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  • News: Lam takes sales role with Fairmont Hotels

    Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, which counts notable hotels like Shanghai’s legendary Fairmont Peace Hotel and the recently opened Fairmont Makati as a part of its storied hotel portfolio, has named Carmen Lam as vp, hotel sales and marketing, Asia Pacific.

    Lam, who would be based in Shanghai, joins Fairmont during this newly created role to offer sales and marketing direction to Fairmont’s hotels in Asia Pacific and support to the luxurious operator’s burgeoning pipeline of regional development.

    “We’re quickly growing our footprint in Asia and are very fortunate to be adding a frontrunner of Carmen’s calibre to our regional management team,” said, Jeff Doane, Fairmont’s vice chairman, hotel sales and marketing.

    “With her wealth of hotel related experience and firm understanding of the regional marketplace, she’s ideally positioned to lead our sales, marketing and branding activity throughout Asia.”

    With six hotels open and operating in Asia, including three in China, Lam will specialise in maximizing results and driving performance for this dynamic mixture of resort and town centre properties.

    She’ll even be chargeable for executing Fairmont’s regional sales strategy, regional brand management, and awareness and marketing activity for brand spanking new hotels including announced Fairmont projects in Jakarta, Bali and several other cities in China.

    Lam arrives at Fairmont having previously served as senior vice chairman, leisure & brand sales and marketing for Hong Kong/Macau-based Melco Crown Entertainment.

    Over the process a career that has spanned greater than 20 years, Lam has also held a chain of management positions with leading brands in Asia including roles with Shangri-La Hotels and InterContinental Hotels Group.

  • Premier Inn launches new iPhone/iPad app

    Premier Inn has relaunched its award-winning application for iPhone and its first application for iPad. Answerable for over 100,000 room bookings in 2012 alone, the award-winning application have been downloaded over 2,000,000 times since its launch in January 2011 and has become some of the hotel brand’s most significant channels.

  • Amway offers vote of confidence to Abu Dhabi tourism

    The Japanese arm of Amway – a world leader in beauty and health – has chosen Abu Dhabi for a mega incentive trip to reward 100 of its top selling agents in 2015.

    Confirmation of the mega incentive came during a contemporary road show in Japan which featured 11 Abu Dhabi tourism players led by the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority.

    “With direct flights to Abu Dhabi and an intriguing mixture of culture and modern-day attractions, the destination fulfilled our requirements of a thrilling adventure to recognise and additional incentivise our agents,” said Yoshiro Nihei, manager, company event department, Amway Japan.

    Over 100 tour operators turned out to listen to the Abu Dhabi stakeholders update them at the latest the destination has to provide- new resorts, tour options, exhibition and conference incentives and golf opportunities.

    “We were also honoured to receive the UAE Ambassador to Japan, HE Saeed Ali Youssef Al Nowais who outlined the numerous synergies between Abu Dhabi and Japan – particularly the affection of culture shared by both – and he referred to Abu Dhabi’s readiness to welcome Japanese tourists with a variety of destination offerings,” said Mubarak Al Nuaimi, director promotions & international offices, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority.

    Abu Dhabi’s tourism industry is calling to push the destination further up the Far Eastern traveller’s agenda, for both stop-over and point-to-point business, and is tailoring product to fit the sector’s specific needs.

    Destination management company Arabian Adventures, which operates a Japanese language Abu Dhabi city tour three days every week, increases to 5 days every week from October and introduce more tours with Japanese guides.

    Many stakeholders say they may be engaged on product packaging for the Japanese traveller following the line show, particularly targeting the stop-over market.

    “Yas Island, that’s in a straightforward ten minute drive from Abu Dhabi International Airport is preferrred to meet stop-over demand with its Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, Yas Waterworld, Yas Links and Yas Beach products,” said Al Nuaimi.

    “This could be upscaled further with the hole, next March, of Yas Mall, that may be Abu Dhabi’s largest shopping complex and the second one largest within the UAE.”

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  • News: Korean Air takes minority stake in Czech Airlines

    Korean Air and Czech Airlines have formalised Korean Air’s acquisition of 44 per cent of the Czech airline at a signing ceremony in Prague. 

    By acquiring the stake, Korean Air becomes the airline’s second largest shareholder.

    Korean Air chairman Yang Ho Cho expressed his support of the transaction by saying “We have known Czech Airlines for a lot of years, by which we’ve got both been component of the SkyTeam alliance.

    “Our successful codeshare collaboration only confirms that our decision to become a strategic partner of the Czech national carrier, culminating in our signing of the contract, is the suitable decision.”

    Founded in 1923, Czech Airlines operates 24 aircraft to 44 cities in 24 countries and is a member of the SkyTeam alliance, of which Korean Air is a founding member.

    The acquisition of Czech Airline’s stake is an historic moment for the Korean aviation industry because it is the primary time that a Korean airline has taken a stake in a foreign airline. 

    The overseas expansion in electronics and automobiles have been prominent, but this marks the primary within the Korean aviation industry.

    Korean Air passengers would be in a position to enjoy a greater diversity of European routes due to this acquisition.

    Passengers flying to European cities reminiscent of Berlin, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Milan, Brussels, Budapest and Warsaw can easily transfer through Prague’s airport.

    With its perfect location, Prague offers connections to those cities in lower than two hours.

    Korean Air plans to expand its network through Prague airport by increasing its code share flights and improving its connection schedules with Czech Airlines. 

    Also, to assist Czech Airlines operate direct flights between Prague and Incheon, Korean Air will lease the Czech carrier considered one of its A330-300s.

    Czech Airlines plans to function direct flights between Prague and Incheon twice per week – providing their customers a much broader number of schedule.

  • Tuscany Now launches interactive map of Tuscany

    Villas in Tuscany specialists Tuscany Now has today announced the launch of its interactive map of Tuscany, a brand new online resource that aims to unearth the invention of the hidden gems of 1 of Italy’s preferable regions.  Tuscany Now have been offering handpicked luxury villa rentals to its clients for over two decades and created the map to share both their expertise and their customers’ detailed knowledge of Tuscany.

    The map allows users to look for a specific location and discover each of the best activities in that area. Suggestions are grouped into food and drinks, arts and culture, day trips, historic, shopping and sports and active. There also are tags available to expose recommendations which are particularly family friendly, accessible or romantic. Tuscany Now has also mapped out the locations and details of the entire villas it offers in its portfolio. This permits users to handpick the villa most suitable to their interests and create their very own personal itinerary of the proper things to determine and do.

    Simon Ball, Managing Director at Tuscany Now commented:
    “Tuscany is an unlimited region with loads to explore; if you’re visiting for the primary time or are a standard visitor then we are hoping that our map will make clear a few of Tuscany’s greatest delights. Probably the most important elements is that users be able to add ‘hidden gems.’ We all know the Duomo in Florence and the Leaning Tower of Pisa but we wish to learn about that fantastic local restaurant you went to, the historical ruins that weren’t within the guidebook or the foremost romantic view from a hilltop. The map is designed to be as intuitive and useful as possible for anyone travelling to Tuscany and the good thing is that it’s going to keep growing in authority as increasingly people add their suggestions.”