World Travel Awards – the global initiative to recognize and reward excellence in travel and tourism – has announced its Europe 2020 winners to coincide with its inaugural Europe Winners Day. Winners include Portugal, which fended off stiff competition to emerge as ‘Europe’s Leading Destination’, whilst the imperial splendour of Moscow was acknowledged with awards […]
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Thomas Cook Group announces that it has agreed to enter into a joint venture agreement with Ionic Invest, to buy the tour operator of Biblio Globus, one of the largest tour operators in Russia. The joint venture, in which Thomas Cook intends to assume a 30% minority stake, will give Thomas Cook a leading position […]
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This year’s award ceremony of the World Travel Awards (WTA), the Grand Final Gala Ceremony 2018, was held in Lisbon, and Greece and Greek hotels triumphed. The WTAs have been running as an institution every year since 1993 and have been honoured by top representatives of the global tourism industry. WTAs are recognized globally as […]
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Celestyal Cruises announces today internal leadership transitions following Chris Theophilides’ move from COO to CEO on July 1st. To ensure continuity in the midst of the roll out of its new commercial strategy and the ramping up of its global commercial presence, Leslie Peden has been promoted to Chief Commercial Officer and will oversee all […]
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A diverse range of challenges and issues confronting global shipping will be tabled by industry leaders and debated by delegates at the most extensive Posidonia Conference Programme ever scheduled to take place alongside the Posidonia Exhibition at the Athens Metropolitan Expo from June 6-10. With over 40 con rmed conferences, seminars, workshops and press conferences covering every aspect […]
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Tour operators in Germany have agreed various sales and marketing partnerships with destinations and airlines. FTI has teamed up with Dutch low-cost airline Transavia in a sales and marketing deal for its new low-cost flights from Munich which start at the end of March. FTI will sell seats on Transavia flights to city and beach […]
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Bookings are stable compared to last year – many halls at the World’s Leading Travel Trade Show are already booked up – big increase in exhibitors from Asia, Africa, the Arab countries, North America and Europe – Travel Technology is booming. ITB Berlin is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary and is as successful as ever. Many […]
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For more than 50 years, the large majority of European tourists preferred to book their short-haul holidays through Tour Operators and not independently. It was in mid ’60s when the North Europeans started to travel in a more organized way and the traditional tour operators like Thomson, Thomas Cook and Horizon made their first steps […]
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