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  • ASEAN starts promoting experiential and inventive tourism

    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is promoting six experiential and artistic travel themes to encourage multi-country trips across Southeast Asia. The themed promotions are component to the implementation of the ASEAN Tourism Business plan 2012-2015.

    The themes include: “The Tastes of Southeast Asia,” “ASEAN, a Tropical Paradise,” “World Class Cities,” “Experience Diverse Traditions,” “Sport and Relaxation,” and “Diverse Contemporary Creativity.”

    An initial list of 20 tour operators offering the topics in multi-country itineraries at the moment are at the new look ASEAN travel website, www.aseantourism.travel, the official website of ASEAN Tourism. More trips are being added. Website enhancements are underway.

    “Our new focus is on experiential and artistic tourism that respects environment and culture,” said Mr. Aung Zaw Win, Director General, Ministry of Hotels and Tourism Myanmar, who’s also Chairman of the ASEAN Tourism Product Development Working Group. “An authentic travel experience involves meaningful engagement with the heritage, arts and special character of our ASEAN destinations,” he said.

    Mr Aung Zaw Win urged tour operators in ASEAN countries to develop more multi-country packages highlighting experiential and artistic tourism, which he spoke of was a rising trend among consumers who want ‘authentic’ travel.

    “Today’s travellers are more sophisticated and eager about unique experiences with immersion in local ways of life,” he said. “Our role is to therefore support multi-country experiential travel within ASEAN member states.”

    To inspire travellers, ASEAN has compiled a chain of features about themes akin to beach, nature and wildlife; cruise tour and rail; culture and heritage; education and volunteering; food and nightlife; fun and leisure; health and spa; outdoor and water sports; and pilgrimage tourism.

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  • News: Europcar turns to KXEN’s infiniteInsight for predictive analytics

    KXEN, the leading provider of predictive analytics for business users, today announced that Europcar, the leader in car rental services in Europe, has purchased KXEN’s flagship product, InfiniteInsight®, to offer more targeted offers to its customer in addition to optimise insurance risk, fraud and operations using predictive analytics.

    “Our global view of the shopper is a strategic advantage for Europcar,” said Marie-Hélène Fagard, Group CIO at Europcar. “We expect to realize insight about our customers using KXEN.”

    During their evaluation of KXEN, Europcar was ready to demonstrate immediate value in two initial pilots:
    *  Luxury Cars – score customers according to their likelihood to hire a luxury vehicle and use the resulting list to prioritise targets in Neolane, their campaign management solution.
    *  Forecasting – accurately forecast demand for vehicles by rental stations and vehicle type.
    *  “We are desirous to unlock the price of KXEN across our business,” said Fagard. “We believe KXEN can let us create better targeted communications with our customers and optimize many aspects of our business.”
    *  “We’re pleased to partner with a market leader like Europcar,” said John Ball, CEO of KXEN. “We are committed to assist Europcar gain unparalleled insight about their customers and operations that may increase their competitive advantage within the car rental industry.”

  • New Park Inn by Radisson property opens in Glasgow

    The Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has opened the fashionable Park Inn by Radisson Glasgow City Centre.

    Located within the historic grade 2 listed Pearl Assurance building at the corner of West George Street and Renfield Street, the contemporary new Park Inn by Radisson Glasgow City Centre boasts a robust design element with features including a convenient self-check-in area, restaurant, bar, meeting rooms, on-site gym and a web kiosk.

    The 91 guest bedrooms on the new Park Inn By Radisson Glasgow City Centre are spacious and well-proportioned with high ceilings, neutral décor, large en-suites, free high speed Wi-Fi and flat screen TVs.

    All rooms within the hotel have also been fitted with sound proofed windows allowing guests to benefit from the buzz of being within the heart of town centre and still get a very good night’s sleep.

    The hotel’s restaurant provides an all-day offering with menu items including: fresh sandwiches, hearty soups, pizza, pasta, grills and sharing platters. 

