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(Bloomberg) -- China’s tourism and consumer activities rose sharply on the first day of the five-day Labor Day holiday, as residents rushed to travel and spend after three years of Covid restrictions finally ended. Some 19.7 million railway trips were made across the country on Saturday, the highest on record for a single day, local media The Paper reported citing data from China Railway Group Ltd. The railway operator expects traffic to rise to a record 120 million passengers for the extended holiday period, up 20% from the same period in 2019, before the pandemic struck. Shoppers were out in force on Saturday too, with major retail and catering companies seeing sales jump 21% from a year ago, according to Ministry of Commerce data cited by state broadcaster CCTV. Key food chains saw a 37% revenue boost, clothing sales climbed 21%, while sales of jewelry, cigarettes and alcohol all rose 17%. Many residents are making their first trips since the pandemic after authorities scrapped

Inforial (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta   ●   Mon, May 1, 2023 2023-05-01 07:01 0 003a0fdfeebb1025ab3702947bd8f860 4 Inforial Semarang Free How would it be to get lost in a world that redefines the power of a journey, that recolors your palate through a multitude of sensations? Such an experience can be yours at the Padma Hotel Semarang, which brings its guests inviting, avant-garde cuisine amid the artistic and multicultural heritage of one of Java’s foremost cities. The hotel’s new brunch menu, Sunday Brunch: Flavours of The World, will resonate with lovers of Maroon 5’s “Sunday Morning”, as one small part of the Padma Hotel’s indulgent, all-in-one resort experience. The revamped menu brings the magic of traveling the world to Semawis All-Day Dining, as guests relax in the restaurant’s contemporary design. But the journey doesn’t stop there. As you flip through the pages of the new brunch menu, you will find yourself surprised by the variety of flavors of the world,

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Travel is back to pre COVID levels in most inter-city routes across India. This summer will witness a shift in how people will travel for vacation or meet families. Travellers today are more inclined to explore hidden gems around their hometowns, go on mindful retreats with extended families or take multiple short weekend vacations, to spend quality time with their families. Mobility startups are leveraging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to elevate the travel experience, as well as build efficiencies by reducing the time, money and effort required to travel within cities. They are changing the face of mobility and travel and will continue to do so in 2023. Here are some of the ways startups are reimagining travel. A 360-degree mobility solution This is an important change that startups have brought in the mobility segment, where the provider doesn’t just focus on boarding and deboarding, but also works on enhancing customer experience. As an ex

Bank Holidays in India in May 2023 complete list is provided below for the reference of bank customers. As per the Bank Holidays May 2023 list released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), all public and private banks across India will remain closed for 11 days in May 2023. This includes the second and fourth Saturdays, and all Sundays. During these holidays, the internet banking and ATM services will remain operational. While some of the holidays in the list are specific to certain states or regions, others are designated as national public holidays. The month of May 2023 will see several significant festivals, including May Day, Maharashtra Day, Buddha Purnima, and the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. It's important to note that not all states or regions will have banks closed for the full 12 days. However, customers should be aware of the Bank Holidays in May 2023 and plan their banking needs accordingly. Bank Holidays May 2023 State-wise Complete List Date and D

THE QPR Box Office and Stadium Superstore will be closed on Monday 1st May 2023 for Bank Holiday. Fans will still be able to purchase tickets and merchandise online during this period. Both the Box Office and Stadium Superstore will return to normal opening hours on Tuesday 2nd May.  Supporters are advised to purchase tickets for our final home fixture of the season against Bristol City online by logging into their QPR Club Account and clicking HERE . Merchandise can be purchased from the Online Shop by clicking HERE . The opening hours for the Bank Holiday weekend are as follows: Box Office Saturday 29th April: Closed Sunday 30th April: Closed Monday 1st May: Closed Stadium Superstore Saturday 29th April: 9.30am-4.30pm Sunday 30th April: Closed Monday 1st May: Closed Adblock test (Why?) from "holiday" - Google News https://ift.tt/IfFeW8q via IFTTT

Skift Take It’s all about priorities. Companies are now reviving their travel programs with a new set of top-down corporate focuses, regardless of where employees choose to work from. Matthew Parsons You may have noticed the status quo has all but returned. For several months now the corporate travel sector has been preoccupied with pre-pandemic favorites like booking channels , sustainability and simply getting back out there . It’s a welcome change from pre-departure Covid tests and mask mandates. While the pandemic has faded, the concept of remote work hasn’t. It’s morphed significantly since the start of the year. At first it was compulsory; now it’s a lot more fluid in nature. Skfit’s Future of Work Briefing has chartered its evolution for more than two years . We’ve examined how household travel names adjusted to new types of travelers; how governments and their economies reacted to the growing numbers of digital nomads; how travel entrepreneurs created new businesses t

