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Air Seychelles intends to begin charter flights from the island of Mahe, where the capital city of Victoria is located, to Beijing in January 2016, flightglobal.com reports.
The national carrier will use use an Airbus A330-200 aircraft on the service, which will be operated once a week.
Flightglobal’s Innovata schedules show there is currently no scheduled air link between the Seychelles and China.
The new route is subject to government and regulatory approval.
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The head of Astana’s Architecture and City Building Management Vitaliy Siletskiy recently discussed the capital?s development plans and new projects.
Among those under consideration are public, residential, social and cultural objects on the west side of Khan Shatyr Mall and east of Millennium Alley, public purpose mini-areas facing Orynbor Avenue and the new Green Square project and public centre, as well as forming a classic model of a polycentric city, astanatimes.com reports.
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Da det gamle hotellet ved Tinghuset i Oslo skulle totalrenoveres hadde Olav Thon en ambisjon om å skape “det andre hjem” for forretningsreisende.
Hotellet ble døpt Thon Hotel Rosenkrantz. Bare et år etter åpningen, har gode tilbakemeldinger fra både gjester og anmeldere vært enorme, skriver boarding.no
Det er lagt stor vekt på bekvemmelighet, komfort og eksklusivitet i utformingen av Thon Hotel Rosenkrantz. I tillegg er det utviklet et solid og spennende restaurantkonsept i Brasserie Paleo. 8. januar, bare noen få måneder etter åpning overtok hotellet første plassen fra The Thief, og troner som høyst rangerte hotell i Oslo på Tripadvisor og Booking.com.
Det har også vært gode terningkast og poeng fra riksavisene, samt knock-out i flere hotelltester.
– Den viktigste suksessfaktoren for at hotellet har gjort det så bra, er at vi legger omtanke i hvert eneste ledd av oppholdet til gjestene våre, poengterer hotelldirektør Lars Petter Mathisen i en pressemelding.
Det er valgt ekstra god kvalitet på sengetøy og håndklær. Alle rom er utstyrt med en 48 -tommers smart-TV. Man kan velge mellom TV-kanalene eller Netflix, spille spill eller nettsurfe. Man kan også spille musikk fra egen smarttelefon gjennom musikkanlegg fra Bose.
– Skal våre forretningsreisende føle seg som hjemme hos oss, så er det viktig at vi også legger til rette for dette. Vi har blant annet eget garderobeskap for de som bor hos oss ofte. Man kan til og med få vasket og strøket skjortene mens man er hjemom, sier Mathisen.
Brasserie Paleo har vist seg å være en restaurant hvor man kan samles til gastronomiske opplevelser sammen med sine kollegaer. Restaurantkonseptet er raffinert og rustikt, med spennende retter på menyen. Også verdens beste kokk, Ørjan Johannesen har hatt gjestespill i restauranten.
Brasserie Paleo har ansvaret for frokosten til hotellgjestene – en omfattende frokostbuffet med høy standard, hvor blant annet baconet stekes på kullgrillen. Tilbakemeldingene fra gjestene omhandler ikke overraskende ofte frokosten.
Restauranten har gode anmeldelser fra både Dagens Næringsliv og Aftenposten, og er rangert som nummer 20 av 1086 restauranter i Oslo på Tripadvisor.
Brasserie Paleo er også oppført i White Guide, en oversikt over de beste nordiske restaurantene.
Det serveres kveldsmat fra hotellets eksklusive gjestelounge
I åttende etasje på hotellet er det laget en lounge med flott utsikt mot Slottsparken. Her kan man slappe av med dagens aviser og kaffekoppen. På kveldene serveres det gratis kveldsmat, som kommer de forretningsreisende tilgode etter en lang arbeidsdag.
Thon Hotel Rosenkrantz er også et forbilde for andre hoteller i kjeden. Personalet har flere ganger vunnet internkonkurranser innenfor frokostservering, service og andre driftsrelaterte områder.
Thon Hotel Rosenkrantz har hatt tilnærmet fullt belegg etter åpningen og feiret ett år 23.oktober.
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Tourism will be impacted negatively by the “message” that India’s national capital is reeling under air pollution, India’s Minister for Culture Mahesh Sharma said today, as he batted for greater efforts to make the city pollution-free, www.ndtv.com reports.
Mr Sharma, however, felt that it was “practically impossible” to implement Delhi Government’s odd-even number formula for plying vehicles on city roads as a measure to curb pollution.
“The message that is going out to the world whether Delhi is a polluted capital… will have negative impact on tourism in the country.
Countrymen, especially people in Delhi, should take a pledge to make the city and country pollution-free.
“Tourism is our strength, to generate foreign exchange. This (pollution) will have impact on the same,” the Union Minister of Culture said.
The Minister made the remarks while speaking on the sidelines of launch of National Museum’s art gallery at Udyog Bhawan Metro Station in Delhi.
Mr Sharma urged people to keep in mind they do not hand over a legacy of polluted Delhi to future generations.
Responding to a question on reports of people using masks as a precautionary measure, the Minister stressed that “efforts should be made that people do not need to use mask in the first place”.
“If experts find air pollution levels high, doctors may have to suggest people to wear mask (as precaution) in that case,” he added.
On Arvind Kejriwal Government’s formula to ply vehicles with odd-even number on road to curb pollution, Mr Sharma said, “He (Kejriwal) has made an effort. But practically it looks impossible.”
