Posts In Category Travel News

Aviation Industry Lengthens Trajectory in Africa

on August 9, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Botswana News, Ethiopia Airlines, Ghana News, Kenya News, Morocco News, Namibia News, Tourism News, Travel News, Turkey News, Comments (0)

Renewed confidence in the African economic renaissance, most international airlines are on an expansion mode in the African continent to meet the growing demands of a prospective travel and freight […]

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Tourism Primed to Spur Economic Growth of UK for a Decade

on August 2, 2010 by admin in Business, News, Tourism News, Travel News, Comments (1)

The finding of a report on the UK tourism industry reveals that the tourism revenue of the country is set to rise by more than 60 percent to £188bn by […]

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Portugal and Turkey Ink Landmark Visa Exemption Deal

on July 18, 2010 by admin in Business, EU News, Tourism News, Trade Deals, Trade News, Travel News, Turkey News, Work, Comments (0)

Turkish Foreign Minister’s one day visit to Portugal has culminated in the signing of a mutually beneficial partial visa exemption agreement. According to the deal, citizens of both countries who […]

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Airline Introduces iTicketing with Apple iPad Kiosks

on June 24, 2010 by admin in ASEAN News, Aviation News, Credit Cards, E-Commerce, News, Tourism News, Travel News, Comments (0)

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) in collaboration with SITA, an air transport technology major, has installed iPad kiosks at the Kuala Lumpur Sentral (KL Sentral), to simplify flyers’ travelling needs. The initial […]

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Majority Do Not Buy Terror Advisories Rather Go by Intuition

on May 3, 2010 by admin in Africa News, Australian News, Bahrain News, Business, EU News, News, South Africa News, Tourism News, Travel News, US Business News, World Business News, Comments (0)

A recent opinion poll on whether terror advisories altered one’s business itinerary revealed that 54 percent of the respondents went by their intuition and never fell prey to media hype […]

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Aviation Industry May Take Months to Recover from Volcanic Losses

on April 16, 2010 by admin in Asia Pacific Trade, Aviation News, Business, Canada News, China Business News, Dubai News, EU News, Global Economy, Iceland News, Trade News, Travel News, US Business News, World Business, World Business News, Comments (0)

The volcano under Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull glacier which erupted on last Wednesday for the second time in a month is likely to inflict huge losses to global trade, particularly to the […]

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Peru Hopes Tourism Bonanza by Re-opening Machu Picchu

on March 29, 2010 by admin in Economy, Tourism News, Trade Deals, Trade News, Travel News, Comments (0)

Machu Picchu, Peru’s largest tourist destination is all set to re-open on April 1 after it was forced to close in January due to heavy rains that destroyed railway line […]

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Irish Visa Rules Restrict Potential Tourists

on February 17, 2010 by admin in EU News, Tourism News, Trade News, Travel News, UK News, Comments (0)

The head of the representative body for private bus operators in Ireland has said that the country’s stringent visa requirements from certain countries were not allowing more job creation and […]

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FIFA and SA Allay Fears over World Cup Security

on January 29, 2010 by admin in Africa News, South Africa News, Tourism News, Trade News, Travel News, Comments (0)

The president of South Africa (SA) Jacob Zuma and the FIFA’s secretary general Jérôme Valcke at separate occasions informed there was no security threat to the forthcoming football (soccer) World […]

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New Zealand Basks in the Success of Avatar

on January 28, 2010 by admin in Australian News, Global Economy, Tourism News, Travel News, World Business News, Comments (0)

Avatar, the most expensive and the largest grosser movie ever made has given a big boost to the New Zealand (NZ) film industry and the economy as a whole. The […]

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Fading Memories of Vendetta and Resolve to Coexist Transform Rwanda

on December 23, 2009 by admin in Africa News, Economy, Tourism News, Trade News, Travel News, World Business, Comments (0)

Rwanda has become a model to many countries of endless conflicts to perceive the significance of reconciliation and co-existence. The former US President, Bill Clinton’s proposal does not become rhetoric […]

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Bulgarian Hoteliers to Start Own Bank to Tame Credit Crisis

on November 25, 2009 by admin in Business, Economy, Trade News, Travel News, World Business News, Comments (0)

The Bulgarian hotel owners are all geared up to start their own banking initiative to overcome the high interest rates as rentals and revenues are receding owing to the ongoing […]

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Ethiopian Airlines Expanding its Fleet with Record Profits

on June 5, 2009 by admin in Africa News, Aviation News, Ethiopia Airlines, Ethiopia News, Tourism News, Travel News, US Business News, Comments (0)

Ethiopian Airlines’ (EA) whopping profit of about $55.67mn for the first nine months of 2007-08 has enabled them to expand their fleet to accommodate more US tourists’ interest in visiting […]

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The EU Likely to Provide Visa-free Travel for Macedonians

on May 26, 2009 by admin in Albania News, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo News, Macedonia News, Montenegro News, Serbia News, Tourism News, Travel News, Comments (0)

According to the European Commission’s (EC) assessment report, posted on the official website of the European Stability Initiative (ESI) stated Macedonia had been able to fulfil the required criteria to […]

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‘The Small Miracle’ Slogan to Push Sri Lanka’s Tourism Ambitions post-LTTE Era

on May 11, 2009 by admin in Economy, News, Sri Lanka News, Sri Lanka Tourism, Sri Lanka-Belgium Deal, Sri Lankan Business, Travel News, Comments (0)

While the Sri Lankan defence forces are closing in on to stub out LTTE, the internationally banned terrorist organization, the country has already started sending economic feelers to several countries […]

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