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    <title>Jordan lifts India tourist visa restrictions</title>
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        Jordan has said that visa restrictions on individual Indian nationals visiting the kingdom as tourists have been lifted. The decision came as move to promote tourism to the country and to support economic growth, the Jordan Tourism Board said. The decision is in line with a series of efforts to stimulate and boost the tourism sector in light of the current global economic crisis. Such efforts include the reduction of the sales tax on hotel rooms and plans to reduce electricity tariffs on hotels.
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    <title>Survey: Long haul leisure travel to increase</title>
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        According to YouGov Siraj's Travel Tracker survey, a research tool which tracks travel trends quarterly, long haul leisure trips are expected to make a comeback, after being drastically affected over the last year. A total of 31% of the respondents who have been holding back are now planning to travel in the future, the survey showed. Forty-six percent of respondents are planning to travel for business in the coming months, and 35% for leisure purposes, compared to only 24% of business and 19% of leisure travellers were planning to travel in January 2009.
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        Arne Sorenson, president of Marriott International has said the company is undertaking a corporate restructure, according to Breaking Travel News website. The restructuring will see the company split into four autonomous divisions whilst bringing the formerly stand-alone Ritz-Carlton brand into its corporate offices. The move aims to decentralize power so that the regional presidents 'have the resources necessary to make decisions and so those decisions can be faster, more efficient, more local,' Sorenson said. Details of the plan still need to be finalized but "the number of jobs lost will not be very large," he noted.
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        The Egyptian ministry of tourism has said that the number of tourists visiting Egypt in the first ten months of 2009 dropped 4.5% compared to the same period last year, Reuters has reported. About 10.9 million tourists visited Egypt in the first ten months of this year, spending nearly 106.3 million room nights, the ministry said. The ministry expects total arrivals for the year to fall between two and three percent versus 2008, less than it had previously feared, a ministry spokeswoman said.
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    <title>Five hotel openings planned by 2011 on Palm Jumeirah</title>
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        Dubai-based developer, Nakheel has said that at least five hotels will open on Palm Jumeirah by 2011. There are plans for 30 hotels to be built on the Palm, although many have been delayed due to the economic crisis. This includes the postponement of the high-profile Trump Towers, which now has no firm date for when work will begin. "A number of hotels on Palm Jumeirah's crescent and trunk are currently under construction, including Fairmont Hotel &amp; Residences, Royal Amwaj and Oceana's Movenpick Hotel. Ottoman Place on the crescent is due to open in the coming months with a number of hotels expected to open throughout the course of 2010," a company spokesperson told Emirates Business 24/7.
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