Travellers queue up at the departure hall at Hong Kong International Airport, in Hong Kong, April 5, 2023. [Photo/Agencies] Hong Kong is gearing up for a massive influx of visitors during the upcoming five-day May Day holiday, with about 4.61 million people expected to enter or leave the city during the Chinese mainland's first long break since the resumption of cross-boundary travel. The Immigration Department estimated that among the inbound and outbound travelers, 84.9 percent, or 3.91 million, will pass through land ports. This year, the five-day break on the mainland, a popular season for tourism, falls from Saturday to Wednesday. The busiest day for outbound travelers will be Saturday, with 359,000 people expected to leave the city while the largest crowd of incoming visitors — 422,000 people — may come on Monday, according to the department. Among all the 13 ports, the department estimated that the Lo Wu checkpoint will welcome the most, with about 1.13 million people

Finding the right accommodations can make or break a trip. That’s why every year we put together the T+L 500, a directory of your favorite hotels around the globe. These luxurious destinations deliver, with coveted amenities (think: floating breakfast in your private pool) and staff that goes the extra mile with meaningful local insights. The best part is that you, our readers, picked them all: when you vote in the annual World’s Best Awards survey, the 500 highest hotel scorers make up this prestigious list. The honorees are grouped into eight geographic regions: Africa and the Middle East; Asia; Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific; Canada; the Caribbean; Europe; Mexico, Central America, and South America; and the United States. Below, we've gathered fun details on a handful of properties to pique your interest for future getaways. You can read the full T+L 500 list in Travel + Leisure 's May 2023 issue, on newsstands today, or digitally on Apple News+ . Bacc

GDP contribution 5% off 2019 peak by the end of 2023 Almost 22 million more Travel & Tourism jobs last year International visitor spend up more than 80% NEW YORK , April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Travel & Tourism Council's ( WTTC ) 2023 Economic Impact Research (EIR) today shows the Travel & Tourism sector is closing in on its 2019 peak, recovering by more than 95%. In 2023, the sector is forecast to reach $9.5 trillion , just 5% below 2019 pre-pandemic levels when travel was at its highest. 34 countries have already exceeded 2019 levels. According to the research conducted by WTTC in collaboration with Oxford Economics, the global tourism body also forecasts that the sector will recover to 95% of the 2019 job level. A look back on last year Last year, despite the economic and geopolitical difficulties, the Travel & Tourism sector's recovery continued at pace, growing 22% year-on-year to reach $7.7 trillion . This recovery represented 7.6% of th

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has expressed its satisfaction to Israel over the latter’s handling of security tensions during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, an Israeli and a US official told The Times of Israel on Tuesday. The appreciation was conveyed during several conversations Biden officials have held with their Israeli counterparts over the past week, the senior Israeli official said. The message represented a rare nod of approval from the US to the four-month-old, hardline government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose efforts to overhaul the judiciary and expand Israel’s presence in the West Bank have led to an intense rebuke from US President Joe Biden himself as well as the summoning of Israel’s ambassador in Washington for a private dress-down. A senior US official said the Netanyahu government’s conduct had the Biden administration particularly apprehensive as Ramadan approached, given that the holy month in and of itself adds an extra layer of tens

Airline distribution, post-Covid staffing and the traveller experience are set to be the key concerns for travel buyers in the coming months, according to the latest global survey by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). The association’s regular Business Travel Outlook poll surveyed more than 800 buyers, suppliers and other industry professionals around the world. The survey looked at recent attempts by airlines, particularly American Airlines , to “expedite” the introduction of NDC-enabled content by making a significant number of fares unavailable through EDIFACT-based legacy distribution channels. Most buyers (60 per cent) said they did not support these distribution moves by airlines - this compared to just 36 per cent of TMCs and suppliers who opposed this policy.  Just over half of buyers (53 per cent) also said that some airlines were moving too quickly to roll out NDC and had not given third-party intermediaries enough time to develop the right technology to faci

