Popular cruise provider Cruise1st is launching a new television campaign next month in a direct response to audience demand. The company has canvassed its database and discovered that two out of every three of its customers watch travel shows regularly and a surprising 68 per cent view their cruise TV shop as a staple form of entertainment.

Doha, capital of fast emerging tourism hotspot Qatar, has welcomed leading lights from the industry to the Tourism in Tomorrow’s World Conference. The two day event, which will look at the challenges facing the tourism sector in the coming decades, is being held under the patronage of HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani at Renaissance Doha City Centre Hotel.

CitiesBeautiful.org announces a free, online psychometric questionnaire enabling visitors to discover what aspects of urban form are truly beautiful to them. Visitors can then use their test results to explore hundreds of places on a worldwide gallery of interactive city maps.

With new generation of clients arriving and market research showing a dearth of car rental service providers with international standard of service, Al Farrad Car Rental Company was founded in 2003. Now, a decade later, that vision, to fill this void and to provide the best services possible, is still evident.

Operated Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation, Maharajas’ Express is considered the finest in the world of luxury travel. Here Breaking Travel News takes a guided tour of what is on offer.

Festival content solutions provider, The Festival Gadget, has begun compiling a database of worldwide festival content for syndication. Following on from their success with 2camels.com — which has been offering up free festival content for thousands of festivals and events, to millions of visitors since 2001 — the company has decided to create a business to business product to address what they see as a tangible gap in the online travel market.