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  • Atoll Paradise wins three World Travel Awards

    At the Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony for the arena Travel Awards, which passed off at Paradise Island, a personal resort inside the Maldives, on May 12, 2013, Atoll Paradise emerged once more as a pacesetter within the region, winning three of the coveted awards, for ‘Indian Ocean’s Leading Travel Agency’, ‘Maldives’ Leading Tour Operator’, and in addition within the newly established category ‘Seychelles’ Leading Luxury Tour Operator’.

    Atoll Paradise is incredibly pleased with this accomplishment, especially because the company only added the destination Seychelles in late 2011 to its exclusive luxury resort portfolio and has already been recognized because the Leading Luxury Tour Operator of this gorgeous island nation!

    “It is an honor to were selected for the second one year now as a pacesetter inside the travel industry of the region! We base our success at the inside knowledge our Travel Consultants have of every resort in our collection, and naturally at the top-notch personalized service we offer! All of our team members are very devoted to their work and to the corporate, and we fully embrace our motto to always exceed our customers’ expectations. My team, as an instance, is on call 24-hours an afternoon for our clients on location, and we ensure no hick-up will disturb your holiday serenity!”, says Jenny Vettiger Mufeed, Guest Experience Manager at Atoll Paradise.

    The elegant award ceremony came about on Paradise Island within the Maldives, and the ambience was fitting for this dream destination – chic, yet laid-back, elegant with a tropical touch! The hole speech was given by Mr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik, the President of the Maldives, and he was followed by Mr. David Falcon, Senior Vp WTA, who gave a brief background on WTA’s 20-year history. Attendees included the crème-de-la-crème in travel of the Indian Ocean region, and entertainment came with compliments of Unoosha – an impressive singer who mixes traditional Maldivian sounds with modern beats – and native Bodu Beru groups.

    The Indian Ocean Award ceremony also recognized the Maldives as a full, awarding this gorgeous island nation the elite status of Indian Ocean’s Leading Beach Destination, Indian Ocean’s Leading Cruise Destination, Indian Ocean’s Leading Tourist Board, and Indian Ocean’s Leading Destination – awards were received by the Minister of Tourism himself, Mr. Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor, who was also named Indian Ocean’s Travel & Tourism Personality of the Year. The winners within the resort categories included lots of our partner resorts, with LUX* Maldives being named Indian Ocean’s Leading Beach Resort, Ocean Haven at W Retreat Maldives won for Indian Ocean’s Leading Hotel Suite, Frégate Island Private within the Seychelles was awarded Indian Ocean’s Leading Private Island Resort, and Hilton Mauritius received a statue for Mauritius’ Leading Spa Resort! We congratulate all of our partners who were recognized as leaders in luxury travel, and are proud to be working with each of them!

    The World Travel Awards were launched in 1993 to recognize and recognize excellence within the global travel and tourism industry. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, it’s considered as the very highest achievement that a travel product could hope to receive and their aim is to focus on and reward those travel brands that experience made the best contribution to the industry over the last year. Votes are cast by greater than 700,000 travel professionals and consumers in over 170 countries around the globe.

    Atoll Paradise is busy with plans for further expansion, on the point of move into their new state-of-the-art office complex by next month, where they’ll benefit from the perfect that technology has to give, to make sure customers can lie back and relax worry-free while on vacation.

    Atoll Paradise extends a heartfelt Thanks to its customers, business partners, and employees – only in the course of the dedicated collaboration of all three components can a tender company like this achieve such heights of success!

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  • News: Birmingham New Street’s 150-year history revealed as station switchover nears

    A choice of original plans and drawings detailing the 150-year history of Birmingham New Street were published for the primary time, as passengers await the hole of the 1st 1/2 the station’s new concourse in under a week’s time – the primary major change to New Street station in over 40 years.

    The station has remained largely unchanged because it was last redeveloped in 1967 and in additional recent years have been the focal point of much criticism as numbers of folk using the railway has increased, with greater than double the passengers using New Street today than it was designed for. The experience for passengers is poor, with the station being too dark, busy and overcrowded with inadequate access to platforms. This month, everything changes because the halfway point of the station transformation is reached.

    To mark the closure of the old concourse later this month, the Network Rail archive team has for the primary time published the unique plans and drawings of the station on its virtual archive. The various plans date back to the 19th century, showing the layout of the unique station which opened in 1854 in addition to the 1960’s rebuild. The web exhibition are located at www.networkrail.co.uk/virtualarchive/new-street

    Vicky Stretch, Network Rail archivist said: “Since publishing the primary railway architectural plans on our virtual archive over a year ago, it’s been fascinating to gradually work through our number of over five million records to look what other elements of the railway’s history we will uncover. With the upcoming unveiling of the recent concourse at Birmingham New Street, we’ve been looking for the unique plans and drawings of the station and feature found a number of great interest and importance at this exciting time of change for passengers. Little or no survives for the unique nineteenth century New Street, but what we do have, in addition to a set of the more familiar 1960s station, is now published online.”

