Ch Faisal Mehmood We witnessed sharp increase in the number of foreign airlines becoming on-line in Pakistan last year and the trend remains the same this year also as more low cost carrier are opting to penetrate in Pakistan’s Travel Market. New carriers, whether state owned or private sector enterprises, have been coming in directly or by appointing general sales agents. Several foreign airlines, which have been operating to and from our main airports since long, have asked for and have been granted, access to more and more of our cities with all the Five Freedoms. This shows, among other…
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PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Member Pakistan National Assembly Mr. Asad Umar on Sunday said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had taken tangible steps for the promotion of tourism and termed the engagement of private sector a positive initiative in that direction. [huge_it_slider id=”198″] “The KP government initiatives are yielding results as a record number of tourists and visitors had visited the scenic places of the province during the last four and half years despite militancy and law and order situation,”the MNA said while speaking as chief guest at the 3rdTech Valley Conference 2018 in Abbottabad. Titled as ‘3Ts -…
WASHINGTON: According to the sixth World Happiness Report, Pakistan is 58 points ahead of its arch-rival India, 11 points ahead of all-weather friend China, 31 of Iran, and 70 points ahead of Afghanistan on the ranking table of happiness. [huge_it_slider id=”197″] Pakistan was ranked at 75 in the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) 2018 World Happiness Report which ranked 156 countries according to things such as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption. India slipped 11 places as it was placed 122nd last year. It was behind the majority of South…
BERLIN: Travel bans, terror threats and political unrest haven’t deterred holidaymakers, so the world tourism is booming. A festive opening gala with leading figures from politics and tourism – A spectacular programme of shows by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the partner region of ITB Berlin, kicked off the World’s Leading Travel Trade Show. [huge_it_slider id=”196″] Numerous celebrities attended the World’s Largest Travel Trade Show, with Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel holding a jolly speech that marked her opening of ITB Berlin.Politicians attending included Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, President of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry (BTW) Dr. Michael Frenzel,…
NEW DELHI: India has grounded all Airbus SE narrow-body planes fitted with latest Pratt & Whitney engines, taking unilateral action to remove the aircraft from the country’s skies after a series of in-flight incidents. A320neos with even one Pratt engine featuring a seal found to cause vibrations are no longer allowed to fly, India’s DGCA said in a statement Monday. The action is at odds with the European Aviation Safety Agency, the primary regulator for Airbus planes, which repeated guidance that the jets are safe if they have a single affected turbine. The Indian move immediately grounded eight aircraft at…
CH FAISAL MAHMOOD Today Tourism has become the most vibrant and fast growing industry worldwide. It is continuously developing faster and deeper since the turn of the present century. Not only have the very concept of Tourist Products acquired new meanings, the various sectors serving those products have also acquired different profiles and different dynamics. Historical and archaeological products, which previously sufficed for marketing of destinations, are now considered ‘static products’; rendering them unsalable, except with activities contrived around them. The current ‘in thing’ for attracting tourists is what experts call ‘Contrived Products’. Changes in the transportation sector have been…
KARACHI: Students of Professional Institute of Hotel & Tourism Management (POHTM) recently visited MovenPick Hotel as a part of their study project. They received firsthand knowledge about Front Office, Guest Relations, Restaurant Dining, Cold Kitchen, Hot Kitchen, Bakery and Pool Services. Ms. Shaheen Kamran, Learning & Development Manager, MovenPick Hotel, Karachi briefed students about various aspects of the hotel. It was very productive visit for all students and they appreciated the efforts of POHTM to arrange such study visits, which provided them professional practical knowledge of the industry.
GILGIT: With the collaboration of GB-Women Development Department, Gilgit Serena Hotel has organized an event and celebrated International Women’s Day-2018 at Gilgit Serena Hotel, Ms. Sobia Muqaddam, Minister Social Welfare/Population welfare/Women development, Youth Affairs and Human rights of Gilgit-Baltistan was the Chef Guest of the day, Event was started with a Tilawate Kalam Pak and tableau performance by the students of different School/Colleges and Girls guides, which was highly appreciated, followed by a presentation and documentary delivered by Women Development Directorate on GB women empowerment. Skits and speech were also presented by Degree College & Girl Guide which enthralled the…
TOULOUSE-FRANCE: Aircraft giant Airbus is to axe around 3,700 jobs in Europe as it cuts back production of its troubled A380 superjumbo and A400M military transporter, the company and union officials said Wednesday, 7 March. The cuts come as France-based Airbus downscales deliveries of the under-selling A380, the world’s biggest passenger jet, from eight this year to six in 2020.It also plans to slow production of the equally problematic A400M. The company said “up to 3,700 jobs” in France, Germany, Britain and Spain would be affected by the drop in production, without saying whether the posts were being cut or…
BERLIN: The 8th UNWTO Silk Road Ministers’ Meeting held during the ITB Berlin Travel Trade Show, focused on the long-term tourism vision for the historic Silk Road routes and how to establish the Silk Road as the most important transnational tourism route of the 21st century. With the theme “2025 Silk Road Tourism Agenda”; the Ministers and Heads of the National Tourism Administrations shared their main ideas and strategies, which bring together 34 countries, Malaysia having become the latest member to join this initiative spearheaded by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). “Our joint work on placing the Silk Road as…