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News: Silversea appoints new sales manager for Scotland, Northern Ireland and North East

June 20, 2015 • admin
Silversea, the leading cruise operator renowned for its ultra-luxurious ships and exotic destinations, has announced a brand new appointment to its UK sales team. Amanda Middler, who has 11 years experience in sales has joined the Silversea team as Regional Sales Manager with responsibility for Northern Ireland, Scotland and the North East of britain, and may report back to Priti Mehta, Head of Sales UK & Ireland. Amanda joins from IHG Hotel Group, where for two years she was Position Cluster Sales Manager and successfully built strong relationships in the travel sector. Earlier than that Middler also worked for Monarch Airlines as Base Operations Manager and MyTravel Airways as Passenger Services Superintendent. Mike Bonner, Silversea’s General Manager for UK and Ireland, said: “We are excited to welcome Amanda to our...
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News: HRS and GetThere conform to strategic distribution collaboration

June 18, 2015 • admin
HRS, the global leading hotel portal for corporate customers, has entered right into a distribution agreement with GetThere, a world technology company serving corporations and brand of Sabre. The 250,000 hotels affiliated to HRS could be available by the tip of April to GetThere’s global corporate customers it doesn’t matter what global distribution system they use. HRS offers detailed and positive hotel information in 32 languages in addition to flexible and customer friendly booking conditions. “Working with GetThere complements our systematic multi-channel strategy and should mean all GetThere corporate customers can get pleasure from our wide hotel portfolio instantly. From the hotel’s perspective, the relationship to GetThere, will allow another global distribution channel with extended coverage particularly within the huge US market, where Sabre is the undisputed market leader within...
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Rezidor announces the Radisson Blu Hotel Port Harcourt Olympia in Nigeria

June 18, 2015 • admin
The Rezidor Hotel Group, essentially the mostsome of the most dynamic hotel companies worldwide and a member of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, announces the Radisson Blu Hotel Port Harcourt Olympia in Nigeria. The valuables is being developed by Cenpropsaroten Hotel Management Limited; it should feature 206 keys and is scheduled to open in Q1 2016. It brings Rezidor’s Nigerian portfolio to one,100 rooms in operation and under development. At the African continent Rezidor now operates and develops 49 hotels with 11,000 rooms. “Rezidor has the most important pipeline of rooms under development in sub-Saharan Africa. This signing further strengthens our leading position and underlines the significance Nigeria has for our group”, said Wolfgang M. Neumann, President & CEO at Rezidor. The new Radisson Blu Hotel, Port Harcourt Olympia complements...
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News: Aer Lingus expands codeshare with United

June 16, 2015 • admin
Aer Lingus and United Airlines have expanded their codeshare agreement. Aer Lingus will codeshare on United’s year-round non-stop service between Dublin and Washington/Dulles and seasonal non-stop service between Shannon and Chicago/O’Hare, with a purpose to operate between June 7 and August 27, 2013. United has also recently expanded codesharing with Aer Lingus to incorporate selected Aer Lingus-operated flights between Shannon and London Heathrow. Aer Lingus already codeshares on selected United-operated flights to 51 cities in the U.S. and Canada. United codeshares on Aer Lingus-operated flights from Dublin, Cork, Belfast and Shannon to London Heathrow, which give convenient connections to and from United-operated flights between Heathrow and its U.S. hubs: Chicago/O’Hare, Houston, L. a., Big apple/Newark, San Francisco and Washington/Dulles. The codeshare agreement has also been expanded to incorporate Aer Lingus-operated...
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News: Etihad announces strongest ever 1Q results

June 14, 2015 • admin
Etihad Airways, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary of operations, has recorded its strongest ever passenger for a primary quarter. The Abu Dhabi-based airline posted Q1 2013 passenger revenues of US$900 million (2012: US$758 million), a rise of nineteen per cent. Passenger numbers in Q1 2013 grew by 18 per cent, rising from 2.3 million to a record 2.8 million. The average seat factor was 80.5 per cent, four percentage points higher than the former year (2012: 76.5 per cent), despite a 12 per cent increase in capacity. The seat factor is above IATA’s current global average of 77.1 per cent. Etihad Cargo also had its strongest first quarter, with tonnage up 20 per cent from 85,152 to 101,776 tonnes. James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad...
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