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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy eTN Global Editor Created 22 Feb 2015 – 8:35pm NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar – Myanmar will not reap long-term benefits in opening up the country for tourists, if there is lack of policy to safeguard the environment, society and human rights, said a report. Released Friday, the report entitled “Myanmar Tourism Sector-wide Impact Assessment” said…
DetailsBy eTN Global Editor Created 18 Feb 2015 – 7:41pm BRUSSELS, Belgium – To best support the tourism sector facing uncertainties caused by threats of terrorism and Eurozone economic instability, the European Travel Commission (ETC), the European Tourism Association (ETOA) and the Eurail Group have jointly launched a new research initiative that monitors travel…
DetailsBy eTN Global Editor Created 19 Feb 2015 – 12:59am TOKYO, Japan – Japan has attracted more tourists in 2014 with a record-breaking 13 million visitors, a 30 percent increase from the previous year. Latest figures from the Japan National Tourism Organisation also showed that there were a record 1.22 million visitors to the…
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