QUETTA: World Tourism Day is an annual event celebrated worldwide every year on 27th September. Quetta Serena Hotel celebrated the World Tourism Day under the umbrella of SEED (Serena Environmental & Educational Development) with Theme this year was ” Sustainable Tourism- A tool for Development”. On this occasion management of the Hotel organized debate competition both in English & in Urdu, on a provincial level in which contestants from different educational institutions participated and they spoke were well about the importance of sustainable tourism. Awards were given to the best orators and performers. [huge_it_slider id=”106″]
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KARACHI: Pakistan’s national flag carrier, PIA is planning to increase profitable routes and revive stations that are not earning the airline with better planning and induction of more planes. Advisor to Prime Minister said this on Aviation, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan at a ceremony organized at the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) head office on the induction of 25 Cadet Pilots who will start duties on ATR aircraft soon. Sharing his views on the occasion, the advisor pointed out that the entire process of induction was done in a transparent manner. The individuals had to go through entry test conducted by…
MANAMA: Bahrain national carrier Gulf Air celebrated World Tourism Day in collaboration with the University of Bahrain on 27th September. Recognising distinguished students of the University’s Media, Tourism and Arts Division, Gulf Air awarded them complimentary flights to some of its newest destinations: Tbilisi, Georgia – Colombo, Sri Lanka – Athens, Greece. Presenting the tickets to the University of Bahrain’s Head of Media, Tourism and Arts Division Dr. Abdul Nasser Fattah Allah, Gulf Air Corporate Communications Manager Ahmed Al Anzoor stressed the importance of tourism studies to further promote Bahrain as a destination for a broad spectrum of global visitors.…
KARACHI: The Executive Committee of Pakistan Hotels Association (PHA) unanimously elected Mr. Zubair Surti as Chairman, Mr. Zubair Uddin Baweja as Senior Vice Chairman and Mr. Hamid Pervez Subhani as Vice Chairman for the year 2017-18 as announced in their Annual General Meeting held on September 26, 2017 at Karachi Marriott Hotel. [huge_it_slider id=”105″] Mr. Zubair Surti – Chairman, Pakistan Hotels Association:Mr. Zubair Surti is currently the Director Corporate Affairs of Tourism Promotion Services, the owners and operators of Serena Hotels in Pakistan. He has had almost forty years of experience at Serena Hotels in project planning, financing and monitoring,…
KARACHI: The three-day single country Thailand Exhibition held at Pearl Continental hotel Karachi where 45 companies showcased their new range of products by making business deals with local distributors and dealers. The people of Karachi availed the opportunity to get direct access to the Thai products and did lot of shopping. According to organizers, a large number of people thronged to exhibition on last day. Although exhibition was aimed to build ties with local companies, dealers, agents and Thailand companies offered a small range of their products for on spot sale, but almost all products were sold out encouraging them…
KARACHI: flydubai joined hands with Samaa 107.4 and launched an exciting “Lets Travel the World” campaign. It was aimed at creating brand awareness and to promote flydubai tourist destinations. Famous morning and evening drive shows, Samaa Rise with Adeel Azhar, Samaa Rise with Sulmeen Ansari, Lagao with Tehreem Muneeba and Samaa Club with Imran Hassan promoted this campaign along with social media posts capturing 100,000 hits. The campaign consisted of activity for the audience to register themselves and then answer few easy questions about flydubai and some general questions. The campaign has two phases. Phase one started on 15th August…
World Travel Awards has landed in St. Petersburg, as the finishing touches are put together in preparation of the Europe Gala Ceremony. The highly anticipated event will take place at the Marble Hall, Russian Museum of Ethnography this Saturday, September 30th, while the official after party will be held in the ballroom at the luxurious five-star Hotel Astoria. Established in 1993, World Travel Awards acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry.Today, the World Travel Awards brand is recognised globally as the ultimate hallmark of quality, with winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire.…
RAWALPINDI:The present democratic government is committed to facilitate tourists as the promotion of tourism industry would not only help to revive the economy but also remove any misperceptions about Pakistan. This was said by Federal Minister for Education and Technical Training, Engr. Baligh Ur Rehman while addressing the World Tourism Day 2017 Seminar and Photo Exhibition organized PTDC here at Rawalpindi today. He added that we working hard to improve infrastructure and facilities which will definitely increase tourist flow to the country. He said that World Tourism Day is celebrated every year on 27th September under the theme declared by…
Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism Day on September 27, with the fundamental aim & purpose to raise awareness on the role of tourism and to demonstrate how it affects social, cultural, political and economic values worldwide. Firstly i would definitely appreciate the team of Holiday Weekly for bringing out the supplement on the day and keeping our tourism flag high. The symbolic barrier of one billion international tourist arrivals of bigger than 1.5 trillion Dollar industry was surpassed way back in 2012. As per the latest statistics in the first six months of…
Sustainable Tourism is a bright thought for development and growth. Sustainable tourism is imagined as leading to utilization of all resources available in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while preserving cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, and biological diversity with security and life support systems. Tourism is responsible for one out of 11 jobs and 10% of the world’s economic output. We can reduce a good percentage of unemployment rate by sustaining the tourism in Pakistan as it would allow people to explore new opportunities in Aviation Sector. Tourism is of major importance to under…