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Zeist, Netherlands – Within the travel sector, BCD Holdings has diversified its revenue sources with investments in consumer online travel, airport parking, travel technology and meetings and incentives management, but the core travel management company business through BCD Travel remains the largest portion of the Dutch firm.

It’s also the most global, which means facing the challenge of regular tweaks and updates in the network.

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Etihad Airways has joined rivals Emirates in securing the naming rights for a Premiership football stadium. The City of Manchester Stadium will now be known as the Etihad Stadium.

Arsenal’s home in North London has been known as the Emirates since it opened in 2006, and Etihad has now signed a ten-year deal with Manchester City Football Club, including naming rights for the club’s stadium and surrounding campus, an extended shirt sponsorship agreement, and expanded media, business and community cooperation.

The carrier has also branded one of its A330-200 aircraft in MCFC colours, ahead of Etihad’s doubling of flights between Manchester and Abu Dhabi to twice-daily from August 1 (see online news March 7).

Other Premiership football clubs to have agreed stadium naming rights include Stoke City (the Britannia Stadium), Bolton Wanderers (the Reebok Stadium) and Wigan Athletic (the DW Stadium). Newly

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Going on a European road trip in either your own or hire car allows you to see the continent at its best and will see you take in everything from bustling cities and lush countryside to sparkling lakes and ancient castles.

Alpine Road Germany

One particularly great place for a continental motoring experience is Germany.

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The latest threat to America’s skies — explosive surgical implants that authorities have dubbed “belly bombs” — poses a security challenge so bizarre that air travelers learning of the new danger Wednesday could only scratch their heads and wonder what’s next.

If those fliers had collagen injections or dental implants, what’s next may mean having their heads examined. Literally.

The Transportation Security Administration advised airlines that terror groups are believed to be experimenting with explosives that could be implanted in buttocks and breasts, allowing suicide bombers to pass through airport body scanners undetected.

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Lloret de Mar

Santa Pau

Tamariu

Garrotxa Volcanic Area

Begur

As Sertac Yuksel wanders the streets of Istanbul alone, the city unwraps before him and his Canon camera. Caught between Orient and Occident, the city of Istanbul is a uniquely cosmopolitan place with a culture and character shaped by the influence of three continents. The citys over-abundance of important historic buildings and exciting new art galleries and museums is only matched by the creatively diverse, innovative and energetic underground scene. No wonder Istanbul got to be known as the Hippest City in the world.
Sometimes hidden on backstreets known only to the locals, other times performing in the heart of the tourist centre of the city for the money, the street performers awake a city to life. Read more…

Maldives. Just the name is arguably exotic. Officially called the Republic of Maldives, this island nation in the Indian Ocean is made up of close to 1,200 coral islands grouped into two chains of 26 atolls.

The Maldives attract a variety of people — from the rich and famous to die-hard scuba divers who regard this as one of the best underwater spots anywhere in the world.

Recently, the African nation of the Seychelles popped onto more travelers’ radars thanks to “the” royal honeymoon that took place there. And now, alert the paparazzi to head to the Maldives.

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