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CHINESE TOURISTS SENSE OF ROMANCE, PRESTIGE AND ADVENTURE ATTRACT THEM TO GREECE
Chinese travellers are increasingly venturing to Greece, offering great potential for its tourism industry. And while Greece’s exotic landscapes and architecture attract visitors from China, the tourism industry could prosper still further from developing services and infrastructure designed to cater to this growing market.…
BRITISH SPORTS EXECUTIVE JAILED OVER MAJOR FRAUD
Southwark Crown Court, in London, has sentenced a former CEO of a major British sports good retailer JJB Sports to five years in prison for three fraud offences, totalling around GBP1 million, and for two offences of ‘furnishing false information’. Christopher Ronnie’s co-defendants, David Ball and David Barrington, owners of Fashion and Sport Ltd, a company that sold clothing brands and supplied stock to now dissolved JJB, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.…
BRITISH SPORTS EXECUTIVE JAILED OVER MAJOR FRAUD
Southwark Crown Court, in London, has sentenced a former CEO of a major British sports good retailer JJB Sports to five years in prison for three fraud offences, totalling around GBP1 million, and for two offences of ‘furnishing false information’. Christopher Ronnie’s co-defendants, David Ball and David Barrington, owners of Fashion and Sport Ltd, a company that sold clothing brands and supplied stock to now dissolved JJB, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.…
ECC-NET’S 2013 ANNUAL REPORT - NATIONAL UNIT ROUND UP
AUSTRIA
The location of ECC Austria in central Vienna means many consumers drop by to receive advice or lodge complaints in person with the ECC’s five staff members. A top priority in 2013 was increasing public awareness about e-commerce fraud; a brochure aimed at combatting the problem was published and more than 600,000 were distributed throughout Austria.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BOOSTS AIR PASSENGER RIGHTS IN KEY VOTE
THE EUROPEAN Parliament voted yesterday in a plenary meeting that air passengers facing a flight delay should be compensated if forced to wait for more than three hours, instead of five hours proposed by the European Commission. MEPs voted an exhaustive list of exceptional circumstances in which the airline is not required to pay compensation, such as “bird strikes, political unrest and unforeseen labour disputes”.…
VOLCANO-PRONE SEISMIC REGIONS DEVELOP SOPHISTICATED ASH WARNING SYSTEMS
THE WIDESPREAD disruption to European air-travel caused by the dramatic large-scale volcanic eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in March 2010 has prompted close assessments of air traffic control procudures in countries with significant seismic activity.
The 2010 disruption was a costly experience for airlines and air-passenger traffic.…
BRUSSELS PROPOSES LAW FORCING MAJOR EU COMPANIES TO DISCLOSE CYBER ATTACKS
MAJOR companies within the European Union (EU) suffering from major cybercrime attacks will have to inform regulators under a proposed EU directive on network and information security. If the legislation is approved by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, it would assign that duty to operators of critical infrastructure in the financial, transport, energy and health sectors; IT services, such as app stores, e-commerce platforms, internet payment systems, cloud computing companies, search engines and social network; plus public administrations.…
EUROPEAN AVIATION CRISIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM STILL WORK IN PROGRESS
ALMOST three years after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull which closed the European air space and left millions of passengers stranded in airports across the continent, a network of European institutions charged with handling such and other similar crises is still finding its feet.…
EUROPE'S HARSH WINTER PROMPTS RETHINK ON BAD WEATHER PREPARATIONS
BY MARK ROWE
THE DISRUPTION to the European airport sector caused by the continent’s heavy snowfall this winter – the heaviest in 20 years – looks set to prompt a radical shake-up of contingency plans to deal with bad weather.
Many European airports are now conducting reviews of how they source, commission and stockpile equipment for such eventualities.…
NORDIC COUNTRIES NOT RESTING ON THEIR LAURELS OVER MONEY LAUNDERING
BY GERARD O’DWYER
IF there is one region where high standards in fighting money laundering and terrorist finance are expected, it is surely the five Nordic states: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Notwithstanding the criticism leveled at Iceland’s financial regulators during the credit crunch, all five countries have admirable traditions of public openness, government efficiency and international cooperation, especially amongst themselves.…