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Outbound tourist departures from mainland China exceeded 100 million in 2014
Outbound tourist departures from mainland China exceeded 100 million in 2014, the China National Tourism Administration announced, earlier in January wrote COTTM Fair Communication Department. “It is a landmark for the development of China’s tourism industry,” said administration official Zhang Jilin.“In 1998, we generated only 8,430,000 outbound tourists, and now we have surpassed 100 million.” President…
Invitation: COTTM 2015 in Beijing
China’s leading outbound travel exhibitions for the Chinese travel trade only is taking 3 days in Beijing. It has been proved that COTTM is a professional platform for international travel and tourism suppliers to showcase their products and services to the leading Chinese outbound professionals. This well-established exhibition has now become the leading brand in the…
Invitation: Chinese Tourist Welcome Award 2015
China is the biggest international tourism source market and best practice solutions on how to attract Chinese visitors are sought after around the world. The ‘‘CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Award’’, organised already for the twelfth time by COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute, celebrates such model examples.COTRI invites all tourism organisations, destination marketing companies, tourism…
Kuoni to exit the tour operating business
This following article was published on14th of January, 2015 in TravelWeekly magazine. Very interesting situation because KUONI has been important player in tour operator business. I just wrote yesterday about Japanese market and KUONI has had so far one of the key role in Japanese outbound tourism. ” Kuoni to exit the tour operating businessBy Phil Davies |14…
Marketing actions for 2015 ready
Our marketing activities have been renewed for 2015 and we are having some interesting sales promotions in countries as follows:Global: MeetFinland pre and posttours in January, joined event with Matka 2015 Travel Fair in HelsinkiGlobal: TripAdvisor campaignsBenelux-countries: Sales visits in Belgium and in the NetherlandsChina: COTTM Fair in AprilEstonia: TourEst in FebruaryItaly: Workshop in Rome,…
Christmas Story 2014
We take this opportunity to thank you for cooperation and interest over our company!This year we will donate our Christmas gift money to cancer studies in Finland. Instead giving material gifts we share here a Chiristmas story with you. The author is this year the one and only Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941). The story…
Invitation for Mid-Atlantic Workshop 2015 in Reykjavik
Icelandair is investing significantly in its traffic from the USA and Iceland to Finland from where the connections to the Baltic states and St. Petersburg are excellent. The routes to Northern Europe are short and the connections smooth.This is an invitation to exhibit at the Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Tradeshow in Reykjavik – one of the most…
ToolBox office in new address
ToolBox-travel marketing & consulting is gointo to new premisesWe will move to new address in Helsinki beginning of 15th of October, 2014. We will improve our cooperation with the companies Brand Balance and Earth Aid Finland with this change. We will continue our core actions in tourism marketing, development and education. Our office will be: Halsuantie…
Invitation: Chinese Outbound Tourism Webinar 24.9.2014
The Welcome China Global Webinar, which will offer on Sept. 24th twelve hours of information about China’s outbound tourism around the world, will be made freely accessible on www.gbtimes.com/webinar. “The demand for the webinar has been overwhelming, so we agreed with our co-organisers Dragon Trail Interactive and GBTIMES to offer the opportunity to attend even…
MeetFinland 2015 pre- and post tours
ToolBox-travel marketing & consulting is again doing for Messukeskus Ltd the biggest FAM programme in Finland during Matka2015 travel fair and MeetFinland 2015. MeetFinland is joined event, pre-Matka, on Wednesday. Around this event we are organizing approximately 10 different pre- or post tours for foreign Buyers who are attending at MeetFinland 2015.Please keep posted if…