The FINANCIAL -- Radisson Hotels & Resorts on November 19 announced the appointment of Tom Mason as the new general manager of the Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis at 35 South 7th Street in the heart of the city’s downtown area.

The FINANCIAL -- Air Berlin is the world’s first airline to receive LBA (German Federal Aviation Office) approval for employing GLS (GPS landing system) technology on its flights.

The FINANCIAL -- Thierry Antinori, Member of the Lufthansa German Airlines Board and responsible for  Marketing and Sales was awarded the International marketing prize “CMO of the Year 2009” by Booz & Company international business consultants in Frankfurt/Main yesterday.

The FINANCIAL -- Monocle’s highly anticipated ‘Travel Top Fifty’ survey hits newsstands this Thursday 19th November. 

The FINANCIAL -- Ryanair, the world’s one of the favourite airlines, announced today (19th Nov) that it will invest an additional $210m in UK tourism as it bases new aircraft in Bristol (up one to five) and Liverpool (up two to eight), from 28th March, and opens ten new routes from Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow (Prestwick) and Liverpool Airports, from February next, which will deliver 400,000 additional passengers p.a. and create 400 new jobs at these airports in 2010.