Wednesday 20 January 2010

Reval Hotels and airBaltic Join Forces in Co-branding


Riga – The leading Baltic carrier airBaltic and the largest hotel chain in the region, Reval Hotels, today announce extended co-operation. Companies will join their forces under “Reval Hotels, Member of airBaltic Hotels” brand, in order to differentiate and better promote their services and high standards. This kind of co-branding exercise is the first of its scale in the region, and leverages business for both companies in the Baltics region, Russia, Scandinavia and Western European markets.

Bertolt Flick, President and CEO of airBaltic: “We are delighted to team up with Reval Hotels and offer high standard services to airBaltic customers. airBaltic and Reval Hotels are important players in the Baltic region, and customers need reliable and quality services we can jointly offer under airBaltic and airBaltic Hotels brand. We are confident that our online travel agency airBaltic Travel will increase sales of Reval Hotels by 20%.”

Heikki Vanhanen CEO of Reval Hotels: “We are pleased to announce partnership with airBaltic. We will promote airBaltic Hotels as provided by Reval Hotels. Together our ambition is to support each others efforts as well as jointly attract travellers to the markets where we operate.”

Customers of both companies will have an opportunity to experience seamless and high quality travel service. Both companies will reciprocally market each others services. Customers will enjoy the lowest price guarantee.

The move benefits both parties. Reval Hotels will be marketed to almost 3 million airBaltic passengers annually and therefore have a better reach to outside markets. Brand endorsement and new sales channels will strengthen revenues. For airBaltic, this will allow perfect brand alignment and positioning in the travel industry together with Reval Hotels providing 600 000 guest nights annually.

Reval Hotels photos: http://cvi.revalhotels.com/
airBaltic photos: http://www.airbaltic.com/public/downloads.html

Reval Hotels in brief:

Reval Hotels is the leading hotel chain in the Baltic countries, operating nine full-service, first-class hotels located in the major Baltic cities: three in Tallinn, Estonia, three in Riga, Latvia, one in Vilnius, one in Kaunas, Lithuania. Reval Hotel Sonya is the groups’ first hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Reval Hotels is owned by the Norwegian real estate investment company Linstow AS, owned by AWILHELMSEN AS, major shareholder of the world’s second largest cruise shipping company Royal Caribbean Cruise.

Monday 18 January 2010

European Figure Skating Championships 2010 Starts Tomorrow in Tallinn

19-24 January 2010: The European Figure Skating Championships come to Tallinn. For the first time, Tallinn has the honour of organizing and hosting one of the most popular competitions in the world.



The 2010 competition is going to be especially interesting as it takes place just a few weeks before the Olympics and so is the last opportunity for skaters to secure qualification. 160 of Europe's best skaters will be in Tallinn and over the five days of the competition, millions of TV viewers can be part of this magnificent spectacle.

The Programme:

Tuesday, January 19
13:30 Ice Dance – Compulsory Dance
18:30 OPENING ON ICE
19:20 Pairs - Short program

Wednesday, January 20
11:00 Men – First Part Short Program
14:30 Men - Second Part Short Program
19:00 Pairs – Free Skating 1-4
20:30 Pairs - Free Skating 5-16

Thursday, January 21
13:00 Ice Dance – Original Dance
18:45 Men – Free Skating 1-5
20:15 Men – Free Skating 6-20

Friday, January 22
10:00 Ladies – 1st Part Short Program
13:45 Ladies – 2nd Part Short Program
18:40 Ice Dance – Free Dance 1-4
20:00 Ice Dance – Free Dance 5-16

Saturday, January 23
13:30 Ladies – Free Skating 1-5
15:00 Ladies – Free Skating 6-20

Sunday, January 24
15:30 Exhibition

For more information please visit : http://www.euroskate2010.eu/

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