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Safest airlines for 2018 The global safety and product rating website, AirlineRatings.com, has announced its top 20 safest airlines for 2018 from the 409 it monitors. The top twenty are the who’s who of airlines and in alphabetical order are: Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Finnair, Hawaiian Airlines, Japan Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Qantas, Royal Jordanian Airlines, SAS, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia. “These airlines are standouts in the industry and are at the forefront of safety and innovation,” said AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas. USA losing visitors Minus 5,9 % comparing 2017 to 2016 in overseas visitors. The Top 15 Overseas Source Markets (UK, Japan, China, Germany, South Korea, Brazil, France, Australia, India, Italy, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, Netherlands and Sweden) produce almost 7 out of every 10 (68.5 percent) of overseas visitors to the United States. The Trump factor. There is no doubt that a year full of Donald Trump as president of the United States has had its impact on travel to the United States from abroad. There have been several actual surveys that have given dimension to the unpopularity—a poll in Mexico which showed that Trump’s approval rating was 5 percent, an all-time low for a U.S. president; a travel agent survey in the UK in which a majority of agents said that they would not visit the U.S. because of trump; and occasional articles in the travel trade press in Europe indicating that sale of USA product were off because of Trump—but travelers in some high performing markets, such as China, South Korea and part of the Eurozone, don’t seem to care. There also is the temptation to look at Mexico’s declining visitation numbers to the USA and its record increase in visitation to Canada this year and make a correlation that many Mexicans are forgoing a trip to the USA in SAS is among the safest airlines. “For instance, Australia’s Qantas has been recognized by the British Advertising Standards Association in a test case in 2008 as the world’s most experienced airline.” “It is extraordinary that Qantas has been the lead airline in virtually every major operational safety advancement over the past 60 years and has not had a fatality in the jet era,” said Mr Thomas. “But Qantas is not alone. Long established airlines such as Hawaiian and Finnair have perfect records in the jet era.” Responding to public interest, the company also identified its top ten safest low-cost airlines. These are in alphabetical order: Aer Lingus, Flybe, Frontier, HK Express, Jetblue, Jetstar Australia, Thomas Cook, Virgin America, Vueling and Westjet. In making its selections. website takes into account numerous critical factors that include; audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations; government audits; airline’s crash and serious incident record and fleet age. AirlineRatings.com also announced its lowest ranked (one star) airlines which are; Air Koryo, Bluewing Airlines, Buddha Air, Nepal Airlines, Tara Air, Trigana Air Service and Yeti Airlines. favor of a trip to Canada because of Trump. Trump is also deemed responsible for the USA’s decline as a brand: the latest Anholt- GfK Nations Brand IndexSM showed that the U.S. had fallen from Number 1 to Number 6, with Trump seen as the main reason. “The USA’s fall in the governance category suggests that we are witnessing a ‘Trump effect’, following President Trump’s focused political message of ‘America First,’” said Professor Simon Anholt, who created the Index in 2005. The Top 15 Overseas Source Markets UK 2017 Arrivals: 1,935,079 Change vs. 2016: Down 6.2 percent INBOUND prediction for 2018: Down 4 percent, plus or minus. Here’s Why: Unlike the relationship of the euro, the British pound has not crept back to a level that makes the purchase of a U.S. holiday less of a strain than it has been for the past year-and-a-half, ever since the June 23, 2016 referendum in which Britons voted to exit (“Brexit”) the European Union. The pound was trading at $1.49 on the day of the vote and dropped as low as $1.20 in mid-January 2017 and clawed its way back to the $1.30 to $1.34 range, which is where it was in mid-December. Ten percent is a lot, especially when it costs that much more to buy a U.S. holiday package for a family of four. The 18 months following the Brexit vote seems to have fatigued the British traveler, as occasional reports has pointed to an increase in the number of Brits taking “staycations,” even if they consider a proper holiday an innate right. And while the Trump factor has had its impact on the holiday plans of some Brits, the uncertainty and concern over Brexit, which is scheduled to go into effect on March 29, 2019, is causing more havoc and stoking the fires of fear in the UK, with suggestions that flights out of the country could be limited and the cost of doing trade with the EU could increase in many areas. All of the above will decrease the number of UK arrivals by 4 percent or so in 2018. SWEDEN 2017 Arrivals: 260,472 Change vs. 2016: Down 5.4 percent INBOUND prediction for 2018: No change from 2017. Here’s why: It is sometimes easy for us to forget about Sweden as—depending on how the outbound tourism market is performing in Switzerland or Venezuela or Ireland—it sometimes does not make Number 15 on the list of Top 15 Overseas Source. It is really impressive, however, that it makes the list at all, as it has the smallest population (9.9 million) of any Top 15 country. Yet, it sent about 5.6 percent of its total population—more than 1 out of every 20 Swedes—to the U.S. in 2016. Sweden will be in a bit of a recovery mode in the coming year. The number of visitors it sent to the U.S. in 2016 (559,000) was a 5 percent decline from 2015—although from 2009 to 2016, its visitor count to the U.S. increased by 72 percent—from 324,000 to 559,000. The cause for the 2016 decline mirrored, in part, by what happened to the countries of the Eurozone with the euro. 14 >> Travel Trade OUTBOUND - Scandinavia
