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British Airways boss says there will never be a third runway at Heathrow
TransportAirlines chief Willie Walsh today renewed his assault on the Government’s tourism policy, warning Heathrow will be eclipsed by faster-growing hub airports and British travellers face tougher travel restrictions from countries frustrated by our visa regime. Walsh said it was “tragic” that Heathrow would never succeed in getting a third runway because of political failure. [...]
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12 sustainable tourism pioneers changing the world of travel
DestinationsThe World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC)’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards are aimed at recognizing best practice in sustainable tourism worldwide, and the 2013 awards are due out tomorrow, at WTTC’s annual global summit. Earlier in the year, WTTC announced the finalists for 2013, and we thought it would be pertinent to highlight all the 12 otherwise-low-profile finalists here. Given [...]
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SkiftStats: The troubled travel industries of Italy and Spain, in numbers
DestinationsSome more country data goodness, this time returning to WTTC for the health of tourism economies of two of the traditional giants of European and indeed the World tourism: Italy and Spain. Both of these countries, like many others in Europe, had gone through the worst during the 2008-2009 recession, and came out on the [...]
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The world’s fastest growing countries in travel
DestinationsThe locus of travel has rapidly moved eastward, and 2013 and beyond continues that inexorable journey. Both consumer and business travel trends are now being defined and tested out in regions other than U.S. and Europe. User experience and its intersection with design is the lens that travel will increasingly be defined by, and regions [...]
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The world’s most tourism-dependent countries
DestinationsWhen you’re a remote island, about the only means of building up an economy is tourism. World Travel & Tourism Council has come out with some data — along with its overall 2012-2013 numbers — that shows the extent to which these top tourism-dependent countries rely on that flow of tourists and the money they [...]
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Will you be the billionth tourist to cross international lines on Dec. 13 this year?
DestinationsA record one billion people will travel across an international border as a tourist in 2012, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council. That means that one in seven people on the planet will participate in world traveling this year, an activity that just a few decades ago was exclusively for the wealthy. The [...]
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Tourism leaders say EU’s wrong-headed tourism taxes will only hurt revenues
SkiftXThe World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has written to all 27 Finance Ministers in the European Union urging them to recognise the important role of the industry in stimulating economic growth and jobs, while avoiding unproductive knee-jerk tax hikes at a time of austerity. The letter, written by Dr Michael Frenzel, Chairman of the [...]
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A new standard for eco-friendly hotels, courtesy of the World Travel & Tourism Council
RoomsHotels are expending great effort on green initiatives and accreditation but, unfortunately for travellers, there has been no single scheme or approach. That could change, for carbon measurement at least, if a new standard is widely accepted by hotels and effectively promoted.
