CHICAGO: Boeing has announced $100 million in funds to address family and community needs of those affected by two crashes on its 737 MAX planes – Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. These funds will support education, hardship and living expenses for impacted families, community programs, and economic development in impacted communities, Boeing said in a statement. The aerospace company said it will partner with local governments and non-profit organizations to address these needs. This initial investment will be made over multiple years. “We at Boeing are sorry for the tragic loss of lives in both of…
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LONDON: VisitEngland has launched a business-to-business digital platform that enables tourism suppliers to connect to multiple international distributors. Tourism Exchange Great Britain is a one-stop shop for English tourism suppliers including accommodation providers, visitor attractions and experiences, to link to distributors with international reach and sell their products overseas. VisitEngland Commercial Director, Carol Dray, said: “TXGB will drive bookings for the hundreds of thousands of tourism businesses in England by making it easier for them to access new markets and ultimately more customers. “England’s tourism product will be on show internationally to global distributors and their customers, promoting the latest…
KARACHI: On the directives of Shahrukh Nusrat, Secretary Aviation/DGCAA, Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority has started the second phase of its tree plantation drive on Thursday, July 04, here by planting different fruit saplings at Jinnah International Airport On this occasion CAA arranged a simple ceremony for plantation of fruit trees at the area adjacent to Jinnah International Airport (JIAP). CAA has earmarked a tract of its land opposite to PSO Petrol Pump at JIAP. Deputy DG (APS) Syed Aamir Mehboob was the Chief Guest at the ceremony while Incharge Clean and Green Program of CAA Nadir Shafi Daar along with…
ISLAMABAD: The government of France has returned more than 400 stolen artifacts to the government of Pakistan on Tuesday, 2 July, including ancient busts, vases, urns and goblets, some dating to the second and third millennia B.C. Many of the pieces turned up in France in September 2006, sent in parcels addressed to a gallery in Paris. The packages were intercepted by customs officers at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport and identified by the National Centre for Scientific Research as items looted from cemeteries in Pakistan’s Indus valley. Another consignment of pottery and terracotta pieces destined for the same gallery…
ISLAMABAD: The pre-departure immigration facility under the Road to Makkah Project inaugurated at the Islamabad International Airport on Thursday, 4 July, easing procedures for pilgrims before landing in Saudi Arabia. The spokesman of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony said in a statement that under the first phase of the project, the customs and immigration process of Pakistani pilgrims would be completed at the Islamabad Airport thus saving them the 10 to 12-hour process at the Jeddah Airport. A team of 51 Saudi officials would conduct the immigration process for Pakistani pilgrims, for which special counters are established…
KARACHI: Pearl-Continental Hotel Karachi is offering food lovers from across the city all the popular street food of Karachi under one roof from the 4th to the 14th of July. Street Food Hi-Tea Festival offers a vast range of mouth-watering specialties, delectable traditional dishes and a festive ambiance. Delicacies include Bun Kebab, Haleem, BBQ, Live Kachori, Live Samosa, Gola Ganda, Candy Floss, Chocolate Fountain, Kulfi Faluda, Live Sugarcane Juice as well as a Popcorn Booth, Chaat & Gol Gappa Station. The food festival is truly a rare treat for food-lovers in Karachi. The street food themed hi-tea which has a…
PESHAWAR: Provincial Senior Minister for Sports, Tourism, Archaeology, Culture, Museums and Youth Affairs Department Muhammad Atif Khan on Wednesday inaugurated the of first-ever mobile App and tourism logo to facilitate domestic and foreign tourists during their visit to scenic places of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Chairman National Tourism Board Zulfi Bukhari, Member Provincial Assembly Muhammad Asif, Joint Secretary Prime Minister’s Secretariat Tariq Khan, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Iftikhar Durrani, Secretary KP Tourism Department Kamran Rahman, Additional Secretary Babar Khan, Tourism Corporation Managing Director Junaid Khan, Project Director Tausif Khalid, Director General Sports…
BEIJING: In the first year of the new millennium, a modest 10.5 million overseas trips were made by Chinese residents. Fast forward to 2018 and the figure was 149.7 million – an astounding increase of 1326 per cent. In less than two decades China has grown from travel minnows to the world’s most powerful outbound market, leaving for behind the US. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Chinese tourists overseas spent $US277.3 billion in 2018, up from around $US10 billion in the year 2000. Collectively, America’s globetrotters parted with a relatively paltry $US144.2 billion. Whereas nine per…
Written by ch. Faisal Mehmood The present government as per the expectation moving step by step towards better tourism policies, procedures and planning. The PM from day first recognized Tourism for its economic social and diplomatic values and promised to correct whatever and wherever the wrong was done by the absence of a federal tourism administration. The creation of the high level Task Force and as per their suggestion removal of all bottlenecks in the way of tourism promotion and develop and after that formation of a 25-member National Tourism Coordination Board (NTCB) having representatives from federal ministries, provincial departments…
PARIS: Tackling complaints about nuisances caused by mass tourism, the French capital’s Deputy Mayor told that Paris aims to ban tourist buses from the city center and will ask visitors to walk, cycle or take public transport. Emmanuel Gregoire told media that the situation in Paris was not as bad as in tourist-swamped Venice or Barcelona but Parisians were concerned about the influx of tourist buses. “We no longer want the total anarchy of tourist buses in Paris….Buses are no longer welcome in the very heart of the city,” Gregoire said. Paris is crisscrossed by dozens of hop-on, hop-off double-decker…