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Alberta tourism seems to get back on track

With travel going back for many in the course of the last two years because of high price increases, and also due to pandemic and rising gas expenses, 2023 considers driving home indigenous experiences.


Canada’s inflation rate in June cooled to 2.8 per cent, which might be a reason why few southern Alberta
establishments are considering more residents come out and delight in the sights.


In effect, Tourism Lethbridge specified that it witnessed an upsurge of 1,000 tourists at Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden for the period of June.


Michelle Day Miles, Tourism Lethbridge President said that as said by Destinations Canada, they are hoping to see, and they are seeing, a speedy coming back to the local market. This is for the reason that price rises are preventing people from traveling remotely. She said that they are sort of at that courtyard, somewhat backing native experiences and merchandises, which is wonderful.

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Tourism needs better planning and funding to thrive in future

The tourism segment requires better planning, more outlay and it needs to be ready for takeovers if it needs to flourish in the upcoming days.


A study by Paul Clark, Westpac industry economist said that flexibility needs to be important for the segment for achieving the best economic revenues with the challenges after the pandemic beginning to increase.


Clark said that tourism trades need to be more logical to determine shifting tendencies in the segment,
formulate plans to gain benefit from the prospects and seize them.


He added that in order to prosper in this situation, tourism companies would require to better get hold of
chances in their functioning environment and organize the assets they require to seize them. They will also be able to change themselves so as to grab hold of the additional worth from these prospects.


Clark said that tourism businesses should be heightening their methodical competences, taking
advantage of prevailing tourism influences, ensuring that they involve with clienteles and step back from
everyday tasks to give thought to alterations.

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Asia TOURISM NEWS

Worker shortage creates tension with foreigners rushing in Japan

To Japan, the return of foreign crowds coupled with a constant shortage of the hotel and transportation personnel are developing different problems for a progressively overwhelmed tourism.


On July 19 th , the Japan National Tourism Organization said that for the first time international tourists in June topped 2 million since January 2020, when pandemic began spreading worldwide.

When demand increases, prices increases as well. International tourists are rushing to hotels designed particularly for them, like in Tokyo’s Asakusa district – Mimaru Suites. In December, this hotel was launched with a design like a traditional Japanese home.


For the Cosmos Hotel Management Co., it’s one of 26 facilities that the hotel handles around Japan. Around 90 percent of the guests of the company were from abroad in April 2023.


During pandemic, only 15 percent of the rooms of the hotel company were occupied, compelling the company to cut room rates to as low as 15,000 yen.


However at present with almost 70 percent of the rooms being occupied, the average rate has increased to almost 32,000 yen.


The official of the company said that as the consumer prices are increasing world over and due to yen’s weak presence, foreigners almost certainly don’t think the prices are too high.

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Tourism boss criticize ticket kiosks for bad welcome

Operators as part of cost saving measures have planned to close almost all booking offices spread all over England, except large stations.


The Rail Delivery Group said that from offices, only 12% of tickets were perchased.


However, Jim Walker, Cumbria Tourism president said that train journeys are required to be enjoyable, not too taxing.


On 5 th July, the proposals were declared with a 21-day public consultation due to end on July 26 th .


In few large stations, some ticket kiosks would remain or else staff would sell tickets on open space.

Mr. Walker informed BBC Radio Cumbria that it was truly a bad news for tourists to Cumbria which he said could leave foreign visitors left struggling.


He said that one should review a destination by the way they warmly welcomed.


On a station, if one is abandoned and haven’t given any sign what they are doing in Windermere on a Sunday, which is the main swapping of people coming up from Manchester Airport is a really an awful welcome to the area whatsoever.


He said that customer queries should have been calculated towards the plans. He also mentioned that many people go to booking offices to question for various things, planning a journey, recommendations,
information on different things and they are not logged anywhere.

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Native footballers star in Tourism Australia campaign

The youngsters are being called rising stars from the Indigenous Football team of young women of Queensland who are playing kickabout on Gold Coast beach under a star-studded night sky.

Damian Munday, chief executive, Queensland Indigenous Football, said that it is extremely thrilling for their foundation and their young female players to be part of the global activity of Tourism Australia around the FIFA World Cup for Women.


Also, this is an exclusive opportunity to increase awareness of their mission to build up more access to the opportunities related to football for young natives of Australia.


The promotional video of Holiday Highlights is part of the continuing campaign named – Come and Say G’Day to encourage tourism in Australia.


It highlights Ruby -Tourism Australia recent ambassador, a souvenir kangaroo in the appearance of a sports commentator.


The voice of the kangaroo has been provided by Rose Byrne, the Australian actress and global ambassador.


Don Farrell, Australian Tourism Minister, said that with the attention of the world turning to Australia all through the Women’s World Cup, FIFA, it is an ideal moment to display Australia and attract foreign tourists to come their amazing country.


The advertisements will be seen in all the key markets.

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To the Northern Ireland economy, music tourists contributed £136m

The music figures of UK imply almost 270,000 music tourists toured within or to Northern Ireland to listen to live music.


In music tourism, people travel to other cities or towns to watch a performance or a festival.


