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London: Visitors to World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, got down to business from the start of the first day, with key new business contacts being made at the WTM Speed Networking event. Members of the World Travel Market Buyers' Club met a wide range of exhibitors during the hour-long speed networking session. Paul Cowley, Operations Director, The Travel Rep Ltd, on behalf of Enable Holidays, said: "I have done all four

News by 3 star hotel in Nepal London : World Travel Marke welcomes its first North Korean exhibitor.It has a notorious reputation as the most secretive state in the world under Kim Jong-Un. But now leisure trips to see the isolated communist country of North Korea are being promoted at World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry. If you want to run in the Pyongyang Marathon next April,

New Delhi : India and China have agreed to strengthen cooperation and signed 12 agreements including China investing $20 billion in India's infrastructure over five years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held summit talks in Delhi on Sept. 18 . President Xi addressed Indian Council of World Affairs and committed to foster friendship and coopearation today. China has agreed to a new route for the Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage via Nathu-la. Kailash Mansarovar

The recent Vouchercloud USA Travel and Tourism Report outlines President Obama's National Travel and Tourism Strategy (NTTS) to increase America's desirability to tourists and make the US more competitive in the global tourism market. The initiative was motivated by the US losing 30% of their market share of the global travel spend in 2000 to 2010. Despite over 8 million more people arriving in the US during that time, the US cornered only 11% of the

WASHINGTON - Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Stefan M. Selig announced that total U.S. travel and tourism-related employment increased to 7.6 million jobs in 2013, up 146,000 jobs from 2012. New data also shows that U.S. travel and tourism industry-related spending increased by 4.1 percent in 2013 from the previous year, totaling nearly $1.5 trillion. "The data reiterates the critical role of the travel and tourism industry to the U.S. economy and the jobs it

KATHMANDU, NEPAL – Climate change-driven events like melting glaciers pose a grave risk to Nepal's economy, and could cause losses equal to almost 10% of the country's annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2100, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) climate and economics report for South Asia. "The population is extremely vulnerable, not only to the immediate threats of increasingly frequent glacial lake overflows, landslides, flash floods, and droughts, but also to longer-term climate change,

Madrid  : The Government of Mongolia recently granted visa free access to the country for up to 30 days for tourist and short business trips of citizens from 42 countries, in addition to the 20 countries already benefitting from visa free agreements. The decision comes at a time when the open skies resolution, passed by the Mongolian parliament in 2013, is also being implemented. The resolution is defined in the State Policy on Civil Aviation Sector

Bangkok : The rapid emergence of Asian economies and the accompanying boom in travel has attracted the attention of the global travel and tourism community, as well as countless others. In recent years the sheer number of outbound travellers from Asian countries combined with their well-documented spending power has made an impact beyond Asia and the Pacific region, as destinations in all other regions race to understand the Asian traveller and adapt their products and

Newton, Mass., - TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel site,  announced the winners of its Travelers' Choice awards for Zoos and Aquariums around the globe. In total, 275 winners were identified, including the top 25 in the world and dedicated lists for Asia, Canada, Europe, India, South America, South Pacific, the U.K. and the U.S. "For those wanting to see the world's most wondrous creatures, TripAdvisor has named the Travelers' Choice Zoos and Aquariums, as chosen by the

Madrid : UNWTO has called  applications for the 11th edition of the UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism. The Awards recognize innovative tourism initiatives and contributions to the sector, in line with the principles of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism. Since its inception in 2003, the UNWTO Awards have acknowledged more than 70 scholars, visionaries and institutions, from the public and private sectors, as well as NGOs. The UNWTO Awards distinguish the following