Category: Business Tourism

Tourism Ireland conducts informative webinar for the Indian Travel Trade

Tourism Ireland organized an informative webinar for the Indian travel trade on the 19th NOV to share the latest about Ireland’s product offerings, including key attractions, and service providers, screen tourism, and coastal touring routes. Speaking after the event, Ms. Huzan Fraser Motiwala, India Representative, Tourism Island said “With the British Ireland Visa Scheme ( BIVS)  we now have a single Visa between the UK and Ireland. So the Visa comes stamped with the BIVS stamp and you can travel with that one visa to both the UK and Ireland.  You apply for the visa from the country that you ... Read more

Demand for Business Travel remains strong: Travel Leaders Corporate

Travel Leaders Corporate, an award-winning leader in business travel, has released an analysis of its clients’ aggregate business travel bookings from the third quarter of 2018. Data shows that the cost of business trips are continuing to rise, however, Travel Leaders Corporate clients show no slowdown in travel. Domestically, the total cost of a business trip is at a record high of $1,073, a four per cent increase from Q2 and an eight per cent increase from Q3 2017. Looking at trip components, the data shows that rising hotel costs are driving this increase. Quarter over quarter, there is a ... Read more