BEAR HUNT IN GREENLAND Being unchanged since 2010, Greenland authorities will in 2018 rise the amount of polar bears to be shop by the local people. 140 ice bears has been shot every year, but now the Greenland government has accepted that 158 polar bears can be shot in 2018. It is in the Baffin Bay most af the hunting will take place. Now it is 80 bears, which is 20 % more than last year. It is only locals, that can hunt polar bears. Foreign hunters can find moscus oxes as the biggest trophy. Cruiseships at risk in polar sea The Norwegian shipyard Vard Søviknes will now build the first real cruise ship in the world tailored to sail to and from the North Pole or around Antartica. It is the French luxury cruise line Ponant who has ordered the ship, called the "Ponant Icebreaker". It is expected to be delivered in spring 2021. Price: EUR 700 million. Sea ice cover in Antarctica dropped to a record low this year, scientists says, as they warned the frozen continent's unpredictable nature poses growing risks to shipping including tourist cruises. Scientists from around the world meeting the Tasmanian capital Hobart to discuss sea ice fluctuations and improved navigation and forecasting, as tourists flock to the ocean in greater numbers. Satellite images confirm the continent's sea ice fell to its lowest maximum and minimum levels this year since satellite observations began in 1979, they said. "It appears that both the summertime minimum and the wintertime maximum sea ice extent around Antarctica have set new record lows," said Jan Lieser from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. While climate change may have played a part, he said it was still too early to draw any clear link, "simply because the variability in the Antarctic sea ice system is so high". "We still have a lot more work to do to understand the fundamental oceanic and atmospheric processes driving sea ice variability in Antarctica," added Lieser. The data showed the lowest recorded minimum sea ice cover on March 1 at 2.075 million square kilometres, with the lowest maximum on September 12 at 18.013 million square kilometres. But only three years ago, ice levels hit a record high of more than 20 million square kilometres, illustrating the huge challenges sea traffic must deal with. Lieser said the extreme swings made it vitally important to better understand ocean conditions to make credible forecasts for polar shipping. As well as resupply ships, some 50 cruise vessels carried almost 35,000 tourists to the Antarctic last year to witness its ice shelves, soaring glaciers and wildlife. "We have seen a number of private and commercial ships becoming stuck in the Antarctic sea ice in recent years, which have led to costly rescue operations that can delay scientific work," said Lieser. In late 2013, a Russian ship carrying 74 scientists, passengers and crew became trapped in Antarctica. It triggered a two-week rescue operation coordinated by Australian authorities which included French, Chinese, American and German agencies, during which a Chinese icebreaker also became stuck. The diversion of several governments' Antarctic programme resources drew criticism, with an Australian resupply ship running two weeks behind schedule and French scientists having to scrap an oceanographic campaign. The International Ice Charting Group, with 60 representatives from 12 countries, wants to ensure such a situation does not happen again. New manager for marketing Ida Vahl has been chosen as new manager of Destination South Greenland. The destination will continue to develop “Farm Holidays” and It will be her job to collect material internal and external about the possibilities of country holiday possibilities. This summer part of South Greenland was declared part of UNESCO World Heritage, which also will be a big information platform. Santa does not come from Greenland - anymore At least not to attract tourists. VisitGreenland drops the official story that Santa, his niches, reindeer and workshop have an address in Greenland. Instead, Finland, who has also told a similar story, can get him. 'Santa Claus is known in Denmark for coming from Greenland. But in many other countries, he connects with Finland. And the circus the Finns run, we can not compete with, "says Lykke Geisler Yakaboylu, Director of Visit Greenland. In Finland, for example, you have a "Santa's Village" where tourists can visit the Santa's workshop. “Earlier there was a Santa House in Nuuk, but it was never any financial success, so it died out. We still say when we are asked that he is from Greenland, we do not just use it actively in our marketing.“ But the story does not completely disappear. "Among ordinary people, there is good support for the story of Greenland as the Santa's home. When staying here, it's blasphemous to say something else, "says Steffen Fog, travel leader in Greenland. Travel Trade OUTBOUND - Scandinavia
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