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  • Rezidor announces the Radisson Blu Hotel Port Harcourt Olympia in Nigeria

    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 the prevailing Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, Lagos VI; the up and coming Radisson Blu Hotel, Abuja and the Park Inn by Radissons in Lagos, Apapa and Ikeja, Abeoukuta and Abuja. Nigeria is a key development marketplace for Rezidor – the gang is the primary international operator to supply world-class hotel standards within the three major financial hubs of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

    The Radisson Blu hotel site is found within the southern a part of town within the less congested old Government Reserve Area directly opposite the Port Harcourt Club 1928 Golf course with spectacular views over the fairways and greens. Besides 206 guest rooms with Radisson Blu signature services corresponding to free high speed internet access the hotel will offer an all-day dining restaurant, a specialty restaurant & bar, and the most important conference facilities throughout the Niger Delta, with 2,100sqm of conference and meeting space. Additionally there’ll be a gym, spa, outdoor swimming pool, business centre and rooftop bar & terrace.

    Port Harcourt is the industrial hub of the Niger Delta and the capital of Rivers State, certainly one of Nigeria’s richest states due its large crude oil and natural gas deposits. It’s home to major oil companies, banking institutions and government agencies. Hotel room supply inside the city has not grown for several years, and the brand new built Radisson Blu business and conference hotel will have the benefit of being the foremost modern internationally branded property within the city.

  • Peru to host World Travel Awards in Latin America

    World Travel Awards has confirmed it may head to Lima, Peru, for its first South America Gala Ceremony on July 20th.

    Peru becomes the primary South American host of the development during its 20 year history.

    The glittering red carpet event will happen on the site of the traditional Huaca Pucllana temple, located within the central Miraflores district, within the heart of the town.

    World Travel Awards was launched in 1993 to recognise, acknowledge and reward excellence inside the global travel, tourism and hospitality industry.

    Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, it’s regarded worldwide because the highest achievement a travel products or services could hope to receive and the Gala Awards ceremonies are seen because the premier networking events for global tourism and hospitality operators.

    José Luis Silva Martinot, minister of foreign trade & tourism, Peru said: “We celebrate that an event of such importance because the first Latin American edition of global Travel Awards may be held in Lima, Peru.

    “We trust this may create a brand new window for the world’s leaders within the tourism industry, and travellers besides, to determine the variety offered by our country and region.

    “The chosen venue, the stunning Huaca Pucllana, within the Miraflores neighbourhood will show the area how our past and present live together, and the way tourism is becoming key for a brighter future for our country.”

    WTA will showcase Lima as a combined tourist and business hub, witnessed by the links created between the past and the prevailing day and on the predominant temples within the city where young archaeologists continue to work on and integrate them into the community. 

    The means of urbanisation, way to the joint efforts of archaeologists and residents, has seen dozens of ancient temples and archaeological sites left untouched and preserved, standing out against the bustling metropolis.

    World Travel Awards vice chairman Chris Frost added: “The significance of holding the sector Travel Awards here for the 1st time can’t be underestimated.

    “Lima is the economic and monetary centre of Peru, and one of the vital important financial nodes in Latin America.

    “Today it’s home to many national companies and accounts for greater than two thirds of Peru’s industrial production.

    “Bringing the region’s tourism influencers to Lima and highlighting globally just how much Peru has to present the visitor, whether for business, for adventure, romance or a family holiday.

    “We can showcase Peru for all it offers through our established and ever expanding World Travel Awards network.”

  • News: Aer Lingus expands codeshare with United

    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 flights between Dublin and Manchester and Dublin and Birmingham.

    Aer Lingus and United have also signed an agreement on airport lounge access. Effective April 1st 2013, Aer Lingus business class customers travelling via Chicago and beyond on Aer Lingus codeshare flights could have access to 21 United Club lounges at airports including Seattle, L. a., San Francisco and Minneapolis.

