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Brazil highlights positives from Confederations Cup

May 10, 2016 • admin
The president of Brazilian tourist board Embratur, Flávio Dino, has highlighted the financial returns made by the destination in the course of the recent Confederations Cup. Dino confirmed numbers exceeded expectations, with Embratur recording $329 million in more spending, including income from hotels, food faraway from home, and other related expenditure. Spending by tourists – Brazilians and foreigners – was estimated by Embratur at $145 million. “A study by Embratur showed tourism had a miles greater impact than anticipated,” Dino told local radio show Brasil em Pauta. There were 16 games in the course of the two weeks of the Confederations Cup, with the hosts eventually crowned champions. “This is significant because a return is immediate and goes straight into the pocket of the entrepreneur within the long chain associated...
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Cape Town Tourism campaign takes home gold at Cannes Lions 2013

October 10, 2015 • admin
Cape Town Tourism’s Facebook campaign, Send Your Facebook Profile to Cape Town, has won a Cannes Lions Gold Award for Cape Town Tourism’s advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather. The prize was awarded within the Branded Content Category (Best Use or Integration of Digital or Social Media) making them one among only two 2013 Gold Award winners from South Africa. This comes off the back of Cape Town Tourism’s prestigious SMITTY Award for The simplest Overall Use of Social Media globally received earlier this month. Cape Town Tourism partnered with Ogilvy Cape Town and Flow Communications to conceive and execute the sport-based campaign aimed toward promoting destination Cape Town to a world digital media audience and enticing more visitors to the town. The campaign formed a vital portion of Cape Town...
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Sheldon Adelson honoured at Jerusalem Summit

February 12, 2015 • admin
image[1] align=’right’ border=’0′ style=’padding-left:10px;’ alt=’Sheldon Adelson honoured at Jerusalem Summit’ border=0 > Chairman of the Jerusalem Development Authority, Moshe Lion, Minister of Tourism of the State of Israel, Dr. Uzi Landau, Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, Dr. Miriam Adelson, Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Mr. Sheldon Adelson, Taglit-Birthright participants, Sheldon Adelson has received an honorary award for his efforts to switch the face of tourism around the globe. The business magnet was praised for his contribution to travel and tourism on the second Jerusalem International Tourism Summit 2013 occurring today. Adelson’s career spans greater than six decades and includes the creation of over 50 different companies, including the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and the COMDEX tradeshow for the pc industry. The Las Vegas Sands Corporation has become...
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Multi-billion Euro-Vegas project planned for Madrid

February 6, 2015 • admin
Las Vegas Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. has chosen Madrid for a multi-billion dollar gambling resort project which have been dubbed “EuroVegas” and should be Europe’s biggest casino and conference centre. The latest plans for this exciting project were revealed by the company’s chairman and chief executive officer Sheldon Adelson on the Jerusalem International Tourism Summit. The 79 year old entrepreneur, philanthropist and businessman, whose career spans six decades, was honoured for his tremendous contributions within the travel and tourism industry earlier today on the Summit. Widely credited for reworking Vegas from a gamingcentric regional location into the leading convention and exhibition city within the Usa, the tycoon now has his sights set on Madrid . He revealed to delegates on the Jerusalem forum that his vision is to...
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UNWTO reveals steady increase in global tourism spending

October 27, 2014 • admin
Receipts from international tourism in destinations world wide grew by four per cent in 2012, reaching US$1,075 billion, figures from the UNWTO reveal. This growth is the same as the four per cent increase in international tourist arrivals, which reached 1,035 million in 2012. An additional US$ 219 billion was recorded in receipts from international passenger transport, bringing total exports generated by international tourism in 2012 to US$1.3 trillion. According to the most recent UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts hit a brand new record in 2012, reaching an estimated US$1,075 billion worldwide, up four per cent in real terms, from US$ 1042 billion in 2011. “It is encouraging to look that the expansion in international tourist arrivals was equalled by a comparable increase in spending despite continued economic...
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