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Abu Dhabi The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority , the emirate's tourism regulatory body, is currently designing a guideline for its hotel and tourism industry that is expected to improve services, Gulf News has learnt. The tourism sector, which represents 1.2 per cent of Abu Dhabi's GDP and 4.3 per cent of employment, is gaining increasing importance in Abu Dhabi's development game plan as a business tourism destination, officials said yesterday. Shaikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, ADTA chairman, yesterday...

Colonel Cyril Roosevelt Necku , Deputy Volta Regional Minister-designate has said that the economic potential of the region would be harnessed to create job opportunities and also alleviate the poverty of the people. He said the region has a lot of tourism sites which could be developed into viable ventures to create...

At his Paris souvenir shop on the Boulevard de Clichy, at the foot of Montmartre, manager Amir Mezzine is getting desperate. His sales have plummeted 30% since last year. Fewer tourists are stopping by—and those who do spend less. He has rejiggered his inventory, replacing higher-priced items like sweatshirts and framed prints with Eiffel Tower key chains, Moulin Rouge magnets, and other cheap trinkets, to no avail. "We are unable to adapt," he sighs. Paris, the most-visited city in the world, is getting clobbered by a sharp downturn in global travel. International passenger arrivals at the...

Comments MIAMI - While Americans take "staycations" in this dour economy, travel wholesalers say foreigners are boosting South Florida's tourism market. North Bay Village wholesaler Arturo Armayor says the economic downtown has opened up more and more desirable hotels for Europeans and Latin Americans with modest vacation budgets. Hotel room rates across Miami-Dade County dropped 11 percent this...

Medical tourism is one of the brightest regions in our country's economic landscape. Virtually every sector, including overseas Filipino workers' remittances, threatens to decline or has in fact declined, like the electronic export sector. This subset of the tourism industry performed better in the first quarter of 2009 than in the same period in 2008 despite the global financial crisis, we learn from Tourism Undersecretary Cynthia Carrion. US$3 billion tourism revenues by 2012 The 10-percent growth from January to March came from more than 200,000 foreigners who have come to the country's medical, health and wellness centers. If this trend continues, a total of 600,000 patients and wellness...

The deal Just north of Barbados, the tiny Caribbean outpost of Saint Lucia provides a perfect backdrop for a more remote — and unspoiled — Caribbean getaway. Try one of these affordable island resorts and explore the island’s dramatic coastal mountains, natural rainforests and remarkable coral reefs. Spring and summer rates start just $99/night. Situated on the island’s gorgeous Southern...

Is William Shakespeare about to come to the rescue of the country's economy? Or as the bard himself might have put it; is our winter of discontent about to be made bright summer by the tourism industry? That's certainly the view in Shakespeare's home town. The season is barely underway but already Stratford Upon Avon is busy with tourists. Our worsening economy and weakening pound has led many analysts to predict a bumper year for Britain's tourist industry. Phil Hackett, the Chief Executive of the evocatively named Shakespeare Country goes even further. "We think it could be our best year ever," he told me when Working Lunch visited the town. Weak pound is big business "We're...

FALLON -- Leaders of Nevada's rural tourism industry are gathering at a conference this week to share ideas about ways to survive the sour economy, including sustaining special events and utilizing American Indian history to lure visitors to their towns....

With pennies tight, many Brits are re-evaluating their holiday plans. Afraid of missing out on the summer sun but conscious of cash, many young adults will be piggybacking their parents' holiday plans this year - with over one in 10 joining a family holiday funded by their parents, according to research from travelsupermarket.com. Over a quarter of British adults have previously been on a family holiday where parents have...

The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents is pleased to inform members of the trade that we are organizing the 3rd...

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Mrs. Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Minister of Tourism, on Monday announced the discovery of a special medicinal honey at Kakum National Park and said this would add another activity for tourists who visited the park. The honey which was extracted from a kind of bees which did not sting, was said to be used to cure several ailments, she said. The Minister said the...

Mrs. Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Minister of Tourism, on Monday announced the discovery of a special medicinal honey at Kakum National Park and said this would add another activity for tourists who visited the park. The honey which was extracted from a kind of bees which did not sting, was said to be used to cure several ailments, she said. The Minister said the...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - It wasn't that long ago this city of aging snowbirds fought back a rising tide of scantily clad college students with the ultimate spring-break buzz kill: no thongs, no amplified music and no dancing. How a troubled economy can change things. Reeling from the recession and the rising vacancy rate at Palm Springs hotels, the city's tourism bureau this spring sent a text message to 55,000 college kids - "Skip Cabo, come to Palm...

Travel wholesaler Arturo Armayor surveys South Florida's battered tourism market and finds much to celebrate. He books rooms at a discount for Europeans and Latin Americans with modest vacation budgets, a job made easier by this winter's 11 percent decrease in room rates across Miami-Dade County. His foreign clients seem less spooked than American travelers by the economic crisis, with his Miami Beach bookings higher than last year's. And while a booming travel market once relegated much of Armayor's business to airport hotels and other...

Omar Azan, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association , is encouraging Jamaicans to "keep the faith", despite the many challenges triggered by the worsening economic crisis. He said despite the hard times, Jamaicans must find hope in the fact that there are many sectors that continue to experience growth. These, he...

The snipers will be in place, the manhole covers bolted, the bins removed, the cameras trained and the motorcycle outriders primed: as world leaders converge on the capital for the G20 summit Britain's biggest security operation is swinging into operation. Up to 5,000 police officers drawn from more than 30 forces are preparing to confront anarchists and environmentalists while 40 armed convoys containing the world's most powerful people and protected by 1,200 security personnel will attempt to weave their way through the theatre. A climate camp has been planned for somewhere in the Square Mile, four marches nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are due to converge on the Old Lady of...

New York: Walt Disney Company and Google Incorporated's YouTube on Monday said they had reached a pact to offer consumers advertising-supported premium short-form content on the hugely popular video-sharing site from next month. The deal will see videos from sports network ESPN from April and the Disney/ABC Television networks such as ABC Entertainment and SoapNet become available on...

Americans have a history of believing in oracles that tell them to dig. Where I grew up, not far from the American Society of Dowsers in Danville, Vermont, even skeptical farmers consulted dowsers to help them decide where wells should go. Before he discovered Mormonism, Joseph Smith was a "money digger" who trusted that a stone in a hat, properly viewed, could lead him to buried treasure; when the...

 

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