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Sabre partners with South Korea Technology Company

Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, today announced a strategic technology partnership with South Korea’s largest Online Travel Agency (OTA), InterparkTriple. The agreement will bring together InterparkTriple’s online travel platform and Sabre’s cutting-edge Travel AI technology, which was developed with Google.

Shopping in Thailand : The SIam Paragon Ultrasonic Water Festival 2024

Siam Paragon, a ‘World-class shopping destination’ and a top-of-mind destination for Thais and visitors from across the globe, is teaming up with KASIKORNBANK to host world-class Songkran summer happenings “Siam Paragon Ultrasonic Water Festival 2024, Songkran Lobster Wonderland by Philip Colbert.’  Amazing Thailand bows in wai: The Rosewood Bangkok, a COVID casualty Hotel This event features iconic art installation by world-renowned London-based pop artist Philip...

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Six out of ten world’s best cities to relocate to are in USA

The study analyzed factors that are often taken into consideration when deciding where to relocate to, including house prices, living costs, average salary, weather conditions, number of restaurants and green spaces, internet speed and life expectancy.  - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Hawaiian Airlines Appoints Two New Managing Directors

Hawaiian Airlines appointed new managing directors of sustainability initiatives and investor relations. Hawaiian Airlines streghtening its sustanaibity efforts with focus on climate change issues as well. Hawaiian has pledged to offset emissons from international flights above 2019 levels. Hawaiian Airlines today appointed Alanna James as its managing director of sustainability initiatives. In this new role, James will […] - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Australia will reopen its border to fully vaccinated travelers

Australia’s partial relaxation of its travel restrictions comes despite its two biggest cities, Melbourne and Sydney, and its capital, Canberra, remaining in lockdown due to a surge in cases that occurred in those urban hubs earlier in the year. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

An”IATA Fraud Alert” email will compromise your computer

IATO.org is not IATA.org, but a made up fraud email address trying to steal your identity or compromise and destroy your computer. emails from this address are currently being circulated to IATA approved or affiliated travel companies. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Universal Beijing Resort opens to the public today

As a major foreign-investment project in the service industry in Beijing, the resort is expected to boost the establishment of Beijing as an international consumption hub and strengthen the confidence of China's culture and tourism industry amid the COVID-19 epidemic. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Georgian chess star suing Netflix for calling her Russian

Netflix brazenly and deliberately lied about Gaprindashvili’s achievements for the cheap and cynical purpose of ‘heightening the drama’ by making it appear that its fictional hero had managed to do what no other woman, including Gaprindashvili, had done. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Austria: No Afghan refugees wanted!

The problem is that “integration of Afghans is very difficult” and requires extensive efforts that Austria simply can’t afford at the moment, Kurz said. They mostly have a low level of education and completely different values compared to the rest of the country’s population, he pointed out, adding that more than half of young Afghans living in Austria supported religious violence. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

People Stepping up During the Pandemic with Breathtaking Innovations

Bill Gates has a message to the world. New data reveals world stepped up to prevent worst-case scenarios from happening; spotlights need for long-term investments to ensure an equitable recovery and continued progress toward the Global Goals, known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

All flights canceled, ports closed as Shanghai braces for Typhoon Chanthu

All flights will be canceled at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport after 11am Monday because of the weather, while all flights through the Hongqiao airport in the west of the city will also be scrapped after 3pm the same day, according to an announcement by the Shanghai Airport Authority Sunday night. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Russia resumes Iraq, Kenya, Slovakia and Spain flights, Afghanistan flights have to wait

According to some Russian government sources, the decision on the preparation of regular civilian flights with Kabul and the provision of slots for them in the schedule by the Russian air carrier has not yet been made. It is still premature to talk about the commencement of civil flights there on a regular basis. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Russia and San Marino working on visa free travel

According to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, Russia hopes that as soon as the sanitary and epidemiological situation normalizes, the sides will "enliven tourist exchanges, which are very popular." - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

No COVID-19 passports, no Christmas lockdowns for Great Britain

British Health Minister Sajid Javid told BBC host Nick Robinson that after a review on the matter, the government was not anticipating any more lockdowns during the holiday season – unlike last year when families across the UK were told to stay apart from each other over the holidays and celebrate virtually. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Should UNWTO Members book tickets to Marrakesh now? No!!!

UNWTO and ministers of tourism from more than 100 countries are in the process to buy tickets to attend the 24th General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization. According to UNWTO inside information no tickets may be needed, except a good computer connection to attend the event. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Sorrento Coast Tourism Ramps Up After Lonely Pandemic Break

The Sorrento Coast, one of the few Italian tourist destinations, in addition to the Amalfi Coast, which entranced writers and poets of the Grand Tour between the 18th and 19th centuries, generating flows of international visitors, up to the disastrous pandemic period, recorded a slow recovery this summer of 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

America remembers 9/11 victims 20 years after the terror attacks

The remembrances have become an annual tradition, but Saturday takes on special significance, coming 20 years after the morning that many view as a turning point in US history. In a painful reminder of those changes, only weeks ago US and allied forces completed a chaotic withdrawal from the war the US started in Afghanistan shortly after the attacks in retaliation – which became the longest war in US history. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Global carmakers’ costs soar over China chip dealers blatant price gouging

The global chip shortage has had an enormous negative impact, affecting automakers across the world. The crisis, which arose in the second quarter of 2020 due to tight capacity at foundries and increased demand for semiconductors in other fields such as 5G, was aggravated by mounting uncertainty surrounding the raging COVID-19 pandemic. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

With BMK, the African Tourism World lost a Giant

Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return was the message when Uganda's President General Yoweri T. K. Museveni recognized the incredible contribution Dr. Bulaimu Muwanga Kibirige, also known as  BM. He  built a fortune for Africa and the travel and tourism industry. BMK passed away in a Nairobi hospital leaving his wife an 18 children. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News