KARACHI: Last Week Gerry’s International’s Human Resource Department arranged an interactive session exclusively for its female employees on “Personal Grooming and Beauty” by a famous beautician in the media industry Mrs. Angie Marshall, who has won several international awards as well as appeared on famous TV shows for her amazing skills. Mrs. Angie Marshall is a renowned Beautician from Angie’s Salon & Institute. The main focus of the session revolved around personal grooming by teaching via live examples and guiding employees about personal appearance, how to take care of their skin and appropriate makeup application. Also to have a better…
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PATA’s Bangkok headquarters has retained once again its EarthCheck Silver-level Sustainability Certification. This achievement is for a second consecutive year. Taking proper guidance and instruction from EarthCheck, a leading scientific benchmarking, certification and advisory group for the travel and tourism industry,the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) head office team worked hard in the collection and collation of relevant operational data on daily practices in order to be benchmarked against EarthCheck’s global sustainability standard. The PATA head office received Bronze Benchmarked Sustainability Certification in 2015 and the Silver Certification in May 2016. The EarthCheck benchmarking data embraces water and energy consumption,…
DOHA: Qatar Airways has started direct service between Doha and Nice, the airline’s second destination in France. Qatar Airways first flight QR 53 operated by a Boeing B787 Dreamliner departed from Hamad International Airport (HIA) on Tuesday, 4 July. Located on the magnificent French Riviera, Nice has a true cosmopolitan vibe with fashionable boutiques and restaurants, alongside magnificent beaches. The city is also the gateway to the South of France, including popular destinations such as Cannes, St. Tropez, Antibes and the region of Provence, while also being within easy reach of neighbouring Monaco and Northern Italy. Qatar Airways Group Chief…
KARACHI: While briefing the Special Committee meeting on the performance of PIA held at its head office here under the chairmanship of the Convener of the Special Committee, Senator Mushahidullah Khan, the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Aviation Division, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan said that the government is doing its best to ensure the `effective functioning’ of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).The committee Meeting Held Here in Karachi on Thursday, 6 July. The Adviser was of the view that the airline needs a `good leadership ‘, which should take concrete steps on emergent basis. `We want to compete with…
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) last week called upon the Pakistani diplomats to play role in promoting tourism potential of Pakistan in their host countries as Pakistan has immense potential to attract tourists from around the world. President ICCI Khalid Iqbal Malik said that tourism creates jobs, alleviates poverty and contributes significantly to the economic development of a country. He said that Pakistan has places in Northern Areas, Azad Kashmir, Lahore, Moenjodaro, Thatta and in many other areas that are ranked one of the best in the world for tourism, but Pakistan is still unexplored for…
LONDON: The transport management of UK has announced that more trains will serve Heathrow Airport and a western rail link. Alongside the introduction of Oyster and Contactless gates at Heathrow from May 2018, TfL and department of transport have agreed for two Crossrail, Elizabeth Line trains to stop at Terminal 5 every hour. The total number of trains from central London to Heathrow will therefore increase from 18 per hour to 22. This means a Heathrow-bound train will leave central London every two-and-a-half minutes. Passengers travelling to London via HS2 will be able to use the Old Oak Common Interchange…
MANAMA: Gulf Air has revealed a cybersecurity step-change as part of an ongoing campaign to safeguard its operations and deliver industry-leading customer service. The move, according to Gulf Air, helped reinforce its network perimeter to pre-empt and combat Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, improve data centre and application-level security and further enhance data and access protection measures. A key component of Gulf Air’s DDoS strategy is the deployment of the F5® DDoS Hybrid Defender. This ensures high line rate capabilities without impacting legitimate traffic. Crucially, the solution is compatible with Gulf Air’s current perimeter security controls to minimise maintenance…
The last pristine environment on Earth; a frozen continent that’s home to some of the world’s hardiest wildlife and most dramatic landscapes. But Antarctica is under threat. Scientists claim climate change; invasive species and tourism are destabilizing the polar environment in the region, where temperatures have risen by as much as 3C over the last three decades. It is to that backdrop that Natural World Safaris has added a new tour to its catalogue: a one-day trip to Antarctica aboard a private jet. Departing South Africa, guests embarking on the Antarctica trip will spend just 12 hours on the icy…
MUZAFFARABAD: Seeing the big turnout of the tourists, The Prime Minister Azad Kashmir, Raja Farooq Haider Khan on Wednesday, 5 July visited Kohala entry point to check the arrangements and behavior of police officials with the passing tourists. On the occasion, Deputy Commissioners of three districts Muzaffarabad, Bagh and Poonch said under the directives of Prime Minister polite and people friendly police officials including women officers have been deployed to deal with tourists. They said that measures of government produced a positive effect resulting in high increased number of tourists. Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) government is also providing pamphlets…
LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways, after a launch of electronic ticketing system last October, has initiated the duplicate ticket system, a major decision to facilitate the railways passengers in the country. Chairing a meeting on Monday 3 July, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Minister for Railways gave the approval to start the new system. Earlier, if a passenger lost his rail ticket, he would have to purchase the new ticket again by paying full payment but now he would be issued the new ticket without repayment. The Railways official told that a Double Ticket System is being introduced to address the growing number…