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  • Travelling deemed more important than marriage or buying a house

    On March 20 the arena recognises the 1st ever International Day of Happiness, an afternoon established by the United Nations General Assembly.  To coincide a brand new survey reveals how travel factors into happiness within the UK and worldwide.

    88 percent of Britons surveyed inside the 2013 G Adventures Happiness Survey stated that travel is important to their happiness, higher than the worldwide average of 83 percent. 74 percent of Britons said travel was most crucial to their happiness, sooner than marriage (8%), buying a home (7%) and having a toddler (6%).

    Brits also are more inclined to travel solo (30%) than people in other parts of the realm (25%). a stunning eight percent of individuals in a relationship opt to hit the line alone, and relatives are the least popular people to travel with at just three percent.

    Michael Edwards, managing director, G Adventures, says the implications are indicative of the truth individuals are travelling more and realising there’s a whole world accessible to explore.

    “We’ve always known the united kingdom is a travelling nation and these results show their love of travel continues to be higher than the remainder of the arena. Considered one of our core values is creating happiness and community and it’s evident through these results that travelling is fundamental to people’s happiness.”

    According to the worldwide survey, travelling is more important to girls than men and while men wish to travel with their other half, women ranked “friends” as their ideal globetrotting companions.

    Nearly two-thirds (61%) admitted that more day off to travel would cause them to happier at work and is more important than an increased salary or having their very own office. In terms of bonuses, half would select a free trip (52% within the UK) instead of cash or additional days off. Half the respondents confessed to daydreaming about travel for an hour daily at work, while in five spend the total day fantasising about being abroad, clear of the office.

    When asked what aspect of travel makes respondents most happy, “new experiences” topped the list, followed by “culture” and “meeting new people”. Australia and New Zealand are essentially the mostsome of the most desired destinations and nearly half (46%) of these surveyed enjoy carrying out active experiences when travelling.

    Furthermore, greater than half (57%) like to celebrate a cheerful occasion including a birthday or anniversary somewhere abroad or overseas. When not travelling, 60 per cent of respondents find inspiration researching travel online.

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  • News: Delta pursues Brazil growth

    Delta Air Lines has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation so as to add additional nonstop flights between Sao Paulo and the important thing business markets of recent York and Atlanta, increasing competition on air service between the U.S. and Brazil.

    If approved, Delta will begin second daily Sao Paulo flights to both Atlanta and Ny in 2013.

    “Delta has a robust commitment to the Latin American market and we wish to increase options of travel to and from Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest and most crucial marketplace for business travelers,” said Nicolas Ferri, Delta’s vice president— Latin America and the Caribbean.

    “Our expanded service means more options for purchasers flying between these key business markets, and new flights to our hub in Atlanta mean greater access to our industry-leading domestic network.” Ferri added.

    From Atlanta, Delta can conveniently connect Sao Paulo to greater than 150 cities around the U.S. with greater than 1,000 peak-day departures. Delta also offers more access to 24 destinations in Brazil which represent 99 percent of domestic demand points- greater than the other U.S. airline – because of its strategic alliance with GOL Linhas aereas inteligentes. 

    Delta currently operates 35 nonstop weekly flights between Brazil and the U.S. including Atlanta, Detroit and Long island-JFK to Sao Paulo, in addition to from Atlanta to Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia.

    Delta’s proposed addition of a second daily flight between Sao Paulo and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York’s marks another important step in Delta’s plan to take a position and grow at Big apple. The brand new flight will operate out of the expanded and enhanced state-of the-art International Terminal 4, which opens its doors in 90 days amid a $1.4 billion million terminal expansion project. 

    In its filing, Delta also requested approval to continue its daily nonstop service between its hub in Detroit and Sao Paulo. Delta’s right to function that flight will transfer to US Airways in 2015 as a part of a previously approved slot transaction that allowed Delta to expand at LaGuardia Airport in Big apple.

    This is the primary time in additional than a decade that the dept of Transportation has the chance to allocate new Sao Paulo frequencies.  These opportunities arise as direct results of the U.S. government’s success in negotiating a brand new air service agreement with Brazil, that is expected to lead to an entire Open Skies agreement by 2015.

    “The new frequencies may help to advance tourism and commercial interests for both Brazil and the U.S. by creating jobs and boosting local economies,” said Andrea Fischer Newman, senior vp — Government Affairs.  “It is important that the DOT grants these frequencies to Delta because it helps to level the playing field among airlines servicing Brazil.”

    The new frequencies could be served with Delta’s 767-300ER equipped with state-of-the-art flatbed seats, video on demand entertainment system, and award-winning food and wine service, Ferri said.  The 767 has a capacity of 210 passengers, 35 Business Elite, 32 Economy Comfort and 143 economy class seats.

  • Choice Hotels International and Booking.com sign corporate agreement

    Choice Hotels International, Inc, among the world’s largest lodging franchisors, today announced that it has entered right into a global corporate agreement with Booking.com, a number one online travel agency (OTA), that pulls over 30 million unique online visitors from both leisure and business markets worldwide.

