Emirates’ inflight comforts were lauded as it clinched awards for Best Wi-Fi and Best Food & Beverage in the Middle East at the APEX 2020 Regional Passenger Choice Awards™ held in Singapore today. The Best Food & Beverage award recognised Emirates’ regionally inspired cuisine and extensive drinks menu. Each year, more than 110 million meals are served on board Emirates' restaurant in the sky with the same attention to detail in First, Business and Economy Class. Emirates runs a round-the-clock kitchen with 1,800 chefs based in Dubai whipping up 12,450 recipes. The airline’s chefs focus on simple, well cooked dishes that emphasise fresh ingredients of the highest quality. Emirates brings the finest products on board through long standing partnerships worldwide, and supporting local suppliers and artisans. To complement the culinary experience onboard, Emirates pays special attention to its drinks menu boasting world class champagne, wines and spirits. The beverages on each route are carefully selected to complement the menu and include exclusives found only on Emirates. A long term buying strategy also means that the airline has 7 million bottles of wines currently stored in its cellar in France to be served by 2035. Emirates was also awarded the airline with the Best Wi-Fi in the Middle East at APEX 2020 Regional Passenger Choice Awards™. Its entire fleet is Wi-Fi enabled and Emirates provides free Wi-Fi across all classes – a choice of 20MB complimentary data to use on any app or 2 hours of unlimited text messaging on popular messaging apps. More than 1 million passengers log on to Wi-Fi each month and 40% of travellers choose the unlimited free text messaging option to keep in touch with family and friends. Emirates Skywards members enjoy special benefits depending on their membership tier and class of travel, including free unlimited Wi-Fi for all members travelling in First Class or Business Class; and for Gold and Platinum members in …
Emirates adds in-app Airport Maps feature to guide passengers through the airport
Emirates has launched a new feature on its app called Airport maps which will allow customers to navigate seamlessly through the airport. The Airport maps can detect the user’s location (via Bluetooth and wifi) and provide point to point navigation through all touchpoints of the airport including check-in desks, Emirates lounges, shops, restaurants or ATMs in the airport. The Emirates app, supported in 19 languages, currently has 1.5 million active users each month and allows customers to search, book and manage their flights as well as their Emirates Skywards accounts. The new feature maps out Emirates’ hub - Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 3 – and also includes major airports in the Emirates network - London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Hong Kong International airport. 90 million passengers transit through Dubai international Airport each year and the wayfinding technology was introduced to provide convenience and a world class customer experience at every touchpoint of the Emirates journey. In the last year, the Emirates app was enhanced with new technology allowing customers to create bespoke playlists of their inflight entertainment ahead of their travels and sync it to their seats once on board, providing a world-class travel experience. Last year, Emirates introduced 3D seat models, becoming the first airline to introduce web virtual reality (VR) technology on its digital platform. The 3D seat model is a visualisation engine that displays an immersive 3D 360 degree view of the interior of the Emirates A380 and all the Emirates B777 aircraft types. The Emirates app is free to download on iOS or Android devices. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za. …
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Emirates to carry over 6,500 passengers to Dubai for Amway’s largest leadership gathering, and offer bespoke travel experiences for participants
Emirates has partnered with Amway on the latter’s APAC Leadership Seminar 2019 Photo: Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, has partnered with Amway, the world’s largest direct selling business, on the latter’s APAC Leadership Seminar 2019 taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) on 13th December 2019. Emirates will play a vital role of bringing people together to attend the first ever Asia Pacific Leadership Seminar - carrying over 6,500 distributors and company representatives to Dubai. The “RISE Dubai 2019” seminar will recognize and award achievements of Amway independent business owners over the past year. The one-day business conference will welcome Amway’s top management, which will be the largest gathering of international Amway leaders in its 60 years of history. To mark the significant milestone and to ensure the group travel in style - Emirates will be implementing various initiatives on ground and in the air. Adnan Kazim, Chief Commercial Officer for Emirates Airline said: “We are very pleased to partner with Amway on its first ever Asia Pacific Leadership Seminar taking place in Dubai next month. More than 6,500 participants from nine countries will be flying better on Emirates to attend RISE Dubai 2019. We look forward to welcoming the group on-board and to showcasing our world-class products and services – offering customers a seamless end to end travel experience. Dubai is an ideal destination for international conferences and together with our partners, we are thrilled to connect people and communities to and through our modern hub.” Gan Chee Eng, Asia Regional President & Chairman of Greater China said: “We are looking forward to the opportunity to connect with so many amazing Amway Business Owners from across Asia Pacific all in one location. Our collaboration with Emirates enables us to offer exclusive experiences for our Business Owners to recognize their amazing achievements this year.” Fly Emirates, Fly …
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Top 5 Reasons Why Industries Should Start Using Sage X3 ERP in Africa!
