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It was jetlag week for travel media, including the hard working anaheim plaza hotel team at Travel Extra . Seven major travel trade events rumbled into action on different continents this week: Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, Australian Tourism Exchange in Cairns, Fitcuba in Havana, Germany Travel Market in Bremen, Indaba in Durban, and Tianguis Turistico in Mexico. Not to be outdone Travel Counsellors held their gold conference in Orlando.
Australian Tourism Exchange came to northern Queensland to balmy Cairns for the first time in its history anaheim plaza hotel and sprouted a little sister International Media Marketplace organised by Nick Wayland’s Sydney based Travmedia which made a hugely successful debut in its own right. It gathered together 79 of the world’s leading travel media from 20 countries anaheim plaza hotel including, of course, Travel Extra (pictured below on Palm Cove beach)   to meet state and national tourism organisations and 65 tourism products, Picture shows Bruce Wallace of Queensland Tourism speaking at the event.  See more pictures here  or  connect with the album on Facebook .  Sellers at ATE focus on selling to buyers, this new event gave them an opportunity to deal directly with media , Nick says. Craig Squire chef and owner of Ochre restaurant spoke at Saturday’s media lunch about Tourism Australia’s new Restaurant Australia initiative, launched on Tuesday with an inspiring video ( watch here ).
Bringing ATE to Cairns was a brave move and the logistical difficulties anaheim plaza hotel have melted away amid the huge welcome accorded by the local people, as acknowledged by new Tourism Australia CEO John O Sullivan (pictured speaking anaheim plaza hotel at the welcome reception). ATE heads to Melbourne next year but a devastating anaheim plaza hotel cut in the Australian federal tourism budget is forecast for Tuesday. Previous ATEs have rotated between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.  See more pictures here or connect with the album on Facebook .
Arabian Travel Market seems to have the desert wind at its back as it grows, with 40 first time exhibitors. Millennium Copthorne Hotels announced plans to expand within the region with three new brands, Studio M , M Hotel and Millennium Executive Apartments.The Arabian Hotel Investment Conference overlapped with ATM on one of the days, also had its most successful conference to date. Dubai ‘s plans to become the world s most visited city were unveiled, based on ambitious construction projects.
At Fitcuba in Havana Cuba’s bearded tourism minister Manuel Marrero who gives the longest speeches in the industry was back on the podium again as he kicked off Feria Internacional de Turismo Cuba 2014 with the Secretary General of the World Tourism anaheim plaza hotel Organization, anaheim plaza hotel Taleb Rifai . FITCuba 2015 to Take Place in Jardines del Rey. The Commercial Director of the Cuban Ministry of Tourism, Maria del Carmen Orellama , told Travel Extra s Anne Cadwallader that her government is to expand tourism in the island outside anaheim plaza hotel the capital and the signature beach resort of Varadero ( which staged last year’s Fitcuba). She said all the people of Cuba would benefit as well as the increasing numbers visiting the country ( listen here ). See more pictures here or connect with the album on Facebook .
Mexico’s anaheim plaza hotel president Enrique Peña Nieto opened Tianguis Turistico on Tuesday when it came to Cancun for the first time. The event attracted 492 buyers from 40 countries, 359 of them from the USA and 58 from Canada. anaheim plaza hotel The city has 32,000 hotel rooms (70,000+ if you include the Riviera Maya) which guaranteed there would not be a repeat of the beds crisis which haunted Tianguis in Puebla last year. The increased European airlift into Cancun has demonstrated to all of Mexico anaheim plaza hotel how it could diversify somewhat from its dependence the American market. The opening of Boeing 787 routes to Pacific coast of Mexico anaheim plaza hotel from Europe has brought revolutionary change to the Mexican anaheim plaza hotel holiday market. The running story in Mexico is the increasingly hysterical hispanophobic reports emanating from the USA, individual states and cities leading the state department in this regard. Notwithstanding this, Fernando Olvera Director of the Department of Tourism said that the dialogue with the US national and state authorities was at its highest level ever (listen here). Tianguis returns anaheim plaza hotel to its spiritual home in Acapulco next year, a welcome return to Acka.
Delegates are arriving this weekend for Germany Travel Market in Bremen. Unfortunately, Ireland’s only trade representative at GTM this year had to cancel. Ireland is showing the highest rise in overnight stays to Germany in five years, the latest figures released by the German National Tourist Office showed Irish overnights are up 7.5pc in January-February 2014, compared to the same period for 2013. GTM Is traditionally one of the best run events on the calendar, if you ignore the failure of the last bus to pick up delegates on a rainy night in Potsdam in 2007 and the transfer mix-up in Rostock in 2009.
