Travel and Tourism Industry News

Part of the Three? Ride for Free! Do you live in Manhattan and you’ve never been to the top of the Empire State building, Top of the Rock or Central Park? Maybe you’re from Connecticut or New Jersey and have never been to Harlem or Brooklyn? So many of us get so caught up in [...]

Unfortunately, many hoteliers are content with simply having a web site as the sum-total of their Internet marketing effort. These same people wonder why their fair-share of reservation production is still eluding them. Many hoteliers wonder what more they can do to drive business from the Internet. For the record, just having a web site [...]

An upturn in tourism industry is expected this year in Denmark after a dismal year in 2009, according to news reaching here from Copenhagen. “All the local markets from where most of our tourists come have been hit hard by the financial crisis — Germany, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and the UK — they’ve all [...]

There are already quite a number of theme tours in the category of cultural tourism; eco-tourism is a popular example. The Peruvians, however, have come up with an unusual variation: gastronomical tourism. Gastronomical tourism will boost the country’s tourism sector, which is well-known for its archaeological and historical interest. “The gastronomical tourism will be consolidated [...]

Malaysian travel and tour operators, and others connected with the tourism sector, can avail of a new Southeast Asian search site soon. Described as a high-tech travel website, SoutheastAsia.org is being touted as an “anchor for a new destination marketing campaign for Southeast Asia”. The site, which will be launched on Jan 25, will allow [...]

The number of foreign tourists this year is expected to reach 16 million as targeted if there are no serious political disturbances nor epidemics, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). Speaking on the first day of assuming the TAT governorship, Governor Surapon Sawetseeranee said he would attempt to increase the number of foreign [...]

One of the UK and Ireland’s largest self-catering holiday operators has welcomed Tourism Ireland’s multi-million euro strategy to boost visitor numbers to Ireland in 2010. Imagine Ireland, which promotes over 1000 individually vetted properties throughout the country, said a refocusing of marketing efforts to target growing consumer confidence in the UK would reap dividends for [...]