Posted on: Saturday, November 1, 2003

BUSINESS BRIEFS
Airlines to share e-tickets

Advertiser Staff

E-ticketed passengers on Hawaiian and Alaska Airlines will no longer have to convert to paper tickets when transferring between the two airlines, Hawaiian announced.

The change means customers can now purchase single e-tickets for travel that includes both Hawaiian and Alaska Airlines.

Tourism groups target planners

Hawai'i travel companies led by the Hawai'i Visitors and Convention Bureau and the Maui Visitors Bureau plan to promote the benefits of business meetings in the Islands at the Insurance Conference Planners Association's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., tomorrow through Thursday.

The association will hold its annual meeting at Maui's Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa in November 2004.

Group 70 lands Tahiti project

Honolulu-based architectural firm Group 70 International has won a government-awarded contract to master-plan a commercial waterfront redevelopment in Tahiti's capital, Papeete.

The government of French Polynesia selected the firm over three Tahitian companies to design the estimated $11 million, 15-acre project featuring a central beach park with outrigger canoe halau, parks, restaurants, entertainment venues and yacht facilities.

Group 70 is working with Tahitian firm Architecture Raffin Teiva to complete design drawings in three to four months. Construction is expected to begin in early 2004.

Turtle Bay work to wrap soon

A three-year, $60 million renovation of Turtle Bay Resort will wrap up in December with the completion of meeting rooms and a conference center. A new oceanfront ballroom will add 9,340 square feet of meeting space.