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…
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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…
ISLAMABAD: The Government of Pakistan should allocate adequate funds for Pakistan Tourism Development Authority (PTDC) for publicity and promotion of tourism attractions in the world media besides facilitating participation of public & private sector in international tourism exhibitions, says a report issued by The United Nations World Tourism Organization. According to the report, the involvement of public private partnership for infrastructure development in the sector is also essential. Tourism opportunities in Pakistan are not less than any of the world’s places, but due to many factors Pakistan could not achieve its right place in global tourism. The main reason for…
PESHAWAR: Federal Secretary for Information, Mr. Shabbir Awan on Thursday, March 08, said that Pakistani women were not second to none but they should be provided proper opportunities to explore their skills and talents. “Engaging womenfolk in positive activities is the need of the hour to end negative attitudes from the society,” the secretary told the concluding ceremony of a T-20 cricket match played between the teams of Peshawar and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) here. Federal Information Department and Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) had jointly organized the T-20 cricket match for the women teams of Peshawar and AJK…
KARACHI: Turkish Airlines Pakistan recently honoured the most productive and well performing travel agents of Karachi for 2017 by giving shields and Awards to them. The function was arranged at Pearl continental Hotel Karachi. [huge_it_slider id=”195″] Mr. Fatih Atacan TEMEL, General Manager-Pakistan, Turkish Airlines, and his team greeted the guests upon their arrival. He highly appreciated the support of all the travel agents in his welcome address and said that Turkish Airlines has achieved 34.5% increase in revenue from Pakistan in 2017 while seat occupancy has increased 5%. He said these impressive figures are achieved by dedication and hard work…
KARACHI: On the evening of 3rd March 2018, Marriott Hotel Karachi inaugurated a two-day festival at the Nadia Café to honour and celebrate a cuisine which is influenced from Andalusian Spain, Arabia and France and is one of the most loved cuisine of the planet, the infamous food of Morocco. [huge_it_slider id=”194″] An extravagant buffet consisting of an array of different salads, savouries and desserts was assembled by a Moroccan chef who prepared all of the food using traditional and exotic ingredients and aromatic spices brought in especially from Morocco. Food lovers from all around town enjoyed the…