WRITTEN BY CH. FAISAL MEHMOOD The Tourism industry worldwide has been 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 the more visible and more influential. From…
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THATTA: On the 21st of January 18, Khwaja Jahan Zeb, CEO Zeb Travels, one of Pakistan’s largest domestic and International tour sellers took the initiative of promoting Sindh Tourism by inviting the team of Holiday Weekly along with Seniors of foreign airlines and leading educationists toan Educational/Recreational Day trip to explore the historical richness & depth of the heritage sitessituated between Karachi and Thatta. The aim of this tour was to inform and present us with the history of different archaeological sites in the province of Sindh. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”3″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”240″ thumbnail_height=”160″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”2″ number_of_columns=”2″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″…
Lahore: Channel Group of Companies Faremakers.com Annual Award Ceremony was held in Sapphire Hall, Lahore on 21 January 2018. This particular event was organized to grant respective Awards, Certificate & Gift Hampers to the employees. This event took place under leadership of Group Chairman Mr. Asif Naseer Khara founder of www.faremakers.com. [huge_it_slider id=”167″] Channel Group of Companies is the biggest traveling and tourism Group in Pakistan. It has largest infrastructure and a huge work force for providing exceptional kind of services to the customers. It is serving in traveling sector from 1.5 Decade. Many new branches have been inaugurated like…
KARACHI: Mr. Azeem Qureshi, General Manager Beach Luxury Hotel and Avari Group International hosted a grand farewell dinner in honor of Her Excellency Grace Shelton, Consul General of United States of America last week on the evening of Wednesday, 24th January. [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”2″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”240″ thumbnail_height=”160″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”2″ number_of_columns=”2″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The evening was hosted to acknowledge her Outstanding diplomatic services for her country and for strengthening US-Pakistan’s economic, social, cultural and political relations during her posting in Karachi for about one and a half year. The consular corp including…
KARACHI: The Professionals Network (TPN), while recognizing the Hashoo Group’s best practices in the area of corporate social responsibility, presented 3 CSR awards during its 7th Corporate Social Responsibility summit held in Karachi last week. Ms. Ayesha Khan, Country Director, Hashoo Foundation/Vice President Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Hashoo Group received the awards from the Honourable Chief Guest, Governor of Sindh, Mohammad Zubair in the following important categories “Education Scholarship Program, Social Impact, and Women Empowerment”. Prominent personalities belonging to Academia, Government Organizations, Corporate Sector, NGO’s, and Media graced the event. “The Hashwani family has a long standing heritage of philanthropy dating…
MADRID: UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili has appointed Mr. Shanzhong Zhu as Executive Director of UNWTO. A move for the new Georgian Secretary-General to appoint a Chinese Executive Director was expected long before the last UNWTO General Assembly. It was reported about a meeting with the Secretary-General and CNTA on August 28 and it was assumed this possible outcome of Chinese participation in UNWTO may have been already agreed on. The confirmation for Zurab Pololikashvili as UNWTO Secretary-General became a top priority for China when hosting the assembly in Chengdu. The importance was obvious with the launch of the World Tourism…
PESHAWAR: A walk was held on Tuesday from GorKhattri to the end of Heritage Trail to create awareness about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of tourism. The Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) and the Task Force committee on Sustainable Development Goals on Tourism jointly organised the walk. The Members of the Task Force committee, including MPAs Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, Fazal Ilahi, Nirgas Ali led the walk. Secretary Sports, Tourism, Culture, Archaeology, Museums and Youth Affairs Muhammad Tariq, TCKP Managing Director Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, Director Archaeology, Dr Abdul Samad, Town-1 Nazim Zahid Nadeem and others also participated in the walk. Director Archaeology…
KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airline (PIA) has announced special extra daily flight from Karachi to Gwadar for one week starting from Jan 26th in addition to its daily flights to Gwadar . The decision was taken by President & CEO PIA, Musharraf Rasool Cyan in order to help promote Gwadar Expo 2018 due to be held on 29-30 January 2018. A meeting was held at PIA Head Office. The officials included Federal Minister of State for Maritime Affairs, ChaudhryJafferIqbal, DG Ports & Shipping Asad Rafi Chandna, DDG CAA, AVM UsaidurRehman. While Chief Operating Officer, Zia QadirQureshi, Chief Commercial Officer Bilal…
ADDIS AABA: The African Union Commission is set to launch the first AU Agenda 2063 Flagship project, the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 28th January 2018 as a historic event at the African Union Summit, nearly two decades after the adoption of the 1999 Yamoussoukro Decision. Speaking ahead of the launch event, Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy at the African Union Commission said “With preparations continuing on schedule, the launch of the Single African Air Transport Market will spur more opportunities to promote trade, cross-border investments in the production and service…
MADRID: The 38th FITUR, Madrid’s International Tourism Fair, organised by IFEMA from 17 to 21 January reveals the most impressive figures in its history, confirming its leadership as a premier business forum for the global tourism industry. As well as the best figures for the tourism industry, both in Spain and worldwide, FITUR, which was once again inaugurated at IFEMA by the King and Queen of Spain, and which brought together more than 600 ministers, ambassadors and high-level representatives from all over the world, closed its doors today, 23 January after welcoming some 251,000 participants, according to first estimates, representing…