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  • Focus: Fashion and gadget summer holiday essentials for 2013

    It’s no accident that spring’s fashion weeks coincide with technology conferences and new phone launches. Samsung chose to unveil its much-anticipated S4 in Times Square just weeks after Chanel unveiled designer Karl Lagerfield’s hula-hoop bag. While the S4 may prove to be a way more popular purchase, even hula-hoop bags could have an area on this 2013 round-up of summer holiday musts.

    Gadget: the travel-friendly Smartphone
    Move over, iPhone. The S4 launch was their most secretive and largest yet, with Samsung renting out New York’s Radio City Music Hall and making a feature-length performance advertising the S4’s features. These include a built-in translator and TripAdvisor app—making the S4 one of the crucial travel-friendly phone out there.

    Taking a prized Smartphone on holiday can be dangerous: accidents do happen. Alcatel is now selling a £1 phone, that is cheap back-up. The telephone is restricted to texts and contact calls but on a beach in Majorca, that can be all you want.

    Fashion: the hot season’s swimsuit
    Despite a brand new swimsuit being probably the most popular items for a summer holiday, only 1 third of ladies actually purchase a brand new bikini each year. This low number may well be as a result of inconvenience and trouble of shopping in stores, so women are adapting. Shopsmart estimates that 27 per cent of girls now do their swimsuit shopping online. For updated patterns, shapes and styles, try the most recent range of swimwear at Very.co.uk.

    Gadget: the portable router
    In the tech world, everything is getting more compact and convenient to move. Enter smaller and smaller routers that transform a lacklustre hotel’s connection right into a WiFi paradise. The latest router from Asus is approximately the dimensions of a pack of gum. A USB connector links an Ethernet cable for your laptop and transforms into an online point for all of your gadgets.

    Fashion: the tote bag
    This season’s designers tended towards transportable tote bags for his or her collections. With the exemption of the hula-hoop bag, the runway totes seemed both high-fashion and straightforward to wear. On the beach, big bags are a need and by chance, this season’s fashion favours the massive and the bold on the earth of purses.

    Gadget: the Bluetooth keyboard
    Taking laptops on holiday is so passé. Just ask Apple: they’ve thrown their marketing efforts into selling the iPad mini like many companies embracing tablets. What’s hard to get around is the irritating touchscreen . . .

    And that is where a Bluetooth keyboard turns out to be useful, cordlessly connecting to a tablet to create a tool with all of the advantages of a laptop and not one of the portability issues. They’re thinner and more lightweight than ever and Archos has an iPad-friendly one which is stylish and simple to exploit.

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  • Accor brings Adagio brand to UK with Liverpool opening

    Hotel giant Accor is launching the Adagio aparthotels within the UK, with the primary property opening in Liverpool today. Located within the heart of the town, close to the Albert Dock, the Liverpool Adagio will offer for extended stays, 126 modern and spacious apartments, all with fully equipped kitchens and access to hotel services.

  • News: Maldives moves to outlaw bottled water

    Whole World Water announced earlier Maldives president Mohamed Waheed will celebrate World Water Day by signing the entire World Water Referendum for Clean & Safe Water.

    The referendum encourages the hospitality and tourism industry to exchange branded bottled water with filtered water sold in recycled, reusable glass bottles.

    The plan also sees tourism operators donate ten per cent of the proceeds to the entire World Water Fund.

    The Referendum can be signed during an on-air Google+ Hangout.

    The Whole World Water Google+ Hangout will highlight how governments can work with the personal sector to drive positive, sustainable change.

    Considered a top tourism destination by many, the Maldives is without doubt one of the most vulnerable of the small island states to the results of climate change, and faces acute development challenges similar to a shortage of potable water.

    With 28 per cent of the GDP coming from tourism, this industry has a serious role to play in helping to mitigate these challenges.

    “What our world urgently should achieve sustained development would require significant changes in what we produce, and the way we consume our resources,” said president Waheed.

    “It is my hope that by endorsing this initiative, all hotels and resorts within the Maldives will join Whole World Water and that the Maldives will function a world example of ways governments can work with the personal sector to drive positive, sustainable change for all.”

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  • Paradise Island Resort inside the Maldives prepares for World Travel Awards

    Indian Ocean paradise destination the Maldives is preparing to hose the sector Travel Awards Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony on May 12th.

    It would be the first time the awards ceremony has visited the destination, with the distinguished event acclaimed globally as a premier networking platform within the travel industry.

    The Gala Ceremony would be a classy and glamorous five-star island-style event, synonymous with the idyllic Maldives.

    The event also marks a double celebratory year, with the Maldives celebrating 40 years of tourism, while the realm Travel Awards is celebrating its 20th Anniversary.

    Paradise Island Resort & Spa, section of the Villa Group, will host the development, welcoming an array of personalities and leaders from the region.

    Hosting the ceremony can be internationally acclaimed television and movie personality Shereen Mitwalli, who has hosted events world wide and should bring her experience, warmth and glamour to the evening.

    Lets go Maldives – a number one consortium of experienced travel professionals who passionately promote the selling of this exquisite region – may also offer its support the worldwide event.

    Mohamed Riyaz, managing director, Lets go Maldives, said: “We are honoured to join World Travel Awards; an event that actually celebrates the spirit of travel and tourism worldwide.”

    Over 58 awards shall be presented and categories including Indian Ocean’s Leading Beach Destination, Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline, Indian Ocean’s Leading Family Resort, Indian Ocean’s Leading Cruise Line, and Indian Ocean’s Leading Hotel Brand.

    Mohamed Adam, acting managing director, Maldives Marketing & Public Relations Corporation said: “We are extremely privileged and proud to be hosting essentially the most prestigious event of the travel industry, the area Travel Awards Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony inside the Maldives this year. 

    “Being the celebratory year of the 40th year of tourism within the Maldives, it brings us extra pleasure in extending a warm welcome to the delegates of worldwide Travel Awards to the… sunny side of life.”

  • Jumeirah to showcase its meetings & incentives offerings at GIBTM

    Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts within the UAE will showcase its diverse and growing meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) portfolio on this year’s edition of the Gulf Incentive, Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition (GIBTM), which occurs from 25-27March 2013 on the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center (ADNEC).

    Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts recorded a fifteen% increase in group room nights for 2012 in comparison to 2011, capitalising at the strength of its eight properties in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The head source markets for groups segment for all Jumeirah properties in Dubai and Abu Dhabi because the beginning of 2012 was the United Arab Emirates, Uk, Usa, Saudi Arabia, Germany and Switzerland. The best growth in business for the Dubai hotels have been from Saudi Arabia, Russia and South Africa, while for Abu Dhabi from United Arab Emirates, Uk, and Us of a.

    Christian Pertl, Vice chairman of Sales and Marketing in Dubai & MEASA, Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts said: “We are delighted on the increase in corporate and meetings business that our MICE offerings achieved in 2012. This have been driven not just by the standard of our hotels’ facilities and the special attention given to MICE business, but in addition by the rate of our response time to enquiries and the addition of 2 new properties to the UAE portfolio, Jumeirah at Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi and Jumeirah Creekside in Dubai.”

    In late Spring 2013 Jumeirah expects to open Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel in Kuwait, which has extensive meeting and conference facilities.

    Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts can be participating at GIBTM in both the Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing pavilion and the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority pavilion. Both stands will include representatives from the gang and taking part hotels including Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Madinat Jumeirah, Jumeirah Creekside Hotel and Jumeirah at Etihad Towers Hotel.