PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister for Tourism Muhammad Atif Khan on Saturday said that Kumrat tourist spot would be developed as national park to showcase the province as a tourism brand to the world to attract more tourists. [huge_it_slider id=”305″] Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Margalla ridge trail and walking track at Margalla Hills National Park, he said that KP government had prepared a master plan for the development of new tourist sites under which 10 tourist destinations, including Kumrat, Kalam, Nathiagali and others would be restored on modern lines. Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Ansar Aziz, KP Secretary Sports and…
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LONDON: A panel of expert independent judges has revealed the winners in the WTM London 2018 Best Stand Awards. [huge_it_slider id=”304″] Assessing the stands at this year’s event at ExCeL London were Nicola Macdonald, Editor at Exhibition News; Beryl Preuschmann, Chief Executive and Founder of TRIPorganiser; Bill Richards, Senior Partner at Tourism Research & Marketing; and Russell Smith, Managing Director at Intuitive Design. The winner of the Best Stand Design award is the Region of South Aegean (EU880), as the judges agreed that it stood out immediately. “As soon as we saw it, it looked different from the other stands,”…
LONDON: Travel professionals from around the world arrived in London on November 5 for three days of business at the World Travel Market (WTM), taking place in ExCeL London. Considered as one of the world’s leading travel trade events, WTM London connects the world’s travel providers with remarkable insight and opportunity.Running till November 7, the event hopes to unlock ideas that will shape the world’s plans for travel over the next five years. On Day 1 (November 5), WTM London opened its doors to participants at 10 am. First up was a look at the hot topic of plastic pollution…
DUBAI: Emirates’ latest Boeing 777-300ER aircraft fitted with the ‘game changer’ First Class product will operate between Dubai and Vienna on a daily basis from December 1. Austria will be one of the first few countries in the world to be served by Emirates’ Boeing 777 aircraft with fully enclosed private suites inspired by Mercedes-Benz. Emirates flies to Vienna twice daily and both flights will be operated by its flagship products – the iconic A380 and Game Changer Boeing 777 product. With floor-to-ceiling sliding doors and sleek design features, Emirates’ new private suites on the Boeing 777 take luxury and…
ISTANBUL: Turkish Airlines announced it will be operating a limited number of domestic and international routes from the Istanbul New Airport, which officially opened last week. All other operations and existing flight schedule will run as usual from Istanbul Atatürk Airport, it said in a statement. New additional flights will be operated from Istanbul New Airport to Ankara, Antalya, Izmir, Azerbaijan (Baku) and TRNC (Ercan) until December 30. Pursuant to existing planning, on December 31, all operations will move from Istanbul Atatürk Airport, after which, all flights will operate from Istanbul New Airport. At the opening ceremony on October…
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the national flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, has launched new passenger routes to the Indonesian cities of Surabaya in the south and Medan in the north of the country. The inaugural flights to Medan and Surabaya were marked with a special ribbon and cake- cutting ceremony, prior to departure from Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International airport in the late evening of October 28. The flights touched down in the afternoon in both cities the following day. The flights are operated as two separate routes with dedicated widebody Boeing 747 aircraft, availing 450 seats. Jeddah to Surabaya…
MANAMA: Bahrain national carrier Gulf Air and Thai Airways International have signed an expansion to the existing codeshare agreement, effective from October 28. The expanded codeshare agreement will extend the travel opportunities for Gulf Air passengers to fly beyond Bangkok on Thai Airways to Hong Kong with immediate effect and to Singapore, Tokyo and Melbourne in the coming months and broaden the commercial partnership between the two companies. Gulf Air’s Chief Executive Officer, Krešimir Kučko, said: “Gulf Air has a longstanding commercial partnership with Thai that we are proud of. Gulf Air passengers can now have greater choice, convenience and…
NAIROBI: A milestone was achieved on Sunday, 28th October when Kenya Airways became the first East African airline to touch down on solid ground in the U.S. And while the maiden voyage of the aircraft didn’t garner many headlines among American media, it was certainly a big deal in Kenya, where a mass of journalists from the country were on hand to document the event. The direct flight from Nairobi to New York, carrying 234 passengers clocked in at 15 hours 25 minutes and covered more than 8,520 miles, making it the seventh longest flight in history. Previous flights between…
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Muhammad Atif Khan on Thursday said that provincial government had taken solid steps for the promotion of Kalash culture and improvement of standard of life of the Kalash tribe in Chitral district. [huge_it_slider id=”303″] “The people from Kalash tribe in Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have a distinguished and historic culture, religion and a specific way of life, which has now become a point of focus for people of the world in general and tourists, historians and social scientists in particular to explore and understand these characteristic of the little known people in this…
SHARJAH: Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s largest low-cost carrier, celebrated 15 years of successful operations with a new brand identity that is reflective of its innovative forward-looking and international approach. The unveiling took place during a launch ceremony at the Air Arabia hangar in Sharjah International Airport where guests and press got to view the carrier’s new corporate identity, including the new aircraft livery and interior, through a live display of one of Air Arabia’s newly branded Airbus A320 aircraft. Air Arabia has experienced solid and sustained growth since the launch of its first flight on October…