and investment by eliminating barriers to travel resembling visa restrictions, taxation, and outmoded infrastructure systems. i’m confident that these issues could be addressed at Europe’s premier travel trade fair – ITB Berlin. It’s the key place to benefit about new trends, market developments, and to deepen existing business relations.”

  • New travel guide “Webshop” launched by German National Tourist Office

    The German National Tourist Office (GNTO) has launched a brand new “Webshop” service on its website, for consumers wishing to receive travel brochures and data by post – just because the latest statistics for Jan-Dec 2012 show a healthy 5.7% rise inside the collection of UK visitors to Germany at the previous year.

    The new Webshop is besides the web publications available from the GNTO website www.germany.travel and provides consumers the selection of receiving their information by post as opposed to viewing it online.  No charge is made for the brochures or the price of postage for brochures ordered through www.germany.travel/webshop-uk

    Subjects reflect the most well-liked kinds of holidays for UK travellers. They include ‘Vibrant Towns and Cities’, ‘Campsites and Motorhome Sites in Germany’, ‘Activity Holidays’ for the more sporty inclined and ‘Discover the Taste of Germany’ for the more foody-minded traveller in pursuit of the best food and wine Germany can offer.  Germany’s new cultural magazine ‘TravelLog’ which comes out twice a year is additionally available and more brochures might be added over the approaching months because the latest updates are published.

    Klaus Lohmann, GNTO director UK and Ireland said: ‘Interest in travel to Germany is increasing on a regular basis. Our latest figures for January-December 2012 show there has been an increase of five.7% in travellers from the united kingdom to Germany within the last year – an unprecedented amount.  This new facility will clearly be welcome and will help to satisfy the demand for info about where to head and what to peer in Germany. The decision is sort of endless!”

  • TCA launches Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau

    The Authority has launched a brand new force to drive its business events ambitions forward because it looks for the emirate to be ranked by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) as a few of the world’s top 50 association meetings destinations in five years.

    Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau – a brand new dedicated, one-stop-support-shop in the Authority – will assist the expansion of exhibitions and conferences inside the emirate by forging closer links with the industry and providing financial and non-financial support.

    The bureau will provide various services to the industry including bid presentation support, delegate generation campaigns, local stakeholder co-ordination and information, on-site destination advice, government support co-ordination and marketing assistance.