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Emirates entertainment a proven winner

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DUBAI, UAE, 5 October 2022: Honouring the iconic figures who have shaped both culture and history throughout the 20th century, Emirates passengers can now watch a host of acclaimed documentaries and movies featuring the late Queen Elizabeth II, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles, on the award-winning ice inflight entertainment system this October.

Celebrating its 17th year as the ‘World’s Best Inflight Entertainment at the Skytrax World Airline Awards, the ice line-up includes exclusive brand-new releases such as Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts- a touching tribute that charts the remarkable life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch and longest-serving female head of state in history.

Passengers can also enjoy the critically acclaimed 2022 movie – Elvis, a Baz Luhrmann-directed biographical musical drama, which has already been a huge hit at the box office. True Elvis Presley fans can further immerse themselves in his extraordinary musical career with the Elvis Spotlight Collection featuring six classic movies; Jailhouse Rock (1957), It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963), Viva Las Vegas! (1964), Tickle Me (1965), Speedway (1968) and Live a Little, Love a Little (1968). A further two documentaries on the rock and roll star, including ‘Making the Movies Special – Elvis + Music in Films’ and ‘Classic Albums: Elvis Presley’, are available to watch on ice.

Music fans can engage in an exploration of one of the world’s most influential bands, Brit rock and roll foursome – The Beatles, in a new documentary, The Beatles and India. The film is a unique historical chronicle of the enduring love affair between The Beatles and India, featuring rare archival footage, photographs, eye-witness accounts, and expert comments on the contrast between their fast-paced celebrity lives in the West and their search for spiritual bliss in India, which lead to an inspirational burst of creative song-writing.

Throughout 2022, the most-viewed genres on ice so far are documentaries, action, thrillers, and comedies. This year, the most watched movies on ice include Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die and the Academy Award-winning King Richard starring Will Smith.

Emirates continually updates its inflight content, adding hundreds of movies, TV shows, podcasts, and music channels each month to its extensive entertainment library. More new movies and shows now on ice include Minions: The Rise of Gru, Where the Crawdads Sing, Father of the Bride (2022), The Black Phone, James Webb: The USD10 Billion Space Telescope, and the 2022 Emmy award-winning Hacks: Seasons 1 and 2.

Passengers enjoying an Emirates flight can access a world-class entertainment library with more than 45 Academy Award-winning films, 5,000 channels of on-demand entertainment, over 1,500 movies and 1,500 hours of TV, as well as music, podcasts and audiobooks across 40 languages, five channels of live TV including news from BBC, CNN and Sky News Arabia, and two channels with live sports coverage- Sport 24 and Sport 24 Extra.

For more information, visit www.emirates.com.

(Your Stories: Emirates)

Russia’s outbound airline bookings soar

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SINGAPORE, 5 October 2022: Following Vladimir Putin’s announcement on 21 September activating a partial military mobilisation in Russia, the first since World War 2, bookings on outbound flights from Russia soared.

Tickets issued for Russian outbound travel in the seven days after the announcement (21 to 27 September) were 27% over the level they were in the previous seven days.

The share of one-way tickets jumped from 47% the week before to 73% in the week of the announcement.

The cities that were most booked were: Tbilisi – GE (up 629% week-over-week), Almaty – KZ (up 148%), Baku – AZ (up 144%), Belgrade – RS (up 111%), Tel Aviv Yafo – IL (up 86%), Bishkek – KG (up 84%), Yerevan – AM (up 69%), Astana – KZ (up 65%), Khudzhand – TJ (up 31%) and Istanbul – TR (up 27%).

60% of tickets issued had the travel date within 15 days of purchase, while for tickets purchased in the previous week, that share was 45%. This caused average lead times to shorten from 34 to 22 days.

Focusing only on one-way tickets, destination cities that were grew the most, week-on-week were: Tbilisi – GE (up 654%), Almaty – KZ (up 435%), Belgrade – RS (up 206%), Baku – AZ (up 201%), Astana – KZ (up 187%), Bishkek – KG (up 149%), Istanbul – TR (up 128%), Tel Aviv Yafo – IL (up 127%), Dubai – UAE (up 104%) and Yerevan – AM (up 94%).”

