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  • News: Norwegian cruise liners act fast

    Norwegian Cruise Line is launching its popular DASH sale on all sailings of 3 days or longer, fleet-wide. Guests who book a Norwegian cruise vacation from Tuesday, April 23 through April 26, 2013, can receive as much as $250 per stateroom to spend on board (in response to cruise length and stateroom category) and reduced deposits. For an entire vacation package, guests may receive as much as $1,000 in air credits on select sailings. Also, for a limited time, kids ages 17 and under who’re cruising with two adults within the same stateroom, will receive 50% off their cruise fare on select Europe and Alaska vacations.

    Guests seeking to experience the majestic fantastic thing about Alaska can set sail on board Norwegian Pearl, Norwegian Jewel or Norwegian Sun. Norwegian Pearl sails a chain of 7-day cruises from Seattle every Sunday from May 19, 2013 through September 22, 2013 and Norwegian Jewel sails from Seattle every Saturday from May 18, 2013 through September 14, 2013. Both ships visit a few of the most scenic destinations in Alaska including Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay, and Ketchikan, in addition to a stop in Victoria, British Columbia. Norwegian Sun offers a sequence of open jaw seven-day cruises from Vancouver, British Columbia or Whittier, Alaska. Ports of call in Alaska include Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway. The itinerary also incorporates a scenic cruise through Glacier Bay. Cruises departing from Vancouver may even enjoy a morning sail past Hubbard Glacier and people cruising south from Whittier will enjoy a cruise though the spectacular Inside Passage. Fares start at $399* per person (in accordance with double occupancy), and for a limited time, when kids sail on Norwegian Sun in Alaska, with two adults inside the same stateroom, they may receive an extra 50% off their cruise fare.

    Guests trying to discover the wealthy history of Europe can accomplish that while cruising on board Norwegian Epic, recently named “Best Ship for Sea Days” by Cruise Critic and “Best Overall Cruise Ship” by the readers of Travel Weekly two years in a row, sailing from Barcelona, Spain from May 5 through October 13, 2013. Norwegian Epic’s seven-day Western Mediterranean cruises have fares starting at $549* and visit ports of call including Naples, Rome (Civitavecchia) and Florence/Pisa (Livorno), Italy; Cannes and Provence (Marseilles), France.

    Norwegian Star sails a sequence of nine-day Baltic Capitals cruises from Copenhagen, Denmark between May 7 and September 10, 2013. With fares starting at $849*, this exciting itinerary includes an overnight in St. Petersburg, Russia, in addition to a scenic sail throughout the Stockholm Archipelago following the ship’s afternoon departure from Stockholm, Sweden. Those wishing to embark on an extended cruise, can set sail from Rome (Civitavecchia ) on a ten-day Eastern Mediterranean itinerary, with fares from $549*, visiting a brand new port of call almost each day including, Olympia (Katakolon), Athens (Piraeus), Greece; Ephesus (Izmir), Istanbul, Turkey; and Naples, Italy.

    For fun inside the sun, guests can set sail from Ny city on a seven-day cruise to Bermuda on board Norwegian’s modern-day ship, Norwegian Breakaway, with fares starting at $749*.  Referred to as “Big apple’s Ship” for its New York inspired amenities and lines, Norwegian Breakaway will bring definitely the right of NYC to sea when she arrives to her year-round homeport in early May 2013, offering the high-caliber dining and entertainment options that Ny city is known for.

    Beginning November 2, 2013, Norwegian Epic will set sail on a chain of 7-day cruises to the Eastern Caribbean, roundtrip from Miami, Florida, with stops in Philipsburg, St. Maarten; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; and Nassau, Bahamas, with fares starting at $549*.

    Cruisers can hang ten in Hawaii once they book a seven-day cruise on board Pride of America, with fares from $1,249*. Sailing year-round, round-trip from Honolulu, this spectacular cruise offers nearly 100 hours of port time and visits Hawai’i’s four main islands, including an overnight in Kahului, Maui; an overnight in Nãwiliwili, Kaua`i; stops in Hilo, Hawaii and Kona, Hawai`i; in addition to a day cruise by the awe-inspiring Nãpali Coast.

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  • Jumeirah benefits from tourism growth in Dubai

    Jumeirah Group, the worldwide luxury hospitality company and a member of Dubai Holding, has announced its performance within the first quarter of 2013 and its mid-term growth strategy.

