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No one likes being told to bugger off. Flyers posted throughout Venice have been telling visitors to “go away”, as the authorities in the Italian city struggle to deal with hordes of holidaymakers. “Tourists go away,” the signs say, “you are destroying this area!” Ciao! Tell us what you like and don’t like in the world of travel. Email travel@nzherald.co.nz Airport meeting Auckland International Airport Limited has released the date for the company’s 2016 annual general meeting. The AGM will be held at 10am on Thursday, October 20, at the Vodafone Events Centre, in Manukau. Normally Travel Wires wouldn’t make a note of such things, but we’re reliably informed that airport management will be quizzed about the lack of a public observation area, a subject of interest for many Travel readers. Burmese boom The number of Kiwi holidaymakers travelling to Burma has swelled more than 700 per cent since 2010, House of Travel marketing director Ken Freer tells Travel Wires. “While the number of Kiwis travelling to Myanmar still sits below 1000, we have seen strong growth in travel to this destination in the past year. We saw a large increase in the number of Kiwis travelling to Burma between June 2015 and June 2016 — more than a 300 per cent increase,” he says. Guatemala going up Also growing steadily from a low base: Guatemala. Less than 150 Kiwis travelled to Guatemala between July 2015 and June 2016. However, House of Travel reports that numbers have steadily increased since 2010, with holidaymakers swelling 380 per cent in that time. If you’d like to be inspired about Guatemala, check out our story on p22-p23. China charging Last week’s announcement that Tianjin Airlines will fly an A330 into Auckland three times a week from December got Travel Wires contemplating the growth in carriers from mainland China to Auckland in recent years — from five flights a week in 2011 to 38 by the end of this year. In 2011, Air NZ was running five services a week to mainland China — they’re now daily. That year, China Southern came in with three services a week and have since gone up to two a day. Earlier this year, Air China began services that will run daily over this summer and China Eastern now also fly daily. Big kahuna Hawaiian tourism boss George Szigeti visited Travel Wires this week and tells us the island hotspot wants to encourage Kiwis to explore beyond the main tourist regions. Szigeti, the Hawaii Tourism Authority's president and CEO and — inevitably — a former pro-surfer, commended the left-hand break at Raglan before commenting that a US Customs Preclearance scheme could greatly ease entry to Hawaii for Kiwi visitors.