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The Seychelles Minister for Home Affairs, Environment, Transport & Energy, Mr Joel Morgan chaired an emergency meeting last night in his office to consider the freak shark accidents of the island of Praslin which has resulted in the following Maritime Safety Advisory to be issued.

Dertour has launched its ?Winter In the City - Christmas Markets & Festive Breaks 2011? brochure to 13 countries including Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, France and Switzerland, as well as, for the first time Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Poland and Sweden.

Wings Abroad has added capacity to the following weekly Turkey routes through to the end of September with Onur Air:

Caesars Entertainment Corporation has announced the launch of a new Website created specifically for travel agents, providing direct access to customised offers and promotions from their origin destination and up-to-date news and access to sales resources.

ABTA is urging any members who have not completed the ABTA questionnaire on the Department for Transports proposals on ATOL reform to return a hard copy or go online by the deadline of Thursday 18 August.

Travel Technology Initiative (TTI) together with the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA) are set to launch a new hotel identification service.

Called TTIcodes, the service will offer unique hotel identifiers for every hotel used by tour operators, bedbanks and other subscribers.The TTIcodes will also be in the public domain to allow hotels to publicise their own unique codes to help avoid the confusion that is rife in the industry as it struggles with hotel names that are misspelt, wrongly translated or simply incorrect. With dynamic packaging being common-place, tour operators and others struggle with the de-duplication of multiple electronic bed-bank feeds, not knowing, for example, whether the Grand Hotel or Hotel Grande are one of the same property. TTIcodes will address this. Initially 200,000 hotels have been assigned a unique eight digit TTIcode. The service is being run by German company, GIATA and the basic offering will provide subscribers with hotels_ TTIcodes and basic address information. TTI and ETOA members will benefit from discounted pricing with the basic service starting at ?202 per month.

A full launch of the service is set for October 4.

Called TTIcodes, the service will offer unique hotel identifiers for every hotel used by tour operators, bedbanks and other subscribers.The TTIcodes will also be in the public domain to allow hotels to publicise their own unique codes to help avoid the confusion that is rife in the industry as it struggles with hotel names that are misspelt, wrongly translated or simply incorrect. With dynamic packaging being common-place, tour operators and others struggle with the de-duplication of multiple electronic bed-bank feeds, not knowing, for example, whether the Grand Hotel or Hotel Grande are one of the same property. TTIcodes will address this. Initially 200,000 hotels have been assigned a unique eight digit TTIcode. The service is being run by German company, GIATA and the basic offering will provide subscribers with hotels_ TTIcodes and basic address information. TTI and ETOA members will benefit from discounted pricing with the basic service starting at ?202 per month.

A full launch of the service is set for October 4.

Agent owners, directors and experienced travel professionals keen to move into the ultra-luxury cruise sector but are unsure as to how, are invited to attend one of Regent Seven Seas Cruises? exclusive open days.

Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site has launched a new Travel Trade Pass, making it easier for the trade to access its range of attractions when conducting recce visits to the area.