Domestic air passenger traffic up by 18.7% during January-December 2010
 
According to the data released by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, scheduled domestic airlines flew 520.21 lakh passengers last year, i.e., from January-December 2010, thereby registering a growth of 18.7 per cent. During the same period in 2009, the passenger carriage was 438.40 lakh. During the fourth quarter (October-December) last year, scheduled domestic airlines flew 147.05 lakh passengers.
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LPTI acquires PASH India
 
The Le Passage Travel Group (LPTI), which consists of several strategic business units (SBU), has added another such unit to foray into the niche golf tourism arena in India. The acquisition of PASH India will help the company to leverage the niche generated by the acquired entity over the years since its inception in 2004. Pash India has developed a stronghold in the golf tourism segment and plays an instrumental role in organising SAARC golf championship along with many other events. In the fold, other SBUs include- ICE (Integrated Convention and Exhibitions), LUXE India, Mintcentive and Dakshin Routes, to name a few.
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A&K India launches two new outbound units
 
Abercrombie & Kent, India, recently announced two strategic outbound divisions. The A&K India Private Travel, mainly focussing on the B2B segment, has been set up to introduce A&K’s global luxury offerings to the experience seekers and high profile travelers from India. Whereas the MICE division will cater to the demands of fast growing outbound MICE movements from India.
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IATA makes a conservative forecast of a profit of US$ 9.1 billion for 2011
 
According to International Air Transport Association’s Business Confidence Index, while 2011 is expected to be another profitable year, confidence in further significant improvement is diminishing. Although the outlook remains positive, loosening demand-supply conditions and upward fuel cost pressures mean that momentum for further boosts to profitability is slowing. For 2011, IATA has made a conservative forecast of a profit of US$ 9.1 billion for the aviation industry. In December 2010, it had revised up its forecast for 2010 industry profits to US$15.1 billion.
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Accor signs over 70 new development contracts to its network in 2010
 
According to information received from Accor, Accor has signed over 70 new development contracts in Asia Pacific during 2010, which will add over 16,000 hotel rooms to the network. The Paris based hotelier is committed to expansion in the region including in the key markets of China and India and further into markets where Accor is already the market leader such as Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Accor’s Asia Pacific network includes over 430 hotels and 83,000 rooms under management.
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Visa on Arrival now for Myanmar and Indonesia
 
Expanding the realm of phase-2 expansion of the Visa on Arrival (VoA), the government has now extended the facility to six countries as compared to five countries in pilot phase in 2010. In addition to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Philippines, the Home Ministry has announced similar facility for nationals of Myanmar and Indonesia. The other five countries that were covered in phase one included Singapore, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, and Luxembourg.
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Macau records 60% growth in arrivals from India in 2010
 
India remains Macau’s one of the top growing source markets with 2010 ending up as another year of record growth for the destination. Provisional figures received from Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) for the year 2010 shows that the Indian visitor arrivals were 169,096, registering an increase of a whopping 60 per cent over 2009. Macau received 107,513 Indian tourists in 2009.
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Tourism Australia to conduct 7-city destination training programme for the frontline travel agency staff in February
 
Tourism Australia would be conducting a seven-city destination training program for frontline staff of travel agencies during February 2011. Conceptualized with an aim to intensify the destination awareness among the travel trade, the training program will take place in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Kolkata from 01 February - 10 February, 2011. This initiative would be supported by the Australian State & Territory Tourism Organizations (STOs) based in India.
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Travelport and Air Canada sign multi-year full content distribution agreement
 
Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, operating the Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan Global Distribution Systems (GDS) announced the signing of a new multi-year agreement with Air Canada, an airline industry leader in innovative distribution of ancillary services on January 27, 2011. As per the agreement, Air Canada will provide all Travelport travel agency agents, both offline and online, access to all fares, seat availability, fare families and optional services offered by Air Canada.
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