tips, grenada, flowers, keukenhof, lufthansa, food, flights, Newsletter June 2009

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JULY/August 2009

Special Destination Feature:
Can we meet in Grenada?
Lyssiemay Annoh explores the Spice Island to evaluate its suitability for the meetings and incentives industry

Can Grenada move ahead from being a holiday destination to include MICE in its activities?
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Summer 2009

Keukenhof

The most beautiful spring garden in the world

Holland’s Keukenhof is open for only eight weeks of the year, but it far outstrips other attractions in the Netherlands in terms of visitors per week. The name Keukenhof which literally means “kitchen garden” offers and exceptional flower garden which bears no resemblance to that of its humble beginnings.

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Airline News

Crisis in the airline industry?

Lufthansa announced that it has posted an operating profit of eight million euros for the first six months of 2009. The Group has therefore not been able to match the good results of the previous years during the current business year. They claim that the causes for the decline in earnings lie in the economy-related weaker demand and the altered travel behaviour of the passengers. Business travellers in particular, have increasingly been buying tickets in the cheaper booking classes, leading to a significant slide in average yields during the first half of the year.

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Travel Pointers

How to avoid queues at UK immigration

Passengers travelling back to the UK via Stansted airport are being urged to use queue busting facial recognition gates recently installed at the airport.

Find out how>>>.

New Hotel Openings

A new Crowne Plaza in Dallas Downtown

The InterContinental hotels Group has announced that the Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown will be opening shortly. The hotel is a conversion property of what used to be the Hampton Inn Dallas-West End-Convention Center.