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  • News: GTMC new member: Uniglobe top flight travel

    The GTMC has announced that Uniglobe member Top Flight Travel has become the thirty – eighth member of the organisation.  The announcement comes only days after Meon Valley Business Travel signed up for membership to the UK’s leading professional industry body representing travel management companies.

    Top Flight Travel was incorporated in August 1992 and is Uniglobe’s largest affiliate within Europe. The corporate has its headquarters in Reading, Berkshire and in addition has an office in London and employs over 60 members of staff.

    Uniglobe Top Flight Travel’s founder and chief executive Barry Baty said: ” On this rapidly changing industry it’s ever important to align oneself and share information with the simplest inside the business and membership of the GTMC will afford us that – so we’re delighted to become members and hope to make a favorable contribution to the organisation. The GTMC membership clearly stands and speaks because the voice of the industry.”

    GTMC chief executive Paul Wait said:  “We warmly welcome Uniglobe Top Flight Travel to the GTMC and it’s very encouraging that during these times of post recession and consolidation throughout the TMC community we’re attracting new members. The advantages of membership are far reaching and include unrivalled opportunity to determine networks, and exchange views and experiences, with peers, suppliers and key industry stakeholders including attendance on the ultimate networking experience the GTMC overseas conference, which this year happens later this month in Barcelona.”

  • News: Abu Dhabi plans major tourism push in Saudi Arabia

    Abu Dhabi’s tourism industry is planning every week-long promotion of the destination and its expanding offering in Saudi Arabia later this month with a high profile participation at Riyadh Travel Fair to be followed by a 3-city road show.

    The promotion, organised by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, is being supported by a number of industry stakeholders including hotels and resorts, Etihad Airways, headline attractions and a novel integrated wellness facility on Saadiyat Island.

    The destination sales blitz begins at Riyadh Travel Fair – the Kingdom’s leading tourism trade event, which runs on the Four Seasons Hotel – Kingdom Tower inside the Saudi capital from April 23rd-26th.

    The Abu Dhabi delegation will then move directly to road show presentations to the Saudi travel trade in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah.

    “We have superb airlift from Saudi Arabia to Abu Dhabi with three providers – Etihad Airways, Saudi Arabian Airlines and NASAIR – now servicing a combined total of 68 scheduled non-stop flights per week from the dominion,” said Mubarak Al Nuami, director promotions & overseas offices, TCA Abu Dhabi.

    “This give us huge potential to draw Saudi visitors to our emirate where we believe our product mix will meet their specific needs – certainly one of our main focuses now could be to make this target market fully conscious about the truth that there’s now much more to work out and do in Abu Dhabi and to cajole them to stick with us longer than they currently do on average.”

    Saudi Arabia is currently Abu Dhabi’s sixth largest overseas source marketplace for hotel guests.

    In the primary two months of this year some 12,322 Saudis stayed within the emirate’s 141 hotels and hotel apartments and delivered 27,256 guest nights. They stayed, on average, 2.25 nights.

  • News: Routes Europe sees its strongest airline attendance to this point

    In six weeks time, Europe’s aviation community will meet at Routes Europe, happening 12-14 May. Over 100 Airlines are expected to wait Routes Europe in 2013 and already almost 200 airline delegates representing 96 carriers have registered to wait the development confirming that this year is determined to be the most important gathering yet of Europe’s key decision makers.

    Now in its 8th year, Routes Europe is the one network planning forum for the full European region and the 2013 event, hosted by Budapest Airport, will happen in Budapest, the pretty historic capital of Hungary. Routes Europe brings together over 800 delegates from airports, airlines, tourism authorities and other industry stakeholders from across Europe to speak about air service development.

    “The large collection of airlines and the seniority of the delegates attending Routes Europe in Budapest, demonstrates the price that the development can offer to Europe’s largest airlines,” says Paul Winfield , Airline Relations Director for Routes. “Being in a position to source key data and intelligence for brand spanking new routes, and having the ability to meet their existing partners to be sure the success of existing routes under one roof is invaluable,” he added.

    The Less costly and Regional sectors could be well represented in Budapest with Cheap Carriers easyJet, Norwegian, Wizz Air, Germanwings, Air Berlin, Volotea and Vueling amongst those registered to wait, including senior representatives from airlines corresponding to Wizz Air, whose CEO, Josef Varadi will attend, and Jet2.com’s recently appointed CEO, Steve Heapy . The regional market can be well served by carriers including Skywork Airlines, Cityjet, Darwin Airline, Eurolot, Flybe, Blue Islands and TAROM.