Africa has been in the hub of growing economies in the world since quite some time now and has emerged as one of the promising economies. Presently 6 of the world’s 10 fastest growing economies are in Africa, and the simplicity of doing business is improving to the extent that a good number of countries like South Africa and Ghana now outperform major giants in economy. Though the numbers and charts are growing but still there are challenges that need to be addressed for doing business in Africa. The success of business opportunities in Africa are dependent on invested capital and the prevailing knowledge with expertise needed to drive an industry. More than 50% of Africa’s population is under 20 years old, making it the world’s youngest continent and hence revealing the huge workforce to deploy the expertise that investors bring. Sage X3 in Africa To achieve and maintain these numbers the African industries should seriously start thinking about Sage X3, a cloud ERP aimed at providing integrated functionality for financial management, sales, customer service, distribution, inventory, manufacturing, and business intelligence. The module includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and many diverse inbuilt operations to simplify operations across the organization. Top 5 reasons why you should use Sage X3 if you own an industry in Africa Simplified Accounting Sage X3 is a robust and reliable financial management tool. It uses dimensional accounting that charts all the financial, personnel, budgeting and accounting commitments effortlessly. It controls your bottom-line operations with accuracy and provides real-time global visibility with key functionalities like GL with multiple charts of accounts, cash flow management, bank management, cost and analytical accounting and expenditures. Vigorous Business Insights You are on the right page if you can extract the maximum information from your ERP. Sage X3 provides real-time dashboards, …
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Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort in Mozambique Unveils a Modern Look and New Beach Pool Villas
Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort has unveiled a chic transformation for its beach villas with the new looks inspired by African culture and Mozambique’s native marine life. All of the beach villas have been fully refurbished offering guests luxury in harmony with lush nature and translucent ocean views. In addition, seven of the beach villas have been transformed into beach pool villas, with a private plunge pool and deck area added, all overlooking the Indian Ocean. The beach villas retain the resort’s natural luxury, nestled amidst indigenous gardens, with warmer tones, accents of red and hints of African patterns characterising the cultural theme of the villas, while shades of blue and references to undersea scenes create a sense of tranquillity in the marine-theme retreats. Key features of the villas include laminate timber flooring, refreshed interior architectural finishes, mood lighting and new contemporary furniture – all of which play a big role in the fresh look of the villas. Local flair was added with the use of traditional Mozambique Capulana fabrics in decorative cushions as well as photo artwork featuring Mozambican marine life. A lounge space offers energy efficient air-conditioned comfort, elegant bathrooms entice soaks in the sunken tub and exotic outdoor showers offer a refreshing cascade. The beach pool villas open onto a shoreline veranda, sun loungers and a spacious outdoor living area, for dining in gourmet comfort. Golfinho, the resort’s main restaurant, has also been refurbished for guests to enjoy breakfast and dinner in even more elegant surroundings. The new concept design is inspired by the natural hues of the Indian Ocean with a peaceful palette of blue, grey and white that reflects the shoreline. The restaurant boasts stylish new finishes including terrazzo floor tiles, polished concrete countertops, antique mirrors and bronze detailing. Nestled within the protective border of the Bazaruto Archipelago, Anantara Bazaruto …
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First African Home Education Indaba Held
