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  • News: InfoTrust Group adds mobile solutions for line maintenance and flight operations

    InfoTrust Group, a number one provider of XML-based technical information management solutions and services for the aerospace, high-tech, defense, and semi-conductor industries, announced today the supply of its TechSight/X Mobile IETP for Line Maintenance and its native TechSight/X iPad® Application for Flight Operations. Both tablet solutions further demonstrate InfoTrust Group’s mission to assist airlines deliver the ideal information, on the right time, to the appropriate people. By giving line mechanics and flight crews access to the most up-tp-date maintenance and flight information on mobile devices on the point of performance, airlines can improve aircraft utilisation, help ensure real-time regulatory compliance, and decrease operational costs.

    InfoTrust Group’s tablet solutions are designed specifically to be used by aircraft mechanics and pilots. The TechSight/X Mobile IETP (Interactive Electronic Technical Publication) for Line Maintenance gives mechanics access to all in their Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, and Embraer maintenance and engineering manuals on both iOS® and Android™ devices. Search and navigation are optimized for touch screens to reduce clicks and eliminate the necessity for complex searches. Mechanics can navigate complex wiring diagrams, view and order from illustrated parts catalogs (when integrated to MRO or ERP solutions), and access fault reporting and bother-shooting manuals while at their aircraft that will perform maintenance faster and return aircraft to service more quickly than ever before.

    The TechSight/X iPad Application for Flight Operations automatically delivers up-to-the-minute flight manuals and related company documentation to thousands of pilots dispersed across geographies. Pilots can acknowledge updates, and the applying automatically tracks and audits pilot acknowledgement to facilitate regulatory compliance. To make finding the suitable information easier, pilots can add notes, highlights, and bookmarks which can be stored as portion of their user profiles and which are persistent from one revision to the subsequent, even across multiple tablet devices. Effectivity filtering also helps pilots find specific information concerning the fleets and models of the aircraft they fly faster than when using paper-based manuals.

    “Tablets represent a brand new paradigm for technical information delivery,” said Olivier Joufflineau, vice chairman of InfoTrust Group’s ATA Flight Operations Solutions and Services, “and InfoTrust Group is proud to be on the vanguard of the airline industry’s adoption of tablet-enabled technical information solutions.”
    Both TechSight/X modules are available in to existing customers as upgrades to their current TechSight/X solutions. The TechSight/X iPad Application for Flight Operations can also be purchased as a stand-alone solution.

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  • News: Research from Avis suggests business travel will boom in 2013

    Avis Rent a Car today released the findings from its annual business traveller research, Corporate Connections. Surveying 2,500 business personnel from across Europe, it revealed an optimistic outlook for the field and despite a challenging 2012, predicts UK business travel will see a 27% increase through the coming year – up from a 20% growth between 2011-2012.

    The research revealed just how integral a job travel plays in modern business, with 50% of respondents already travelling for work (not commuting) at least one time a month during the last twelve months, 15% travelling weekly and seven% every day.

    Significantly, the findings revealed a growing demand from business travellers to maximize business opportunities in emerging markets, reminiscent of Asia and Latin America, with travel from the united kingdom to those new destinations rocketing 21% between 2011 and 2013.

    Kaye Ceille, Managing Director at Avis UK, said of the findings: “Understanding the purposes of our customers and evolving our service in accordance with their requirements is what drives our business. Business travel isn’t limited to only one location – in today’s turbulent environment, businesses should be flexible enough to follow new opportunities in emerging markets.  At Avis, we’re equipped to deal with this need, internationally and locally, with our network of over 5,200 locations operating in 165 countries.”

    Service over price
    The research also discovered that despite businesses tightening their purse strings, service, not price, was the key factor for business travellers when determining a travel provider, with 20% choosing quality and 17% speed of service with the rest of respondents choosing:

    ·      Online booking solutions (14%)
    ·      Loyalty offers (5%)
    ·      Exclusive incentives (4%)

    The strong affinity with service helps to give an explanation for the high levels of loyalty amongst business travellers to a specific travel provider, with 88% saying that they are going to often or always use an analogous brand, 12% higher than the ecu average, placing business travellers inside the UK amongst essentially the most loyal.

    Kaye Ceille added: “Despite economic pressures, it’s reassuring that British businesses still value quality over cost. We recognise that for our business travellers, speed and customer support is a concern and as such we provide innovative products inclusive of online check-in and Avis Preferred, the fastest and most convenient technique to rent cars.”

    Convenience is key
    Car travel remains the preferred approach to transport amongst business travellers with 64% of responses stating they travel by car, when compared with 24% for public transport and 11% for air travel. The incentive for selecting car travels is convenience in response to 81% of respondents, significantly sooner than cost, which was only ranked because the most significant factor by 32% of travellers.

    The importance of convenience was further demonstrated when respondents were asked to think about the head three factors which might influence their collection of business vehicle. 27% of respondents believed vehicle delivery and collection was important, followed by road side assistance (25%) and GPS (19%).

