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Mile High Club pilot feels the earth move

 

A pilot who has a flourishing Mile High Club tourism business in Australia said his enterprise started as a joke.

American Chuck McElwee said he was loading a mattress onto his light aircraft to transport a patient to a country hospital when he jokingly told a curious onlooker that he was starting a mile high club.

November reports first month of positive RevPAR for Japan

LONDON—Hotel performance in Japan understandably has suffered following the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, but the country’s hotel industry is making a comeback, according to data from STR Global’s Japan Hotel Review.

 

The launch of the STR Global Japan Hotel Review coincides with the expansion of the sample of participating hotels in Japan to 316 as of November 2011.  This is an increase of 66 hotels or 26.4 percent since December 2010. 

TUI ordered to amend brochure pricing after misleading customers

TUI has been ordered to make significant alterations to its price panels in Thomson and First Choice brochures after the advertising watchdog ruled it had misled customers about free child places.

The Advertising Standards Authority said TUI needed to make it clearer that the free places were limited and not available on every holiday.

It was not sufficient, said the ASA, to refer customers to the 'A-Z' to make it clear that availability was restricted.

Its ruling followed a complaint from a customer that price panels in two holiday brochures, in June and September 2011, included price tables with FREE written under the first child price.

Small print under the tables pointed out the prices were a guide only and applied to selected departures and referred customers to the 'A-Z' at the back of the brochure, but the complainant challenged whether the ads misleadingly implied all first child places were free.

The ASA upheld the complaint, saying TUI should have made it immediately clear there were only a limited number of free child places.

TUI said it would amend its price panels to state 'Free Child Places subject to availability'.

Source: Travelmole

By Linsey McNeill

Ryanair to create 1,000 new jobs

The low-cost airline said the additional jobs would be created this year as it opens new bases across Europe, including one in Manchester.

It will also base aircraft for the first time in Billund in Denmark, Wroclaw in Poland, Palma in Spain and Paphos in Cyprus.

The Dublin-based carrier said it will be looking to recruit additional pilots, cabin crew, engineers and sales and marketing personnel, boosting its payroll by 10% to nearly 8,000 in total.

Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media City achieves Green Key certification

The Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Media City, part of The Rezidor Hotel Group, has further enhanced its commitment to Responsible Business, announcing its recent Green Key certification, a globally recognized eco-label.

"We are proud to be one of six hotels in the country to currently have the Green Key certification," says Francois Galoisy, General Manager at the Radisson Blu Hotel Dubai Media City.

 

International tourism should reach one billion this year

 

International tourist arrivals grew by over 4 percent in 2011 to 980 million, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. With growth expected to continue in 2012, at a somewhat slower rate, international tourist arrivals are on track to reach the milestone one billion mark later this year.

 

That growth came despite a year characterized by a stalled global economic recovery, major political changes in the Middle East and North Africa, and natural disasters in Japan, said the Barometer.

Premier Inn announces £5.9 million investment in Camborne

Premier Inn has announced it is set to open a new hotel and restaurant development in Camborne, bringing a total of 41 new jobs to the area. The new Table Table restaurant, named Trevithick Inn and Premier Inn hotel will be opening on Treswithian Road in January 2012 - injecting a total investment of £5.9 million into the local economy.

BA panics passengers with crash announcement

The cabin crew of a British Airways flight to London from Miami accidentally activated an emergency announcement that said the plane was going to crash and passengers should prepare for a water landing.

As passengers began to panic, a flight attendant apologised over the intercom and said the message was played by mistake.

Coach and river cruise specialist Phoenix Holidays has ceased trading

 

following a sharp drop in bookings, with the loss of 23 jobs in the UK and 31 in France.