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Agnivesh desire a comfortable ashram in Bigg Boss Qatar to host Crowned 2011 World Travel Awards 2011 Grand Final School on wheels brings World Travel Awards (WTA), the “Oscars of the Graham E. Cooke, President & Founder, World travel industry”, has announced it will host its Travel Awards, highlights how his organisation education at doorstep of 2011 Grand Final Gala Ceremony in Doha, selects host destinations that are driving the disadvantaged children Qatar on 11th December 2011. industry to new heights through innovation The glittering ceremony will be staged atW Doha and experimentation Hotel & Residences and will attract the most important decision-makers in global travel He said: “We are delighted to host our 2011 and tourism. Grand Final Gala Ceremony in Qatar as it is such an exciting place to be right now. The The evening marks the culmination of a year- country is investing $25 billion in tourism long search for the very best travel and tourism brands in the world, and will feature the infrastructure in the build up to the 2022 Fifa winners from WTA's regional heats competing World Cup, giving rise to incredible opportu- head to head. nities within the luxury sector.” WTA's 2011 regional heats included Middle East Ceremony (Dubai, UAE), Europe Cere- “Our Grand Final will see the winners of mony (Antalya, ), Africa & Indian Ocean our five regional heats, who represent the Ceremony (Sharm el Sheikh, ), Asia & cream of the global travel and tourism Australasia (, ), and Carib- industry, compete head to head for the bean & The Americas (Montego Bay, ). ultimate travel accolade.” Kejriwal Complaint to PM After a rigorous selection procedure, Qatar was “Winning a World Travel Award is an that he had been received chosen as the host of WTA's 2011 Grand Final endorsement from the thousands of profes- Gala Ceremony, reflecting the Arabian nation's sionals across the globe, and a gold seal of the notice of Rs 9.27 lakh rapid emergence as a tourism hotspot, and sport tourism in particular approval to the consumer of travel excellence guaranteed,” he added. W Doha Hotel & Residences exemplifies Qatar's leading edge approach to design and For more info about World Travel Awards luxury lifestyle. Guests can enjoy a tantalizing 2011 Grand Final Gala Ceremony & menu of personalized services on the banks of bookings visit: the Persian Gulf. Features include 291 guest www.worldtravelawards.com/event61 rooms and suites, 154 residences, gourmet restaurants, a poolside shisha lounge, For further press information contact champagne bar and luxury retail outlets. Anton Santost: +44 (0)20 7925 0000 'Dead' fraudster caught in NOVEMBER 2011 WINGS CHAMBER 2 Aegean Airlines signs City-Discovery.com as Tours and Activities Supplier Opening 30 Jan 2011 's largest full-service airline begins popular tours when they get to their a partnership with the online tours retailer destination. to offer sightseeing activities worldwide “Booking tours and activities together on their website with flights can help travelers save Aegean Airlines now offers more than money on admission fees, avoid long 5,500 sightseeing tours and activities in queues and generally make exploring over 89 countries across the globe through a new city easy and more convenient,” a partnership with City-Discovery.com. Issaurat adds. The available activities range from half- day guided visits, attraction tickets to About City Discovery multi-day all-inclusive packages. City Discovery's Partner Program The partnership provides Aegean custo- provides access to over 5,500 travel mers with access to transfers to and from activities in 89+ countries and trans- 600+ airports and ports through City- fers in 600+ ports and airports world- Discovery.com's sister site, World-Airport- wide. Transfers are covered by a Transfer.com. All transfers booked will be carbon emissions-offset program. As covered by a carbon emissions-offset a leading provider of sightseeing tours program to benefit the Phetchaburi and ground transportation worldwide, Biomass Project in Thailand through the City Discovery sells directly to Carbon Neutral Company. consumers and through a network of over 7,500 travel agencies and Passengers will now be able to choose from affiliates. The website is available in Flooding this year have claimed Skip-the-Line packages for top attractions 15 languages and the company has hundreds of lives and destroyed like the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower or the offices in USA, , Greece, , livelihoods in Thailand Vatican, City Pass tickets that offer free , and the . admission, transport and discounts, or even private toursDavi dthat Keen include lunch and About Aegean Airlines round trip transfers. City-Discovery.com's product catalogue covers affordable Hop- Aegean Airlines carried 6.23 million On Hop-off bus tours to unusual special passengers in 2010. Since June 30, occasion activities like a hot-air balloon 2010 it is a member of the strongest ride or an opportunity to go diving worldwide airline alliance, STAR with sharks. ALLIANCE. AEGEAN has been named “Best Regional Airline Europe” In addition the members of the Frequent at the SKYTRAX 2011 World Airline George Papandreou announced Flyer Program of Aegean Airlines, Miles& Awards and it is the runner-up in the “ that he would resign from his Bonus, will benefit by earning two miles World's Best Regional Airline” on every one Euro spent on tours, sigh category, in “Airline Staff Service post and immediate elections tseeing activities or airport transfers. Excellence for Europe” category as will be held well as in “Best Airline Southern City-Discovery.com's President and Europe” category. In its 12 year Founder Emmanuel Issaurat stated, history, Aegean has been awarded “We are very happy to be partners six times by the European Regions with Aegean Airlines and their award- Airline Association (ERA). Further winning record for quality and service more, the company has been in the region. We are confident that repeatedly awarded by the the partnership will be fruitful and International Airport as the greatest will lead to more choices for the contributor to the airport's passenger Sushil Kumar has just won customers.” volume increase. AEGEAN operates 35 international and 24 domestic himself Rs. 5 crores in KBC The agreement is set to benefit both routes during the IATA 2011 Summer companies and travelers alike. Pass- season, without taking into account engers will now be able to pre-book a significant number of international activities in advance along with their destinations served by its charter flights, ensuring the availability of operations. QUO Launches as First Global Tourism Comm- Plane lands on belly carrying unications and Repres 231 people in , none entation Agency hurt When landing gear David Keen QUO Global offices announced in Thailand, , , UK and Amanda Hills failed to open, NOVEMBER 2011 WINGS CHAMBER 3

