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Athens/London. Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the enigmatic founder of the cheap airline easyJet, has once again managed to cause a stir. Following the more or less successful ventures into various fields of business, easy is now preparing for an attack on the last bastion of luxury tourism - the cruise. Since May, budget beds at sea have been on offer from 75 Euros per night. And soon from 27 Euros.

Frankfurt. SriLankan Airlines and the Sri Lankan Tourist Board are together to embark on an international advertisement campaign throughout all important European markets, in the Middle East, the Far East and South Asia at a cost of over three million Euros. The island hopes thereby to massively win back tourists.

Frankfurt/M. "Meeting View Express" is the name of a new portal combining the benefits of a special event company credit card with the analysis by an event software. American Express and RemoteEvent are cooperating.

Bremen/Frankfurt. With the brand "TQ3 Events made by airtours" the travel giant TUI responds to increasing demands in the field of meetings, incentives, congresses and events.

Podgorica. The small country of Montenegro has ambitious plans: a tourism master plan which envisages mega bed numbers has been passed, there are incentives for investors and by the end of this year all hotels in the young south east European state should have been privatised.

Podgorica. To be there right at the beginning of the development immediately appealed to Dieter Heinritz. For the last four years the former German hotelier has been out in Montenegro as a management consultant. He views the development with a more critical eye than the way it is officially presented.

Podgorica. The following report shows the most important facts and figures for Montenegro`s development in tourism and the hotel trade. Information is drawn from the ministry for tourism and the World Travel & Tourism Council:

Augsburg. The budget airline boom continues. Single operators are disappearing from the market very quickly while others are becoming well established. This is also having some effect on the regional hotel industry. In the last issue, hospitalityInside looked at the effects on Carinthia in Austria and on Stockholm, this week we investigate Hannover and Cologne.

San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new US passport requirement jeopardizes 2.6 billion US$ visitor export earnings. 188,000 travel and tourism jobs in the Caribbean could be at risk.

Munich. After the Pope-pretzel, the Pope-beer and the Pope teddy bear, there now comes the Pope package deal for the travelling pilgrim. A four page special-flyer follows "in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI".