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'Help Japan make speedy recovery'
Japan Journeys says the country will
quickly recover its appeal for tourists once the problems at the Fukushima nuclear plant have been resolved. “Once the immediate problems have
been sorted out it's important that people continue to travel to Japan to boost tourism and show solidarity with the Japanese,” said James Greenfield, founder and managing director. “This month sees the arrival of the beautiful sakura (cherry blossom) season – the first sign of spring and new life which has never been more appropriate.”
www.japanjourneys.co.uk
Christchurch is back on track
Christchurch, New Zealand, says it is
very much 'open' and welcoming visitors following the February 22 earthquake. All airports, including Christchurch International, are open and all services outside of central Christchurch and Lyttelton are also operating normally. The popular TranzAlpine rail route,
A Million Dollar Memo
BY LAURA GELDER Tourism Queensland has launched a competition to raise awareness of the state’s potential for the incentives market. Million Dollar Memo will see companies
Virgin pulls out the VIP treatment
Virgin Holidays has opened a further
three overseas lounges for its customers in the USA and Dubai. Two are located at the Sea Breeze
and The Waves Hotel in Barbados and the other at The Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai. Designed with ‘rockstar chic’ in mind, the lounges sport free internet, phone and iPod chargers, Sony Playstations, iPads loaded with UK newspapers, travel guides and special resort-based apps, with Virgin Holidays concierge staff on-hand. The lounges follow on from the success
of the original, at the Hilton Ras Al Khaimah in The UAE. More are to follow in 2011, and all are complimentary to Virgin Holidays' customers even if they’re not staying in the hotel.
www.virginholidays.co.uk
from around the UK bidding to win a luxury, all-expenses-paid trip or trips worth up to $AUD1,000,000 (£620,000) for their employees. Tourism Queensland’s Anthony Hayes commented: “The competition is the consumer element of a five-year global incentive strategy which aims to position Queensland as Australia’s leading incentive travel destination.” Following on from the hugely successful
‘Best Job in the World’ campaign, this new promotion will ask entrants to upload a
IN BRIEF
Commission by Design Design Hotels has an agent incentive at 30 of its member hotels, with 15 per cent commission available on its ‘best available rates’. The offer is for GDS bookings on arrivals until April 30. Hotels include The Park Hotels in Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and New Delhi. www.
designhotels.com/commission
AITO's Caribbean incentive AITO Specialist Agents has a
brand-new incentive as part of its AITO All Stars campaign that will see its eight best-selling agents win a free place on a luxury Caribbean fam trip. Monitored throughout the first half of 2011, the successful agents will join a ITC Classics- hosted fam, in Autumn 2011.
www.aitoagents.com
Emirates has two to Cape Town Emirates has introduced a second
daily service between its hub in Dubai and Cape Town, South Africa. The service, which connects with Emirates' 14 daily flights from six UK airports, departs Dubai at 03.30, arriving into Cape Town at 11.40 the same day. Emirates also flies to Johannesburg and Durban.
www.emirates.com
video before May 1explaining why their company deserves to be the winner. A final shortlist of 20 companies will be chosen and entrants will then nominate one colleague to go out to Queensland for eight days to compete in a series of challenges all over the state, from which a winner will emerge. Travel industry companies – including
travel agencies – of all sizes and shapes are encouraged to apply. Incentive travellers spend around 2.5
times more per day than international leisure visitors and approximately $334 million annually on their visits to Queensland.
www.milliondollarmemo.com www.tq.com.au
between Christchurch and Greymouth, is running but the TranzCoastal, between Christchurch and Picton, was, at the time of writing, running a coach replacement. However, the Rugby World Cup games earmarked for the city, including a quarter-final tie, have been relocated to stadiums elsewhere in the country. The tournament kicks off on September 9. Regularly updated lists of those accommodations and activities up-and- running in the city centre are available on the New Zealand Tourism Board's website at:
www.newzealand.com
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