‘Home education is a right of parents and children that must be protected by every state. Nations that respect and protect the right of parents and children to home educate demonstrate a commitment to respecting human rights, but governments which restrict home education don’t trust their citizens,’ said Mike Donnelly, SC, Director of Global Outreach at the HSLDA. He was a key speaker at the historic first African Home Education Indaba, held in Pretoria from 17-19 October, 2019. Delegates from a number of nations gathered to confirm their solidarity as a global homeschooling movement. Although the right to home education is protected in many international treaties and documents like the UDHR (1948), parents internationally and in many African countries like Kenya and Uganda are in a continual battle with government infringement on parental and family rights, says Godfrey Kyazze, homeschooling leader from Uganda. Peter Stock, President of the HSLDA in Canada reported that even countries like Canada experience the same threat to home education. In South Africa the freedom of homeschooling parents will be seriously restrictled if the BELA Bill, published for comment in October 2017, is passed as law. ‘Homeschooling is good for children. It’s good for families. It’s good for communities. It’s good for countries. It’s good for the whole world,’ Donnelly said. Speaking on freedom in education, Alexey Komov, Russian homeschooling leader and board member of the GHEX, testified to the freedom homeschoolers presently enjoy in the former Soviet country, where families are actively taking the responsibility for raising their children themselves, instead of abdicating this right to the state. Policy-makers and government officials who attended the Indaba received solid researched information on all aspects of homeschooling. International researchers who attended the Indaba were Dr. Debra Bell, author and researcher from the USA, and Dr. Brian Ray, from the National Home …
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Fab Tanks Contribution to the World’s First Bank for the Business of Water
Water is fast becoming Africa’s most important currency and Fab Tanks has joined the ranks of water storage tanks solutions companies in playing a significant role in contributing to the success in Agriculture, Business, Industry and Mining sectors in African countries as well as to keep communities running. In a world where water will determine who thrives and who doesn’t, who you bank with will make all the difference. Fab Tanks was founded by then founder, now Executive Chairman, Mannie Ramos Senior. During the time when Fab Tanks was established, few people had ever heard of the term ‘climate change’, much less knew what its consequences would mean to the normal running of businesses and communities. But Mannie identified that many communities lacked access to adequate water supplies and that many others faced future water shortages without urgent planning. With uncanny foresight, Mannie Senior anticipated the increased frequency of water scarcity and, more importantly, the need to be able to supply clean water to Africa’s businesses and communities via to enable them to successfully operate even in times of a water shortage. More than 35 years later when drought and changes in rainfall patterns have become more and more commonplace, Fab Tanks has emerged as the definitive leader in the design, manufacture and installation of innovative water storage tanks Their expertise, on-the-ground experience and exceptional service has taken Fab Tanks far beyond Southern Africa to more than 35 countries. The Fab Tanks brand is well-known and trusted throughout Africa and beyond. As the leader in providing innovative water storage tanks solutions in Southern Africa for many years, Fab Tanks has become known as a ‘water bank’, providing an economical, convenient and stable supply of water to protect every community in Africa from the risk. Our ‘water banks’ act like a ‘savings account’ so that businesses and communities have the water they need to keep …
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Luxury rehab: is it worth the money you pay?
