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Look to Asia as next frontier for travelers Click to read the full article Look to Asia as next frontier for travelers

China has a serious shortage of airline pilots, the Gulf region needs more pilots. So what about cutting pilots needed in half in just requiring one human in the cockpit. What if something goes wrong like when the Lufthansa owned Germanwing pilot who killed all his passengers. Airbus SE is looking to develop autonomous aircraft and technologies that will allow a single pilot to operate commercial jetliners. This will help the giant European aviation corporation cut costs, according to Paul...

“The “Cruise Africa”  brand must be united and bring new cruise ship routes to Africa from north to south,” these are the words by Alain St. Ange, the former minister of tourism, civil aviation, ports & marine in the Seychelles.” We need to sell African Cruise itinerary to cruise ship operators,” St. Ange added. St. […] Click to read the full article Cruise Africa, a brand pushed by a known leader under the PAMAESA and AU flag

It’s a day millions of people in the United States are traveling. However, tourists will find shops, supermarkets, banks, gyms, and many restaurants closed today. U.S. Airports will be crowded, expect long stop and goes on the American highways and interstate freeways. What a different Friday will be when crowds of people are flooding shopping […] Click to read the full article USA Thanksgiving Day followed by Black Friday means travel, shopping, parades and lots of turkey

Hotel companies want you to stop shopping around. So why bother going to trivago.com, to agoda.com, to booking.com, to hotels.com, to expedia.com, to orbitz.com, to otel.com, to priceline.com, or to americanexpress.com and the many more available channels? Hotels don’t want you to compare rates, especially if you are a loyal member of their hotel group loyalty program, such […] Click to read the full article Hotel Best Rates Guarantee promise is often a hoax

Priceline’s “Best Price Guaranteed” policy: Is it misleading and deceptive? Click to read the full article Priceline’s “Best Price Guaranteed” policy: Is it misleading and deceptive?

Tourists warned to stay indoors in Zimbabwe Click to read the full article Tourists warned to stay indoors in Zimbabwe

What event organisers can learn from Obama and other world leaders Click to read the full article What event organizers can learn from Obama and other world leaders

It’s a national emergency. New Delhi’s air pollution has reached levels so toxic that United Airlines is canceling flights from Newark to Delhi, India until it improves. Arvind Kumar, a lung surgeon at a local hospital, told NDTV Media. “As a doctor, I have no problem saying that the situation today is a public health emergency. If you […] Click to read the full article Evacuate Delhi immediately: United Airlines stops Newark-Delhi air-service

Travel Law: Avoid dangerous vacations 2017 Click to read the full article Travel Law: Avoid dangerous vacations 2017

Rum, sand and sea: Grenada Click to read the full article Rum, sand and sea: Grenada

Vacationing in Dubai and being transgender. Not a good idea, specially if your boyfriend is a visitor from Saudi Arabia. Click to read the full article German transgender tourist caught having sex with Saudi visitor: Arrested and deported from UAE

ICTP International Coalition of Tourism Partners and SUNx president: GLobal warming is real and travel and tourism must resist US Climate Policy and support Paris agreement. Click to read the full article Travel & Tourism Sector must oppose Trump sabotage of Paris Climate Accords

USA Domestic leisure travel led all travel segments in September 2017 despite the destructive hurricanes that pummeled U.S. states and territories during a normally busy season, according to the latest Travel Trends Index (TTI). The increase marked the 93rd consecutive month of travel growth. However, overall travel volume grew at a slower year-over-year rate in […] Click to read the full article USA Domestic Leisure Travel Withstands Hurricane Harvey and Irma

2017 has been a spectacular year for inbound tourism to London, with growth in long-haul arrivals, during the first three quarters of the year, standing at 13.5% up on the equivalent period in 2016. The analysis has come from ForwardKeys, the company which helps forecast future travel by analysing around 17 million flight booking transactions […] Click to read the full article London’s long-haul tourism growth slows

As member countries of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) affected by the recent hurricanes Irma and Maria reopen for business, the CTO presents this update, which includes data provided by our partner, OAG, the leading air travel data provider based in the UK, the state of readiness in the member countries and planned events in […] Click to read the full article Hurricane and Caribbean Tourism: Latest complete official update

At the World Travel  Market in London today a busy 2nd day began. A packed UNWTO ministerial summit took place at 11.00 am today. It was also the last ministerial UNWTO summit current UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai attended. His words took a dominant role in setting the stage for today’s discussion. According to the CNN Moderator, […] Click to read the full article UNWTO Ministerial Summit at WTM London: A record today!

Brexit talks top the agenda on opening day of WTM London Click to read the full article Brexit talks top the agenda on opening day of WTM London

Maldives announces major new economic transformation projects during WTM Click to read the full article Maldives announces major new economic transformation projects during WTM

While Qatar is suffering under a blockade by Saudi Arabia, Bahrhain, and the United Arab Emirates, the national airline is going strong full steam.Always trying to be a step ahead of competitors Emirates and Etihad Airways,  Qatar Airways announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase an amount of 378,188,000 shares of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited being approximately 9.61 percent of the total issued share capital. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place...

A madman committed mass murder today in a Texas Baptist church. The FBI took over the investigation that may have constituted another deadly terror attack on U.S. soil. Click to read the full article Another Terror attack and mass killing in Texas, USA

Harvard Club of New York: An exercise in historic respect Click to read the full article Harvard Club of New York: An exercise in historic respect

airberlin agreed with easyJet on selling their last assets to them. After bankrupt airberlin sold NIKI to Airline company Walter (LGW), to Lufthansa Group and to Leisure Cargo and airberlin technic was sold to Nayak/Zeitfract all negotiations were concluded successfully. easyJet will receive 24 airplanes from airberlin. Those aircrafts are mostly stationed at Berlin-Teleg airport. At the […] Click to read the full article airberlin CEO after easyJet agreement: We reached our...

Fico Eataly World: Italy’s answer to Disneyworld Click to read the full article Fico Eataly World: Italy’s answer to Disneyworld

Why is Sri Lanka Tourism eyeing India? Click to read the full article Why is Sri Lanka Tourism eyeing India?

Costa Brava, Girona, Loret de Mar, Barcelona – all are Spanish tourism capitals where millions of visitors arrive on their holidays. As of today, a majority of locals don’t want anything to do with Spain and are calling this region Catalonia and a separate country.  Germans, British, and Italian tourists are now sharing crowded beaches and […] Click to read the full article Tourism and civil war: Is this Catalonia, the home of Barcelona and Costa Brava?