ForwardKeys vice president insights Olivier Ponti said: “These numbers are quite remarkable and correlate with reports at the time of a sudden increase in ticket sales.”

Scoot races to resume routes

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SINGAPORE, 5 October 2022: Scoot, the low-cost subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (SIA), continues to rebuild its routes and add new services to support a surge in travel demand.

From its home base in Singapore, Scoot will launch twice-weekly flights to Lombok on 16 October and to Makassar, Indonesia, on 24 October. Additionally, twice-weekly flights will resume to Yogyakarta on 15 October and to Pekanbaru on 24 October. These destinations will increase Scoot’s existing network in Indonesia to eight cities.

With Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan further easing their border restrictions, Scoot will add more flights to North Asia. Currently, Scoot operates four-times weekly flights to Hong Kong, daily nonstop flights to Tokyo (Narita) and Seoul (Incheon), five-times weekly flights to Osaka and three-times weekly flights to Jeju.

From the end of October 2022, Scoot will increase frequencies to Jeju to five-times weekly, and its Osaka service will increase to daily. Additionally, seasonal nonstop flights between Singapore and Hokkaido (Sapporo) will operate from November 2022 to February 2023.

Scoot also offers flights to Tokyo, Sapporo and Seoul via Taipei. From the end of October 2022, it will serve the Singapore-Taipei-Tokyo route with a daily flight. Singapore-Taipei-Sapporo flights will increase to three weekly and Singapore-Taipei-Seoul five weekly. Consequently, Scoot will operate 18 weekly flights to Taipei.

Since 26 September 2022, Scoot has resumed weekly flights to Fuzhou and increased flights to Nanjing to twice weekly. On 3 October, Scoot resumed flights to Hangzhou. Flights resume to Zhengzhou (12 October 2022), and Wuhan (13 October 2022).

It will increase flights to Tianjin to twice weekly (from 11 October 2022). The Greater China region remains a key part of Scoot’s network with 21 destinations before the pandemic, almost half of which will be reinstated by mid-October.

NEW ROUTE LAUNCH TO LOMBOK AND MAKASSAR**

Lombok (Effective 16 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Lombok

TR258

Wednesday, Sunday

0750

1020 / 1025

A320

Lombok – Singapore

TR259

Wednesday, Sunday

1120

1405

 

Makassar (Effective 24 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Makassar

TR232

Monday, Thursday

0535 / 0745 (31 October onwards)

0835 /

1045 (31 October onwards)

A320

Makassar – Singapore

TR233

Monday, Thursday

1000 / 1130 (31 October onwards)

1240 /

1420 (31 October onwards)

RESUMPTION OF FLIGHTS TO YOGYAKARTA AND PEKANBARU**

Yogyakarta (Effective 15 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Yogyakarta

TR212

Monday, Saturday

0655 / 0820 (31 October onwards)

0825 / 0940 (31 October onwards)

A320

Yogyakarta – Singapore

TR213

Monday, Saturday

0920 / 1025 (31 October onwards)

1245 / 1350 (31 October onwards)

 

Pekanbaru (Effective 24 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Pekanbaru

TR252

Monday, Friday

1115 / 1715 (31 October onwards)

1120 / 1720 (31 October onwards)

A320

Pekanbaru – Singapore

TR253

Monday, Friday

1230/1745

1435/2000

RESUMPTION OF CONNECTING FLIGHTS TO NORTH ASIA VIA TAIPEI

Singapore – Taipei – Seoul (Effective 30 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Taipei

TR896

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday

1220

1710

B787-9

Taipei – Seoul

1810

2135

Seoul – Taipei

TR897

2235

0025 (+1)

Taipei – Singapore

0130

0615

 

Singapore – Taipei – Sapporo (Effective 1 November 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Taipei

TR892

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

0540

1010

B787-8

Taipei – Sapporo

1110

1535

Sapporo – Taipei

TR893

1735

2120

Taipei – Singapore

2220

0305 (+1)

 

Singapore – Taipei – Tokyo

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Taipei

TR898

Daily

0100

0535

B787-9

Taipei – Tokyo

0640

1045

Tokyo – Taipei

TR899

1145

1510

Taipei – Singapore

1610

2055

SEASONAL FLIGHTS TO SAPPORO, HOKKAIDO

Sapporo (Effective 2 November 2022 – 27 February 2023)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Sapporo