TEMPO.CO , Jakarta - Halim Perdanakusuma Airport management analysis predicts the peak momentum of the Eid al-Fitr mass exodus has taken place on Tuesday as the last day of the national collective leave will end on Wednesday, April 26, where businesses and offices would start operating again. Citing state news agency Antara, the passenger traffic departing and landing at the aforementioned airport located in East Jakarta was visually more packed than on Monday.  According to the data from the airport’s Eid mass exodus monitoring post, there were 10,663 travelers passing through the Halim Perdanakusuma airport one day after the Eid al-Fitr holiday on April 24. Officials say that this is the moment there were influxes in air travel traffic.  Halim Perdanakusuma spokesperson Col. Insan Nanjaya on Tuesday, April 25, said “Data on passenger increase has started to be logged,” and “We predict the peak mass exodus back will take place today.” As of Tuesday noon (12:00), the airport had

Skift Take Hotel companies want to reduce their dependence on online travel agencies, which charge high commissions. But as hotel rates rise and economies get shakier, consumers may prefer to do more comparison shopping. Sean O'Neill U.S. hotel operators are expected to post a rise in first-quarter profit even as they pour in money to lure travelers to make bookings directly through their websites, instead of turning to travel agencies. While bookings have been getting a boost from increased business and leisure travel, the investments hotels have made to reduce their reliance on online travel agencies (OTAs), which tend to have higher marketing budgets, is eating into the gains. Last year, U.S. hotels received about $49 billion from online direct bookings and $57 billion from OTA bookings, according to travel market research firm Phocuswright. “During uncertain economic times, when travelers are looking to stretch their dollars as far as possible, OTAs can help drive dem

Lots of people seem to be traveling lately . Airports are busy, while flights are mostly or completely full. And sure enough, lots of people are traveling lately. The Transportation Security Administration’s passenger numbers — how many people go through airport security every day — are almost the same now as before the pandemic. There were 2.4 million air travelers Monday, just about the same as April 24, 2019. And some 78 million passengers traveled in January this year, while there were 79.5 million travelers in January 2019. But the mix of travelers and the price of getting on that plane have changed a bunch since then. “Leisure travel has really come roaring back ,” said Lindsey Roeschke at polling firm Morning Consult. A lot of consumers are still flush with savings from the pandemic, she said. “People are excited to travel after a couple of years of really pulling back , because they missed out on travel for so long.” Revenue from business travel though is still down more

Drivers and train passengers have been warned they face congestion and disruption over the bank holiday weekend, with motoring organisations forecasting the biggest early May getaway for seven years and a main rail line partly closed. The RAC said it estimated 17.2m leisure trips would be taken by car in the UK between Friday 28 April and Monday 1 May, the most for the May bank holiday since 2016. Congestion is likely to be worse on the month’s first bank holiday than the subsequent long weekend break for the coronation, when the RAC expects fewer than 15m leisure trips. The RAC spokesperson Rod Dennis said: “While we’d expect more short breaks and day trips to the coast this coming weekend, when it comes to the coronation it’s likely major routes are less likely to be congested. “The big variable, as always, is what happens with the Great British weather. If temperatures finally increase and the sun makes more of an appearance, we could well see many more people jumping in the c

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ISTANBUL Millions of people hit the roads across the country on April 23 to return home from coastal provinces or their hometowns where they spent the three-day-long Eid al-Fitr holiday . Traffic jams occurred from the north to the south as people, either by their own cars or passenger buses, head back home as police authorities said the junctions at the entrances to some provinces witnessed deadlocks. It took hours to pass through the partial traffic jams on the highways between Istanbul and the capital Ankara, as police have taken special precautions for Istanbul, the most crowded city in the country with a population of more than 15 million people. In the megacity, where the traffic has come to a standstill in places, the density was measured as 71 percent, according to the municipality’s data. Istanbul police have warned drivers to be more careful in the traffic during the holiday. Due to the departures, kilometers-long vehicle queues occurred in touristic sites where peop

With the second edition of WiT and Phocuswright’s Global Startup Pitch  still open for entries, Mike Coletta, manager of research and innovation, Phocuswright, analyses the state of travel startups in this report. The deadline to apply is April 30. Travel startups have enjoyed a good run. Phocuswright is tracking 3,306 startups founded since 2013, and these companies raised $76.5 billion* in funding through mid-April 2023. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed likely to devastate travel companies as the industry came to a standstill. However, most not only survived but prospered in the heady fundraising days of 2021 and 2022, which turned out to be some of the largest on record at $23.6 billion and $14 billion, respectively. Both years surpassed the previous record of $12.9 billion in 2018 (see Figure 1). *Notes: Funding data excludes acquisitions, mergers, and IPOs. Data incorporates ~$20 billion for autonomous vehicle companies, including ~$15 billion for GM’s Cruise. That s