So...You're coming to Africa for the FIFA World Cup!

Written by Gregory Hudson


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The Newlands Stadium has been around sincerepparttar mid-1880s and has hostedrepparttar 138831 1995 Rugby World Cup. Its security, parking and administration capabilities have regularly proven worthy of many major sporting events.

The Newlands area is central torepparttar 138832 best pubs, sports bars and restaurants in Cape Town. The stadium is literally just overrepparttar 138833 tracks from a major brewery. Capetonians are known for their festive spirit andrepparttar 138834 atmosphere is expected to be anything but bland.

Finding a place to stay won't pose any problems. Most areas are within 30 minutes of Newlands, includingrepparttar 138835 airport. As mentioned earlier,repparttar 138836 stadium is next torepparttar 138837 train tracks and directly oppositerepparttar 138838 train station, so you can catch a train from Cape Town Station to Newlands, which is only 8km away, in less than 20 minutes. Plus you don't have to dorepparttar 138839 driving afterrepparttar 138840 festivities.

Durban is to host World Cup opening ceremony

Durban will be hostingrepparttar 138841 opening ceremony in 2010 andrepparttar 138842 Kings Park Stadium, which has won critical acclaim from visiting officials andrepparttar 138843 media, has been nominated asrepparttar 138844 location forrepparttar 138845 semi-finals. The stadium stands less than a kilometre fromrepparttar 138846 Indian Ocean allowing matches to be played inrepparttar 138847 luxury of warm Durban evenings.

Kings Park Stadium is roughly ten minutes drive fromrepparttar 138848 main hotels andrepparttar 138849 railway system is linked fromrepparttar 138850 city centre to outlying residential areas.

Although Durban has been mentioned asrepparttar 138851 favoured host forrepparttar 138852 opening ceremony and match, Johannesburg has receivedrepparttar 138853 same kind of attention. At this stage there is stiff competition between host cities, which is a good thing as this will make surerepparttar 138854 best venue get picked.

Get ready for an African World Cup: Sun block, Passion, Vuvuzela...

As kick-off time draws nearer and South Africa gets ready for a global sporting festival of gigantic proportions,repparttar 138855 blast ofrepparttar 138856 Vuvuzelas can almost be heard resounding throughrepparttar 138857 air. 50,000 of them are now being sold every month.

South Africa is a country in transformation and we have come a long way sincerepparttar 138858 changes began. Preparations and renovations are already underway, ensuring everything will be running smoothly and ready come 2010. Nowrepparttar 138859 only big question left to answer is... will you be?

Icon Villas & Vistas provide some of the best self catering and vacation rentals Cape Town has to offer. Locations are a stone's throw away from the city centre. Choose between the skylines of the CBD, the rocky coastlines of Camps Bay, or the quiet, suburban avenues of Fresnaye.


Conference of HEDNA 2005 in Barcelona

Written by Ana Rodriguez


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As actions to resolverepparttar "distortion " that lives betweenrepparttar 138771 offers, Jones proposes "to make availablerepparttar 138772 prices and availability in real time forrepparttar 138773 client ", besides "to contribute customized solutions to coverrepparttar 138774 necessities of each channel".

Personalization

Besides,repparttar 138775 person in charge of Amadeus said thatrepparttar 138776 39% ofrepparttar 138777 business travellers from US “were not recognised as frequent customers by their preferred hotel”. In this way,repparttar 138778 16% of them, who were recognised like frequent customers by their hotel, did not receive special offers (Survey by Accenture). Harteveldt sharedrepparttar 138779 need of initiating some personalized activities depending onrepparttar 138780 tourist features, due to “there are significant differences depending onrepparttar 138781 country, language or age ofrepparttar 138782 customer”.

The technology investment is one ofrepparttar 138783 facts which is recognized like an essential requirement to “assume new trends”, saidrepparttar 138784 Sabre Labs director, Tony Brice. Onrepparttar 138785 other hand, Henry h. Harteveldt emphasizedrepparttar 138786 growing ofrepparttar 138787 metasearch engines, where Google and Yahoo dominate their usage. This situation directsrepparttar 138788 enterprises to get partnership for distributed “vertical search”, Brice declared.

HEDNA, a institution were executives and directors fromrepparttar 138789 200 most influential businesses inrepparttar 138790 sector ofrepparttar 138791 distribution of hotels participate, pursues to increaserepparttar 138792 incomes derived fromrepparttar 138793 electronic hotel distribution which makes it necessary to optimize and get to knowrepparttar 138794 use ofrepparttar 138795 new technologies.

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