Virgin America has signed an interline agreement with Japan Airlines (JAL). The US carrier has 18 destinations and a fleet of 52 new aircraft and already interlines with Virgin Australia, Virgin Atlantic, Air New Zealand, Emirates, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, South African Airways, El Al, Qantas, China Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Air Pacific.
Turkish Airlines is in the market for jumbo jets to keep up with traffic growth at its Istanbul, Turkey hub.
Tourism New Zealand is to be more proactive in the business events sector.
The New Zealand auditor-general’s office is to carry out an inquiry into the expressions of interest process for proposals to build an international convention centre in Auckland.
Mercure, Accor’s brand of midscale hotels, has opened its first hotel in Russia, the Mercure Arbat Moscow. The hotel, which is owned by ARD, is operated by Accor under a management contract.
Langham Hospitality Group has secured its first hotel in Sydney, Australia with the acquisition of The Observatory Hotel as of August.
The biggest business tourism expo in New Zealand's history – Meetings 2012 - is under way at Auckland’s Sky City Convention Centre, with hopes high that there soon will be an announcement on two new convention centres for the country.
More than two dozen general managers of Sydney, Australia’s three, four and five star hotels have attended a special budget briefing breakfast hosted by Tourism Accommodation Australia (NSW).
Australian tourism businesses now have access to comprehensive, up-to-date information on the Chinese market with the confirmation of the Strategic Tourism Investment Grant (STIG) funding for a consortium including the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) to produce a National China Ready program.
Travel technology firm Sabre Holdings has announced two new hotel agreements with TravelSky, a Chinese global distribution system (GDS) and IT provider for China’s air travel and tourism industries.
The new agreements will see Sabre and TravelSky each make their hotel content available to each other’s agency and consumer customers.
“China’s rapidly growing tourism industry, and strong inbound and outbound travel has made it the third largest tourism marketplace in the world, and this is driving greater demand for quality hotel content,” said Hans Belle, vice president and general manager Asia Pacific, Sabre Travel Network.
“Our agreement gives our hotel partners an extremely valuable channel to tap into the burgeoning Chinese marketplace, and provides our agency customers with significantly more choice and efficient access to Chinese hotel properties. TravelSky is a key player in China, and our alliance is an important step towards meeting the needs of travellers from the East and West,” said Belle.
The alliance will see Sabre add TravelSky’s 30,000 Chinese hotel properties to its global distribution system (GDS), making it available to Sabre’s 350,000 global agents and see TravelSky provide its 7,000 agencies in China with access to shop and book more than 100,000 hotel properties from Sabre GDS. A similar hotel content agreement has been struck between Sabre’s Asia Pacific subsidiary Abacus and TravelSky.
Travel IT firm Travelport (parent of Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan GDSs) has appointed Ming Foong its ‘global accounts’ director, responsible for overseeing the company's globally-strategic accounts in the Pacific region.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has promoted Ben Montgomery to regional director - Greater Mekong. It also has appointed Ivy Chee its regional director - East Asia.
Malaysia’s Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has secured the funding required to shore up its capital base with the establishment of a RMB2.5 billion Perpetual Junior Sukuk Program arranged by Maybank Investment Bank Berhad.
Virgin America has signed an interline agreement with Japan Airlines (JAL). The US carrier has 18 destinations and a fleet of 52 new aircraft and already interlines with Virgin Australia, Virgin Atlantic, Air New Zealand, Emirates, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, South African Airways, El Al, Qantas, China Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Air Pacific.
Turkish Airlines is in the market for jumbo jets to keep up with traffic growth at its Istanbul, Turkey hub.
Tourism New Zealand is to be more proactive in the business events sector.
The New Zealand auditor-general’s office is to carry out an inquiry into the expressions of interest process for proposals to build an international convention centre in Auckland.
Mercure, Accor’s brand of midscale hotels, has opened its first hotel in Russia, the Mercure Arbat Moscow. The hotel, which is owned by ARD, is operated by Accor under a management contract.
Langham Hospitality Group has secured its first hotel in Sydney, Australia with the acquisition of The Observatory Hotel as of August.
The biggest business tourism expo in New Zealand's history – Meetings 2012 - is under way at Auckland’s Sky City Convention Centre, with hopes high that there soon will be an announcement on two new convention centres for the country.
More than two dozen general managers of Sydney, Australia’s three, four and five star hotels have attended a special budget briefing breakfast hosted by Tourism Accommodation Australia (NSW).
Australian tourism businesses now have access to comprehensive, up-to-date information on the Chinese market with the confirmation of the Strategic Tourism Investment Grant (STIG) funding for a consortium including the Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) to produce a National China Ready program.
Travel technology firm Sabre Holdings has announced two new hotel agreements with TravelSky, a Chinese global distribution system (GDS) and IT provider for China’s air travel and tourism industries.
The new agreements will see Sabre and TravelSky each make their hotel content available to each other’s agency and consumer customers.
“China’s rapidly growing tourism industry, and strong inbound and outbound travel has made it the third largest tourism marketplace in the world, and this is driving greater demand for quality hotel content,” said Hans Belle, vice president and general manager Asia Pacific, Sabre Travel Network.
“Our agreement gives our hotel partners an extremely valuable channel to tap into the burgeoning Chinese marketplace, and provides our agency customers with significantly more choice and efficient access to Chinese hotel properties. TravelSky is a key player in China, and our alliance is an important step towards meeting the needs of travellers from the East and West,” said Belle.
The alliance will see Sabre add TravelSky’s 30,000 Chinese hotel properties to its global distribution system (GDS), making it available to Sabre’s 350,000 global agents and see TravelSky provide its 7,000 agencies in China with access to shop and book more than 100,000 hotel properties from Sabre GDS. A similar hotel content agreement has been struck between Sabre’s Asia Pacific subsidiary Abacus and TravelSky.
Travel IT firm Travelport (parent of Galileo, Apollo and Worldspan GDSs) has appointed Ming Foong its ‘global accounts’ director, responsible for overseeing the company's globally-strategic accounts in the Pacific region.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has promoted Ben Montgomery to regional director - Greater Mekong. It also has appointed Ivy Chee its regional director - East Asia.
Malaysia’s Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has secured the funding required to shore up its capital base with the establishment of a RMB2.5 billion Perpetual Junior Sukuk Program arranged by Maybank Investment Bank Berhad.
