01/09/2009
Holiday firms expect 20pc booking fall (Ireland Business World)
Irish Tour Operators Federation members expect a fall of around 20pc in seats available in the Irish sunshine holiday market this summer compared to 2008.
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01/09/2009
2010: Foreign co's seek SA help (News 24 South Africa)
The first tour operators have been accredited for the Soccer World Cup and are looking for local service providers.
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01/08/2009
Tourists burn a trail to Australian Antarctic outpost (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
An isolated Australian outpost in remote Antarctica has become a popular destination for adventure-seeking tourists, as more tour operators put it on their itinerary for more than just researchers.
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01/09/2009
We're all going on a summer Aldi... budget chain offers four-star holidays 'for 50% less' (Daily Mail)
Supermarket Aldi today starts a campaign to offer a choice of ten to 12 holiday deals every two weeks - promising to beat the big tour operators by up to 50 per cent.
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01/08/2009
AITO revamps financial protection for holidaymakers (Daily Telegraph)
The Association of Independent Tour Operators claimed this week to be the only tour operator organisation to offer protection of all types of holidays.
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01/08/2009
Environmental News (The Namibian)
UNKNOWN changes to Namibia’s climate due to global warming and pressure from tourists and tour operators always looking for something new are some of the challenges facing the country’s invaluable west-coast asset, the Namib-Naukluft Park.
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01/08/2009
Minister: Nepal to host one mln tourists in 2011 (People's Daily)
Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Hisila Yami said the government had already started preparatory work to meet the goal of one million tourists for Nepal Tourism Year 2011, The Himalayan Times reported on Thursday. Speaking at a program organized by Nepal Association of Tour Operators here Wednesday, the minister said the tourism sector had seen positive development with political ...
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01/07/2009
Many families priced out of European breaks: report (eyefortravel.com)
A report has highlighted that tour operators have increased the price of summer holidays by up to 40 percent this year. As a result, the cost of an average family break to the Mediterranean has risen by as much as £500, according to a research for The Independent.
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01/09/2009
Aldi moves into holiday market (BBC News)
Cut-price supermarket Aldi begins to offer holidays, during the travel industry's busiest week of the year.
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01/09/2009
Coming up: what's on in the world of travel (Daily Telegraph)
A roundup of the week's best travel events festivals and shows.
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