The 87-metre-tall (285 ft) airport traffic control tower (ATCT). Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) is operated by the Dubai Airports Company and is the home base of Dubai’s international airlines, Emirates and flydubai. The Emirates hub is the largest airline hub in the Middle East; Emirates handles 51% of all passenger traffic and accounts for approximately 42% of all aircraft movements at the airport. Dubai Airport is also the base for low-cost carrier flydubai which handles 13% of passenger traffic and 25% of aircraft movements at DXB. The airport has a total capacity of 90 million passengers annually. As of January 2016, there are over 7,700 weekly flights operated by 140 airlines to over 270 destinations.
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US online travel agents Booking.com and Expedia were the biggest revenue producers for Australian hotels in 2017, according to SiteMinder.
Its data also reveals hotel websites were the third most important distribution channel, while large domestic wholesalers such as AOT, the Qantas Group and Lido produced significant revenue for local hoteliers using the SiteMinder channel manager platform.
SiteMinder’s top 15 revenue-generating booking channels for hotels in Australia through 2017 were:
Booking.com
Expedia
Hotel websites (direct bookings)
Agoda
AOT Group
Jetstar/Hooroo/Qantas
Global distribution systems
GTA
Lido
Hostelworld Group
Hotelbeds
HotelsCombined
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Ctrip
Flight Centre Travel Group
“We see that hotels continue to look to the wholesaler sector as an important provider of guests, with a number of the world’s leading bed banks featuring in every list globally,” said SiteMinder MD Mike Ford.
Also of note, 2017 marks the first time Chinese OTA Ctrip has made the list, “proving the growing value of Chinese travellers to the Australian hotel market,” said SiteMinder’s regional manager Brad Haines.
“Indeed, China is now the country’s second-largest source of inbound tourist arrivals and we predict Ctrip will continue climbing.”
HotelsCombined was the only meta-search site to make the Top 15.
Virgin Australia will launch its daily Sydney-Hong Kong nonstop service at the start of July 2018. The airline said it will join Cathay Pacific and Qantas on the busy Sydney-Hong Kong route from July 2 2018. It will operate Sydney-Hong Kong with its fleet of Airbus A330-200s featuring 20 business class seats with direct aisle access for every passenger and 255 seats in economy at eight abreast. Once Virgin Australia commences Sydney-Hong Kong flights, its Melbourne-Hong Kong offering will drop back to five flights a week, from daily service currently.
Macau Tower hosted the seventh annual Crazy Jump Day on 4 December, powered by the world’s best low-cost airline AirAsia and organised by the world’s top adventure tourism company AJ Hackett.
Featuring the theme “AirAsia Destinations”, the costumed bungy jump event saw 23 participants from across Asia Pacific take the plunge from Macau Tower, the world’s highest commercial bungy jump at 233 metres operated by AJ Hackett.
The participants from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia and China (which covers Mainland and Macao) were chosen for their creativity, storytelling skills and the relevance of their costume to the theme, which was inspired by AirAsia’s extensive route network of more than 130 destinations.
The event was kicked off by Alan John Hackett, AJ Hackett CEO, Mdm Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, AirAsia X Malaysia Chairman, Mr Adam Lichtenstein, Regional Manager of AJ Hackett International and General Manager of AJ Hackett Macau Tower, Ms Celia Lao, CEO of AirAsia Hong Kong and Macao, Mr Simon Chan, President of the Civil Aviation Authority, Macao, Ms Cecilia Tse , Deputy Director of Macau Government Tourism Office, Mr Eric Fong, Director of Marketing Department of CAM Macau International Airport Co Ltd, Mr Matthew Mok, AirAsia Group Head of Partnership, Mr Victor Kaw, Chief Commercial Officer of AirAsia BIG Loyalty, Mr Francis Lam, Executive Manager of Macau Tower, Mr Alcuin Li, Director of Commercial Division, TurboJET and Mr Rutger Verschuren, Area Vice President – Macau Operations of Artyzen Hospitality Group Limited and General Manager of Grand Lapa Macau.
After four hours of non-stop bungy action, Ernesto Humberto Trevino Amezcua was named winner of the Best Costume Award for his execution and wow factor. The Mexican national who currently resides in China also won the Best Jump of the Day Award for his style and excellent jump footage.
For having the best costume, Amezcua received a pair of AirAsia return tickets to Auckland, New Zealand, a chance for two people to experience the AJ Hackett bridge bungy and bridge climb there and 50,000 AirAsia BIG Points. He also won one AirAsia return ticket to Singapore, a chance for one person to experience the AJ Hackett Sentosa bungy jump, Giant Swing and Vertical Skywalk and 50,000 AirAsia BIG Points for his winning jump.