TR890

Monday, Wednesday,  Friday, Sunday

0155

1025

B787-8

Sapporo – Singapore

TR891

Monday, Wednesday,  Friday, Sunday

1210

2000

INCREASE IN FLIGHT FREQUENCY TO JEJU

Jeju (Effective 5 November)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Jeju

TR810

Saturday

1115

1835

A321neo

TR812

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday

0510

1225

Jeju – Singapore

TR811

Saturday

1935

0110

TR813

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday

1335

1905 / 1920 (Fridays)

ADDITIONAL FLIGHTS ON OUR PIKACHU JET IN NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2022

Date

Flight Number

Route

10 November

 

TR896

Singapore – Taipei – Seoul

TR897

Seoul – Taipei – Singapore

16 November

 

TR808

Singapore – Tokyo

TR809

Tokyo – Singapore

25 November

 

TR898

Singapore – Taipei – Tokyo

TR899

Tokyo – Taipei – Singapore

1 December

TR808

Singapore – Tokyo

2 December

TR809

Tokyo – Singapore

7 December

 

TR896

Singapore – Taipei – Seoul

TR897

Seoul – Taipei – Singapore

16 December

 

TR898

Singapore – Taipei – Tokyo

TR899

Tokyo – Taipei – Singapore

RESUMPTION OF FLIGHTS TO FUZHOU, HANGZHOU, ZHENGZHOU, AND WUHAN**

Fuzhou (Effective 26 September 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Fuzhou

TR174

Monday

1015

1505

A321neo

Fuzhou – Singapore

TR175

Monday

1735

2255

 

Hangzhou (Effective 3 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Hangzhou

TR188

Monday

1400

1900

B787-9

Hangzhou – Singapore

TR189

Monday

2230

0325 (+1)

 

Zhengzhou (Effective 12 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Zhengzhou

TR116

Wednesday

0400

0930

B787-9

Zhengzhou – Singapore

TR117

Wednesday

1200

1820

 

Wuhan (Effective 13 October 2022)

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Wuhan

TR120

Thursday

0400

0900

B787-9

Wuhan – Singapore

TR121

Thursday

1200

1640

INCREASE IN FLIGHT FREQUENCY TO NANJING AND TIANJIN**

Nanjing

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Nanjing

TR180

 

Thursday, Sunday

1110/1030

1630/1550

B787-9

Nanjing – Singapore

TR181

Thursday, Sunday

1745/1730

2305/2320

 

Tianjin

Route

Flight Number

Frequency

Departure

Arrival

Fleet

Singapore – Tianjin

TR138

 

Tuesday, Wednesday

0130

0730

B787-9

Tianjin – Singapore

TR139

Tuesday, Wednesday

0920

1650

 *All timings listed are in the respective local time zones.

**Subject to regulatory approval.

For the latest flight schedule, you may refer here.

Sneak preview of Centra by Centara

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BANGKOK, 5 October 2022: Centara Hotels & Resorts, Thailand’s leading hotel operator, releases details of its newest Bangkok property – Centra by Centara Bangkok Phra Nakhon.

Opening in late October 2022, the 180-key low-rise hotel is poised to become a sought-after choice for leisure and business travellers seeking a contemporary urban escape steps away from Bangkok’s historic district.

Located near Khaosan Road and the Chaophraya express boat piers, Phra Arthit and Maharaj piers, Centra by Centara Hotel Bangkok Phra Nakhon provides a base for guests to explore some of the old town’s most famous landmarks. They include the Grand Palace, Wat Pho, the National Museum, Pak Khong Talat flower market, as well as experience the tastes and smells of the area’s bustling street food and family-run eateries.

With a selection of stylish rooms built around a peaceful inner courtyard, this new urban escape provides a relaxing sanctuary from the bustling city outside, where guests have a choice of activities at their fingertips, including a swimming pool with a beautiful terrace, a fitness centre, and modern meeting facilities.

To celebrate its opening, Centra by Centara Bangkok Phra Nakhon offers an introductory offer with rates starting at THB 1,999++ net per night, plus THB 599 for F&B credit per room per night.

