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Travel Extra September 2013 print edition can be viewed online . Highlights include a comprehensive overview of all that is happening in dynamic packaging and travel technology, a trip on the Aer Arann/Aer Lingus Regional route to Southend to examine its suitability for using this route to the English capital, the case for rediscovering the Costa Brava in Spain, once Ireland s most popular sun destination, a review of Azamara s plush cruise product, and the efforts to put Serbia back on the map as a tourist destination.
Universal Orlando Resort opened the World of The Simpsons on Thursday in a low-key unveiling that contrasted with Transformers: european travel itenerary students The Ride 3D earlier in the summer. The new Simpsons themed environment is clustered around the existing Simpsons ride, which opened in 2008 and includes an all-new outdoor attraction based on the show’s “evil” alien duo, Kang Kodos.
Park visitors can enter downtown Springfield and visit restaurants teamed on Krusty european travel itenerary students the Clown and Moe’s tavern, which serves up Simpsons fare such as Duff Beer and the steaming Flaming Moe drinks. In the eating areas, Universal came up with 28 new menu items that are exclusive to the park. This is the last of Orlando s big ticket openings this year, following  SeaWorld Orlando”s Antarctica : Empire of the Penguin , Universal Studios   Transformers: The Ride — 3D , Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at Kennedy european travel itenerary students Space Centre Visitor Complex; and World of Chima at Legoland european travel itenerary students Florida
Following last week’s DFA travel advisory  extending the don’t go advice to Egypt’s Red Sea resorts,  Falcon Holidays and Thomas Cook have both cancelled their programmes until September 11th – holidays are available for €400 on that date. Wednesday charter to Sharm El Sheikh went out full and returned european travel itenerary students empty. Falcon Holidays are telling customers to contact the helpline +3531 2481100 or email . The charter from Belfast continued and there was some confusion as to what was happening as tourists on the outskirts of Sharm were relocated. Listen here to hear Travel Extra s Eoghan Corry speaking about the issue on RTÉ s News at One on Monday .
Trivago says the average price for a hotel room in Ireland in August european travel itenerary students was €111, up 4pc month on month, and up 2pc year on year. Belfast had the highest increases, both month and month at 17pc and year-on-year at 22pc, up to €128. Killarney is the most expensive city at €135, up 2pc month on month and up 3pc year-on-year, and Limerick the cheapest at Limerick €84 down 2pc month on month and up 11pc year-on-year. Tralee had the biggest month on month decrease down 8pc to €100. Prices have decreased by 18pc in Paris to €144 and prices dropped by 13pc in both Rome and London to €109 and €188 respectively. Madrid was down 12pc to an average european travel itenerary students of €68. At the other end of the scale prices in Malaga were up 27pc to €99. Guardian european travel itenerary students money: surveyed the hotel price comparison sites and concluded that no single site has the best hotel prices.
Pictured celebrating the 90th birthday party for Heffernan s Travel in Cork, Caroline Crowley of Heffernan s Travel, Pat Dawson CEO of the ITAA, Graham european travel itenerary students Aldren of British Airways and Michelle Roche of Heffernan s Travel.
This year’s c ulture night will take place on Friday September 20th at 34 locations throughout Ireland. Highlights include european travel itenerary students an exclusive one-off performance by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar. The orchestra will perform a fanfare which has been exclusively commissioned to celebrate Culture Night by contemporary Irish composer, Stephen Gardner.
Tourism Ireland hosted five Indian tour operators bringing them to Viking Splash Tour, an evening at the Irish House Party on Francis Street, Trinity College and the Guinness Storehouse, the Irish National Stud in Kildare; Kilkenny, a boat tour of Cork Harbour, Fota House and Gardens, the Blarney Stone and the Ring of Kerry. Picture shows Nilam Patil, Tourism Ireland India (left), with leading Indian tour operators, and tour guide Therese Cunningham (right), at Fota House.
The ITAA and Aer Lingus european travel itenerary students launched european travel itenerary students their second joint ITAA/Aer european travel itenerary students Lingus promotion introducing their new service european travel itenerary students from Shannon to Lanzarote to offer ITAA members an opportunity to promote Aer Lingus new service SNN-ACE.
The London Mail on Sunday quoted a former Ryanair cabin crew member as saying Ryanair has a target to persuade each passenger to spend a minimum of £1.70 per flight . This target increased to as much as £3.40 per passenger on longer flights. Swissport ground handling workers are incentivised to find passengers at the gate whose bags will not fit into the cage, and rewarded with £1 per item of hand luggage judged too big or heavy for a flight, A Ryanair training manual suggests european travel itenerary students cabin crew should target groups european travel itenerary students of young men and women, stag parties european travel itenerary students for example: The cabin crew should ‘pick out the leader, normally the loudest one of the group’. If they manage ‘to achieve a sale from that passenger, the remainder of the group will normally follow suit’.