Luxury rehab centres started popping up in the 1980s and yes, for a long time they were the domain of the rich and famous. If you were fabulously wealthy or enjoyed celebrity status, you could slip away discretely and spend time recuperating at a high-heel rehab centre. If you weren’t, you more than likely found yourself subjected to a punishing regime at a facility that favoured a bootcamp approach to treating addiction. The no-frills approach where inpatients find themselves making their own beds, peeling potatoes and washing dishes has its roots in the 12-step programme that advocates the need to humble an addict; to cultivate resilience and gratitude in a physically-demanding or uncomfortable environment to get them to acknowledge their addiction and make them take responsibility for it. The hard-core bootcamp approach works for some but certainly not for the majority, if you take a look at the historically low success rates of complete recovery. It perpetuates the notion that addiction is a ‘punishable’ offence and fuels the stigma associated with seeking treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. It certainly does nothing for the men and women who already battle with low self-esteem and chronic self-depreciation. Why luxury rehab is growing in popularity Luxury rehab emerged to meet the demand for more privacy and comfort but today the resort-like addiction treatment centers like White River Manor have a far more serious role to play. This is because there has been a striking shift from ‘punishment’ to compassion when it comes to understanding and treating addiction. And don’t be mislead into thinking compassion is a weaker approach. The true meaning of compassion means “to suffer together”. It’s defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that suffering. It’s not the same as empathy or altruism, though the concepts are related. If you pick out the dominant emotion “feel …
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Measured Ability Group Holdings South Africa (MASA) measuring up to high industry standards
Durban, KwaZulu Natal, 11 October 2019: MASA has fine-tuned its service offering over a period of four decades and established itself as leader in the recruitment and outsourcing industry. Measured Ability Group Holdings South Africa (MASA) Is a decade old this year, still a relatively new brand name in the marketplace, however the directors and their staff were the progenitors of labor outsourcing in South Africa having been in the business of recruitment and outsourcing for close on four decades. To put it in perspective; when the founding company, Greys Personnel, was established in 1982 Michael Jackson had just released his groundbreaking album “Thriller”, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and went to war with the UK, FW de Klerk became the new leader of the National Party and a bomb exploded in the ANC headquarters in London. The company now has a national footprint with a recruitment agency in Durban, recruitment agency in Port Elizabeth as well as recruitment agencies in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg, Bloemfontein, East London and George. When you look at it like that, you realise that MASA stands on foundations that have stood the test of time. It’s a company that has its roots embedded in permanent personnel recruitment and has evolved admirably to encompass contract recruitment, labour outsourcing as well as nursing services. In 2012, the business merged the strength of Greys Personnel that operated in the permanent placement market with the depth of experience of Western Star Outsourcing which operated in the contract and outsourcing market and rebranded as MASA to pull together a company that comprises five distinctive business units. The 5 pillars of business are: Measured Ability SA (MASA) Blue collar labour hire / labour broking / temporary employment / temporary staffing / permanent blue collar recruitment; incorporating payroll services, site management, human resources and industrial relations, …
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View Tanks Contributing to The World’s First Bank For Water
Johannesburg, 11 October 2019: While water is fast becoming Africa’s most important currency, View Tanks is playing a significant role in contributing to the success in agriculture, business, industry and mining of African countries as well as to keep communities running. In a world where water will determine who thrives and who doesn’t, who you bank with will make all the difference. View Tanks was founded in 1983 by then founder, now Executive Chairman, Mannie Ramos Senior. During this time, few people had ever heard of the term ‘climate change’, much less knew what its consequences would mean to the normal running of businesses and communities. But Mannie identified that many communities lacked access to adequate water supplies and that many others faced future water shortages without urgent planning. With uncanny foresight, Mannie Senior anticipated the increased frequency of water scarcity and, more importantly, the need to be able to supply clean water to Africa’s businesses and communities via to enable them to successfully operate even in times of a water shortage. More than 35 years later when drought and changes in rainfall pattern have become more and more commonplace, View Tanks has emerged as the definitive leader in the design, manufacture and installation of innovative water storage tanks Their expertise, on-the-ground experience and exceptional service has taken View Tanks far beyond Southern Africa to more than 35 countries. The View Tanks brand is well-known and trusted throughout Africa and beyond. As the leader in providing innovative water storage solutions in Southern Africa for over 35 years, View Tanks has become known as a ‘water bank’, providing an economical, convenient and stable supply of water to protect every community in Africa from the risk. Our ‘water banks’ act like a ‘savings account’ so that businesses and communities have the water they need to keep running, even in times of water scarcity. That’s why …