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  • Centara Hotels in mobile focus

    Centara Hotels & Resorts has launched a mobile optimised website and iPhone and Android apps which will enable anyone to examine room availability and book online using their smartphone.  The apps can be found at Apple Apps Store for iPhone, and Google Play for Android.

    “We are very happy to announce this new user experience, which adds tremendous flexibility to our very strong online presence,” says Chris Bailey, Senior Vice chairman for Sales and Marketing at Centara Hotels & Resorts.

    “Our research has shown there’s enormous potential support for this service, and it brings the complete range of Centara properties and services right onto your mobile.”

  • News: Unprecedented 5.7% rise in visitors from UK to Germany

    Destination Germany remains heading in the right direction for fulfillment, with excellent growth within the volume of overnight stays by international visitors providing much of the momentum. In 2012 the German Federal Statistical Office recorded in way over 68.8 million overnight stays by visitors from abroad in accommodation establishments with greater than ten beds, a rise of around 8 per cent at the previous year. “We have exceeded, by a transparent margin, the forecast volume of 400 million overnight stays from Germany and abroad. This emphatically underlines the large acclaim for Destination Germany, that is becoming increasingly attractive to people from other countries,” says Ernst Burgbacher, Member of the German Parliament, Parliamentary State Secretary on the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology and Federal Government Commissioner for SMEs and Tourism.

    Europe and the BRIC countries go from strength to strength

    The German Federal Statistical Office recorded a complete of 68.8 million overnight stays by visitors from abroad in 2012, up 8 per cent at the previous year.  The united kingdom market (visitors from the united kingdom to Germany) alone rose by 5.7%. “The European source markets and the BRIC countries are going from strength to strength and so they have played an incredible role on this new record result for inbound tourism in Germany. If the most source markets continue to accomplish strongly, we can be on course to pass the 80 million mark in international overnight stays by 2020,” says Petra Hedorfer, Chief Executive Officer of the German National Tourist Board (GNTB). In accordance with a UNWTO survey, growth in inbound tourism for Destination Germany remains well above the worldwide and European average.

  • U.S. travel agencies air ticket sales virtually flat in comparison with 2012

    ARC, the financial settlement link between airlines and travel sellers, reported today that the consolidated dollar value of airline tickets sold by U.S.-based travel agencies increased 0.20 percent* year-over-year inside the first two months of 2013 in comparison to the similar period last year, totaling $15 billion vs. $14.9 billion in 2012.

    Ticket transactions to date for 2013 decreased 1.05 percent over the identical period in 2012 to twenty-five.5 million. Year-to-date passenger segments were essentially flat, decreasing 0.7 percent to 53.8 million in comparison with 54.5 million in 2012.

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  • News: ITB Berlin 2013: CLIA expands with national organisation in Germany

    Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) today announced the establishment of CLIA Germany on the world’s biggest tourism fair ITB Berlin 2013. The hot national association can be headquartered in Hamburg and can be chaired by Michael Ungerer, CEO of AIDA Cruises. This follows CLIA’s Jan. 30 announcement of its expanded resources in Europe with CLIA Germany joining CLIA UK and Ireland and CLIA Netherlands as part of CLIA’s newly established global structure.

    “The establishment of CLIA Germany further expands our presence in Europe, probably the most important markets for the worldwide cruise industry,” said Christine Duffy, president and CEO of CLIA. “With a significantly enhanced presence in Europe the cruise industry hasn’t ever been better positioned to talk with one global voice.”

    “We are very happy to announce the establishment of CLIA Germany as portion of CLIA’s new worldwide structure,” said Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio, Chairman of CLIA Europe, in his keynote speech which introduced ITB’s Cruise Panel. “With the establishment of a German national association, the cruise industry can better support its members locally and confirm they make the most of CLIA’s global programs within the second largest cruise market in Europe, one that has experienced substantial growth in recent times with the choice of passengers growing from 1.2 million in 2010 to at least one.4 million in 2011, a year-over-year increase of nearly 14 percent.”

    CLIA Germany’s Leadership Council shall be led by Ungerer, Michael Zengerle, Managing Director of MSC Cruises Germany as Vice president, and Helge Grammerstorf, Managing Director of SeaConsult, as National Director. As a part of CLIA’s unified structure, along side German cruise lines, all relevant European regional and global association members may have membership on CLIA Germany’s Leadership Council. Additionally, ex-officio seats could be provided to German Travel Association, German Shipowners Association, and the CLIA Europe Secretary General.

    CLIA Germany can be focusing extensive energies on strengthening its relationships with the travel agent community and the German Travel Association. Given this emphasis, Richard Vogel, CEO of TUI Cruises, who also serves as chairman of the German Travel Association’s Cruise Section, could be the cruise industry’s primary liaison to the travel agent community.

  • Turkish Culture & Tourism Office UK is event partner for first Istanbul INN London

    The Turkish Culture & Tourism Office UK would be the event partner for the primary-ever INN London, hung on 12-15 April, that allows you to focus exclusively on Turkey’s cultural capital of Istanbul.

    Running over four days this April, INN London will reveal what makes Istanbul unique, from its contemporary art and architecture, to its fashion, food, drink and cultural life.  This unique lifestyle & cultural experience bringing Istanbul’s leading architects, artists, designers, fashion designers, galleries & shops, in addition to celebrity guest chef Silvena Rowe, to London this April will include a programme of cultural talks and events, information on travelling in Turkey in addition to the possibility to buy Turkish products.

    INN London is appropriate for prospective travellers, people with an interest in what’s new and upcoming in Istanbul and for folks trying to mounted business links. INN Istanbul will then go on tour with events within the Middle East, Far East and the Americas.

    Exhibitors at INN London will include galleries Pi Artworks, Dirimart, Gallery X-ist, Merkur, Elipsis, Sanatorium, artSumer and Cda Projects; architects Emre Arolat Architects and Superpool; fashion houses Vakko and decorators Iksel and Merve Kahraman.

    Director of the Turkish Culture and Tourism Office UK, Tolga Tuyluoglu, says: “INN London is a thrilling project and one who resonates with our objectives in promoting Istanbul’s varied cultural and tourist attractions to London and a much wider UK audience. The level of the research that has already gone into the project is impressive and it’s evident that INN’s remit is to check out and remain as authentic and true to Istanbul’s being as possible, whilst endeavouring to prevent cliché – a role which complements the method of this office”.

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