London (UK), November 16 Outrigger Hotels & 2011 Varonis was honoured to receive a medal at last night's ResortsAgrees to prestigious UK IT Industry Awards, held at Battersea Parks Purchase Management Events Arena, in its Technology Excellence category. These Rights for Iconic annual awards are the bench Surfers Paradise mark for excellence throughout the computer industry, organised and run by BCS, The Hotel Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing, and offer a platform for the entire profession Hotel to be re branded Outrigger Surfers Paradise to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. Outrigger Hotels & Resorts today announced "We are pleased to be back in the heart of Speaking about the results, David Clarke, MBE, it had entered into an agreement to purchase Surfers Paradise and we're looking Chief Executive Officer of BCS, The Chartered the management rights and associated real forward to working with local industry Institute for IT said, "The awards are very rigo- estate assets of the hotel property currently and operators and making a positive rously judged so to be a winner or medallist operating as the Holiday Inn Surfers Paradise. contribution to the local economy," means that you really are the best of the best.” Mr James added. The sale includes the management rights from The Business IT Innovation of the Year category Colryan Pty Ltd (managers and receivers The addition of Outrigger Surfers looks to recognise innovative new products or appointed) for up to 414 hotel rooms and the Paradise boosts the hotelier's portfolio to services that have delivered measurable benefit real estate assets from Seasilver Hotels Pty four in Australia, which numbers close for business users or customers in areas such as, Ltd comprising reception, extensive conferen- to 1,000 rooms, and almost 11,200 rooms e-commerce, hosting, web performance, cing areas, and restaurant and bar. internationally. communications, or web-based services. Varonis Located on a prominent site on Gold was awarded its medal for revolutionising data The contract is subject to the satisfaction of management through data governance. standard commercial conditions. However, it Coast Highway and fronting View Avenue Varonis' DatAdvantage and DataPrivilege were is expected to settle in late 2011 or early 2012 the hotel is 100 metres from the beach extensively judged by industry experts, against and the property will then be re-branded to and one block from Cavill Avenue. Built three key criteria: Innovation; Measurable Outrigger Surfers Paradise. in 1986, it was originally branded the ANA Hotel. success; and Customer satisfaction Outrigger Hotels & Resorts is a 64-year-old Speaking about its triumph, Yaki Faitelson from privately-held U.S. company and one of the About Outrigger Enterprises Group Varonis said, “We were honoured to be named one fastest growing hospitality groups in the Asia- Outrigger Enterprises Group is one of the of the eleven finalists but to actually walk away Pacific and Oceania regions. The hotelier has a largest and fastest growing privately-held with a medal is truly special for us. Our mission long association with the Gold Coast after leisure lodging and hospitality companies is to help our customers manage and protect selecting the destination as its base to expand in the Asia-Pacific and Oceania regions critical business assets - the vast array of the brand from the U.S. into Australia in 1998. and continues to expand its presence documents, spreadsheets, presentations, media files and other business data sitting on file servers, The company's decision to invest in Surfers throughout the area. A family-owned NAS devices, and semi-structured repositories Paradise's tourism sector is also a major show company with more than 64 years of like SharePoint and Exchange. An award such as of confidence it has for the Gold Coast and hospitality experience, Outrigger runs a highly-successful, multi-branded line of this validates our approach, and provides builds upon the presence of its Australian additional motivation to serve our customers head office in Surfers Paradise. hotels, condominiums and vacation resort properties, including Outrigger® Hotels with excellent service and innovation.”Varonis Regional General Manager-Australia, Grant & Resorts, OHANA® Hotels & Resorts, is the leader in data governance solutions, James, said he was extremely confident in the Outrigger Condominium Collection®, providing a software framework that enables future of the Gold Coast's tourism industry. Embassy Suites®, Best Western®, customers with unstructured and semi-structured data residing on their files systems, SharePoint "The Gold Coast has fared much better than Courtyard® by Marriott, and Wyndham sites, Exchange servers and NAS devices to audit other regions in Queensland which can be Vacation Ownership®. Currently, Out- rigger operates and/or has under develop- data access activity, fix and maintain access evidenced by our other Gold Coast resort at controls, identify sensitive data, find data owners, Coolangatta eclipsing revenue and occupancy ment 45 properties with close to 11,200 rooms located in Hawaii; Australia; and involve them in access review and forecasts for the 2011/2012 period," authorization processes. Mr.James said. ; ; Bali; Phuket, Thailand; Koh His belief in a rebounding domestic tourism Samui, Thailand; Vietnam; and . Based on patented technology and a highly market was echoed by the release last month Outrigger Enterprises Group also operates accurate analytics platform, Varonis solutions of Tourism Australia's National Visitor and develops hotel properties and hos- give organisations total visibility and control Survey stating that domestic tourism was on pitality-related retail and real estate oppor- over their data, ensuring that only the right users have access to the right data at all times. the rise with June recording a jump in tunities for partners in Hawaii, the Pacific, the mainland USA and Asia. For on-line domestic travellers by 8 per cent. For more information about Varonis, "Despite current global economic woes, information, log on at there is a lot of positive news coming out www.outriggerenterprisesgroup.com and and its solutions, visit of the Gold Coast which includes the www.outrigger.com www.varonis.com opening of two new five-star hotels, Further information: construction of the Gold Coast light rail Grant James and planned runway extension at Gold Outrigger Hotels & Resorts Ph: + 61 7 5504 0623 Coast International Airport to allow Mb: 0434 075 438 direct flights from China. Em: [email protected] NOVEMBER 2011 WINGS CHAMBER 4 EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

