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This is a place for sharing and discussing travel and tourism related news stories from around the world. The RSS feed is from my Delicious site where I tag stories for use on my Travelography World Ttravel News Podcast (found at http://TravelGeography.info).
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Nice to be here. I enjoy travellng and would like to share my pictures and experiance with my new friends and show the guys and girls life in greece. I like to say "came for vacation and stayed to live "
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Travel Luggage
My wife, Lizzie and I do quite a bit of traveling, both business and recreational. The problem for Lizzie is when we go to business events and she must show up at these with a laptop bag that is less than stylish. For Christmas this year, Lizzie requested that I get her a new laptop briefcase for Christmas.
So I went online and did a bit off surfing on various luggage stores and ended up on Luggageonline.com. However, there must have been a bit of…
Posted by Adam Donkus on December 17th, 2007 at 1:28pm — No Comments
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Tourism news, rest on holidays, articles and adventures round world. Detailed information about countries, resorts and peace hotels…
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Profit when you travel!!!!!
have been a television meteorologist for over a decade and loved every minute of it. Travel!!! As a hobby, leisure activity, I love it as well. Now, this opportunity to associate with leisure has become a great source of income for my family. This is an AMAZING opportunity for anyone that likes to travel or knows other people that travel. By getting involved with the travel business, a 7 trillion dollar a year industry worldwide, you can incorporate you enjoyment of leisure or necessity of corpo…
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Travelography Podcast: Travel Woes and the Jamaican Bobsled Returns
Stories discussed in this podcast are from the Travelography Twitter Blog for the week of 1 July 2008. This podcast is also available at Blubrry.com and Travelgeography.info.New website facilitates rapidly expanding interest in Travel and Tourism development and investment globally
The site www.TourismROI.com is the first centralized source of information for tourism operations, development and investment opportunities worldwide.What global tourists want [from Canada]
Lineups indicate what global tourists want to see and do – and they will pay big bucks to do it. Culture, shopping, entertainment, experiences: There is a huge global demand for these things. Haven't the crazed mobs at the Louis Vuitton flagship store..World's Largest Guide to Public Toilets, Restrooms, Bathrooms, and Loos.
China: With squat toilets ... Most other westerners, with muscles atrophied from too time much time on the couch, may find the process grueling. But with a bit of practice, anyone can do it. The bigger outrage, by far, is the communal trough.Car rental companies issue profit warning
"...As with the entire industry, we are confronting rising fuel costs, weaker-than-expected enplanements, lower commercial travel volumes and lower time and mileage rates per day," said [the Avis Budget Group Inc] ChairmanKerala Tourism wins the best tourism website [in India] award
Kerala Tourism’s official website, www.keralatourism.org, has won the Net4 PC World Web Award 2008 instituted by the technology magazine PC World, for the best tourism website in India.Yellowstone reports record June visitation
Visitation to Yellowstone National Park hit a new record in June, and is on a near-record pace for the first six months of the year. Park officials say Yellowstone recorded more than 612,000 recreational visits last month.Rental Upgrade to Gas Guzzler? No T'anks
When I went to the counter, they had upgraded me from a compact to a big SUV at the same price [as my compact reservation]. After arguing with the counter person, the manager came out...He then explained that all they had left were the big SUV.Continental Airlines to Stand Trial in France for Concorde Crash
The Air France Concorde crashed in 2000 after takeoff from Paris' de Gaulle airport in July 2000. The crash killed all 109 people on board and four on the ground...investigators blamed a titanium strip left on the runway by a Continental Airlines DC-10.U.S. travel industry lost $26 billion in 2007 due to "air security measures"
The amount should have been distributed among airlines which lost $9 billion income, hotel $6 billion, restaurants $3 billion and governments at different levels $4 billion in tax revenues.Bushmen denied visas to build mud-huts
But the whole point of recruiting the bushmen - who would, of course, be poor farmers with no English skills - was that they built and lived in mud huts and so possessed the skills to construct a real Igbo compound... The museum still plans to build an...Vietnam's Golf courses swallow farm land, cost jobs
So far, 10 golf course projects have been approved in Lam Dong, taking up 6,551ha. Local investors are behind six of the projects, with a total registered capital of US$770 million. But out of 10 proposals, only one, in Da Lat, is up and running.China doubles the price of its tourist visas ahead of Olympics
Many hotels in Beijing are struggling to find guests, some large travel agencies have temporarily closed branches, and people scheduled to travel here for seminars and conferences are cancelling...Business Travel Coalition warns congress about airline industry failure
"Unless something is done to move toward some kind of fix, we're going to see every one of our major airlines in bankruptcy....Virtually all airlines will be out of cash by early in 2009 if oil stays in its current range."Canada's tourism industry on verge of crisis | eTurboNews
Many things have been blamed for recent downturn of the Canadian tourism industry including gas prices, the high Canadian dollar, the downturn in the U.S. economy, 9-11 and the SARS crisis.New [US] Airline Passengers Rights Bill A Victory
...These plans must detail how the air carrier will provide food, water, restroom facilities, ventilation, and necessary medical treatment for passengers on board an aircraft that is on the ground for an extended time period without terminal access.Bhutan increases tourism tariff for foreign tourists
The country will increase daily tariff for tourists entering the country by US$50...from $200 to $250 [to offset the deline in the US$ and increase in tour operating costs]. However, the revised tariff will be applicable only during the peak seasons.Australia | Desperately seeking a tourist trap
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pilloried the previous government's "so where the bloody hell are you" tourism campaign, calling it a "rolled-gold disaster". Tourism Australia is expected to announce the name of the advertising agency this week that will...Mutiny On Board | Passengers sleep on plane after flight cancelled
Chinese media frequently report stories of badly behaved passengers refusing to get off delayed aircraft or running amok at airports following delays, but also criticise airlines for not giving enough information to passengers about delays.TripAdvisor acquires VirtualTourist and OneTime
TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel community and an operating company of Expedia, announced it has acquired VirtualTourist.com, Inc., a leader in user-generated travel content since 1999, and OneTime.com, Inc., a leader in travel booking comparison.About Travelography Travel News
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