Dublin Airport Had 1.4m Passengers in November
Passenger numbers at Dublin Airport exceeded 1.4 million in November, a 7% increase on the same month last year.
UK traffic recorded an 11% increase with almost 626,000 passengers travelling to and from Britain in November.
Passenger volumes to and from continental Europe increased by 3%...
Etihad to Commence Perth Flights Next July
Etihad Airways will commence flights to Perth, Western Australia, on 15th July 2014. The airline will offer six weekly flights from Dublin to Perth with seamless connections at its Abu Dhabi hub.
The Abu Dhabi – Perth sector will be operated by an Airbus A330-200...
Lisa Whelan to Leave CWT
Lisa Whelan will be moving on from Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) as of next month.
Lisa said: “I am leaving to take up a new opportunity with Car Trawler based in Dublin. I feel that I have led and developed a strong team in Ireland...
Celebrity Cruises Treats Agents to Night Out with the Stars
Celebrity Cruises treated agent partners to a night with the stars at Keith Duffy's 7th Annual Masquerade Ball in aid of Irish Autism Action at the Powerscourt Hotel last week.
Michael English, Celebrity Cruises’ Head of Sales UK & Ireland, joined Jennifer Callister, Major Account...
City Breaks are Back, Says Lowcostbeds
Lowcostbeds reports a 45% increase in sales on city destinations on last year, after securing exclusive rates in Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Prague and Krakow.
Following a growth in demand and an increase in searches for city destinations, lowcostbeds further developed its hotel portfolio worldwide in...
LD Lines to Introduce Rosslare – France – Spain Ferry Service
LD Lines has announced further increases to its ferry service network to Spain with the addition of a weekly sailing to Gijón, linking in with its existing France (St-Nazaire) – Spain (Gijón) route and recently launched new service between Poole and Santander. In addition...
Turkish Airlines Expands Global Network to 243 Destinations
Turkish Airlines continues to ‘Widen Your World’ with the addition of Kano in Nigeria as its 242nd destination and N'djamena in Chad as the 243rd. Turkish Airlines now has a presence at 36 destinations in 25 African countries, making it one of the leading...
Amadeus Ends 2013 with 14 Renewals and 5 New Accounts
Amadeus has announced a raft of customer renewals in 2013 including Donabate Travel, Keller Travel, Navan Travel, Padraic Keogh Travel, O’Callaghan Travel, Mallow Travel, Harvey Travel, Bowe Travel, Premier Travel, Skytours, Newbridge Travel, Fahy Travel, Eimer Hannon Travel and Travelagent.ie, plus the addition of...
Lowcostholidays to Boost Social Media Activity
Lowcostholidays has announced a significant expansion of its investment in its presence on Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ in 2014, as well as developing the company’s Irish online weekly newsletter database, which now exceeds 50,000 customers.
Lowcostholidays also already has over 109,000 fans on its Irish...
Celebrity Cruises Appoints Director of Marketing & PR for UK and Ireland
Celebrity Cruises has appointed Toby Shaw in the newly created role of Director of Marketing and PR for the UK and Ireland. Toby will lead an 11-strong marketing and PR team dedicated to the brand. This follows a decision by parent company RCL Cruises...
Christmas Has Arrived Early!
Yesterday heralded the Irish Travel Industry Christmas Party at the DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin – Burlington Road where a great night was enjoyed by over 300 industry representatives, particularly by the winners of the 38 prizes awarded – 25 Irish Travel Trade Awards, the...
Oscars Night for the Irish Travel Industry
The 22nd Irish Travel Trade Awards, the industry’s ‘Oscars’, were announced and presented at last night’s Irish Travel Industry Christmas Party at the DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin. The Gala Dinner event was yet another success, creating a ‘great buzz’ among the attendees in the...
Travelport Wins ‘Best Agent-Friendly Supplier’
Five travel industry suppliers each won two of the 25 Irish Travel Trade Awards 2013 presented at the Irish Travel Industry Christmas Party at the DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin – Burlington Road, on Wednesday night – and, for the first time, a delighted Travelport...
Stella is ITTN’s Budding Travel Writer of the Year
Stella Grant, O’Hanrahan Travel, Monaghan Town, was last night declared the winner of this year’s inaugural Irish Travel Trade News Budding Travel Writer of the Year Award. Stella, who reported on her recent fam trip with MSC Cruises, Turkish Airlines and TravelCube, was presented...
Prize Draw Produces 11 Lucky Winners
As always, the 22nd Irish Travel Trade Awards event offered all attendees many chances to win a lucky draw prize, including tickets for two from seven airlines to destinations around the world, a holiday for two in Ibiza or on a Royal Caribbean cruise,...
Christine Wins a Trip for Two to Malaysia
Christine McTiernan, Mullaney Travel, Sligo, was announced to be the winner of the Irish Travel Trade Awards Voters Prize of a trip for two to Malaysia, including two return tickets ex-Dublin to Kuala Lumpur and seven nights B&B accommodation in a 5-star hotel in...
Frankfurt’s Christmas Market
Christmas time is well and truly upon us and Germany is traditionally the home of the Christmas market. In terms of size and variety the Frankfurt market is one of the most important in Germany.
Many of the stalls are in log cabins that are...
Alan Glover and Fiona Lawless Take Up Australia Postings
Etihad Airways has appointed its Corporate Sales Manager Ireland, Alan Glover, as the airline’s new Manager Sales Victoria, in Australia, while Fiona Lawless has been appointed Sales Account Manager Queensland. The recruitment process is under way to fill the vacancies in the Dublin office.
Alan...
Royal Caribbean Launches B.R.I.T.S Awards for Agents
Royal Caribbean International has launched its own B.R.I.T.S Awards for trade partners to win one of 16 places at the 2014 BRIT Awards.
The awards, designed to help drive trade sales and excitement around the peak booking season, requires agents to nominate their colleagues in...
A Santa Experience with Turkish Airlines
The genial manager of Turkish Airlines in Ireland, Murat Balindi, hosted a travel trade group and their families to a magical day out to Ireland’s Santa Experience in Rathwood, Co Wicklow.
More than 80 travel trade and their families attended the event, which was full...
