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| July 21, 2010 Number of Visitors To Asia & the Pacific Up 10% The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) released the preliminary Asia and the Pacific international visitor arrivals figures for the months of April and May 2010, showing year-on-year growth in arrivals of seven per cent and 16% respectively. For the first five months of 2010, international visitor arrivals to the region grew by a robust 10% as compared to the same period last year. The improving global economic environment continued to boost overall travel demand in April and May. However... |
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| July 07, 2010 Visitors To Singapore Up 20% In April '10 New tourism developments and infrastructure has generated a tremendous amount of buzz in Singapore, resulting in a growth of 20.4% in April alone, totaling 938,000 visitors from around the world. This is the fifth consecutive month of record visitor arrivals. In fact, Singapore has welcomed more 3.6 million international visitors from January to April of this year, resulting in an overall growth of 19.8% during this period. With such a stellar performance in the first half of 2010, Singapore lo... |
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| June 14, 2010 International Arrivals To Asia Pacific Up 10% In Q1 The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) announced the international visitor arrivals results for the first quarter of 2010 today. Travel demand in Asia Pacific picked up strongly in the first quarter of the year, registering a 10% increase from the same quarter in 2009. International visitor arrivals to South Asia grew by 17% year-on-year in the first quarter. All the destinations in the sub-region rebounded strongly from the relatively poor first quarter of 2009, which, in the cases of In... |
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| June 14, 2010 Survey Highlights Major Growth In Luxury Travel In Asia Asia has emerged as a luxury travel powerhouse as consumer confidence increases and the spending power of the Asian elite reaches new heights. This finding is based on a new initiative that was launched by ALTM (Asia Luxury Travel Market) at this year's event in Shanghai. The results of a unique trends survey that was carried out in a joint collaboration between ALTM and TTG Asia over a period of 2 months in the first quarter of 2010 were announced at the pre-show conference. Through highly t... |
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| June 10, 2010 Dusit CEO Reaffirms Confidence In Thailand's Hospitality Industry Dusit International's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Chanin Donavanik, reaffirms his confidence in the outlook of Thai tourism, leading the industry in helping Thailand regain its rightful position as one of the world's top holiday and business destinations. The company also discloses its sales and marketing strategies to stimulate travel business throughout the year under the "Dusit Together for Thailand" campaign. "Tourism has developed into one of Thailand's key growth industries and vital l... |
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| May 27, 2010 WTTC Names 'Tourism for Tomorrow' Award Winners The four winners of the World Travel & Tourism Council's 2010 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards were announced today during the 10th Global Travel & Tourism Summit at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China. Of the 12 finalists, Emirates Hotels & Resorts, Whale Watch Kaikoura, Accor and Botswana Tourism Board, were crowned the winners for their successful work in advancing sustainable tourism best practices in different parts of the world. "We are seeing a new horizon in the g... |
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| May 27, 2010 Tourism Fiji Launches New Video-based Website In an effort to increase awareness, number of visitors and the length of a visitors stay in Fiji, Tourism Fiji and Marchese Communications Inc. in Los Angeles, Fiji's advertising agency of record, has recently launched Tourism Fiji's new video-based website: http://www.fijime.tv. The site features five channels of themed TV shows, each running three and one half minutes in-length, plus a 30 second "pre-roll commercial" promoting a wholesaler offer for the participating resort in each channel ... |
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| April 21, 2010 Singapore Forecasts Record Number Of Visitors The Singapore Tourism Board announced its forecasts for the tourism industry for 2010: 11.5 to 12.5 million in visitor arrivals and $12.6 - $13.3 billion in tourism receipts. This optimistic forecast can be attributed to Singapore's dramatic transformation as a result of multi-billion dollar investments in new tourism infrastructure. 2010 will mark the year of grand openings in Singapore - from two integrated resorts to Gardens by the Bay, three major waterfront gardens aimed at cementing the Li... |
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| March 08, 2010 Kuoni Receives 'National Tourism Awards" From Indian Ministry of Tourism The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, presents National Tourism Awards to various segments of the travel and tourism industry every year. These awards recognise the outstanding performance of companies in the travel and hospitality industry in India. This year, Kuoni received two of these prestigious awards. For the 19th time, Kuoni Destination Management, India was awarded the National Tourism Award 2008/09 for 'Outstanding Performance" as an inbound tour operator. Kuoni as a G... |
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| February 23, 2010 Abercrombie & Kent Leads Travel Industry in Support for Earth Hour Earth Hour brings together local communities, corporations and nongovernmental organizations to focus on climate change by inspiring consumers and businesses to turn off their lights for one hour, sending a powerful message about the need for action. In 2007, 2.2 million people took part in the world's first Earth Hour, which started in Sydney, Australia. Last year 4,088 cities in 88 countries "switched off" to show their support -- ten times more cities than the previous year - the largest v... |
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