For more information and reservations, visit https://www.centarahotelsresorts.com/centra/cbp.

(Your Stories: Centara Hotels & Resorts)

Anantara hires a director of people

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DESARU, Malaysia 5 October 2022: Luxury resort Anantara Desaru Coast Resort & Villas has appointed Rolex Phang Chyuan Shei as the property’s new People and Culture Director.

 In his new role, Rolex will be in charge of maintaining employee relations and ensuring the implementation of Anantara’s mission and talent strategy, as well as focusing on employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, and compliance.

Rolex joins Anantara Desaru Coast from Renaissance Johor Bahru Hotel, where he has led performance management and employee relations since 2018.

He also chairs the  Malaysian Association of Hotels – Human Resources Johor Chapter.

Anantara Desaru Coast Resort & Villas is located on a 17-kilometre beachfront facing the South China Sea and is part of high-end resort development.

Desaru Coast is located in Johor Darul Ta’zim near Iskandar, Malaysia and is easily accessible via a 45-minute drive from Malaysia’s Senai International Airport (JHB) and a two-hour drive from Singapore.

ATM2023 makes net zero pledge

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DUBAI, 5 October 2022: Arabian Travel Market has announced the theme ‘Working Towards Net Zero’ for its 2023 edition, which takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 1 to 4 May.

RX (Reed Exhibitions), the organiser of ATM, will celebrate its 30th annual event by unveiling a sustainability pledge to make the ATM 2023 event more sustainable and to announce 30 long-term goals as ATM works towards net zero in line with the RX Global pledge.

Arabian Travel Market exhibition director Danielle Curtis said: “If the UAE and the wider Middle East are to achieve their net zero ambitions, the travel and tourism industry will play a vital role, given its share of regional economic activity and, of course, its growth potential.

“With COP27 being held in Sharm El Sheikh this year and COP28 in Dubai in 2023, it is essential that hotels, airlines, leisure resorts and all associated companies start to put their sustainability strategies in place. While unveiling our strategic path to net zero, ATM 2023 will also provide an ideal platform for industry players to engage with sustainability experts and their peers to address the challenges of achieving net zero.”

According to a World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) report, travel and tourism account for 8 to 11% of the world’s emissions, which is considered high for a service industry. It also revealed that 42% of the travel and tourism businesses currently have publicly announced climate targets. Still, the assurances and pledges are often criticised despite the volume of events focusing on sustainability. There is little to show for all the talking besides posturing and the feel-good factor.

61% of travellers say they want to travel more sustainably in the future and over 80% of travellers plan to prioritise sustainability in their travels in the coming year.

Research by Skift and McKinsey has found that globally, more than 3,500 organisations across all industries have set emission-reduction targets, including airlines, hotels, restaurants, and those providing leisure and tourism services. Air travel alone is predicted to account for 12 to 27% of global emissions by 2050, and 40% of travellers globally say they are willing to pay at least 2% more for carbon-neutral flight tickets.

“Compounding the challenges of reaching net zero, travel activity is expected to soar by 85% from 2016 to 2030,” added Curtis.

ATM 2023 will offer global travel trade professionals a vision of how the travel and tourism industry will look in the coming years by sharing new and insightful commentary from experts from worldwide throughout the four-day event.

ATM 2022 attracted over 24,000 visitors and hosted over 31,000 participants, including 1,600 exhibitors and attendees from 151 countries, across ten halls at Dubai World Trade Centre.

Sarawak reintroduces agency fam trips

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KUCHING, 4 October 2022: Sarawak Tourism Board organised a familiarisation trip for Indonesian, Bruneian and Singaporean travel agents to discover Sarawak’s melting pot of culture, adventure, nature, food and festivals first-hand. 

Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore topped Sarawak’s list for visitor arrivals pre-pandemic in 2019. Brunei was ranked first with 1,296,017 visitor arrivals, followed by Indonesia, second with 418,461 and Singapore fourth with 46,812 arrivals.

With the recovery of the tourism sector now underway, STB deputy chief executive officer for integrated marketing communications, Suriya Charles Buas, told the opening business networking session that the familiarisation trip would introduce new and upgraded Sarawak products for agents to discover.

