Travelwise - the ITAA Blog

Direct flights between Dublin and Moscow are proving very popular.  Formerly known as Siberian Airlines -   S7 held a well attended reception last night in Brook’s Hotel, Dublin to celebrate the early success of its  programme between Dublin and  Moscow which began in May of this year.

Paruyr Vardanyan, Representative in Ireland & Elena Muzykantova, Sales Manager Europe were there to represent S7 and gave an interesting briefing on the airlines activities and highlighted the excellent connections S7 can offer to other destinations in Russia and the wider region.  (S7 is the largest internal carrier in Russia).

ITAA President Jim Vaughan and many members of the trade attended the event.

This week over 25 ITAA travel professionals had a ship visit of Silversea’s ‘Silver Wind’ when it docked in Cobh, Cork on Monday and Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin on Tuesday.  This six star cruise vessel has capacity for just 296 guests. During the visit, staff of member companies got a great sense of how clientele would be treated on the liner.  They also met the new regional sales manager of Silversea, Jon Schofield.

Siobhan McDonald, who delivers cruise training as part of the ITAA’s Travel Professionals Skillnet was also on board  for the visit.  Siobhan has recently also participated in ship visits of RCI ‘Independent of the Sea’, Fred Olsen’s ‘Balmoral’ and will be visiting MSC shortly.    For more information about the Cruise training we offer visit our website.

Political developments in Thailand are being widely reported in the media currently.  There are very few reports of problems for visitors.  For region by region information about the situation you could keep an eye on this UK site and if you have any concerns, do talk to your travel agent.  The Department of Foreign Affairs also have useful up to date information, and useful phone numbers for some of the airports.