JEWELLERY TRENDS: SPRING/SUMMER 2012 KOH SAMUI LIFESTYLE RESORT'S OCCUPANCY RATESSOAR COM- PARED TO ISLAND-WIDE RESULTS KOH SAMUI, THAILAND Upscale lifestyle resort, akyra Chura Samui, has registered an exceptional 90% occupancy rate since its opening just three months ago, outperforming island-wide occupancy rates of 61%. The 61-room akyra Chura Samui, on the quiet northern tip of Chaweng Beach, is the first property managed by Akaryn Hospitality Management Services (AHMS) who announced their arrival in the resort/hotel management business after the success of their wholly owned Aleenta resorts in Hua Hin and Phuket. AHMS Managing Director Anchalika Kijkanakorn said she was delighted that the resort opened to such high occupancy rates although was in no doubt that new, well positioned properties could still do well on the island. “Naturally we are thrilled visitors to the island are DUBAI INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SHOW WHERE THE choosing to stay at our resort and we have been able to perform a lot better than the island as a AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY MEETS IN THE MIDDLE EAST whole, especially as we are only a few months old,” said Ms Kijkanakorn. Maharajas Express loaded with luxuries “We have a strong track record through our luxury Aleenta brand and we have been able to leverage this and craft a new four-star lifestyle brand akyra which caters to everyone from young, free- spirited travellers to discerning tourists.”

Top visiting markets to akyra Chura Samui are from the UK, Germany and Scandinavia as well as from , , , Italy and Australia in the Asia Pacific region.

Among the facilities at akyra Chura Samui is an outlet of Aleenta's famed Spa IV and high-quality food and beverage outlets Sui Kin - offering exceptional Japanese food - and the South American-style Barracuda Bar & Grill right on the beach.

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