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| Gathering of Sorts L-R: Sangeeta Mansukhani, sales manager – West India; Finnair, Papori Bharati, marketing representative, India, Visit Finland; Vivek Jain, managing director, Griffon; Mohit Batra, India representative, Visit Manchester and Jain’s daughter at the Visit Finland workshop held at Vivanta By Taj President Mumbai | Vintage Display A vintage car show, organised by Indian Automotive Racing Club (IARC) was held in Lavasa to give car aficionados from Pune and Mumbai a platform to display their collection of vintage cars |
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| Award for Excellence L-R: Abraham George, chairman and managing director, Intersight Group of Companies and Joy Peter, director – operations, Intersight Tours and Travels received the State Tourism Award 2011-12 for Best Inbound Tour Operator from Oommen Chandy, chief minister, Kerala. A P Anil Kumar, minister for tourism and welfare of scheduled castes and backward castes, Government of Kerala; K Muralidharan, MLA and S Harikishore, director, department of tourism, Government of Kerala were also present at the ceremony in Thiruvananthapuram | Sailing Experience Oman Tourism recently conducted a sailing event in Mumbai for the travel trade to give them an opportunity to sail and get a better understanding of Oman |
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| Outstanding Contributions Francois Hollande (left), president of France conferred Tony Fernandes (centre), group CEO of AirAsia with Commander of the Legion d’Honneur order for his outstanding contributions towards the economy of France through the aviation industry in a ceremony held at the Elysée Palace in Paris, France | Wine Delight Sunil Talreja (centre), associate vice president, InterGlobe and Sajid Khan (right), country manager – India, South African Airways at an exclusive wine event hosted by South African Airways in association with famed wine connoisseur, Thami Msimango for its travel partners held at ITC Grand Central in Mumbai |
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| Enhancing Knowledge Nicholas J Manring, consul, American consulate general, Chennai at the launch of ‘Discover America’, the first among a series of travel agency educational programmes launched by Brand USA across major Indian metropolitan and second tier cities, held in Chennai | Expansion Mode L-R: John Leahy, COO, customers, Airbus; Fabrice Bregier, CEO, Airbus; Kiran Rao, EVP sales, strategy and marketing, Airbus; Tony Fernandes, co-founder and director; Jerome Causse, sales manager, Airbus; and Azran Osman Rani, CEO, AirAsia X at the deal signing event wherein AirAsia X placed the largest single order for 25 A330-300s fleet with Airbus |
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| Exhibition on Ice L-R: Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player and Rafael Nadal Parera, Spanish tennis player at the ‘Tennis on the Glacier’ exhibition match organised by Argentine National Institute of Tourism Promotion on behalf of Argentine Ministry of Tourism, to promote one of Argentina’s emblematic tourist attractions, held at Perito Moreno glacier in Argentine Patagonia | Establishing Relations Seychelles Tourism Board organised its first familiarisation trip for Indian tour operators to provide first hand experience of the destination |
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| Memorable Occasion The wax figurines of the four members of The Beatles, the legendary UK band of the 1960s, were strolled from London’s Abbey Road to Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, to celebrate the 50th anniversary release of the band’s first album ‘Please Please Me’ | Reaching Out Visit Flanders organised ‘Fabulous Flanders’ educational seminars for the travel trade in Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru to update them on the latest developments and product offerings in Flanders and Brussels |
