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ISTANBUL — World leaders and international organizations’ representatives have started to arrive in Turkey to attend President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s inauguration ceremony, which will be held at Turkish Parliament in Ankara on Thursday. More than 40 foreign invitees, including Bosnian chairman Bakir İzetbegovic, General Secretary of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Dmitry Mezentsev, Deputy PM of Swaziland have been greeted by officials …

SIEM REAP Domestic and regional airlines are scrambling to deliver more Siem Reap flights to tap the destination’s popularity with tourists. Siem Reap is the base for visitors who want to explore the Angkor Historical Park. According to Cambodia’s Air Transport Department director, Vann Chanty, said Korea’s Air Busan, a subsidiary of Asiana Airlines, plans daily flights between Busan, South …

YANGON, 27 August 2014: Airbus Helicopters Southeast Asia says Airbus hopes to sell or lease helicopters to tourism service operators in Myanmar. Airbus Helicopters Southeast Asia vice president, Lionel Sinai-Sinelnikoff, told local media that Airbus hopes to supply helicopters for sightseeing trips similar to what is offered by hot air balloons at Bagan. “Helicopter rides for tourists can succeed just …

HANOI, 27 August 2014: Vietnamese Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang held talks with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, last week, that focused on creating favourable conditions to add more airline services from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to points in Cambodia. Local TV channels confirmed that the two sides agreed to create favourable conditions for Vietnamese and …

BANGKOK, 26 August 2014: Department of Tourism, under the supervision of Ministry of Tourism and Sports, held a seminar to hear opinions on the draft of the Act of Tourism Standard last Friday. Presiding at the “Study and Development of Tourism Standard Act” seminar, deputy permanent secretary, Kajorn Weerajai, said Thailand needed a tourism standard, or benchmark, to create a …

AUG 26, 2014 Confirmation has been received from Nairobi that the Kenyan government has, for the time being, suspended the introduction of what has been described retaliatory Visa requirements for South African citizens. Forward bookings by South African tourists visiting the Kenya coast had in recent weeks taken a drastic downturn when it became known that wannabe visitors were to …

Regional humanitarian hub Senegal said on Friday it had blocked a regional U.N. aid plane from landing and was banning all further flights to and from countries affected by Ebola, potentially hampering the emergency response to the epidemic. A number of aid agencies have their regional headquarters in politically stable Senegal. Both medical charity MSF and the United Nations, which …