    During the 1st quarter of 2013, average occupancy in Jumeirah’s portfolio of hotels has increased by nine per cent globally, in comparison to a similar period in 2012.

    In a similar period the typical daily rate rose by nine per cent and the revenue per available room, an industry standard for measuring performance, rose by 22 per cent.

    The performance data is predicated on hotels that had greater than 18 months of operations.

    Speaking on the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference in Dubai, Gerald Lawless, president, Jumeirah Group, said: “The full year of 2012 and the primary four months of 2013 was an important success for Jumeirah.

    “The Dubai hotels have truly benefitted from the continued attraction of Dubai as a chief holiday and business destination.

    “Our hotel in Abu Dhabi, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, has established itself as one of the vital top must-visit locations within the capital.

    “Our two properties within the Maldives are building a powerful reputation in that market; and our network of European properties, including London, Frankfurt, Mallorca, Rome and Istanbul are performing well.

    “Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel in Shanghai has developed a faithful customer base and goes from strength to strength.”

  • News: Amadeus’ momentum in North America continues

    Amadeus has announced the hole of a brand new office in Dallas, Texas, as portion of its ongoing growth in North America and commitment to serving the IT needs of airline customers within the United states of america and Canada.

    “The time was right for us to capitalise on our growing momentum within the region and establish operations in Dallas,” said Scott Gutz, president, Amadeus North America.

    “This is another milestone in our airline IT focus and efforts and assures that we’re best serving the wishes of our airline partners here.

    “This is another milestone in our airline IT focus and efforts and assures that we’re best serving the purposes of our airline partners here.”

    Amadeus hosted an event to celebrate the hole of the brand new office so as to provide Amadeus’ airline customers with increased regional technology expertise, resources and support.

    The Dallas-based Amadeus team will provide specialised capabilities and repair including airline IT delivery, product management and sales engineering.

    The office also includes a training centre to make sure airline customers receive information and instruction and may connect to Amadeus’ technology, consulting and product experts.

    Gutz added that the Dallas location allows easy accessibility from most major US cities and is home to 2 of the world’s leading airlines including current Amadeus Altéa airline IT customer, Southwest Airlines.

    In April 2012, Southwest, the biggest US carrier by way of domestic passengers boarded, selected Amadeus and the Amadeus’ Altéa reservations way to enable the carrier’s international flying.

    “Our new office enables us to work more closely and collaboratively with our growing airline customers in North America.

    “With our team in Dallas, we will optimally partner with and serve Southwest throughout the process their Altea implementation,” said Mabrouk Sediri, head of airline IT global delivery, Amadeus, who’s heading up the Southwest Airlines migration project.

    Sediri said all its North American customers will enjoy the increased local give attention to airline IT but Amadeus also will leverage its experience and track-record because the technology partner of option to airlines worldwide.

    Amadeus’ flagship Altéa portfolio marked a technological and functional breakthrough inside the airline industry.

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  • News: Dollar Rent A Car, Thrifty Car Rental partner with Allied Business Network

    Allied Business Network (ABN Save) announces the addition of 2 new car rental discount partners geared toward meeting the purposes of the cost conscience driver – Dollar Rent a Car and Thrifty Car Rentals. These two new partners are a very good compliment to the Hertz program already in place for ABN Save members. The Hertz program for ABN Save members offers a Business Rewards Program that gives loyal Hertz renters the opportunity to save lots of as much as 20% on transactions and earn free rental vouchers. These are only some of the many perks of the Hertz rental car program geared towards businesses. The Dollar and Thrifty discount programs are geared more towards leisure and/or cost conscience consumers. Now members of ABN Save can favor to rent a car at a reduced rate in accordance with their business or personal needs from any of those three companies quickly and simply.

    The partnerships between Dollar and Thrifty offer ABN Save members the risk to avoid wasting 5% off reservations made online or by phone with each respective partner. The Dollar Rent a Car discount and Thrifty Car Rentals discount are both available by using Corporate Discount numbers (often referred to as CD #s). Dollar CD # TB7086 and Thrifty CD # 0010230792 activate the 5% discount for renters.

    Dollar Car Rental has over 1,500 locations the world over and might often be found near airports and other suburban locations, offering convenient and accessible locations to choose up or drop off a rental. Thrifty Car Rentals has greater than 1,000 locations worldwide..