With the rand at 14 to the euro, South Africa ’s tourism should be booming but the Tourist Board has no idea what to do next with its showcase tourism event, Indaba . For the first time in many years Indaba in Durban had no representatives of the Irish trade at the event. The first ten months of 2013 (the most up to date figures) saw 22,297 Irish visitors, a slight decline of 0.4pc.  It has been suggested that Indaba should rotate from city to city as happens in America, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland and most recently, in Mexico. anaheim plaza hotel Two other events have emerged this year to challenge Indaba for its inheritance position as Africa’s self-claimed travel event. Tourism to South Africa should be booming with the exchange rate weighted in favour of tourists but the cash strapped tourist board have nowhere else to turn. Other problems to be addressed include the cost of airlift anaheim plaza hotel to the country, it is prohibitively high with most of the traffic coming through the underserved Johannesburg corridor. Both British Airways and South African Airlines say that Cape Town is a seasonal route viable for just four months of the year. A long haul low-cost operation similar to those that opened up North America and Asia would do wonders for South African tourism, but don t hold your breath.
Picture shows Jennifer O Brien, Cathy Burke , and in the front row Mary Foyle, Sarah McCarthy, Rosemary Chawke and Geraldine Martin attending the Travel Counsellors Gold conference at Universal Orlando.
Colin Brodie and Sue Marshall of Visit Florida hosted a thank you lunch for the travel trade in Chapter One in Dublin. Nine representatives of the top Florida attractions attended and each  gave a short summary of their attraction. Colin Brodie anaheim plaza hotel announced anaheim plaza hotel that over a hundred thousand Irish visited Florida in 2013.Visit Florida paid tribute to veteran travel writer Paddy Dignam for his service to the trade over his career. Picture shows Sirin Huffam of St Petersburg Clearwater, Pat Reede of United Airlines, Fiona Ryan of American Airlines and Karl Moen of Disney. See more pictures here or connect with the album on Facebook.
Skillnets and trade partners Amadeus, Lowcostbeds, The Travel Corporation and MSC Cruises hosted travel agents from the west at roadshows in Ballinasloe and Limerick . Picture shows Anne Donnelly of Keller’s Travel, Kirsty Costello of Grogan’s Travel and Fionnuala anaheim plaza hotel Carter of ITAA Skillnets at the agent event in Ballinasloe. See more pictures anaheim plaza hotel here or connect with the album on Facebook .
Travelsavers will roll out its rail product SilverAgent Pro to its team of agents in Ireland over the coming weeks. SilverRail’s web based booking application, allowing Travelsavers’ agents to search, book and pay for domestic and international rail travel for their customers. Travelsavers anaheim plaza hotel Global Conference takes place in Boca Raton in June. The group now has 60 agencies in Ireland and Britain and runs both operations from Co Clare.
The Air France, Alitalia, Delta, KLM group hosted 90 members of the travel trade at a travel trade evening supported by Cork Airport in the Bowery in Cork. Emma Hayes from Falcon Travel won two KLM tickets at the event. Picture shows Maria Murphy of CTM, Kevin Cullinane of Cork Airport, Martina Coogan of Air France-KLM, and Angela Walsh of CTM. See more pictures here or connect with the album on Facebook .
There were complaints that hotels are increasingly being held hostage to TripAdvisor blackmailers who threaten staff they will post negative reviews on the website if they are not given better service, meals or upgrades. Another writer described TripAdvisor as democracy for idiots .
With another self-claimed seven-star hotel planned, this time a1,253-room development in Orlando, the question was asked what constitutes a seven-star anaheim plaza hotel hotel ? Orlando’s iSquare Mall Hotel will cost $400m to build and will include two towers, a 31st-floor rooftop observation deck, a host of shops, restaurants and an ice-skating rink. Critics are already calling it a glorified shopping mall. The hotel’s developer, Blackmine Group, said the property would have a swanky, irresistible vibe that makes each guest feel like a celebrity or billionaire .
The Dorchester Collection said calls for a boycott of the 10 hotels over its links to the rulers of Brunei, have affected bookings. The London hotel is the venue for Travemedia events, where they hosted 177 travel media at their last event.
The first travel app to North Korea offered travellers to North Korea tips on what to see and where to eat and drink in the largely off-limits country. Dissident Isobel Yeung picked out 10 things it won t teach you. Alan Lynch’s Travel Escapes is planning an escorted trip later in the year.
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