China The Key Emerging Tourism Market, WTM Vision Conference – Milan Reveals

China is the key emerging market the travel and tourism industry should focus on over the next five years, reveals new research at yesterday’s inaugural WTM Vision Conference -Milan.

Chinais predicted to be the biggest outbound tourism market of the emerging BRIC (Brazil,Russia,IndiaandChina) economies with a total of 20 million trips until 2015, reveals the Euromonitor International report, which was launched at the first session of WTM Vision Conference.

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Fiji kicks off 2011 in record form

Hot on the heels of its record breaking 2010 performance which saw more than 318,000 Australians visit Fiji across the year, the destination has kicked off 2011 in strong form with Australian visitor arrivals for January closing in on the 26,000 mark.

Figures released by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics this week show a total of 25,718 Australians visited in January establishing a new record for January arrivals.

The figure represents an 11.37 per cent increase over the 23,092 recorded for the same period in 2010.

Australia again continued to be the primary source of arrivals to Fiji for the period, the 25,718 figure constituting 53.08 per cent of all international visitors recorded across January.

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Emirates Expands South American Network With Flights to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro **Media release**

Two of South America’s most iconic cities will soon have a faster link to Dubai and over 100 destinations worldwide when Emirates commences its daily non-stop service to Rio de Janeiro and extension to Buenos Aires from 3 January 2012.

“Both Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro are rightly renowned as world-class leisure destinations as well as important business and trading centres.  Our research has shown that there is a high demand for these cities from across our network,” said His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline & Group.

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