Travel and Tourism Industry News

Myanmar is striving hard for the revival of tourism industry, so as to re-draw attention of foreign tourists despite temporary hardship experienced through the disaster of cyclone. Noting that Myanmar’s tourism industry is reviving and the country is receiving a growing number of foreign tourists, China’s XINHUA news agency quoted official newspaper the New Light [...]

The Yacht Club at Palmas del Mar, another multi-million dollar investment at Palmas del Mar, inaugurated the first mega yacht resort marina in Puerto Rico and in the Caribbean today. The 162 slip luxury marina can accommodate mega yachts up to 200 feet long and provide them with resort hospitality and amenities no other marina [...]

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®, the oldest and largest privately-held chain of specialty coffee and tea stores in the United States, today announced that it will host a “Support from Home” campaign in stores from July 1 to Aug. 31. During this time, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will invite consumers to purchase [...]

Fortinet® — the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announced that Amadeus Hospitality has implemented Fortinet’s FortiGate® multi-threat security appliances to help provide broad security at the main German office and secure connections with its branch offices as well as more than 150 hotels to date across the world. [...]

Binter & Co. will be releasing grandstand seats in the coming weeks for the inaugural Formula Drift Singapore competition to be held on 27 April 2008. Held at the new Changi Exhibition Centre – same venue as the Singapore Air Show Grounds – Formula Drift Singapore is the circuit’s very first championship to take place [...]

Abacus Philippines successfully concluded a series of Solutions Roadshow in 8 major cities nationwide (e.g Bacolod, Baguio, Bulacan, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Pampanga and Manila).The Solutions Roadshow is scheduled to continue next week in three more cities (i.e Bulacan, Cavite and Laguna). At the roadshow, 3 new solutions – Abacus SBOSSi, Abacus ClientBase and Abacus VirtuallyThere [...]

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has confirmed that Dubai will be the host state of the Global Travel & Tourism Summit taking place on April 20-22, 2008. At the official launch last week, His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation and Chairman and Chief [...]