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Top Travel Trip now offers a dashboard made by agents, for agents, with features to grow business and keep track of performance of each agent. TT BUREAU Top Travel Trip, a business to business travel oriented organisation, has spent extensive time and budgets researching customers pain points and understanding exactly …

Centara Hotels and Resorts continues to expand internationally with the opening of a four-star, 152-room hotel in Muscat — its first of three hotels planned for the Middle East. The Thailand-based hotel operator is also looking at opening properties in Doha later this year and Deira Island in the UAE …

One View IT Solutions recently launched a seamless, cost effective, web-based travel booking and related expense management tool targeted at corporates. TT BUREAU One View IT Solutions as a leading and preferred travel technology partner provides its customers a winning combination of right minds and cutting edge technology. “Smart companies …

A buoyant tourism market coupled with a range of benefits makes the ownership of a hospitality unit in Dubai attractive for individual investors seeking an alternative income option. The hospitality sector in Dubai is flourishing. A growing number of international hotel developers and hospitality companies are making inroads into the …

FCS Computer Systems (FCS) and NEC Enterprise Solutions EMEA have inked a partnership agreement that incorporates FCS solutions into the NEC Hospitality offering for the hospitality sector in EMEA. Eric Rogers, Vice President EMEA, FCS Computer Systems, shares details with TravTalk. TT Bureau Q) Explain the various hospitality offerings in …

As Dubai marked 100,000 rooms a few months ago, the industry is on a rapid adaptive game plan tapping different market segments. Industry experts share their views with TravTalk. TT Bureau   “Despite the many challenges of the last few years, the MEA region has proven its resilience. The region …

The Gulf region is an important part of Centara’s growth plan. Hence, two new properties are scheduled to come up this year in Muscat and Doha respectively with one recently announced in partnership with Nakheel in Dubai, set to open in 2020. Paul Wilson, Vice President of Sales, Centara Hotels …

Apart from bringing its new generation Airbus 350- 900 to Mumbai, India, the airline also initiated the code-share agreement with South African Airways. TT Bureau Ethiopian Airlines launched Africa’s first Ethiopian Airbus A350-900 XWB on the Addis Ababa-Mumbai route on April 7, 2017. Passengers on Ethiopian’s twice daily nonstop services …

The Philippines’ Cebu Pacific flew 19.1 million passengers in 2016, an increase of four per cent from the 18.4 million passengers flown in 2015. TT Bureau Last December 27, 2016, the Cebu Pacific Air Group carried a total of 64,684 passengers — the highest number of travellers we have ever …

Philippine Airlines (PAL), the flag carrier of the Republic of the Philippines, has started operating non-stop from Doha, Jeddah and Kuwait to Manila, capital of the Philippines. PAL now flies non-stop to Manila from Dubai daily and Riyadh daily. TT Bureau The Philippine Airlines also flies from Manila to Dammam …