Apr 22, 2015 The whale watching business is worth $2 billion but unfortunately successive policy makers have not focused on the development of this market just like the cruise Business said Chairman Sri Lanka tourism promotions bureau Rohantha Athukorala at the unique partnership between Sri Lanka tourism and Sri Lanka airlines sponsored whale watching workshop.…
By eTN Global Editor Created 1 Mar 2015 – 10:09pm ISTANBUL, Turkey – Tourists in Turkey last year spent almost 20 percent of their budgets on food, according to a recent gastronomy tourism report by the Turkish Association of Travel Agents (TÜRSAB). The 41.4 million foreign tourists who visited Turkey in 2014 spent $6.5…
By eTN Editor Created 2 Mar 2015 – 11:36pm Tourism businesses, organizations, initiatives and destinations across the industry are now being invited to submit themselves for consideration in the World Responsible Tourism 2015 awards at http://www.worldresponsibletourismawards.com/submissions [1] by Monday, April 6, 2015. Awards will be announced at World Travel Market (WTM) this November. The…
By eTN Editor Created 1 Mar 2015 – 10:24pm (eTN) – Recently, eTN caught up with Tom Garzilli, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Brand USA. In a series of talks, eTN had the opportunity to discuss what Brand USA is doing today. This portion of the interview discusses Brand USA funding and…
By eTN Global Editor Created 27 Feb 2015 – 7:10pm WASHINGTON, DC – Buoyed by higher same-store sales and traffic and a positive outlook among operators, the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) remained elevated in January. The RPI – a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the…
By eTN Editor Created 25 Feb 2015 – 2:12am Anita Mendiratta, CNN Task Group “Culture has a direct role in securing one’s roots – it is a bond that dramatically leads to conservation, safeguarding tangible and intangible heritage” – HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Chairman of the Commission for Tourism and…
By eTN Managing Editor Created 26 Feb 2015 – 10:06am The world is witnessing a rise in geo-economics, where the main global battlefield is economic rather than military. And with sanctions, competing trade regimes, currency and price manipulation increasingly taking the place of conventional warfare, the implication of these forces could be an unravelling…
By eTN Editor Created 27 Feb 2015 – 11:08pm IIPT Conference in Johannesburg Bea Broda L-R: Minister St.Ange & Mr. Geoffrey Lipman JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Minister of Tourism and Culture of Seychelles, Alain St. Ange, and President of the International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP), Geoffrey Lipman, spoke on a panel at the…
By eTN Editor Created 26 Feb 2015 – 11:45pm New York, NY –The Global Wellness Institute™ (GWI) in partnership with Scientific American Worldview recently held an invitation-only roundtable on the topic of “The Science of Wellness: Hype or Hope?” Leaders from the medical, science, business, technology, research, media, workplace wellness and hotel/spa worlds gathered…
By eTN Global Editor Created 22 Feb 2015 – 6:57pm BANGKOK, Thailand – Experts say the government needs to get serious on the long-term development of the tourism industry, and decide whether quality or quantity – that is, sheer numbers of tourists or how much they spend – is of most importance. According to…