    New Street wasn’t always the eyesore that has proved so unpopular within the city lately. When the unique station first opened in 1851, it was the biggest inside the country, encompassed by the most important single span arched roof on earth at 212ft wide and 840ft long. Constructed by a similar team who built Paddington station, New Street in its original guise was a grand structure and typical of 19th century architecture and only rivalled by the arriving of St Pancras in 1868.

    When the brand new concourse opens on the end of this month, it is going to be one-and-a-half times bigger than the present one, featuring all the facilities expected in a significant station, with a brand new, larger and improved ticket office and new lifts and escalators improving access to platforms.

    Ahead of the 28 April, the general public exhibition giving comprehensive information regarding the station switchover will occur at the main concourse at New Street between 7am-7pm Tuesday (April 23) and Friday (April 26) and 9am-7pm on Saturday (April 27).

  • News: Expedia enhances mobile app

    Expedia has added a suite of sturdy, visual mobile travel planning services to its Expedia mobile app.

    Using location awareness and timezone updates, the app surfaces essentially the mostsome of the most relevant a part of the itinerary and related information, comparable to airport maps, flight status, confirmation codes and addresses, at the present the traveller is almost always to wish that piece of data.

    Andy Washington, Managing Director of Expedia within the UK and Ireland said, “We know that travel may be stressful especially when your plans change otherwise you ought to leave on the last minute. You’re dashing to the airport and also you don’t always have time or access to a printer to print all of your travel information.

    “So the power to examine your gate to your option to the airport, view a map of the airport terminal or quickly check the hotel location means you could cope with getting essentially the mostsome of the most from your trip.” Adds Andy.

    The integration of travel management tools will even offer travellers the prospect to access all bookings, whether made on a desktop, tablet or smartphone, wherever they’re.

    The addition of mobile itineraries neatly complements the features which have made the free Expedia app one of many top apps in travel: flight booking from greater than 130 airlines, collection of greater than 140,000 hotel properties and mobile-only deals.
    Expedia also announced that the Expedia mobile app have been downloaded over 11 million times in over 220 different countries and territories including iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows 8 tablet versions.

  • News: GetThere partners with TNS Partners

    GetThere has signed of a multi-year contract with TNS Partners, a Dallas-based retained executive search firm.

    Through its agreement with GetThere, TNS Partners will capitalize on Sabre’s innovative virtual meetings system to support the expansion and advancement of its international recruiting efforts. Sabre Virtual Meetings is the best solution providing enterprise-wide, secure access to non-public and partner video conferencing rooms in addition to a worldwide network of thousands of public rooms.

    TNS Partners is liable for recruiting top talent on a worldwide level and already uses visual communications to evaluate and evaluate prospective candidates world wide. With Sabre Virtual Meetings, the firm could be capable of simply locate, reserve and fix high definition video conferencing rooms via a simple to exploit, cloud-based scheduling system for personal and public rooms.

    “We are excited that TNS Partners will utilize our ground-breaking collaboration technology for its recruitment process,” said Suzanne Neufang, president of GetThere and Sabre Virtual Meetings. “The ability to simply find the suitable video meeting rooms with transparency around price and repair is extremely compelling.”

    As the worldwide workforce continues to modify and evolve so do the methods of attracting and recruiting top talent. Virtual recruitment is becoming an increasingly popular option worldwide because it provides candidates and corporations a more efficient means to “meet” and have interaction in a more traditional sense resulting in more informed hiring decisions.  Sabre Virtual Meetings provides access to probably the most prominent virtual meeting rooms creating unparalleled customer experiences and thereby enhancing the administrative search processes.

    “GetThere was an obvious choice for us since it allows us to mix proven travel technology expertise with innovative virtual meeting capabilities under one program,” said Brian Trueblood, principal at TNS Partners, Inc.

    “Sabre Virtual Meetings is a smart addition to our service offering since it allows our team to simply and quickly find the optimal virtual meeting rooms to glue clients with potential candidates from all over the world. That’s exactly the sort of efficiency and expertise a business like ours needs for our partners to accomplish on the highest level.”

    GetThere continues to steer the industry with its innovative technology offerings. Recognizing the desire for a strong, easy-to-manage travel program for corporations of every kind and sizes, GetThere is now offering customers a special collaboration pricing bundle.

    The new pricing bundle means integrated travel and virtual meetings management at a single, affordable monthly price for firms of all sizes.  Combining the perfect-in-class GetThere online travel solution with Virtual Meetings allows businesses to assist employees take advantage of informed decisions on tips on how to meet.  Employees can easily consider both convenience and value-effectiveness with regards to their travel and meetings options.

  • News: Pegasus Solutions sells financial services division

    Pegasus Solutions has sold its financial services division, Pegasus Financial Services, to H.I.G. Capital, LLC. Confirming the sale, chief executive officer David Millili reported the corporate is now in growth mode with renewed specialise in its core business.

    “The move to sell our commission processing division was made to permit us to regulate our attention and resources to the major role we play facilitating billions of booking transactions for our global hotel clients annually,” said Millili.

    “We have a responsibility to those hotels not to only understand what they must improve operations, but to also deliver the proper prescribed set of services and solutions to achieve that. Since becoming CEO, we’ve seen that probably the most valuable tools and insights we are able to offer lie within our core distribution and reservations business.” Millili added.

    Terms of the sale weren’t disclosed.