Travel and Tourism Industry News

Cebu Pacific is offering a promotional sale for all of domestic services from its Cebu hub and its daily Manila-Busuanga flights after it announced that it will base two ATR aircraft in Cebu. The seat sale will run from 11-Sept to 15-Sept-08 and is valid for travel from 01-Oct to 17-Dec-08. One-way ‘Go Lite’ all-inclusive [...]

The Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT) has just announced the launch of a new tourism recovery plan, from online video campaigns to roadshows and even familiarisations to come in the next few months. In order to battle any downward dips in tourism figures, TAT has “embarked on an immediate tourism recovery plan and is working [...]

Cebu Pacific (CEB), the leading carrier for the ASEAN, is using a third party, Interactive Technology Solutions, Inc. (i-Tech), for phone call reservations on top of its own call center operations to make booking faster and more convenient. i-Tech’s services, which started last Aug. 8, 2008, handles CEB’s over five million phone in bookings annually. [...]

Taking home more awards than any other company in the cruise category, Holland America Line has won nine Magellan Awards — three gold and six silver — from Travel Weekly Magazine. “We are proud of our accomplishments and winning this number of awards is a testament to our leadership position in the premium market,” said [...]

Registration filling fast for Online Revealed Caribbean conference being held this month in Puerto Rico, with an innovative agenda that educates the travel industry about how to be successful in Marketing tourism online. 4 September 2008 – Registrations for the much anticipated Online Revealed Caribbean internet marketing conference for the Caribbean travel and tourism community [...]

Sheraton Grande Laguna, a Luxury Collection Resort, Phuket has been awarded a Top Conference Hotel for Asia. “We are delighted to have received this award for the second year running and to have maintained this level of recognition within the conference industry”, Jan Kirstein, General Manager of the hotel commented. The only hotel in Phuket [...]

On September 13, 2008, the famed Ohio State University will meet their match as they play the beloved University of Southern California on USC’s home turf at the Coliseum in Los Angeles near the acclaimed Renaissance Montura Hotel Los Angeles Airport. The USC Trojans football program, established in 1888, is a member of the National [...]