    Also effective April 1st, United BusinessFirst customers departing on United flights from Dublin to Long island/Newark and Washington/Dulles can have access to Aer Lingus’ Gold Circle Lounge at Dublin Airport.

    Commenting at the announcement, Aer Lingus Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Kavanagh said: “Our partnership with United Airlines has gone from strength to strength during the last five years. As well as increased frequency on our services to Chicago and Boston, these enhancements add to the seamless travel options we will be able to now offer customers travelling to and from america and Canada.”

    Jim Compton, United’s Vice president and Chief Revenue Officer, said: “We are delighted to improve our relationship with Aer Lingus to create additional benefits for United customers traveling between Ireland and the U.S., from smoother connections to improved lounge facilities. Our 18 peak-season departures per day to the U.S. from London Heathrow, where the vast majority of our operations are co-located with Aer Lingus in Terminal 1, connect well with Aer Lingus flights from the island of eire.

  • Tel Aviv makes play for visitors with new initiatives

    The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and the Tel Aviv Global & Tourism Administration have launched two new schemes designed to assist improve the visitor experience and strengthen similar to town all over.

    The two schemes are a completely unique course for taxi drivers and free city-wide wi-fi access.

    Both organisations believe the city’s 3,000 taxi drivers are the ideal ambassadors to the promote Tel Aviv-Yafo as an international city, as they see visitors on their arrival and through their stay.

    Taxi drivers who take part in the scheme will find out about service and familiarise themselves with the city’s famous landmarks to enhance visitor experience.

    Drivers participating within the course will sign a service treaty, wherein they’re going to decide to withhold international standards of service and professionalism and once completed, their taxis will then carry a unique Smile Taxi Tel Aviv sticker.

    In addition to this, the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and the Tel Aviv Global & Tourism Administration have also announced that free wi-fi reception might be available in 80 different locations across the city.

    There may be a gentle roll-out of the service over summer 2013 in order for visitors and business travellers can stay connected to the web completely without cost.

  • News: Etihad announces strongest ever 1Q results

    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 Airways, said: “Our Q1 2013 results have again outstripped global trends, with our strongest ever first quarter results for passenger revenue.

    “This performance demonstrates that Etihad Airways’ process of organic growth, wide-ranging partnerships, and strategic equity investments is delivering for us and our partners,” he said.

    Revenue from codeshare and equity partners jumped by 34 per cent from US$136 million to US$182 million within the first three months of the year and represented 20 per cent of total revenue within the quarter.

    “As well as increasing top-line revenue, our equity partnerships will improve bottom-line results, through cost savings delivered by operational synergies,” Mr Hogan said.

    Etihad Airways’ equity alliance comprises airberlin, Air Seychelles, Virgin Australia, and Aer Lingus. Each airline announced profitable results in the course of the first quarter of 2013, which demonstrates the success of this new alliance model for all of the member airlines.

    In February 2013, Etihad Airways announced a US$42 million profit for 2012 with revenues of US$4.8 billion and passenger numbers breaking 10 million for the 1st time.

    Etihad Airways’ available seat kilometres (ASKs) rose 12 per cent in Q1 2013 to fifteen.9 billion, (2012: 14.3 billion) because the fleet grew to 73 passenger and load aircraft (2012: 66 aircraft). Revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose 17 per cent to twelve.9 billion (2012: 10.9 billion) sharply out performing capacity growth.

    Running counter to industry trends, Etihad Cargo posted new highs within the first quarter. Volumes were up 20 per cent (on capacity growth of nineteen per cent). This was driven by a robust performance in North East Asia, combined with good growth from the Indian Subcontinent from mid-February.

    The new twice-weekly freighter operation from Houston to Abu Dhabi enhanced the consequences.

    Etihad Cargo also took delivery of a brand new Boeing 777 Freighter, which was deployed on European and African routes throughout the quarter. A second Boeing 747 freighter entered the fleet on the end of March, taking the full cargo fleet to 8 aircraft.

    Strong charter cargo results also underpinned the potential and suppleness of the freighter operation.