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Hilton Worldwide And Vital Voices Global Partnership Launch Global Freedom Exchange, A Collaboration To End Child Trafficking

Today, Hilton Worldwide and Vital Voices Global Partnership announced that they have joined forces to help end child trafficking. Together, they have launched the Global Freedom Exchange, an innovative, multi-faceted educational and mentoring program targeting emerging and established women leaders. Program participants are on the forefront of global efforts

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Travel agencies versus the internet: China and Russia are catching up with online travel bookings

ITB Berlin and IPK International analyse global booking trends ? Great Britain is the league leader for internet bookings, Germany lies mid-table ? in western Europe travel agencies are becoming less important In China and Russia more and more people are making use of the internet to book their trips instead

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New Paita call with our Mexico-Peru-Service (MXP)

25 Jun 2013 Hapag-Lloyd informs about new Mexico-Peru Service. We are pleased to inform you that starting week 32 Hapag Lloyd will be introducing a new call at Paita, Peru with our Mexico-Peru Service (MXP). The first call will be provided with our MV Conti Salome Voyage

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Vietnam tourist arrivals to Thailand on pace for record year

Despite Vietnam?s currently sluggish economy that is expected to have a GDP growth 5.04% to 5.35% this year, Vietnamese tourist arrivals to Thailand are on pace to surpass arrivals in 2012. More than 618,000 Vietnamese came to Thailand last year. The first five months of 2013

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River City Casino will hire 50 to staff new hotel

River City Casino in Lemay will hire more than 50 employees to staff its new 200-room hotel,?1, spokeswoman for the casino, told the St. Louis Business Journal. Casino officials are hosting a job fair from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Holiday

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Travel and tourism spending up in the first quarter of 2013

Real spending on travel and tourism accelerated in the first quarter of 2013, increasing at an annual rate of 6.8 percent after increasing 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis said Monday. By comparison, growth in the real gross domestic

SWISS names new Head of Alliances and Commercial Relations

Swiss International Air Lines has appointed Urs Weiss as its new Head of Alliances & Commercial Relations. Weiss, who is 48, is currently the airline?s Head of Global Key Accounts & Business Sales Switzerland. In his new capacity he succeeds Alain Chisari, who moved to Edelweiss Air last month

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Cornell Pillsbury Institute welcomes new advisory board members

The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship recently welcomed four new hospitality industry leaders to its advisory board. 1 1

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Lufthansa receives award for its First Class lounges

Over the past ten months, 18 million passengers from over 100 countries have participated in the world?s largest aviation passenger survey and have recognised Lufthansa?s First Class lounges as the best in the world. The airline has also been voted ?Best Western European Airline? and ?Best Transatlantic Airline?

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Air France participates in the IAGOS climate monitoring and research project

The European project IAGOS (In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System) aims to monitor the climate and atmospheric pollution on a global scale. EASA*-certified, on-board instruments are used to measure the levels of several types of greenhouse gas, cloud particles, etc. The Air France A340 equipped with

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Tourism in Nicaragua Generating Significant Amount of Jobs

WASHINGTON, DC, June 23, 2013?/24-7PressRelease/?– According to the Mayra Salinas, President of the Nicaraguan Tourism Board (INTUR, for its acronym in Spanish), the tourism sector in Nicaragua jumped from 140,000 to 168,000 employees in the past 12 months. Last year Nicaragua generated US$421 million in

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Low Recession Risk for US Hotels

Future business activity in U.S. hotels increased in May according to the latest reading of the Hotels’ future business conditions (HIL) indicator. e?forecasting.com’s HIL, a composite indicator that gauges future monthly overall business conditions in the U.S. hotel industry, went up 0.3% in May