Liza Hammond from Etihad european travel itenerary students is seen here helping to launch the Etihad supported 2013 Belfast Mela celebrations at Botanic Gardens today (August 25th). Belfast’s Botanic european travel itenerary students Gardens hosts an exotic, wonderland european travel itenerary students of world music, dance, fashion, food and celebration. Tickets cost £5 for Adults , £12 for Family or £3 for Concessions.
A full frontal Australian tourism picture of kangaroo Big Baz reclining on the grass at Featherdale Wildlife Park was deemed too saucy for the web and the kangaroo s genitals were pixilated in the Tourism Australia picture.
Travel Extra ’s Eoghan Corry was in Taipei this week where meetings included the Director of the Ministry of Tourism International Services, Jason Jan-Chun Cherng (pictured). Mr Cherng said that opening up the flights between mainland China and Taiwan, which have a peculiar super-domestic status and are not available to international visitors, was a priority but would require bilateral agreement from Beijing. While Dublin airport is exploring european travel itenerary students the possibility direct flights to Beijing, Mr Cheng said that flights to Amsterdam and London were high on Taiwan’s wish-list. The current route of choice to Taipei is with China International via Frankfurt
Tom Barrett , Head of Hotels and Leisure european travel itenerary students at Savill european travel itenerary students s Ireland predicted €300m of hotel sales in Ireland by the end of the year. Hotels on the market european travel itenerary students include the Radisson Blu in Cork city, with an asking price of €8m, the Clarion IFSC hotel, with an asking price of €30m and the Clarion Dublin Airport hotel, with a €10m asking price. He says buyers from England, european travel itenerary students North and South America and China have spent €170m snapping up 21 hotels to date, including the five-star Ashford Castle european travel itenerary students in Co Mayo which sold for €20m, the River Lee Hotel in Cork and the Jurys Inn in Dublin city centre. He says average Room Rates in Dublin are up by 6.2pc and REVPAR up by 5.5pc.  Separately STR Global reported that Dublin generated more revenue growth per available hotel room than any other major European city in the 12 months through June.
British Airways Ireland is offering agents a chance to win an opportunity to try out their Mobile 787 Dreamliner Simulator when it comes to Dublin on September 11th. Agents who make a booking on British Airways before the 31st August will be entered into a draw. Send your booking reference to tara.magee@ba.com before 31st August and winners will be announced on September 2nd. Terms Conditions apply.
Ryanair celebrated its 3.5 millionth passenger at Kerry, Frank Coffey, originally from Killarney. Ryanair first arrived in Kerry in June 1997, it has grown to operate 5 routes, carrying 3.5m passengers and high-spending visitors to/from Kerry. Ryanair will carry over 250,000 passengers to/from Kerry in 2013, Pictures shows Frank Coffey, Ryanair airport director Peter Moore and the new Rose of Tralee, Hayley O’Sullivan, from Texas who greeted Frank.
The ITAA has organised a Travelport Worldspan Conversion Seminar in Dublin City Centre on Tuesday 27th Wednesday August european travel itenerary students 28th, to instruct participants on how to create and price Passenger Name Records (PNRs), european travel itenerary students when converting from another, 9am to 5pm. Booking Enquiries to Fionnuala european travel itenerary students Carter (right) on  fionnuala.carter@itaa.ie . Participants will learn to:
The fallout from the English TV programme european travel itenerary students Dispatches continued. Ryanair initiated legal proceedings against the Belfast Telegraph as well as Channel 4 Dispatches , The London Daily Mail Online and the Daily Mirror . Within hours of the proceedings being issued, the Belfast Telegraph issued an apology and accepted that Ryanair’s pilots are free to carry as much fuel as they wish to, that Ryanair fully complies with EU fuel regulation, and also the IAA’s confirmation that Ryanair’s safety is “on a par with the safest airlines in Europe”. Ryanair initiated High Court defamation proceedings against Michael O’Leary’s old nemesis, one of Ryanair s longest serving pilots and veteran trade union activist John Goss (right), who was the only Ryanair pilot to be identified on the programme. Pádraig Yeates took up the question raised by Travel Extra in last week s Sunday Supplement : is  Michael O Leary the new William Martin Murphy ? Capt Goss also featured in an Irish Times article on trade unions 100 years after the Dublin lockout .
Travel Counsellors launched a new international recruitment video  featuring, among other, Tim Fitzgerald (above). General Manager at Travel Counsellors Ireland, Cathy Burke said: “featuring Irish Travel european travel itenerary students Counsellors in this recruitment film ensure there’s a personal feel which fits our key company message.” Cathy says Travel Counsellors sales are up 10pc year on year.
Etihad said that business travellers who are connected to a Business Connect account will be able to receive doubles european travel itenerary students miles for Coral Economy bookings european travel itenerary students and triple miles for Pearl Business and Diamond First bookings when they book and travel between August t5 and September 30, 2013.
Emirates announced a back to school fare promotion for customers in Ire