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Adventure, cruise and solo travel are the latest trends

January 20, 2024528 Views

Adventurous destinations and specialty cruises are among the latest travel trends for 2024. Overseas Adventure Travel (O.A.T.), the leader in personalized small group and solo travel for Americans ages 50 and older, announced the top three travel trends for the year ahead. "Our mission has always been to change people's lives through travel," said Brian FitzGerald, Chief Executive Officer of O.A.T. "We're seeing more and more travelers seeking unfamiliar destinations, places where they can make deeper cultural connections, witness relatively untouched landscapes, and experience the world in a more immersive and meaningful way." Top 3 Trends for 2024: 1. Adventurous destinations –Today's travelers are more active and seeking out destinations where they have opportunities to t...

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Standardising the International hotel sustainability

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January 19, 2024195 Views

With WTTC and Biosphere joining forces, more than 2,500 hotels to benefit from the collaboration The partnership aims to support common core principles in hotel sustainability, driving accommodation towards sustainable alignment In a joint effort to promote sustainability in the Travel & Tourism sector, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and Biosphere have inked a partnership to promote sustainability criteria in the hotel industry under the Hotel Sustainability Basics initiative. In the current landscape of globalisation and information saturation, where sustainability holds paramount importance, the proliferation of new standards and eco-labels poses a significant challenge for the sector. Identifying clear and consistent sustainability criteria has become incr...

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First long weekend of the year gives a big tourism push

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January 19, 2024646 Views

Industry upbeat with prospects, bookings pick with brisk demand With Republic Day falling on a Friday, travellers are leveraging this opportunity to make the most of the long weekend, and tourism industry is witnessing brisk demand of over 25% YoY – for both domestic and closer to home locales. Besides, domestic destinations, short haul outbound destinations like Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Malaysia are witnessing demand for this extended weekend. FILE PHOTO: A child tries on a mask at a street vendor in Dharmsala, India, Saturday. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Rajeev Kale - President & Country Head, Holidays, MICE, Visa - Thomas Cook (India) Limited, says, “Long weekends provide that much needed short break/ minication and customers are o...

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Cathay Pacific opens first ferry lounge at Shenzhen’s Shekou Cruise port

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January 19, 2024320 Views

# Strengthens its position in the wider Greater Bay Area # Enhances customers’ intermodal travel experience Cathay Pacific has opened its first-ever lounge outside of an airport to guests at the Shekou Cruise Home Port in Shenzhen. This new ferry lounge further enhances the intermodal travel experience for its customers and elevates sea-to-air connectivity between Hong Kong International Airport and the whole of the Greater Bay Area. At the opening ceremony on 18 January, Cathay Group Chief Executive Officer Ronald Lam said: “As Hong Kong International Airport continues to strengthen its sea and land connections with neighbouring cities in the Greater Bay Area, we are excited to open our brand-new Cathay Pacific lounge at the Shekou Cruise Home Port to our customers travelling ...

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Enjoy exclusive river cruise in Mae Ping River

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January 19, 2024385 Views

Anantara Chiang Mai Resort expands its luxury cruise offering, with two boats and four different itineraries. Each departs daily from the resort’s private pier on the banks of the Mae Ping River At Anantara Chiang Mai in Thailand, the Mae Ping River is very much part of the resort experience: morning yoga, breakfast under the bodhi trees, lazing by the pool, sunset cocktails on the rooftop – all take place overlooking the city’s ancient lifeline. Now, with the addition of its private pier, signature Anantara experiences extend to the river itself. JAO Ping, meaning “king of the river”, offers daily cruises for both individuals and groups, guests and visitors. Its fleet consists of two hand-carved teak boats, the Nam Jai, a scorpion-tail for up to eight passengers, and the Nam Jit,...

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Scientists reveal how Greenland Ice Sheet has shrunk over past four decades

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January 18, 2024542 Views

The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 5,091 sq km (1930 sq miles) of area between 1985 and 2022, according to a study in the journal Nature published on Wednesday, the first full ice-sheet wide estimate of area loss on that scale. This shrinkage reflected the 1,034 gigatonnes (1.034 trillion kg.) of ice that have been lost as glaciers retreated, shedding ice through "calving" - when ice chunks break off from a glacier - at their terminating ends. FILE PHOTO: The edge of the ice sheet is pictured south of Ilulissat, Greenland, September 17, 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke The study is also the first to fully estimate how much ice Greenland has lost due specifically to glacial retreat. It suggests previous estimates of changes to the Greenland Ice Sheet's mass balance - how much snow and ic...

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France to keep its crown as most popular destination for international visitors

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January 18, 2024230 Views

# New data shows arrivals on brink of sector high # Seat capacity to surpass pre-pandemic levels # Nice surges as a key destination Latest flight booking data from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and its knowledge partner ForwardKeys, shows France is set to keep its pole position as the world’s most popular destination for international arrivals this year. The research reveals a positive outlook for France's inbound travel, with arrivals set to almost reach pre-pandemic highs this year. During her participation at the Destination France event taking place in Chantilly and hosted by President Macron, Julia Simpson, WTTC President & CEO, praised France for its steely focus in recognising the economic and cultural value Travel & Tourism brings in jobs a...

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Lifetime travels of a single woolly mammoth chronicled

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January 18, 2024545 Views

Researchers document the movements of giant, which wandered the north more than 14,000 years ago An international team of researchers from McMaster University, University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Ottawa has tracked and documented the movements and genetic connections of a female woolly mammoth that roamed the earth more than 14,000 years ago. She travelled hundreds of kilometres through northwestern Canada and Alaska over the course of her lifetime, which ended when she encountered some of the earliest people to have traveled across the Bering Land Bridge. The last remaining woolly mammoths lived alongside the region’s first peoples for at least 1,000 years, but little is known about how the mammoths moved across a landscape increasingly populated by people and w...

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Now ‘Sky Escape’ into Kerala for a new adventure

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January 18, 2024373 Views

*State bets big on heli-tourism to attract visitors *Paragliding festival at Wagamon; Surfing festival at Varkala *MTB Kerala at Mananthavady and Malabar River Festival at Kodenchery Poised to soar new heights in 2024, Kerala Tourism has unveiled in the national capital, a raft of groundbreaking products including Heli-Tourism, connecting the state’s top destinations, as part of its aggressive campaign to increase the domestic tourist footfalls. Branded as ‘Sky Escapes’, the heli-tourism project has been planned as a game-changer in the manner houseboats did for the state, three decades ago, and thus continue to lure visitors from both India and abroad, Kerala Tourism Director P B Nooh said at a press conference organised as part of the B2B trade meet here today. “Ker...

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Bringing back the glory!

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January 18, 2024627 Views

An Icon Returns, as ‘Welcomhotel Chennai’ welcomes back guests in the New Year ITC Hotels has announced the reopening of Welcomhotel by ITC Hotels, Cathedral Road, Chennai, a landmark property established in 1975, looking resplendent in its new avatar. This iconic hotel, with a repertoire of world-class hospitality offerings, promises to further enrich the city’s vibrant tourism and business landscape. In line with ITC Hotels’s credo of ‘Responsible Luxury’, Welcomhotel Chennai is committed to the highest levels of environmental stewardship. The hotel is LEED Platinum & LEED Zero Carbon certified, attesting to its commitment to sustainability, utilization of renewable energy, conservation and recycling of water, and concrete measures to preserve the ecosystem. It has self-owned ...