Georgia and ITB Berlin have agreed a wide-ranging partnership that will span three years. As early as this year Georgia will be the digital adventure & sustainability partner of ITB Berlin Now 2021. As the name suggests, nature and sustainability are the focus of this partnership. In 2022, as the official cultural destination of ITB Berlin, Georgia will highlight its cultural heritage. The title of official host country will follow in 2023. In cooperation with ITB Berlin, the host country traditionally organises the grand opening show of ITB Berlin and will be highlighted during the entire trade event. “Georgia spans…
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ABU DHABI: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, and Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, have signed a strategic commercial cooperation agreement (SCCA) to deepen their partnership between Abu Dhabi and Bahrain and beyond the respective hubs. The wide-ranging SCCA, subject to obtaining applicable governmental and regulatory approvals, sets out specific actions for deepening and broadening commercial cooperation, building on the memorandum of understanding (MOU) the airlines signed in 2018. The SCCA envisages a phased approach to closer collaboration between the partners. In the first phase, by June 2021, the scope of the partners’ codeshare agreement, first…
Rail Europe is releasing through its API and its agents’ website a mobile version of the famous Eurail passes which allows travellers to cross from 1 up to 33 countries on several railways with one pass only. Travellers will have to download the “Rail Planner” mobile application and enter their name and pass number. They will then be able to foresee their itinerary, plan for journeys and keep all groups or families’ passes in one space. In the app, travellers create day tickets for each trip they make and that they show to the ticket inspectors. This procedure in…
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates’ General Civil Aviation Authority has lifted its ban on Boeing’s 737 Max, allowing the plane to return to its skies after being grounded for nearly two years following a pair of deadly crashes, a report said. Saif Al Suwaidi, Director-General of the authority, said lifting of the ban on the aircraft was a result of the “intensive efforts made by the technical committee at the authority through evaluating all the technical requirements in accordance with the requirements by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration.” “It resulted in…
ISLAMABAD: Mr. Athar Khan, a senior hotelier who has vast working experience of various departments of Five Stars Hotels and thirty five years of hotel management experience at variety of establishments has joined Ramada by Wyndham Islamabad. Athar Khan started his hospitality career with Hilton International Hotel Lahore (Now Avari hotel) back in 1985,where he served 12 years in Front Office Department at different assignments and then after completing his MBA in Marketing he moved in Sales Department. He joined Hashoo Group in 2001 and Served in Sales and marketing for 10 years and in 2011 he was promoted as…
BRUSSELS: Europe recorded a 70% fall in international arrivals in 2020, the European Tourism Commission (ETC) has reported. The ETC’s latest European Tourism Trends & Prospects report forecast a “gradual recovery” in 2021 and a return to the levels of 2019 by 2023 following the worst year for international tourism to Europe in more than three decades. ETC executive director Eduardo Santander predicted “a slow restart of travel across Europe in the spring, with a gradual return to a ‘new normality’ through summer and autumn 2021”. He said: “A return to travel will happen with new consumer habits, calling for…
BAHWALPUR: Sahibzada Sultan has won the 16th Cholistan Jeep Rally. Mir Nadir Magsi remained on second position while Jaffar Imran got third position. A large number of spectators were present at the starting point of the race. The Cholistan Desert Rally 2021 was kicked off on Friday, February 12 at Derawar Fort in the Cholistan area. Board of Directors of Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab Dr Soahial Zafar Cheema and Managing Director TDCP Tanveer Jabbar flagged off the vehicles of prepared category race. As many as 43 vehicles are participating in the prepared category. TDCP, The Islamia University Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur…
EUROPE: Trade body ETOA (European Tour Operators Association), whose stated aim is to promote better tourism in Europe, is calling on the EU to provide a road map for opening borders. It makes the announcement in the face of current travel restrictions into the EU and the Schengen zone, which are still in place for all non-essential travel from overseas markets including the US and Canada. The ETOA is concerned that there are no clear indications as to when those restrictions will be lifted. The tourism body said the lack of a road map to reopening borders will put billions…
KARACHI: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) has achieved yet another significant milestone as Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)’s outlet was inaugurated within KCCI’s premises which will be providing 10 percent discount on domestic and international flights not only to KCCI members and staff but also their family members. In this regard, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) PIA Air Marshal Retd. Arshad Malik and President KCCI M. Shariq Vohra at a ceremony organized at KCCI which was also attended by Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG) & Former President KCCI Zubair Motiwala, Senior Vice…
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Culture Shaukat Yousafzai on Wednesday said that Pakistan and Iran had strong religious and cultural bonds and the friendship between the two neighbouring countries was exemplary. Speaking as chief guest at an exhibition held in connection with the 42nd anniversary of Islamic Revolution of Iran at Khana-e-Farhang Iran in Peshawar, the minister said that inaugurating Pak-Iran Friendship Wall was a good step towards further cementing the relations between the two brotherly countries. Iranian Consular General in Peshawar, Hamid Raza, Iranian Cultural Centre Director Mahran Sikandaryan, Director General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority (KPCTA) Kamran…