Rosewood Baha Mar in the Bahamas will reopen on March 4, 2021 with a new restaurant led by chef Daniel Boulud. Café Boulud The Bahamas will offer traditional French cuisine and joins Rosewood Baha Mar’s other popular offerings, including Mexican-influenced Costa, relaxed beachside restaurant Tingum, and the Manor Bar.  Café Boulud—with sister restaurants in New York, Palm Beach, Toronto …

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Southeast Asia’s luxury boutique cruise operator Heritage Line announced that it is halting its cruise operations in Myanmar due to the global coronavirus pandemic. After monitoring and assessing developments and the effects of COVID-19 on worldwide tourism, the privately owned company has decided to suspend operations of its vessel Anawrahta. “Looking at the impacts this …

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(20 Jan 2021)Despite the cancellation of the Vibram Hong Kong 100last October, the Ultra-Trail World Tour is launching its 2021 seasonwith a new race format: the HK100 Flex. Runners can takethe actual course of the Vibram Hong Kong 100 or they canparticipate from wherever they are in world with the UTWT VirtualClub. The HK100 Flex …

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(20 Jan 2021)SALA Hospitality has appointed Volkert Geertsen asCluster General Manager of the sala Bang Pa-in, the latestaddition to the group’s sala boutique portfolio in Thailand. Joining Volkert at the 24-key resort is JittiSukee as Cluster Hotel Manager and Fernando Roman as ClusterExecutive Chef. The sala Bang Pa-in is scheduled to startwelcoming guests in March …

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(20 Jan 2021)United Airlines has appointed Doreen Burse as SeniorVice President of Worldwide Sales, effective 1 March 2021. Doreen worked most recently as Vice President of Marriott’s Global Sales for theU.S. and Canada. She led a cross-functional global account teamserving hundreds of accounts, representing about 1,000associations, 250 corporations, and hundreds of group intermediarypartners, TMCs, retail …

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Global tourism suffered its worst year on record in 2020, with international arrivals dropping by 74 per cent when compared to 2019 according to the latest data from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). Destinations worldwide welcomed one billion fewer international arrivals in 2020 than in the previous year, due to an unprecedented fall …

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After a particularly challenging year for the travel industry, the Hoxton is hoping to start the recovery with the opening of its doors in Rome in the spring. The property was initially scheduled to open in late 2020, but was delayed by Covid-19. Coming as the tenth hotel for the brand, the Hoxton, Rome will …

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Boeing has reported a net loss of US$11.9 billion for financial 2020, or a GAAP loss per share of $20.88, as the full toll of the Covid-19 becomes clear. The figure is down from a profit of US$636 million last year, which was itself impacted by the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max following two …

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More than half of the airline pilots in the world are currently not flying for a living, according to the first worldwide survey of the profession since the Covid-19 crisis. The Pilot Survey – carried out by specialist aviation and pilot recruitment agency Goose with aviation publisher FlightGlobal – seeks to capture the devastating effect …

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Leger Holidays has announced that Liam Race has been appointed chief executive of the newly formed Leger Shearings Group of escorted coach tour companies. He takes over from Ian Henry, who moves to an executive chairman position. Race joined Leger Holidays in 2017 as commercial manager, becoming commercial director two years later. Earlier in his …

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