Category: Travel Quotes

Travel for One

 

There are plenty of reasons why one would want to travel alone. Sometimes a frequent travel partner isn’t available. Other times people simply crave quiet and solitude. For these and many other reasons, solo travel has become a growing niche over the past few years, and agents, tour operators and cruise lines are adjusting the way they do business in order to accommodate the new trend and the new travelers.

Last year, tour operator Abercrombie & Kent launched a dedicated solo travel division that waived or greatly reduced supplements and fees for solo travelers, and saw a 26 percent increase in this niche for the last three quarters of the year. Bo

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Beijing Treble: BCIA takes all three top route development prizes in 2nd Asian ANNIES

Award season is here. Worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence as the Oscars, Grammy Awards and the Golden Globes is of course anna.aero’s ANNIE prizes. The time has come for the second annual Asian ANNIES, awarded to airports and airlines for their achievements in the Asia-Pacific region.

Again, our awards are based on science, statistics and evidence rather than people’s opinions (and votes). Usi

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Tags: Development Prizes, Prizes

Seoul welcomes Chinese New Year revellers

South Korean businesses are sprucing up to receive Chinese tourists during the Lunar New Year holidays, hoping the free-spending visitors bring a welcome boon to their otherwise slow business.

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Shops, hotels and restaurants in downtown Seoul have put up new signs and banners inscribed with New Year greetings in Chinese, rearranged displays and hired Chinese speaking interpreters.

“Sales to Chinese tourists tripled in the past two years.

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Tags: New Year, Year

Denise Lewis: counting down to London 2012

Home News And Blogs Adventure Blog Denise Lewis: counting down to London 2012

To compete in front of your home crowd is what every athlete wants to do


With just 200 days until the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, High Life’s new columnist — and champion heptathlete — is confident of Team GB’s chances

So, 2012 has finally arrived. I can’t believe seven years have passed since I was lucky enough to be chosen — as part of the London 2012 bid team with Lord Coe and David Beckham — 
to deliver a speech in Singapore to the International Olympic Committee members in front of the world’s media. It was pr

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Amadeus targets major companies with hotels package

Amadeus has unveiled a new hotel package tool which it claims could save major companies up to $1.6 million per year on accommodation bookings.

The technology firm’s Hotel Optimisation Package is aimed at larger travel agencies and TMCs and includes the Hotel Dynamic Saver tool which Amadeus said could save 10% on total spending on hotels for major corporations.

The hotel saver tool includes last room availability and automatic comparison of negotiated rates against public rates to make sure buyers get the best price. A

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Tags: Major Companies, Package