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News: GTMC new member: Uniglobe top flight travel

December 9, 2015 • admin
The GTMC has announced that Uniglobe member Top Flight Travel has become the thirty – eighth member of the organisation.  The announcement comes only days after Meon Valley Business Travel signed up for membership to the UK’s leading professional industry body representing travel management companies. Top Flight Travel was incorporated in August 1992 and is Uniglobe’s largest affiliate within Europe. The corporate has its headquarters in Reading, Berkshire and in addition has an office in London and employs over 60 members of staff. Uniglobe Top Flight Travel’s founder and chief executive Barry Baty said: ” On this rapidly changing industry it’s ever important to align oneself and share information with the simplest inside the business and membership of the GTMC will afford us that – so we’re delighted to become...
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News: Abu Dhabi plans major tourism push in Saudi Arabia

November 21, 2015 • admin
Abu Dhabi’s tourism industry is planning every week-long promotion of the destination and its expanding offering in Saudi Arabia later this month with a high profile participation at Riyadh Travel Fair to be followed by a 3-city road show. The promotion, organised by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, is being supported by a number of industry stakeholders including hotels and resorts, Etihad Airways, headline attractions and a novel integrated wellness facility on Saadiyat Island. The destination sales blitz begins at Riyadh Travel Fair – the Kingdom’s leading tourism trade event, which runs on the Four Seasons Hotel – Kingdom Tower inside the Saudi capital from April 23rd-26th. The Abu Dhabi delegation will then move directly to road show presentations to the Saudi travel trade in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah....
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News: Routes Europe sees its strongest airline attendance to this point

May 19, 2015 • admin
In six weeks time, Europe’s aviation community will meet at Routes Europe, happening 12-14 May. Over 100 Airlines are expected to wait Routes Europe in 2013 and already almost 200 airline delegates representing 96 carriers have registered to wait the development confirming that this year is determined to be the most important gathering yet of Europe’s key decision makers. Now in its 8th year, Routes Europe is the one network planning forum for the full European region and the 2013 event, hosted by Budapest Airport, will happen in Budapest, the pretty historic capital of Hungary. Routes Europe brings together over 800 delegates from airports, airlines, tourism authorities and other industry stakeholders from across Europe to speak about air service development. “The large collection of airlines and the seniority of the...
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News: Secretary of State for Transport to communicate at ABTA’s Travel Matters 2013

September 29, 2014 • admin
ABTA today announced that the Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt. Hon. Patrick McLoughlin MP, will deliver the keynote address at Travel Matters on 26 June 2013.  Now in its fourth year, this invitation-only conference will offer delegates a completely unique opportunity to listen to from, and interact with a superb line-up of speakers from Government and the industry. Delegates at Travel Matters 2013, going down at Millbank Media Centre in Westminster, will discuss and debate aviation capacity, the competitiveness of the UK’s travel and tourism sector, tourism’s Olympic legacy, and the opportunities, challenges and barriers to inspiring business and consumer confidence, under the theme “An Agenda for Growth”. The Secretary of State will speak alongside ABTA’s Chief Executive, Mark Tanzer, and there’ll be an industry perspective keynote from...
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Abu Dhabi plans major tourism push in Saudi Arabia

January 30, 2014 • admin
Abu Dhabi’s tourism industry is planning per week-long promotion of the destination and its expanding offering in Saudi Arabia later this month with a high profile participation at Riyadh Travel Fair to be followed by a 3-city road show. The promotion, organised by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, is being supported by a variety of industry stakeholders including hotels and resorts, Etihad Airways, headline attractions and a novel integrated wellness facility on Saadiyat Island. The destination sales blitz begins at Riyadh Travel Fair – the Kingdom’s leading tourism trade exhibition, which runs on the Four Seasons Hotel – Kingdom Tower inside the Saudi capital from April 23rd-26th. The Abu Dhabi delegation will then move directly to road show presentations to the Saudi travel trade in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah....
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