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  • Dukes to give female-only travel options at Arabian Travel Market

    Three-time World Travel Awards winner, Dukes London, is celebrating its recent refurbishment with an invite to the region’s ladies to take a ‘luxury road test’ within the heart of the city’s fashionable St James’ district with a stay in a newly renovated suite.

    Home to 90 rooms, including 11 high-end suites and the hotel’s exclusive 700-square foot Penthouse overlooking Green Park, guests heading to the united kingdom capital this could can be capable of benefit from the striking mixture of classic and contemporary design elements from leading UK interior designer Shaun Clarkson. 

    A member of Small Luxury Hotels of the arena, the brand new-look suites were refurbished in soothing pastel tones complemented by striking yet comfortable furnishings that add a factor of eclectic individuality to every room.

    “Arabian Travel Market is the ideal platform at which to introduce our restyled suites to a global audience, and we’re specifically targeting female leisure and business travellers from the Gulf region as we glance to construct at the success of our existing women-only floor concept, which was launched last year,” said Debrah Dhugga, general manager, Dukes.

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    Debrah Dhugga, general manager, Dukes London

    The dedicated women-only rooms attracts ladies seeking discreet service and a culturally acceptable location during their sojourn inside the city, offering specially designed feminine touches including a personalized welcome card from the feminine general manager and a feminine room attendant to address all guest relations, room service and housekeeping requirements.

    Suite guests have access to a whole range of luxurious facilities and amenities including a marble bathroom, large writing desk, two flat screen televisions, Nespresso coffee machines, complimentary Wifi, Playstation and X Box games machines, plus complimentary handmade chocolates, a fresh fruit basket and Ren bathroom amenities.

    “The jewel in our crown is the Penthouse, with its panoramic fifth-floor views out over Green Park and exclusive display of Thomas Goode & Co. limited edition porcelain-ware collections from the likes of Paul Smith, Vivienne Westwood and star of the art world, Tracey Emin,” added Dhugga.

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  • News: American Airlines launches new service to Germany

    American Airlines is launching a brand new service to Dusseldorf, Germany, from its hub at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, adding a brand new destination to American’s global route map. The brand new flight, operated with a Boeing 767-300 aircraft with 28 Business Class seats and 184 Main Cabin seats.

  • Auckland to welcome Global Ocean Race

    Auckland, New Zealand’s ‘City of Sails’, was confirmed because the halfway stopover port for the gruelling, round-the-world Global Ocean Race in 2014.
    Legendary hospitality and an unmatched enthusiasm for sailing in a city known as one of the sector’s leading yachting capitals influenced the organisers and the race fleet can look forward to a great reception, says Auckland Mayor Len Brown.

    The Global Ocean Race (GOR) starts at Southampton in the United Kingdom on Sunday 21 September 2014, and the teams are expected to be in Auckland from late December through to mid-January 2015.

    Multi-national race
    Nine teams from six countries are currently registered for the event including a New Zealand entry for the solo class from Graham Dalton – the elder brother of Emirates Team New Zealand managing director, Grant Dalton.

    The Global Ocan Race organisation is working closely with ATEED (Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development) and Waterfront Auckland to showcase the 30,000-mile round-the-world race.

    Mayor Brown says the stopover further enhances Auckland’s reputation as probably the most world’s yachting capitals. “The America’s Cup, the Volvo Ocean Race and now the Global Ocean Race tell the same story – Auckland is a destination world yachting can’t afford to ignore.”

    Warm welcome
    ATEED chief executive Brett O’Riley says the organisation is delighted to welcome the fleet, international visitors, officials and spectators to Auckland.
    “As a prominent sailing destination, I’m sure teams will be given a warm welcome. We can provide world-class marine services to crews of the GOR as they prepare for one of the most gruelling legs through the Southern Ocean and around Cape Horn,” says O’Riley.

    Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour has hosted many successful stopovers for major yacht races and facilities continue to be improved according to Waterfront Auckland chief John Dalzell.

    “The Viaduct marina is the natural spectator home for yachting in Auckland and we are excited to see offshore boats return once again for the GOR stopover. It’s events like these which help make the Auckland waterfront the vibrant, enjoyable space that it is and I am sure many an enthusiast will jump at the chance to come down to view the boats and meet the sailors.”

    Auckland hospitality
    GOR race director, Josh Hall, says Auckland is the prime choice for a stopover.
    “Auckland’s hospitality for round-the-world race teams is legendary and public enthusiasm for sailing is virtually unmatched. Following the hardships of Leg 2 inside the Indian Ocean, our teams will have easy access to expertise in all aspects of offshore yacht racing to repair any damage to sails or gear and prepare fully for the 4,000 miles of the Pacific’s Southern Ocean between New Zealand and Cape Horn in Leg 3,” says Hall.

    Around 135,000 boats are registered in Auckland – the highest per capita boat ownership for any city in the arena, with one in three Auckland households owning a ship. Formerly a commercial harbour, the city’s Viaduct Basin is a neighborhood ringed by apartments, offices and restaurants and is a well-recognized venue for international sailing events. In 2000 and 2003, the Viaduct Harbour was the bottom for the America’s Cup.

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  • News: United steps up weekly service to Central America

    United will begin weekly year-round service between its hub at Washington-Dulles International Airport and both Guatemala City, Guatemala, and San Jose, Costa Rica, on April 13.  The airline will also begin weekly year-round service between its Chicago O’Hare hub and San Jose an identical day.

  • UNESCO commends Canadian governments

    In its review of Canada’s Nomination of Pimachiowin Aki for World Heritage Status, the realm Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) deferred final decisions until the following World Heritage Committee meeting.  UNESCO pointed to “fundamental issues” within the evaluation process that prevented them from recognising the worth of “the indissoluble bonds that exist in some places between culture and nature.”  It further resolved to, “examine options for changes to the standards and/or Advisory Body evaluation processes to handle the problems raised by the nomination.”

    UNESCO commended the Governments of Canada, Manitoba, Ontario and the five aboriginal nations who drafted their nomination.  It praised their, “exemplary efforts to develop a nomination which will protect, maintain and restore the numerous cultural and natural assets and values related to Pimachiowin Aki.”
    Pimachiowin Aki, an aboriginal territory whose name means, “The Land Which provides Life” in Ojibwe, encompasses 33,400 square kilometers (12,895 square miles) of Ashinaabek aboriginal territory in northern Canada in the North American Boreal Shield, the biggest of Canada’s terrestrial eco-zones.  Five aboriginal nations: Bloodvein River First Nation, Little Grand Rapids First Nation, Pauingassi First Nation, Pikangikum First Nation, and Poplar River First Nation have occupied the land for greater than 6,000 years.

    At this meeting, the nomination drew praise from other nations within the world who acknowledged the exceptionality of the positioning, particularly with regard to its discuss the interrelationship between culture and nature, and expressed regret on the current inability of the method to adequately recognise the price of that relationship.

    “The Governments of Manitoba, Ontario, and the five First Nations of Pimachiowin Aki are to be commended for seeing the price in forging a brand new path in keeping with recognising not only the price of the land and the indigenous cultures, however the unique relationship between the 2,” Mathew Jacobson, boreal conservation officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts. “It is our belief that ultimately this nomination process will result not just within the inscription of Pimachiowin Aki as a global Heritage Site but in addition in a much better evaluation process it truly is more open to and respectful of the values of all aboriginal people.”

    This decision was made at a gathering of the sector Heritage Committee meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The realm Heritage List is maintained by UNESCO, which seeks to encourage the identification, protection, and preservation around the globe of cultural and natural heritage that may be considered to be of exceptional value to humanity.

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