Tourism Industry News
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05/10/2011 17:20
Vision Airlines Announces New Non-Stop Flights to Popular Florida Destinations from Champaign, Illinois and Clarksburg, West Virginia
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Popular Articles
BVI Cabinet to Decide on New Tourist Board TB Chairman by Next Week
In his message for Caribbean Tourism Day on November 2, Premier and Minister for Tourism, Hon. Ralph T. O’Neal said the board will soon have its full cadre of members and their new Chairman.
Social media and travel policy
The topic of social media has cemented its place on the agenda of almost every conference, seminar and forum within the business travel sector.
Travel Industry
06/01/2010 12:25
Tourism Australia hopes to boost Australian visa applications through Expo 2010
Tourism Australia is hoping to boost the number of people looking to apply for Australian visas to allow them to visit Australia next year,...
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06/01/2010 12:21
Kenya seeks tourism promotion deal with Tanzania
While the East African Community (EAC) prepares a strategy to sell its five partner states as a single tourism destination, Kenya has called for...
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04/01/2010 13:48
Dominican Republic: Caribbean, U.S. third preferred destination after Europe and Australia
Dominican Republic. The Caribbean region is the third destination in the preference of U.S. travelers, behind Europe and Australia, said an...
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04/01/2010 13:43
Mexico City Tourist Numbers Expects to Increase 35 Percent in 2010
Mexico City received 10.4 million tourists in 2009 and expects that figure to increase to 14 million next year, helped by events such as free...
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04/01/2010 13:08
Economic downturn puts freeze on Antarctic tourism
The economic downturn has frozen tourists' enthusiasm to travel to one of Australia's most remote and inhospitable Antarctic outposts with...
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04/01/2010 13:05
Hawaii in trouble as tourism slows
The downturn in the Hawaiian tourist industry has meant hardships for islanders.
The number of visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in November...
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04/01/2010 13:04
China To Launch Yuan Settlement Trial, Boost Tourism In Hainan
China will expand a trial program allowing the settlement of cross-border trade using the yuan to the southern island province of Hainan and...
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28/12/2009 18:36
Asia Pacific destinations facing five percent drop in international arrivals for 2009
Figures released today by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) show that the numbers of international visitors to the Asia Pacific region*...
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28/12/2009 18:14
International visitor spending in the United States: A year in decline
The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced that international visitors spent an estimated $10.3 billion on travel to, and...
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28/12/2009 17:57
Seychelles tourism industry experience speaks for itself
Visitor arrival figures in Seychelles released Wednesday, December 23, have revealed that Seychelles is now officially only 1 percent down from...
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28/12/2009 16:53
Nepal's Nepal takes tourism seriously
Nepal's Communist Party leader Madhav Kumar Nepal was sworn in as prime minister of Nepal on May 25,2009. To show his support for his country's...