Archive for April, 2007
Countries get together to promote Baltic cruises
Apr 27th
Ten countries in the Baltic Sea region have combined to promote Baltic cruises.
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden have formed the Cruise Baltic Alliance to promote cruises in the region with 19 ports of call.
Baltic cruises are thought to be one of the fastest growing cruise markets in the world with a growth of 13% in visitors over the last 12 months.
Visit Denmark UK & Ireland director Henrik Kahn, spokesman for Cruise Baltic project’s UK representatives, said: “The project, which started in 2004, is now ready to go out to the UK market and the first thing we have done is to make it easy for consumers to choose the Baltic Sea region as a destination.”
Cruise Baltic’s newly-appointed project director Bo Nylandsted Larsen said: “The Baltic Sea region ranks high on the lists of the world’s cruise passengers when choosing a destination for their holiday. Within just five years it has become the world’s fastest growing cruise region.
Cheap flights to Malaysia from the UK on their way
Apr 26th
People fancying holidays in Malaysia will be able to take advantage of cheap flights from September 2008.
Low-cost Asian airline AirAsia promises cheap flights to Malaysia will begin operating later this year.
Tony Fernandes of AirAsia said: “We are looking at operating Malaysia-UK services by September 2008 at the latest, and the first quarter of 2008 at the earliest.”
Flights may cost as little as ‚£40 per journey as that was the proposed price for the planned service which was unable to launch at the start of 2007 due to problems sourcing aircrafts.
The company, which is inspired by the recent success stories of no-frills flight companies has fifteen aeroplanes on order.
Vote for the best travel industry professionals in the the British Travel Awards 2007
Apr 26th
Now it is time for you to cast your vote in the British Travel Awards 2007 in more than 100 trade and consumer categories.
Voting can be done online and the winners will be announced in November.
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