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Photo of the Day: Aphrodite Hills Golf Course, Cyprus.Located between Pafos (Paphos) and Lemesos (Limassol), Aphrodite Hills is an award-winning integrated golf, leisure and real estate development with a championship 18-hole golf course designed by renowned course architect Cabell B. Robinson.
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Chinese Capital Airlines will soon be opening a new flight connecting Chinese cities, including the capital city of Beijing, to Lisbon, capital city of Portugal, as the country is witnessing a surge of Chinese tourists, Lisbon newspaper Diario de Noticias reported, according to Global Times
The Portuguese government and Tourism of Portugal is focusing its efforts on China and will soon be opening the flight connecting eastern Chinese city Hangzhou and capital Beijing to Lisbon four times per week.
The flight, taking off in July, was created by HNA Group, a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in Haikou, Hainan, China, which is also Portugal airline TAP’s stakeholder.
Citing figures from Portugal’s tourism department, the report says the number of Chinese tourists visiting Portugal in 2016 was 19.1 percent higher than the previous year. And in the past three years, the number duplicated to over 180,000 at the end of last year.
Moreover, Chinese tourists spent around 72 million euros (76.68 million US dollars) in Portugal last year.
Chinese tourists spend more money than travellers from any other country, according to data released this week by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
News source: Global Times, Xinhua, Diario de Noticias
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The island of Bali might be getting a flight from Uzbekistan’s capital city Tashkent after a meeting between Indonesian Tourism Minister Arief Yahya and Sharapov Anvar Kurbanovich, chairman of the Uzbek Tourism Development Committee, the coconuts.co website reported.
Mr Kurbanovich’s visit to Indonesia comes after a visit to Malaysia.
Uzbekistan plans to grant Indonesian citizens visa-free entry and a direct flight from Tashkent will hopefully be opened up, the chairman added.
Another feature Kurbanovich hopes to develop to draw Indonesians over is an Umrah plus package that would include a trip to Uzbekistan for those making the holy Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi-Arabia.
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Til høsten kan du reise direkte fra Alta til Gran Canaria med Ving, skriver travelnews.no
Høstferie-avgangen fra Alta er 27. september, av flyselskapet Evelop med en Airbus A320 med 180 seter.
– Vi ble kontaktet av G Travel Alta, som etterlyste høstferie derfra, noe vi selvsagt ønsket å imøtekomme, forteller markeds- og kommunikasjonsdirektør i Ving, Tonje Løkaas Fossum til nettstedet.
– Vi satte i gang hele organisasjonen, for dette hadde vi lyst å få til.
Ving er den største turoperatøren fra Norge til Gran Canaria, med en markedsandel på 51,5 prosent.
-Selv om man i utgangspunktet kan velge og vrake i hotelltilbud på Gran Canaria er lurt å bestille tidlig om man vil bo på et hotell med høy standard. De populære hotellene går unna først, da det også er høstferie på Sør- og Østlandet denne uken. I tillegg får de som bestiller raskt 500 kroner i rabatt på ordinærseng, sier Tonje Løkaas Fossum til TravelNews.
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Photo of the Day: A flower-covered Grand Place / Grote Markt in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credit: Wouter Hagens / visit.brussels
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Qatar Airways will provide its transit passengers free hotel stays and complimentary transit visa as it seeks to promote and market capital city Doha as a destination of choice for international travellers. The offer allows passengers travelling through Doha to experience a taste of the Middle East for free, the financialexpress.com website reported.
Qatar Airways flies 30 million transit passengers through its Hamad International Airport hub in Doha and it aims to convert a major chunk of these passengers into stopover visitors. The initiative is part of a broader campaign, “+Qatar”, launched along with Qatar Tourism Agency (QTA), which seeks to encourage transit passengers to consider adding Doha to their itinerary, according to a statement from the airline.
Qatar Airways and QTA, will give passengers, throughout the summer, a chance to turn a layover into a stay-over by offering four and five star hotel accommodation at no charge to those transiting through Doha.
“This exclusive initiative provides the opportunity to add an extra element to our passengers existing travel plans with a complimentary hotel stay in some of Doha’s finest hotels,” Akbar Al-Baker, Qatar Airways group Chief Executive Officer.
The free hotel accommodation, available throughout the summer, will offer passengers the opportunity to explore Doha and experience city tours, desert safari adventures or a dinner cruise aboard a traditional dhow, giving visitors a taste of authentic Arabian hospitality.
“It was a great source of pride for all of us in Qatar when we launched the transit visa last November. We have already seen a surge in stopover passengers with a 53 per cent increase recorded in March 2017 compared to the same month last year.
“With the launch of +Qatar, we aim to convert a larger portion of the 30 million passengers passing through Hamad International Airport into stopover visitors,” Chief Tourism Development Officer at QTA Hassan Al-Ibrahim said.
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Det er nå blitt enda mer spennende å besøke Vikingskipshuset på Kulturhistorisk museum på Bygdøy i Oslo. Museet har har lansert opplevelsesfilmen “Vikingtiden lever”, som gir en unik reise inn i vikingtiden fra vikingskipet ble bygget, til det seiler på åpent hav og til slutt ender som gravskip for en konge, skriver Se og Hør.
Filmen vises i takvelvingen Vikingskipshuset.
Kulturhistorisk museum er underlagt Universitetet i Oslo, og rommer gravfunnene fra Tune, Gokstadhaugen i Sandefjord, Oseberghaugen og Borrehaugene.
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Sveriges regjering bekrefter at de avskaffer ID-kontrollen på busser, tog og ferjer mellom Danmark og Sverige. Kontrollene ble innført i januar 2015 i sammenheng med flyktningkrisen, og vedtaket løper til 4.mai melder VG Direkte
I stedet skal grensekontrollene styrkes, skriver Aftonbladet.
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Croissantene som bakes hos bakeren Guillaume Schou er kåret til de beste i Paris. Hele 3000 bakerier deltok i konkuransen, og kåringen fant sted på den årlige festivalen Fête du Pain, skriver Se og Hør.
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The Belgian capital city of Brussels is hoping to boost tourism to pre-2016 levels with a Europe-wide campaign to be launched this week, the TravelMole website reported.
Exact details have not been released, but the promotion launch will take place in London, where members of the public can win a city trip to Brussels.
A similar campaign will launch simultaneously in several European cities today, May 2.
Since the terror attacks last year, the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region has made efforts to bring back tourism to pre-2016 levels.
The lockdown of Brussels in 2015 and the attacks of March 2015 impacted tourists to the city breaks destination, with occupancy and revenue per available room (revPAR) dropping significantly. However, for the past five months the city’s hotel market is starting to show a recovery.
According to data from STR, November 2016 saw a 10.2% year-on-year increase in occupancy.
March 2017 recorded a 19.4% increase in occupancy to 69 %.
However, the figure is still 4% lower than the capital’s March 2015 occupancy level of 72%.
