Asian Tour Digest

Airline wins major award in the Travel & Meeting Industry AwardsFrankfurt / Doha – Qatar Airways has been at the Chinese Travel & Meeting Industry Awards for Best Business Class Airline award in China. The airline out of Doha has once again proven that it offers the highest service levels.

The readers of the British travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller choose the house as “Best International Business Hotel” in October issueIstanbul, Turkey – Hardly in office, Martin Kleinmann can reap laurels first few weeks ago, the German took over the management of The Ritz-Carlton, Istanbul as General Manager and he was already on 2 September 2009 in London, take the award as “Best International Business Hotel” by the acclaimed British travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller contrary.

Passengers from the United Arab Emirates now have an even greater access to flights to the United States: The previously announced new codeshare agreement between Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, American Airlines is part of the U.S. competition authorities have now been approved .

157 427 German hotel guests in the first half of 2009Frankfurt – Dubai is gaining in popularity among German holidaymakers. Thus, the emirate an above average increase in German hotel, airline and cruise passengers in the first six months of 2009 recorded compared to the same period.
In the second quarter of 2009, the hotel guest numbers from the Federal Republic in comparison to the same period increased by 33 percent – a record increase in global comparison.

Healthcare providers as well as travel agents get ready for this year's Healthcare Travel Exhibition and Congress taking place in Dubai between 15th and 17th November.Directly addressing the globalization of healthcare, Healthcare Travel Exhibition Congress and caters for a growing, specialist market and covers two very large industries: Health and Travel & Tourism.

Hoteliers are happy about 64% utilization and 14% increase in overnight accommodationAlways More people are discovering Sharjah translated, meaning “rising sun” means, as a new destination. So the can Sharjah Commerce & Tourism Development Authority attract the tourist industry in a positive half-year figures.

By Roy Graff, china contact, please see also www.chinacontact.org.I am asking this question because since I started advising on market entry to China, I have come across many examples destinations of throwing money at the Chinese market with useless and ineffective marketing campaigns. So many new destinations became 'approved destination' in the last few years that there was a scramble to prepare Chinese language information, Chinese brochures, websites and go on public and trade road shows in China.

Korean Air expected in September, a rise in international passenger businessSeoul -. According to the average airline reservations are on international routes by 21 percent over the previous month. The overall supply of seats has meanwhile increased by nine percent. With 59 percent of Japan shows the greatest increase in demand, followed by North, Central and South America, with twelve percent, Europe with ten percent, seven percent of Southeast Asia and Oceania, with six per cent.