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  • New London Hotel Xenia welcomes general manager

    New South Kensington boutique hotel Xenia is delighted to announce the appointment of Mario Ovsenjak as General Manager.

    Mario brings his breadth of expertise to this exciting new hotel: with a hospitality career that started in London with Thistle Hotels at both Thistle Piccadilly and The Royal Trafalgar as Food & Beverage Manager, Mario has also worked as Operations Manager at InterContinental Hotels Group and at Corus Hyde Park where he re-focused the hotel’s food and beverage offering, maximised HOD team efficiency and demonstrated his passion for customer support.

    A step into boutique hotels and the posh sector followed when Mario joined the Eton Collection on the Colonnade and, keen to continue to develop smaller properties, is now to go up the hotel team on the independently-owned Xenia. Mario says:
    ‘I am awaiting working with our growing dynamic team to launch Xenia in an effort to be a thrilling addition to both the neighbourhood and the London hotel scene. With increasingly new hotel rooms within the city it’s as important as ever that we stand-out from the contest and that i will enjoy working with the team in order for our offering at Xenia becomes a destination of choice for both locals and visitors to the Capital.’

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  • News: Tourism Australia has another world record in its sights

    Sydney photographers, bloggers, instagrammers and tweeters are being invited to Bondi this Saturday (23 March 2013) to sign up for Colby Brown, considered one of America’s most influential photography bloggers try and set a brand new world record for the biggest ever ‘photo-walk’.

    The Bronte to Bondi Photo Walk is supported by Google, Samsung and Destination NSW and is a part of a brand new Tourism Australia program, targeting digital influencers and opinion leaders, inviting them to share their images and experiences of Australia with their extensive social media followings.

    Colby is a certified photographer based in Denver, Colorado and has 2.3 million followers on Google+.

    “Australia has one of these vibrant and active photography community it’s known around the globe. I instantly knew that i needed to do a photograph walk in Sydney since it is this kind of beautiful location and gives a whimsical opportunity to bring that thriving community together to celebrate and showcase much of what town has to present the area,” Colby Brown said.

    Tourism Australia Managing Director Andrew McEvoy said that the mixture of Colby’s photographic talent and large following of fans provided an impressive platform to showcase a number of Australia’s splendid tourism experiences.

    “With greater than four million fans, we have already got the most important destination Facebook fan page on earth, and apparently we only need about 300 people to affix Colby in this Bronte-Bondi Photo Walk to make it a brand new world record for Australia,” Mr McEvoy said.

    As well because the photo walk, Colby Brown can be also enjoying Google+ ‘Hangouts’ during his Australian trip, which also soak up the natural landscapes and scenery of South Australia, Tasmanian, Victoria and Western Australia.

    A selection of leading Australian digital influencers are supporting the sector record bid, including South Sydney photographer Michael Sutton, who will accompany Colby and share his own photos taken through the walk along with his 52,000 Google+ followers.

    The world record for a photograph-walk is currently held by another prominent US photography blogger, Trey Ratcliff. It came about in Melbourne in January and was attended by 289 people.

    The Bronte to Bondi Photo Walk occurs on Saturday 23 March: starting at Bronte Beach at 3pm and finishing at the North Bondi grassy knoll around sunset.

    Participants taking the appropriate photograph can win as much as $8,000 worth of prizes, including cameras and photography equipment in addition to Bridgeclimb vouchers.

    Colby and Michael will both be posting real-time updates of the photo-walk on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+. The hashtags for the photo-walk are #Bondi2013 and #SeeAustralia

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  • News: WorldVentures opens for business in Iceland

    WorldVentures, the direct-selling industry’s largest seller of vacation club memberships, is proud to announce its expansion into Iceland today.  Launching in Iceland extends WorldVentures’ international presence to 23 countries, and is a natural progression to the company’s expansion in two other prominent Nordic markets, Sweden and Norway.

    “Launching in Iceland demonstrates the significance WorldVentures attributes to the Nordic markets as part of our global expansion plan,” said WorldVentures Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer Wayne Nugent. “Norway is one in all our booming markets, and its tremendous success created demand from local Icelandic entrepreneurs to begin their very own businesses with WorldVentures. We’re proud to welcome these future business owners to our team of world ambassadors, and to provide them exclusive and affordable access to a few of one of the most desirable travel destinations and resorts all over.”

    WorldVentures’ entrance into Iceland provides a chance for those fascinated about building an independent business to sell the company’s DreamTrips™ club memberships to these truly keen about travel. DreamTrips Members enjoy one-of-a-kind, curated group vacation experiences designed and managed by an award-winning online travel agency.

    Founded by two direct-selling veterans and visionaries, Wayne Nugent and Mike Azcue, WorldVentures is built on three guiding principles: a foundation of superior travel and vacation products for purchasers; fair and transparent economic opportunity for its Independent Representatives; and a real commitment to community coupled with good corporate citizenship. The corporate does significant strategic planning just before launching in a brand new country, ensuring it has a viable market and is compliant with all local regulations. WorldVentures’ current markets include countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

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