36 the review TOURISM UPDATE Barbados set for new start PNG has a South
Pacific foothold PAPUA New
CAROL HAY UK Manager,
Caribbean Tourism Organisation
BE A GURU; WIN PRIZES! THE Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) would like to thank all those Selling T
Guinea, which
exhibited for the third consecutive year at World Travel Market, is now firmly on the radar of UK visitors. The South Pacific destination
ravel
readers who participated in the many Caribbean events and activities that took place throughout 2014. And more thanks to the agents who joined
the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s Agent Training Day, Treasure Hunt and Street Party at World Travel Market last month. Well done to those who won one of the great prizes that were on offer, including accommodation, fam trip places and goody bags! There are still lots of prizes and incentives
to be had just by joining the CTO’s Caribbean Travel Guru online training programme. Just register at
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and work your way through the programme. Complete the CTO’s three training module
tests, five Partner Spotlight Quizzes, attend one Caribbean event and make three Caribbean bookings to become a Caribbean Travel Guru.
Whilst working through the
programme you can win £50 worth of Love2Shop vouchers per month, just for being the most active agent! As well as this great incentive you also have the chance to win a grand prize every month by making and submitting your Caribbean bookings on the Caribbean Travel Guru section of
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two people. Sound good? Well get registered on www.
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contact Ann-Marie Brooks on 020 8948 0057 or email
abrooks@caribtourism.com Have a wonderful Christmas and a successful and prosperous 2015!
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Qatar daily from Edinburgh: Qatar Airways will operate a daily direct scheduled service from Edinburgh Airport to Doha’s Hamad International Airport from May 1 2015. The airline started the five-times-a-week service on the route earlier this year. The daily outbound service will be operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Qatarairways.com
Tourico helps group quotes: Tourico Holidays is launching a new groups marketplace online, an online portal for travel agents based on a ‘bidding engine’ which allows all signed-up hotels in New York (for example) to quote for rooms, transfers, etc, within a 24-hour window. Agents can see all the bids and options.
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Garuda to go daily from summer: Garuda Indonesia is to increase its Gatwick-Jakarta service to a daily flight next summer. Garuda’s regional network sees it flying to 34 domestic destinations on Sumatra Island, Java Island, Kalimantan, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Sulawesi, Maluku Island and Papua Island.
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BY STEVE HARTRIDGE BARBADOS is to ‘refresh its brand’, refocus on traditional markets like the UK and forge more partnerships with operators and agents after reorganising its tourism board into two new divisions. The newly-created Barbados Tourism
Product Authority (BTPA) will focus on key issues such as hotel licensing and product
improvement on the island
while the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc
marketing arm charged with increasing visitor numbers. The BTMI’s new Chief Executive
Officer, Barbados-born William Griffith, says he will “drive some new energy and action to Barbados”. “We need to re-establish the Barbados
brand and image out there, to remind people
what makes us special and
different, because I think that has been lost a little bit,” said Griffith, who was Director of Tourism for Bermuda for six years.
(BTMI) becomes the destination “Barbados has significantly more UK
visitors than any other Caribbean island and no other island comes close to having the number of flights a week from the UK by British Airways and Virgin, but I still need to create new partnerships and bring more stakeholders and partners on board.” Griffiths described the “reimagined”
new Sandals Barbados, scheduled to open on January 28 2015, as a “game changer”for Barbados. “It is going to drive a younger demographic to the island,” he added. Wide-ranging renovations at Sandals Barbados include the introduction of seven new
gourmet restaurants
(bringing the total to eleven) and the refurbishment of the resort’s 280 rooms. British Airways has increased its Heathrow-Barbados flights this winter from 10 to 12, after reducing the number a year ago, while Virgin operates a daily service from Gatwick.
visitbarbados.org
saw a 35% increase in UK visitor numbers during 2013, and the growth spurt continued in the first half of this year, with 8.8% more Brits
visiting a country that is
home to more than 1,000 tribes speaking over 800 different languages, crystal-clear beaches, tropical mountain scenery and abundant birdlife. The PNG Tourism Promotion Authority’s UK office took several tour operators to a recent trade show in the country’s capital, Port Moresby. They then toured Garoka, the capital of the Eastern Highlands; Medang, with some of the country’s highest peaks and best diving; Kavieng, with more superb diving,
surfing, coral
lagoons and WWII shipwrecks, and the capital itself. Pictured are: Robin Russell-Pavier, New
Papua Guinea Steppes Tourism
Promotion Authority; Charles Knight,
Travel; Chris
Barfoot, Audley Travel; and Polly Rusyn of Explore Worldwide.
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