The oldest and best known Hospitality and Tourism Group of Institutes of India, International Institute Of Hotel Management (IIHM) with campuses at Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Bangkok, and IAM with campuses at Goa, Kolkata and Guwahati has decided to form the India’s first-ever Tourism University named IIHM University in West Bengal under the WB Pvt University Act. IIHM is the only institute in India having over 40 MoUs and academic collaboration with the world’s top institutions. The institution is planning to organize the biggest Culinary Olympiad for Young Chefs of the world, where over 50 nations…
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PARIS: France drops decades-old plan to build Notre-Dame-Des-Landes Airport. The French government last week abandoned a decades-old plan to build a €580 million ($708.53 million) airport in western France. “The Notre-Dame-Des-Landes project will be dropped,” Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said in a televised statement. The project does not have broad popular support, according to the government. President Emmanuel Macron, who took office in May, promised a quick decision after years of indecision over the development. The issue has spawned an eco-protest movement that threatened widespread disruption over the issue. The contract to build the new airport had been won by…
ISLAMABAD: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has prepared a draft strategic roadmap for the development of Islamic tourism among the OIC member states. The project provides a methodological framework for enhancing cooperation among member states in the field of tourism in order to develop and identify the necessary resources, in addition to defining main themes of the future of tourism in member countries through Islamic tourism standards and quality control project, a press release Sunday said. Commenting on the development, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Affairs Ambassador Hamid Opeloyeru noted that the Strategic Roadmap for Islamic Tourism, developed by…
According to latest research our ocean floors are sinking under rising water levels across the globe. A team of scientists says the impact of warming seas has been underestimated and melting glaciers are putting severe pressure on ocean beds. Redistribution of water, once stored in ice sheets, is causing sea levels to rise. Researchers have now found the change is also having another affect, the ocean floor is subsiding under the increasing weight of the added water, according to a new study, published in the Geophysical Research Letters. Led by Thomas Frederikse, of the Delft University of Technology in the…
DUBAI: Airbus said on Thursday, 18 January that it is committed to producing its A380 aircraft for “at least another 10 years” after it signed a $16-billion (Dh58.7 billion) programme-saving deal with Emirates airline. John Leahy, Chief operating officer at Airbus commercial aircraft, said in a statement that he believed the A380 model will continue to be produced beyond 2030. The deal was an order from Emirates for 36 new Airbus A380s, set to be delivered from 2020 onwards. The order follows months of negotiations, including talks during the Dubai Air Show in November during which both sides failed to…
LAHORE: As many as six new private airlines have applied for regular public transport (RPT) licence to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and are likely to start their flight operations during the first half of this year. These airlines are Askari Air Pakistan, Army Welfare Trust (AWT), Liberty Air owned by Ch. Munir and Mian Amir, Go Green Airways, Elahi Group, Danish Elahi and Arshad Jalil, United Airways Pakistan Limited by Adnan Tabbani, Air Sial, combined owner, Sialkot Chamber of Commerce, and Afeef Zara Airways owned by Rashid Siddiqui. They entrants would not meet pure domestic traffic requirements as in the…
LONDON: UK Supermarket chain becomes first in the world to remove plastic packaging from ALL its own-label products. Iceland’s landmark move puts pressure on its rivals to follow suit amid public demands to turn back the tide of plastic pollution. The company, which has more than 900 stores, has a five-year plan to ditch plastic from all of its own-brand products. Packaging on 1,400 products will be replaced, and the changes involve more than 250 suppliers. First to go will be plastic ready meal trays in favour of wood-pulp alternatives made in Britain. Plastic bags used for frozen vegetables and…
NEW DELHI: India will break up its debt-burdened flag carrier into four separate companies and offer to sell at least 51 per cent in each of them as part of a disinvestment proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The core airline business comprising Air India and Air India Express, the low-cost overseas arm will be offered as one company, and the process will be completed by the end of 2018, Junior Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha said in an interview. Its regional arm, ground handling, and engineering operations will also be sold separately in the same process. A successful sale of…
KARACHI: Atlasglobal, which was recently awarded 4-star status by the prestigious airline-rating organisation, Skytrax, and is Turkey’s second largest airline, has decided to open its inventory for sales from Pakistan. To this end Atlasglobal has formed a partnership with Karachi based GMG Travel (Private) Limited, the company is engaged in travel, aviation and tourism sector in order to cater for the ever-growing market for outbound travel from Pakistan The appointment of GMG Travel (Private) Limited as a GSA will ensure easy access for Pakistani customers to Atlasglobal’s outstanding products and services, together with the airline’s highly competitive fares. It also signals the carrier’s commitment…
MADRID: In International border crossing, the implementation of biometric technology to facilitate secure borders is the single biggest opportunity for the Travel & Tourism sector in 2018, according to Gloria Guevara Manzo, President and CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). Ms Guevara also highlighted the importance of developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual and augmented reality and changing demographics, particularly the ‘coming of age’ of millennial and growth of Generation Z, for Travel & Tourism. Speaking at the 9th Executur Tourism Leadership Forum in Madrid, Spain, during the ongoing FITUR trade show, Ms Guevara said,…