Travel and Tourism Industry News

The finalists for the Golden Backpack Awards UK have now been announced and the countdown begins to the inaugural London gala awards dinner and presentation. Taking place on Wednesday 12 October 2011, at the spectacular Shaka Zulu in London, the gala evening event will recognise tour operators, airlines, accommodation and transport providers who have shown [...]

Although Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this year, Spring is right around the corner for Affinia Manhattan guests with the hotel’s new Flower Show package. From March 28th through April 11th, patrons of this New York City hotel will get an exclusive look at the glorious arrangement of art, color, culture and flowers in full [...]

A total of Three hundred volunteers joined to collect photos for the new Tel Aviv Museum “Revealing the Hidden City.” The City will be opening a new museum soon. It will be located in the old majestic municipal building on Bialik Street. The historic museum will offer documents, artifacts, and thousands of photographs and many [...]

NYC & Company, New York City’s marketing, tourism and partnership organization, is touting a new trend in town this summer: high-altitude brunches. From Manhattan to Brooklyn to Queens, rooftops are catering to people seeking more than just a meal. In the vertical city of New York, good food and good views go hand in hand. [...]

The Austrian air show ” AirPower09″ was opened on Friday in Zeltweg, Steiermark, central Austria. The information officer of the Bundeswehr (Austrian Force), Karl Krainer said that the first day of the show attracted over 80, 000 spectators, far more than the spectators in the first day of the “AirPower” in 2005, which attracted 60,000 [...]

Mainly due to the economic crisis, foreign travel through Los Angeles International Airport ( LAX) continued to fall by a whopping 19 percent in March, it was reported on Thursday. This was the 12th straight month of declines for the world’s sixth largest airport, the Los Angeles Times reported, quoting figures released by the Los [...]

The Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) said on Friday that the economic crisis has led to a sharp spike in the number of backpackers heading to Australia shores. “The backpacker market is absolutely booming, we’ve seen visa applications up by 20 percent out of Germany and Britain alone, and those figures are translating into business” [...]