    This agreement with Booking.com expands the reach of the alternative Hotels brands to millions of shoppers in 180 countries and helps Choice Hotels develop future business relationships, especially within the international arena where Choice Hotels has a robust presence.

    “Our guests are constantly changing the manner they shop for and book hotels. Choice Hotels is to ensure that we stay alongside of consumers and offer the most effective rates and options online to satisfy their needs. That’s why we’re extremely pleased to be working with Booking.com to further strengthen our distribution platform” said, Robert McDowell, senior vice chairman, global distribution and loyalty, Choice Hotels International. “Since Booking.com is understood for its great product, international customer base and price effectiveness as an OTA, we’re certain to see much more traffic to our franchisees hotels.”

    The agreement also provides both parties with flexible terms and selection Hotels with the chance to diversify global relationships with leading OTAs and expand its online presence to achieve new customers and continue driving record traffic to its franchise hotels. It also gives consumers who’ve Booking.com as their preferred online travel site, access to approximately 6,200 hotels worldwide the selection Hotels system.

  • Tourism Australia has another world record in its sights

    Sydney photographers, bloggers, instagrammers and tweeters are being invited to Bondi this Saturday (23 March 2013) to sign up for Colby Brown, considered one of America’s most influential photography bloggers try to set a brand new world record for the most important ever ‘photo-walk’.

    The Bronte to Bondi Photo Walk is supported by Google, Samsung and Destination NSW and is a part of a brand new Tourism Australia program, targeting digital influencers and opinion leaders, inviting them to share their images and experiences of Australia with their extensive social media followings.

    Colby is a pro photographer based in Denver, Colorado and has 2.3 million followers on Google+.

    “Australia has this sort of vibrant and active photography community that may be known world wide. I instantly knew that i wished to do a photograph walk in Sydney since it is the sort of beautiful location and provides an excellent opportunity to bring that thriving community together to celebrate and showcase much of what town has to supply the arena,” Colby Brown said.

    Tourism Australia Managing Director Andrew McEvoy said that the integration of Colby’s photographic talent and big following of fans provided a strong platform to showcase a number of Australia’s ideal tourism experiences.

    “With greater than four million fans, we have already got the most important destination Facebook fan page on this planet, and apparently we only need about 300 people to enroll in Colby in this Bronte-Bondi Photo Walk to make it a brand new world record for Australia,” Mr McEvoy said.

    As well because the photo walk, Colby Brown might be also playing Google+ ‘Hangouts’ during his Australian trip, which also take up the natural landscapes and scenery of South Australia, Tasmanian, Victoria and Western Australia.

    A selection of leading Australian digital influencers are supporting the realm record bid, including South Sydney photographer Michael Sutton, who will accompany Colby and share his own photos taken in the course of the walk along with his 52,000 Google+ followers.

    The world record for a photograph-walk is currently held by another prominent US photography blogger, Trey Ratcliff. It happened in Melbourne in January and was attended by 289 people.

    The Bronte to Bondi Photo Walk happens on Saturday 23 March: starting at Bronte Beach at 3pm and finishing at the North Bondi grassy knoll around sunset.

    Participants taking the appropriate photograph can win as much as $8,000 worth of prizes, including cameras and photography equipment in addition to Bridgeclimb vouchers.

    Colby and Michael will both be posting real-time updates of the photo-walk on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+. The hashtags for the photo-walk are #Bondi2013 and #SeeAustralia

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  • News: IHG plans major expansion in Russia

    IHG has signed a franchise multiple development agreement (MDA) with Regional Hotel Chain to develop 15 new hotels in Russia by 2019, which, when open, will double the scale of IHG’s estate there because it stands today, and can introduce the vacation Inn Express brand to the region for the 1st time.

    The 15 new Holiday Inn Express hotels will add approximately 2,250 rooms, when signed, to IHG’s current Russia development pipeline of over 1,700 rooms (5 hotels).

    The locations for the primary two of those hotels are Chelyabinsk and Voronezh. Holiday Inn Express Voronezh – Kirova is because of open within the second half 2014 and

    Holiday Inn Express Chelyabinsk – Central Station, is scheduled to open in summer 2015.

    IHG’s chief executive officer, Europe, Angela Brav said:  “This is a breakthrough for IHG in Russia. It marks the debut of the vacation Inn Express brand there and, when the hotels open we shall have doubled the dimensions of our system because it stands in Russia today, creating a significant step towards our ambition to be market leaders.”

    The Holiday Inn Express brand is designed to be the smart choice for value-conscious business and leisure travellers.

    IHG previously announced plans to have 100 hotels across Russia and the rest of the CIS open and inside the pipeline by 2020.

    The company said it’ll work with local investors to introduce managed and franchised hotels around the country, where there’s a need for internationally branded hotels.  Its expansion shall be driven by growth in regional centres and new fast-growing cities with well-established business communities and tourist attractions.

    IHG has 13 hotels (3,894 rooms) open in Russia, with another 5 hotels (1,773 rooms) within the pipeline so that it will open within the next 3 to five years.