News
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New Shanghai MO
Friday | Oct 15 2010MANDARIN Oriental Hotels has signed an agreement to manage a new luxury hotel which is currently under construction in Pudong, Shanghai.
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Insight getting social
Friday | Oct 15 2010Insight Vacations says the internet has opened up a whole new way of engaging with its customers, more and more of whom are Facebook-savvy and very computer literate (see here).
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Mango shake-up
Friday | Oct 15 2010SOUTH African Airways has announced that from 01 Nov it will no longer fly between Durban and Cape Town.
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London Concorde?
Friday | Oct 15 2010A PROPOSAL for a new London tourist attraction could see one of the defunct Concorde supersonic aircraft on display on the Thames, as part of a new £22m precinct jutting into the river near the London Eye.
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Marshall role
Friday | Oct 15 2010JOHN Marshall, currently Etihad Airways state mgr for Vic/Tas/SA, has been appointed as ceo of the Daylesford & Macedon Ranges Regional Tourism Board.
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iSrael for iPhone
Friday | Oct 15 2010THE Israel Tourism Ministry has launched a new tourism App for travellers with Apple iPhones.
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Window Seat 15 Oct 10
Friday | Oct 15 2010THE Virgin Blue/Delta submission to US authorities strongly emphasises the operation of the various airlines within the Virgin Blue group as a “single economic entity” – and backs up the claim with a photo (here) to show that the carriers are “under one roof both literally and figuratively”.
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QF Tasman no-show
Friday | Oct 15 2010QANTAS has amended its no-show policy for Red e-Deal fares between Australia and New Zealand, effective immediately.
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Virgin responds to DOT
Friday | Oct 15 2010YOU can really feel the love between Virgin Blue and Delta Air Lines, with a joint submission from the carriers to the US Dept of Transportation (TD breaking news) stating that “each carrier is fully opening to its joint venture partner all it has to give”.