Last year, big names that played in were Ed Sheeran and Billie Eilish. Also, names like Iron Maiden, Biffy Clyro, Westlife, Little Mix and Sister Sledge played in Northern Ireland in 2022 with huge success.


According to the report – Here, There and Everywhere – published by UK Music, last year, more than one million people went to the UK from different foreign countries to take part in concerts.


Within UK, roughly 13m music tourists toured the country to attend different types of gigs.


However the report of the industry body includes a breakdown of music tourism in various countries and provinces. It said that within Northern Ireland, almost 250,000 people travelled to various cities to be present at live concerts or festivals last year as just for music, 20,000 people travelled to the country.


To the Northern Ireland financial system, the report calculated that activity contributed £136m and sustained almost 1,280 jobs.


Also, the UK Music evaluation highlighted other tourism linked to music like the Belfast Music Walking Tour.

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Aldona MLA raises issue of topless tourist in Goa Assembly

Aldona MLA Carlos Ferreira put up a matter in Goa Assembly and said that Goa does not require such ‘riff- raff’ travelers since such awkward acts by these folks will force ‘quality tourists’ to drift.


A supposed viral video displayed a topless woman driving a car on a well-known street of Goa attracting anger from the opposition of the coastal state.


Carlos Ferreira said that he saw a video where a woman is seen driving topless on the celebrated Parra Road, where travelers halt to capture photos. He questioned that whether they want these types of tourists. He stressed the fact that they should not permit such insensible acts by tourists. Ferreira said that they require quality tourism and not rowdy tourists. He said that if they let in tourists like these, quality tourists will be missing.

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New Zealand TOURISM NEWS TRAVEL NEWS

89% of New Zealanders agree that tourism is positive for the country

Around 89 per cent of New Zealanders approve that tourism is positive for the country, increasing 83 per
cent compared to a year before, as per a new study. The research exhibits that there is healthy response among New Zealanders concerning tourism’s productive influence on the economy, which stands at 92 per cent.


Fewer New Zealanders are now seeing the standard of tourism in their community as being substantially high equated to November last year. There are still an astonishing 37 per cent of inhabitants who would desire to see a lot concerning tourism in their communities, said Peeni Henare, the tourism minister of New Zealand.


Henare said that communities know that tourism delivers employment and also that it can clearly
influence social welfare and association with tradition.


Some New Zealanders consider that there are undesirable impacts when it comes to tourism, mostly
concerning precise things that influence them like traffic jamming and influences on the surroundings.


Creativities like ‘Care for New Zealand’ encourage accountable and benign travel conduct and
enthusiastically inspires global and local tourists to get familiar with the country in a way that keeps each
person secured, safeguards the surroundings and compliments the culture, said Henare.

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Asia TOURISM NEWS

The Philippines introduces more than three million global tourists

The Philippines has introduced more than three million global tourists, said the Department of Tourism (DOT).


As per info revealed by DOT, tourist influxes from January 1 to July 19 this year surged to a total of 3,000,079 tourists and approximately P212,467,522,100.14 in tourism income.


This marks a 502.02% surge in profits compared to P35,292,495,457.14 last year.


Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco said that they are happy to say that in approximately seven
months, they have by now attained the mark of 3 million worldwide tourist entrances, exhibiting sustained vigorous retrieval and the improvements of the Marcos administration in the direction of the renaissance of Philippine tourism.


The Philippines has witnessed 2,740,802 overseas tourist admissions and 259,277 overseas Filipino
tourists.


The DOT said that the highest number of overseas travelers came from South Korea with 741,658
tourists, United States with 550,569, Australia with 146,062, Japan with 143,227 and Canada with 132,018
tourists.


Frasco said that tourism delivers work opportunities and means of support to lots of Filipinos. She said that they are appreciative for the reintroduced interest internationally regarding the Philippines, which offers a horde of motives to travel in their islands. Frasco said that they also wish to show gratitude to their fellow Filipinos who keep traveling locally, backing their local communities and families who comprise a part of the tourism value chain.

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GlobalData info shows weakening in M&A in travel and tourism

GlobalData, a primary data and analytics firm, has shown a weakening in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the segment of travel and tourism.


As per its Financial Deals Database, 365 deals were declared in the international travel and tourism
segment for the period of the first half of this year.


This is a drop of 38.8 per cent equated to the 596 deals declared throughout the equivalent time last year and has been credited to increasing interest rates, worldwide slump and geopolitical insecurity.


In line with GlobalData, all deal categories perceived weakening in deal movement. The figures of M&As,
private equity and venture funding agreements deteriorated by 41.6 per cent, 33.3 per cent and 30.4
per cent, correspondingly, year-on-year throughout H1 this year equated to H1 last year.

Aurojyoti Bose, the principal analyst at GlobalData said that a lot of worldwide economies are feeling upset deal action in the travel and tourism segment. There are numerous issues impacting the deal action and prominent among them comprise increasing interest rates, imminent anxiety of downturn and the on-going geopolitical strains.


Europe grabbed the maximum portion of the number of deals declared in the travel and tourism segment
internationally followed by Asia-Pacific, North America, the Middle East and Africa, along with South America and Central America.