Tour Operators

Fishermen fear tourists will destroy Okavango wilderness

Music, dancing and smiling platitudes greeted the royal guest in the fishing village of Samochima, northern Botswana. While addressing an audience in the shade of some fig trees, he was confronted by a local fisherman, Saoshiko...

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Shanghai push for luxury crowd despite tough times

Global travel may be ailing, but China's biggest city, Shanghai, is pursuing luxury travelers with a vengeance, bent on restoring a reputation for opulence and elegance that once made it the Paris of the Orient.

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Internship programme to open doors to careers in hospitality

AMMAN - Hashemite University students will be better able to explore career opportunities in the hospitality industry under a recently launched scholarship programme. Under a recent agreement, the Jordan Inbound Tour Operators...

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Global Officials Predict Continued Religious Tourism Resilience

The second annual World Religious Travel Expo and Educational Conference concluded this week with global leaders in the religious travel industry reporting better than expected figures and predicting continued resilience in...

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Thomas Cook is hit by fear of fundraising to pay debts

Peter Stiff: Market report Thomas Cook led the FTSE 100 lower yesterday amid fears that the travel group may hold a fundraising. Shares in Thomas Cook fell 9.3p to 209.2p after Morgan Stanley said that it thought there was a...

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Travel feedback of the week: November 1521

Readers respond to Telegraph Travel articles and other topics. This week: single supplements, taking the train to the slopes and Christmas market recommendations. Tracey McHardy recommends the Christmas market at M_nster Photo:...

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Chalet holidays: A snow place like home

The identity of the inventor of the ski-chalet holiday is a matter of some dispute. According to one school of thought, it was a British-based Austrian woman named Erna Low, who in 1932 placed an advertisement in the Morning...

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National Business News: Rainy forecast dents holiday duo

Rainy forecast dents holiday duo Holiday giants Thomas Cook and Thomson owner TUI Travel came under pressure today after gloomy comments from analysts on prospects for the tour operators. A research note from Morgan Stanley...

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Transat teams up with French travel network

Canadian tour company beefs up operations in France by forming partnership with AFAT Voyages Selectour Montreal — The Canadian Press Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 1:24PM EST Transat A.T. Inc. TRZ.B-T , a tour operator and...

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‘Strategy to override slowdown needed’

KOCHI: Players in the tourism sector must let creativity run riot, think out of the box, offer fabulous deals and enter into worldwide partnerships, to woo travellers during uncertain times like the present when most countries...

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