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Delhi Duty Free has announced that it has launched a car-giveaway campaign. The company has launched its first car promotion, ‘Where’s your Mini?’ Travellers who shop at the Delhi Duty Free malls between July and September this year stand a chance of winning a new Mini Cooper, manufactured by Mini, a subsidiary of BMW. Visitors need to spend at least $50 to be eligible for the prize. For each $50 purchase, customers will receive a coupon that could entitle them to win the car. If they use a Visa debit or credit card for the purchase, they will receive two…
Autogrill, a provider of food & beverage and retail services for travellers, has announced that it will launch operations in Dubai and Istanbul through its HMSHost International division. The company is to offer its range of fine dining at Istanbul and Dubai airports. Once the operations are launched, HMSHost International will have 13 points of sale at Istanbul airport in Turkey. The move is expected to generate overall revenue of more than €100m in the 2012 to 2022 period. The company will also open four points of sale at Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates. That operation is expected…
The Japanese city of Kyoto is to offer business travellers free Wi-Fi access. Business visitors will be able to access the Internet using free Wi-Fi services available throughout the city. The scheme, considered to be the largest municipal scheme in Japan, is being launched to satisfy the needs of business customers who use smart phones and tablet computers. The service is expected to be a boon to business travellers who visit the city to attend conferences and meetings, as it will allow visitors to have seamless Internet connectivity in the city and will do away with the need for them…
London Gatwick Airport, in the UK, is gearing up for a busy flying season for summer, with around six million passengers scheduled to transit through airport during this period. While most flights for the 2012 London Olympics Games are landing at Heathrow Airport, Gatwick Airport is expected to handle round 10 percent arrivals for the world’s biggest sporting event. With schools in Britain closing for the summer break from July 20, 2012, until September 3, 2012, the airports will also handling a large number of British travellers flying out of the country for a vacation abroad with family and friends,…
Holiday Inn London Regents Park, a luxury hotel located in central London, is offering considerable savings on its rooms for a limited period of time. The hotel is offering a discounted room rate of £99 per room, per night, on a twin sharing basis, on stays from July 13 to 26, 2012. The rates being offered reflect a saving of up to 50 percent on the hotel’s normal rates, while for the 2012 Olympic Games period, the rates at the hotel are being increased to £220 per room, per night. The hotel is located close to many of the main…
The influx of visitors to the UK for the London Olympic games is about to be matched by a mass exodus of Brits departing the country for their annual holiday. Now that the school holidays are underway it is estimated that as many as two million British holidaymakers could be leaving the UK this weekend and heading for the sunshine resorts in Europe and beyond. Heathrow Airport alone expects to speed the departure of 482,000 British travellers over the next two days. 50,000 more will exit on Eurostar trains through the channel tunnel. Provincial airports are also likely to experience…
With the summer vacation season about to hit its busiest period, the hope for better weather and the popularity of upcoming festivals have increased the interest in camping as a holiday option. Winfield Outdoors, a company selling outdoor camping gear in the UK, has reported an upward trend in sales as an increasing number of families decide on camping holidays, and festival fans prepare to make the annual pilgrimage to their favourite event. The upcoming UK festivals include Bestival, to be held from September 6 to 9, 2012, at Robin Hill Country Park, Downend, Isle Of Wight, with a line-up…
Aer Lingus, an Ireland-based airline company, is to relocate its operations in Belfast, North Ireland. The airline, which has been operating out of Belfast International Airport, will be based at the George Best Belfast City Airport from the commencement of its winter schedule on October 28, 2012. Christoph Mueller, the airline’s chief executive officer, said, ‘Northern Ireland’s vital London connections are secure with Aer Lingus. The two aircraft which we normally use in the winter for a mixture of sun destinations and Heathrow will be used for Heathrow and Gatwick with a third aircraft serving two European routes in the…
Kuoni Travel Ltd, a travel company that is based in Switzerland, has announced the launch of a new iPad app for customers wishing to access the company’s brochures, videos, travel article feed and website through their tablet devices. Matt Rooke, the company e-business and publishing vice president, said, ‘We want to make Kuoni as accessible as possible to all its customers and provide effective and efficient methods that feed the current demand. The app self-updates so we can rest assured that customers are getting the best quality of information on a daily basis, in a format that suits them. Also,…
Travel advice provider, Gogobot, has announced that it has launched a new iPhone application that allows customers to perform various travel-related functions through their smart phone. The company said that its Gogobot 2.0 app is a comprehensive solution that would allow customers to research, plan, book and share travel experiences with friends using a mobile device. The firm said that the app would have a role to play in all stages of travel, from planning a trip, to sharing experiences while on the trip, to reviewing a destination. Gogobot said that the new app relies on recommendations from friends and…