    For airports wishing to fulfill with European network carriers, attendees include Air France, British Airways, Iberia, Lufthansa, SAS, CSA Czech Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Swiss International Airlines, whilst out of region presence comes from American Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Air Transat, Etihad Airways and Emirates. The CIS market is likewise well represented with confirmed attendance from Aeroflot, S7, Rossiya and UTAir. The development may also see a primary time attendance from Reykjavik based WOW Air in conjunction with out of region carriers UPS, SriLankan Airlines and Nordwind.

    In addition to the Face-to-Face meetings on the core of the development there’ll be a powerful programme of airline briefings occurring in Budapest including Lufthansa delivered by Director of Network Planning, Dr Sebastien Hollmeier and CCO of Darwin Airline, Christian Schneider amongst others.

    Routes Europe continues to grow at a huge rate in relation to airline participation with airlines afforded the time and selection to satisfy airports, not only to speak about potential new air service development but additionally to satisfy existing airports to debate route performance.

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  • News: Secretary of State for Transport to communicate at ABTA’s Travel Matters 2013

    ABTA today announced that the Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt. Hon. Patrick McLoughlin MP, will deliver the keynote address at Travel Matters on 26 June 2013.  Now in its fourth year, this invitation-only conference will offer delegates a completely unique opportunity to listen to from, and interact with a superb line-up of speakers from Government and the industry.

    Delegates at Travel Matters 2013, going down at Millbank Media Centre in Westminster, will discuss and debate aviation capacity, the competitiveness of the UK’s travel and tourism sector, tourism’s Olympic legacy, and the opportunities, challenges and barriers to inspiring business and consumer confidence, under the theme “An Agenda for Growth”.

    The Secretary of State will speak alongside ABTA’s Chief Executive, Mark Tanzer, and there’ll be an industry perspective keynote from Craig Kreeger, Virgin Atlantic’s new Chief Executive Officer.

    Travel Matters brings together industry leaders, influencers and policy makers to supply a forum where they could debate on and influence current policy matters.  Delegates are invited from all sectors of the travel industry, including senior representatives from ABTA’s Membership, Government departments and industry stakeholders.

    Mark Tanzer ABTA Chief Executive said: “We are delighted that the Secretary of State is joining us at Travel Matters. This fantastic event allows the industry to come back together and debate key policy issues. Our theme “An Agenda for Growth” will inspire discussion around issues central to the travel industry in this day and age and should provide a timely opportunity for debate.”

  • Abu Dhabi plans major tourism push in Saudi Arabia

    Abu Dhabi’s tourism industry is planning per week-long promotion of the destination and its expanding offering in Saudi Arabia later this month with a high profile participation at Riyadh Travel Fair to be followed by a 3-city road show.

    The promotion, organised by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, is being supported by a variety of industry stakeholders including hotels and resorts, Etihad Airways, headline attractions and a novel integrated wellness facility on Saadiyat Island.

    The destination sales blitz begins at Riyadh Travel Fair – the Kingdom’s leading tourism trade exhibition, which runs on the Four Seasons Hotel – Kingdom Tower inside the Saudi capital from April 23rd-26th.

    The Abu Dhabi delegation will then move directly to road show presentations to the Saudi travel trade in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah.

    “We have superb airlift from Saudi Arabia to Abu Dhabi with three providers – Etihad Airways, Saudi Arabian Airlines and NASAIR – now servicing a combined total of 68 scheduled non-stop flights every week from the dominion,” said Mubarak Al Nuami, director promotions & overseas offices, TCA Abu Dhabi.

    “This give us huge potential to draw Saudi visitors to our emirate where we believe our product mix will meet their specific needs – one in every of our main focuses now’s to make this target market fully conscious of the truth that there may be now much more to look and do in Abu Dhabi and to steer them to stick with us longer than they currently do on average.”

    Saudi Arabia is currently Abu Dhabi’s sixth largest overseas source marketplace for hotel guests.

    In the 1st two months of this year some 12,322 Saudis stayed within the emirate’s 141 hotels and hotel apartments and delivered 27,256 guest nights. They stayed, on average, 2.25 nights.