ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Serena Hotel won ‘The Leading Hotel in Pakistan Award’ in the World Travel Awards Gala Ceremony. The results of the World Travel Awards, Asia and Australia were announced in a Gala Awards ceremony on 3rd September 2018 in Hong Kong. Serena Hotels shined this year again with the Islamabad, Dushanbe and Kabul Serena Hotels winning the Leading Hotel in Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan respectively. Serena Hotels has been the recipient of awards at the WTA for a number of years, as Serena Hotels are recognised for their quality and service. Mr. Aziz Boolani, CEO of Serena Hotels, received…
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LAHORE: Pakistan Tourism Industry – “Opportunities & Prospects” session was co-hosted by Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab “TDCP” & Landmark Communications which is Pakistan Travel Mart, the biggest International Travel & Tourism Expo of Pakistan to be held from 2-4 October 2018 in Expo Center Karachi. Tourism Minister of Punjab Mr. Raja Yasir Humayun Sarfaraz was the chief guest of the event. [huge_it_slider id=”282”] Mr. Muhammad Ali Hamdani – CEO – Landmark Communications briefed the audience about Pakistan Travel Mart and its significance to promote inbound and domestic tourism in Pakistan. Mr. Hamdani told the audience that more than 20…
WASHINGTON D.C.: US travel and hospitality industry leaders have had their first face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump, during which they are understood to have raised concerns about falling visitor numbers and the impact of the President’s travel ban. More than a dozen travel industry CEOs, including Marriott Chief Arne Sorenson, Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta, and Wyndham Worldwide CEO Geof Ballotti met with Trump at the US Travel Association’s first round table discussion since he took office 18 months ago. “Our discussion with the President was simple: A strong flow of international business and leisure travellers into the US reduces…
KARACHI: State-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Tuesday appointed Aviation Secretary Muhammad Saqib Aziz as its new chairman with immediate effect. “Secretary Aviation has been given the additional charge of PIA chairman after the government transferred former secretary aviation (PIA chairman) to the Establishment Division recently,” PIA spokesman Mashood Tajwar told. The decision was taken by the airline’s board of directors at a meeting held at the PIA head office, a press statement said. The chairman’s position had been lying vacant for about a week after former chairman Ijaz Munir, who was also aviation secretary, was transferred to the Establishment…
KARACHI: A well-attended event was held to honour Late Master Eqbal Mehdi at Karachi Marriott, on Tuesday, September 04, 2018 where the treasure trove of Late Eqbal Mehdi’s work was created over a long period of his state at Hashoo Group Properties. [huge_it_slider id=”281″] The event was held to Commemorate Late Eqbal Mehdi for the first time in the history of over 40 years. The Hashoo Group decided to use their art collection through auction and use the auction proceeds for “Spreading Smiles to Miles” with key focus in less developed areas of Pakistan. Apart from the sensitive pen and…
MADRID: The number of people travelling abroad hit record levels in 2017 with a total of 1,323 million international tourist arrivals recorded in destinations around the world, with India leading the growth in the South Asian region, according to data from the UN’s tourism organisation. The latest edition of its Tourism Highlights shows international arrivals reached 1.323 million last year. The figure represents an 84 million increase over 2016, and a new record, with the sector also recording “uninterrupted growth” in arrivals for eight consecutive years. The UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, added…
SYDNEY: The goal of a non-stop flight from Sydney to London, half the way around the planet, took a leap forward as the world’s top plane makers convinced Qantas Airways they can make the 20-hour route a reality. A year after Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce publicly challenged Boeing and Airbus to design a plane capable of making a viable direct flight from Sydney to London or New York; he says the manufacturers have succeeded. “We’re now comfortable that we think we have vehicles that could do it,” Joyce said in an interview in Qantas’s central Sydney offices. Project…
OSLO: By 2040, Norway has promised all of its short-haul flights will be on electric aircraft. It could revolutionize the airline industry. In July 2018, Norway’s transport minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen and Dag Falk-Petersen, the head of the country’s airport company Avinor, took a very special flight together. In front of the press they squeezed into the cockpit of a two-seat plane made by the Slovenian company Pipistrel. With Falk-Petersen at the controls, the pair took a short flight lasting a few minutes around Oslo in an Alpha Electro G2. The flight’s novelty is partly explained by the aircraft’s name; it’s…
UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2018 Edition shows international tourist arrivals reached a total of 1,323 million in 2017, some 84 million more than the previous year and made a yet another new record. The sector has now seen uninterrupted growth in arrivals for eight straight years. 2017’s growth was the highest since 2010, led by the regions of Europe and Africa, which received increases in arrivals of eight and nine per cent, respectively. International tourism receipts increased by five per cent in 2017. In addition to the US$1.3 trillion in receipts that destinations earned, international tourism generated another US$240 billion from…
TOKOYO: The first Airbus A380 for All Nippon Airways (ANA) has rolled out of the final assembly line (FAL) in Toulouse. The aircraft has now been moved to an outside station where various ground tests will be undertaken in preparation for first flight in the coming weeks. The aircraft will then be transferred to the Airbus facilities in Hamburg for cabin installation and painting. ANA placed a firm order of three A380s in 2016, becoming the first customer for the superjumbo in Japan. The first delivery is scheduled early in 2019, and the A380 will initially be operated on the…