Responding to increased customer demand, India’s leading international airline Jet Airways is relaunching service on the B777-300ER out of New York’s Newark-Liberty International Airport. The flights (9W227 and 9W228) will operate to Mumbai via Jet Airways’ Brussels hub through January 16, 2010, in lieu of the smaller A330-200. With the new aircraft, additional seat capacity

Taj &Beyond is offering exclusive savings at its  jungle lodges throughout Madhya Pradesh. Through March 31, 2010, guests who book at any combination of Taj &Beyond’s four Indian lodges—Mahua Kothi near Bandhavgarh National Park, Baghvan near Pench National Park, Banjaar Tola near Kanha National Park and Pashan Garh near Panna National Park—will save 33 percent

Australian Pacific Touring’s (APT) Kings Canyon Wilderness Lodge has won the Hosted Accommodation Category at the 2009 Brolga Northern Territory Tourism Awards. Recently awarded Eco Accreditation, Kings Canyon Wilderness Lodge is located on a secluded area of Kings Creek Station near Kings Canyon in Australia’s infamous outback near Ayers Rock. A joint venture between APT and

Latour, a leading tour operator to Central and South America and division of IsramWorld, has announced the appointment of Arthur Berman as its new Managing Director. Arthur Berman brings decades of experience in the travel industry to his new role. In particular, Arthur has a wealth of knowledge and experience with the Latin America market as

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has named Jim Curtis Area Director of Sales and Marketing, Caribbean. “Jim is an industry veteran with an outstanding record of leading sales and marketing efforts for some of Starwood’s top-performing properties,” said Graeme Davis, Vice President of Operations for Starwood, Southern and Caribbean Region. “His exceptional leadership abilities and results-oriented

CATM 2010 returns to Guatemala October 8–10, after its original inception, having been hosted in other Central American countries over recent years. The ‘Heart of The Mayan World’ will once again have the opportunity to promote its tourism to hundreds of exhibitors, tourism wholesale suppliers, international media outlets and service providers from Europe, the United

Reed Travel Exhibitions is adding AIBTM to its international meetings portfolio, which includes EIBTM in Barcelona, GIBTM in Abu Dhabi, CIBTM in Beijing, AIME in Melbourne, and the ICCA Congress Exhibition held annually in different destinations. The inaugural Americas Incentive Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition (AIBTM) will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, June 21–23, 2011. Vanessa Cotton,

GSAR Marketing has announced that the XVI edition of MITM Americas, Meetings and Incentive Travel Market, will be held for the second time in the city of Quito, Ecuador, October 6–8, 2010. Twenty-eight cities from Latin America, Caribbean and North America had requested to be MITM’s venue in 2010. Having already hosted MITM so successfully in

Phil Otterson, President, American Tourism Society (ATS), has announced that the ATS Fall 2010 Conference will be held in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, October 25–27, 2010. This ATS-organized event in Kosovo, which only gained its independence February 28, 2008, will be the first-ever tourism conference to be held in the newborn country. “Kosovo is a perfect

MITT and UITT have become main meeting places for the industry in their respective countries of Russia and Ukraine, with opportunities for great numbers of new contacts in a short space of time, and generating great market awareness. In order to maximize business potential, the first two days of each event are reserved for ‘trade