“We hope that the diverse itinerary planned out for this familiarisation trip will be an eye-opening experience for our partners to explore further business prospects and compelling travel packages that cater to various markets back in Brunei, Indonesia and Singapore.

“Aside from leisure travel, Sarawak is also keen on advancing medical tourism. There are immense opportunities for Sarawak’s healthcare development in the future. A huge portion of our foreign patients seeking health treatment here comes from Indonesia; we see this as a tourism opportunity.

“We want to show our Indonesian friends that Sarawak is one of the best places for respite and relaxation. I look forward to also seeing us coming together to focus on expanding medical tourism to build an even stronger Sarawak presence in Indonesia,” he concluded.

Besides participating travel agents, the familiarisation trip was also joined by representative officers from Tourism Malaysia Jakarta, Tourism Malaysia Brunei, Sarawak Trade and Tourism Office Singapore (STATOS) and Bruneian Social influencer GZul.

Forty Sarawak tourism industry players attended the business networking session to network and promote Sarawak products to the agents.

The familiarisation trip itinerary included visits to MULU, an iconic UNESCO World Heritage, Borneo Cultures Museum and Keringkam Gallery, Kuching Wetland Cruise, Kuching Waterfront tour and morning city cycling around Kuching and extensive Kuching food trails.

For more information, visit www.sarawaktourism.com

(Your Stories: Sarawak Tourism Board)

Amari Watergates relaunches suites

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BANGKOK, 4 October 2022: Amari Watergate Bangkok has completed redesigning its premier rooms and two-bedroom suites as the hotel takes steps to recover its leisure and MICE bookings after all Covid-19 rules in Thailand were abolished 1 October.

The renovation of the premier rooms and two-bedroom suites followed the refurbishment of all guest rooms and meeting rooms on the 5th and 7th floors.

Booking.com describes the hotel’s location as just metres from the popular Pratunam market and the canal ferry terminal. The property features an outdoor pool, spacious rooms, a spa and three restaurants. WiFi is free, and both Chidlom and Ratchathewi BTS stations are within a 15-minute walk.

Rooms come with city, garden or pool views and are equipped with an HD TV, USB charging ports.

Booking.com quotes a premier room rate of THB564, including tax and service charges, down from THB7,592. The two-bedroom suites sell at THB14,221.

Meanwhile, Onyx Hospitality Group appointed Sukamal Mondal as general manager of Amari Watergate Bangkok and area general manager of hotels under the Onyx group, such as Oriental Residence Bangkok, Amari Residence Bangkok, Amari Don Muang, Shama Asoke  Lakeview, Shama Sukhumvit Soi 4, and Shama Sukhumvit Soi 39.

THAI offers special Fukuoka fare

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BANGKOK, 4 October 2022: Thai Airways International sells a promotional airfare to support the resumption of its Bangkok-Fukuoka return flights in the airline’s 2022-23 winter schedule starting 30 October 2022.

Flight details

-TG648 departs from Bangkok at 0100, arriving in Fukuoka at 0810 hours.

-TG649 departs from Fukuoka at 1140, arriving in Bangkok at 1540.

The airline confirmed a Roundtrip economy fare starts at THB15,385 per person and a roundtrip business fare starts at THB59,920.

The fare promotion is available until 7 October 2022 for travel from 30 October to 15 December 2022. Fares include all taxes and surcharges.

For more information, reservation, and ticketing, passengers may visit thaiairways.com, sales offices, or call (+66)23561111 for the THAI Contact Center (24 hours a day).

(Your Stories: THAI)

AirAsia ends face masks onboard

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SEPANG, 4 October 2022: Following the Malaysian government’s removal of Covid-19 restrictions and rules for public transport AirAsia Malaysia (AK) flights, the use of face masks on flights is no longer mandatory, effective 1 October.

The use of face masks on board flights is optional for AirAsia Malaysia (AK) passengers unless they are travelling to or from destinations that require a face mask. If passengers wish to wear a face mask on board may continue to do so.

In Thailand, Covid-19 restrictions and rules were terminated on 1 October after the government downgraded the virus from a dangerous communicable disease to a communicable disease under surveillance.

However, despite relaxing almost all of the measures, wearing face masks remains mandatory on public transport and in cinemas, the Department of Health advised.

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