Mr Sharma also urged people to have a glimpse India’s culture through National Museum.
“It (launching the gallery) is a small effort by the Ministry along with Metro to bring India’s culture from museum to metro station, where lakhs of people come and go daily. The gallery is an invitation to people to come and have glimpse of country’s culture and civilisation,” he added.
In a radical step to curb air pollution, Delhi Government had last Friday announced private vehicles bearing odd and even registration numbers will be allowed to ply only on alternate days starting January 1.
The formula will be in force between 8 am and 8 pm for an initial period of 15 days and there will be no restrictions on vehicular movement on Sundays, the Delhi government had said yesterday.
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Joint venture developers, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (Grosvenor) and The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels ltd. (HSH), have been granted planning permission to build The Peninsula London hotel on London?s Hyde Park Corner in central London, bighospitality.co.uk reports.
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Air Seychelles intends to begin charter flights from the island of Mahe, where the capital city of Victoria is located, to Beijing in January 2016, flightglobal.com reports.
The national carrier will use use an Airbus A330-200 aircraft on the service, which will be operated once a week.
Flightglobal’s Innovata schedules show there is currently no scheduled air link between the Seychelles and China.
The new route is subject to government and regulatory approval.
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A new Air China route coming on stream on Saturday to link Paris and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, will make the French capital Europe’s best-connected city with the Middle Kingdom, Aeroports de Paris (ADP) said Tuesday, channelnewsasia.com reports.
The Chinese carrier will fly four times weekly to Charles de Gaulle airport, from where ADP said 89 flights will leave for China – excluding Hong Kong – each week.
Chengdu is the “main entry point for central western China and represents a 12 million-strong market. It is also a very important business centre and top tourist destination,” ADP noted in a statement.
The Sichuan capital becomes the eighth Chinese city with a direct link to Paris, which brings the French capital even with Frankfurt but with a greater number of flights.
In addition to longstanding connections with Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, the past two years have seen routes between Paris and Wuhan and Xian in central China, Hangzhou in the east and Kunming in the southwest, ADP noted. It added that the newer routes in the main serve “Chinese passengers wishing to discover France for the first time.”
The organisation said Charles de Gaulle airport northeast of Paris was “Chinese friendly” with extensive Chinese language signposting as well as Mandarin-speaking staff.
Frankfurt serves eight Chinese cities for 76 flights a week, Amsterdam operates 47 to six cities and London currently offers 54 flights weekly to four cities, according to ADP.
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Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Yacouba Isaac Zida has launched the North interconnection highway project in Ouagadougou, considered the largest road infrastructure of its kind erected in the capital city of Ouagadougou, footprint2africa.com reports.
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Tourists keep on coming to Athens, but a lot of them stay in the 8,000 houses that are rented privately in the Greek capital, tornosnews.gr reports.
Consequently, Athenian hotels fail to reap the benefits from the rise of arrivals, recorded at the Athens International Airport. According to the Athens-Attica and Argosaronic Hotel Association, they suffered the effects of falling demand during the September-November period despite a increase in visitors to the Greek capital.
The Association’s president Alexandros Vassilikos said at a press conference on Tuesday that the impressive 23 percent increase in foreign tourist arrivals to Athens does not reflect on the occupancy of hotels in the Attica area.
The average occupancy rate in Athens during the first 11 months of 2015 did not exceed 3.7 percent and dropped by 3.8 percent in September, by 6.1 percent in October and by 4.6 percent in November.
Mr Vassilikos asked “where are all these visitors to Athens staying” and pointed towards the thousands of properties that are currently operating illegally as accommodation units in the Greek capital.
He underlined that over 8,000 properties are currently operating illegally in Athens and called on the government to protect the hotel enterprises that operate within the law.
As the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels reported earlier, hosting of tourists in illegal accommodation causes legitimate hotels to lose 12 million overnight stays, which translates to over 500 million euros of less revenue.
Mr Vassilikos noted that Athens still has the lowest average room rate – 90 euros – compared to other European countries and added that strategic choices must be made for Athens as a destination to increase visitor numbers.
These choices include upgrading existing hotels, promoting the Áttica Riviera and establishing a metropolitan conference center within the city.
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Plans for a film museum and convention centre in the heart of Wellington have been given the go-ahead, Radio New Zealand reports.
Wellington city councillors has voted unanimously to build the $134 million, multi-purpose venue opposite Te Papa. Previous plans for a five-star Hilton hotel on the site have been scrapped.
The convention centre, capable of hosting 1100 people, will be run by the council. It will in turn lease out land to The Movie Museum Ltd, a company formed by New Zealand film director and producer Sir Peter Jackson (director and producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy) and New Zealand filmmaker Sir Richard Taylor.
Museum project director said George Hickton it would showcase movie memorabilia from films and television shows produced within the city.
The council predicted the project would generate about $38 million a year for the capital.
Wellington’s deputy mayor Justin Lester told Morning Report it would be a drawcard for international tourists.
“This project will become synonymous with Wellington, you know for an international tourist coming to New Zealand, I think this will be the most significant man-made attraction so I think it’s going to be really really large, it will put Wellington front and centre on the tourist map, so we’ll see a lot more people coming to Wellington. No one will bypass the city.”
Wellington is not the only city proposing to build a convention centre. Projects are under way or planned for Auckland, Christchurch and Queenstown.