    President of ABN Save, Jack Bergman, had this to claim in regards to the new partnerships with Dollar and Thrifty:

    “We’re more than happy and excited to announce Dollar Rent a Car and Thrifty Car Rentals because the newest discount partners inside the ABN Save membership network. The addition of those two partners solidifies our reputation because the largest business network available for entrepreneurs and small and medium sized business owners.”

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  • News: Tourism leaders unite to unveil Tricentennial Plan

    On Monday, April 22, New Orleans tourism industry leaders and civic stakeholders gathered to announce the formation in their alliance because the Tricentennial Consortium, and present their Tricentennial Plan, a strong holistic vision to be implemented inside the next five years, a good way to create thousands of jobs, generate greatly increased tourism demand, spur economic development and make sure the continued growth of recent Orleans’ economy for many years to come back.  The unified plan was under development for the past three years to support the goals of The Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) 2010 Strategic Master Plan for the tourism and hospitality industry of the town of latest Orleans.

    It is now culminating with the alignment of key components for execution over the subsequent five years to profit a better quarter century.  The overarching goals are to draw 13.7 million visitors, create $11 billion in direct spending, 33,000 additional jobs and $700 million in tax revenue by the city’s 300th anniversary in 2018.

    The Tricentennial Plan for these next five years leading as much as the city’s 2018 300th birthday involves several legislative and infrastructure initiatives and two major public policy positions:

    1. The united industry (Consortium) is against a rise in sales tax impacting hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, attractions and retailers in New Orleans. We deeply appreciate our legislature deferring these taxes.

    2. The united industry (Consortium) is strongly against any transfer or other use of Morial Convention Center financial reserves, that are made out of revenues generated by taxes proposed by the hot Orleans hotel and restaurant industry and that were collected and dedicated by law solely to convention center and hospitality infrastructure development. We consider any reallocations or taking to violate sound public and monetary policy, and to be violative of all agreements with the hotel and restaurant industry that brought about the enactment of the taxes, and really likely the law besides.

    3. The united industry (Consortium) strongly supports a main Convention Center Vision Plan that comes with the riverfront and Convention Center Boulevard, the building, and the expansive Phase IV property, the financial and legal underpinnings of which can be supported in HB516 (Leger). This many faceted development of demand generators is intimately connected to and tied in with….

    4. A united industry effort filed by the Consortium to create a brand new vision for an iconic demand generator, world class facility, architectural edifice, landscape or like stunning public use of the present World Trade Center Property in a fashion that has huge public and civic buy-in and broad public appeal. (The Wednesday filing by the Tricentennial Consortium to the city’s RFP.)

    5. The united industry (Consortium) strongly supports an optional hotel assessment (not a tax, not a district, and no relation to last year’s bill) to boost new funds for marketing and promotion of recent Orleans as a destination for special events, corporate and association meetings, business, and leisure travel, both domestically and internationally. This optional hotel assessment program would go a ways to catching up our destination with our competitors in marketing capacity, and should immediately create hundreds of millions of bucks of impact on our city economy and create thousands of recent jobs. Here’s provided in SB 242 by Murray and Leger.

    6. The united industry (Consortium) applauds and supports the Mayor’s recent announcement to construct a brand new world class airport. The event of the brand new facility is the ultimate piece in transforming our hospitality infrastructure and is necessary to our brand and world competitiveness.
    These six public policy announcements and initiatives are united and indivisible and every is needed to put the groundwork for a quantum leap in economic development, infrastructure modernization, demand generator creation, tourism growth, job creation and the generation of recent tax revenues to handle our city.

    The announcement was made today by Audubon Nature Institute President and CEO Ron Forman ; New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation Chair Darryl Berger and President and CEO Mark Romig ; New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau Chairman Gregory Rusovich and President & CEO Stephen Perry ; New Orleans Multicultural Tourism Network President Toni Rice ; Louisiana Restaurant Association CEO Stan Harris , SMG Senior Vp Doug Thornton ; New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Chair Melvin Rodrigue and President Bob Johnson ; and bigger New Orleans Hotel & Lodging Association officer and Area General Manager of Marriott Corp. Robert Bray .

    This plan was formed to shape the conversation and public debate of hopes, dreams and aspirations for our great city, preparing New Orleans for a better century, and approaching the tricentennial five year plan as a unified group with a unified voice, strong public policy positions, and an action plan of projects and legislation to execute.

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