    Meanwhile the bar will stock a wide selection of regional wines, beers, spirits and hot beverages offering the proper place to chill, socialise or hold a gathering. 

    The on-site fitness suite offers the very latest in state-of-the-art equipment giving the gym users the appropriate place to wind down or revitalise.

    For meetings, conferences and special events, the Park Inn by Radisson Glasgow City Centre has meeting space that’s both versatile and functional. 

    The hotel boasts two meeting rooms catering for as much as 30 delegates along with a non-public breakout area, perfect for serving coffees and lunches between meetings. 

    There is additionally an absolutely equipped internet kiosk ensuring business travellers can stay abreast of up to date developments and keep up a correspondence with the office.

    “This is a thrilling time for town of Glasgow with the highly anticipated arrival of The Hydro this year and the impending 2014 Commonwealth Games. 

    We feel it is a good time to feature to our Glasgow portfolio with a sturdy, modern hotel and I’m confident that we are able to offer something fresh and unique to the mid-market business and leisure traveller.

  • Copenhagen Airport passenger numbers up nearly 5% in June

    Passenger numbers at Copenhagen Airport were up 4.8% in June. a complete of two,329,956 passengers travelled through Copenhagen Airport throughout the first month of summer, the busiest month ever on the airport. The year-to-date increase in passenger numbers is two.2%.

    Many people travel abroad for his or her summer holidays, and that shows at Copenhagen Airport, because the variety of international passengers rose by 4.4% year on year in June.

    “June 2013 was the busiest month ever in Copenhagen Airport’s 88-year history. That emphasises how important it really is for us to have the big, 1,400 square metre expansion of Terminal 2 ready for the summer traffic. The hot, more light and spacious terminal area has 12 new check-in desks and a great number of additional self-service kiosks,” said Thomas Woldbye, CEO of Copenhagen Airport.

    Domestic traffic increased by up to 10.2%. This brought the full year-on-year increase in passenger numbers to 4.8% in June.

    Year-to-date, passenger numbers at Copenhagen Airport increased by 2.2%, to a complete of eleven.5 million passengers.
    On the head-10 list, the ecu cities Milan and Berlin showed the strongest growth.

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  • News: Corinthia Hotels challenges global managers to fulfill health and safety standards

    Corinthia Hotels is pioneering a brand new technique to monitoring and maintaining health and safety standards around the board. The hotel group is operating with health and safety experts Check Safety First to implement a risk management system at 10 of its luxury hotels worldwide, recognising its teams globally for meeting the necessary standards of hygiene as portion of its business strategy. General Managers around the company may be regularly assessed on their ability to keep up these standards to deliver the most convenient service to guests.

    Corinthia Hotels everywhere had been using Check Safety First’s complete E-Cristal auditing system to take care of the very best levels of hygiene. Following the success of the system on the group’s London hotel, its complete module package have been rolled out in Budapest, Khartoum, Lisbon, Prague Tripoli and St Petersburg.

    E-Cristal is an electronic risk management system that gathers and records hygiene data while alerting managers to points of weakness. The package includes Foodcheck, Roomcheck, Firecheck, Safetycheck and Aquacheck. It gives managers 24/7 control across all properties and was developed in keeping with guidelines from the area Health Organisation.

    Liam Lambert, Chief Operating Officer for Corinthia Hotels, said: “Attention to detail is the main to providing guests with a luxury experience. Our partnership with Check Safety First will make sure that first-class hygiene standards are the concern in all our hotels. We’re using health and safety to measure the facility of our General Managers and their teams to deliver the best standard of quality service to guests. We’re reminding all colleagues to just expect what you inspect and don’t expect what you don’t inspect.”

    Mark Harrington, CEO of Check Safety First said: “This new signing with Corinthia means we’re now working worldwide to enhance the standard of hotels for holidaymakers. The fantastic thing about the answer is that it may be read and translated in nine different languages this means that it could be used anywhere.”