SINGAPORE: Southeast Asian countries on Thursday said they were on track to fully liberalize air travel in the region by December 2008, adding that an agreement to legalize it would be signed as soon as possible.
In a statement issued during their annual meeting, the region’s transport ministers said they “affirmed their commitment toward the timely implementation of the liberalization of air services.”
For many Japanese people a glass of cold beer after a warm bath has become a nice tradition. Having noted this, one businesslike Japanese company started to offer beer baths.
One of the resorts in the mountains one day drive from Tokyo offers spa-procedures in the bath made in the form of beer glass with warm liquid of amber yellow colour with aroma of hop and barley inside. Up to the 31st of December the company offer named “Hakone Kowakien Yunessun” also includes adding and spraying of the real beer in bath and on the visitors of the procedure thrice per day. (more…)
Online bookings in China lag far behind much of the rest of the world due to thin travel agent profit margins. Flight attendants have one of the toughest jobs in travel. The Europe Union passes new laws to protect disabled air travelers.
World’s highest building is situated in Dubai. This highest detached building on the earth is already 1822 feet high. The information related to the final metric area of the highest spot of the building made of concrete, of glass and of steel, was strictly kept in secret, the constructions will be over about the 2008 year.
The construction of such an object is one of the steps of converting a quiet deserted city of Persian Gulf into one of the most important business centres in the Near East. The Burj Dubai Building broke the record of height of the World’s highest building of CN Tower (Toronto , Canada) that was built in 1972. (more…)
The “Euro Cheapo” company is designing a program named “CheapoSearch” which will be the first search engine of the budget living places.
The “CheapoSearch” will help you find and make a reservation in small hotels and rest homes all around Europe and also compare different offers. “CheapoSearch” reviews information from 25000 hotels in 32 countries.
Travellers can make a search on date, and decide between available hotels. “CheapoSearch” helps travellers to get better wise to Europe for less time revising best ones of the cheapest European hotels.”, -says “CheapoSearch” founder Tom Meyers. “We are very glad to offer the first personalized search system, combining good advises with the hotels compare system’s ease of use.”
For example, a recent request for living place in Paris on October, 27 year 2007 has given 228 hotels in the central part of the city, 20 of them available to reserve a number worth less than $100 overnight. In Amsterdam for the same day - 174 hotels, 57 of them available to stay overnight for the cost less than $100.
MATARAM (Antara): Indonesian Vice President M Jusuf Kalla said Saturday the high illiteracy rate in Indonesia was caused by cultural and economic factor.The Vice President made his speech at an International Literacy Day function in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).”We have been conducting various programs to free the nation from illiteracy for a long time,” he said.
Currently the government was intensifying a nine-year compulsory education program as part of the national literacy program, he said, citing that in general, provinces which had sent workers abroad had relatively high illiteracy rates. (more…)
The rising popularity of booking a last-minute break could see more tourists go abroad without travel insurance, it has been suggested.
In research carried out by Sainsbury’s Bank, an estimated 8.8 million tourists purchased a summer holiday this year with no more than two weeks left before they go away.
However, with an estimated three million people going abroad with travel insurance the company suggested that this level could increase further as last-minute deals become more popular.
Steve Johnson, head of travel insurance for the firm, said: “Greater use of the internet and growing competition in the travel industry means that there are many holiday bargains to be had.
“This is great for holidaymakers, but without appropriate insurance in place a holiday can soon turn into a nightmare if disaster strikes.”
He added that the cost of sorting out problems which arise from lacking travel insurance “could run into hundreds or thousands of pounds, surely cancelling out any money saved on a late deal”.
Last month, Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, reported that the majority of 18 to 24-year-olds usually do not lend much thought to taking out a travel insurance before going abroad.
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Having obeyed the fashionable anti tobacco company, the authorities of Tokyo have decided to make the city taxis non-smoking. The administration of Association of the car passenger transportation which unites 90% of the capital companies - taxi operators - since the January, 2008 will forbid to its passengers to smoke during the ride. At the beginning of the present year such a prohibition was already put in operation in the prefecture of the city Kangava and Nagoya, but only as an experiment. Its results were admitted to be successful and it was decided to spread them over the capital.
From the very beginning such a decision was taken under the pressure of a huge member of complaints from the non-smoking citizens for the unpleasant smell in the taxi salons. However the authorities don’t forget about the smoking part of the citizens and their interests. In the “non-smoking” taxis the clients will be offered special chewing gums which will help them to hold on till the end of the ride and in some extreme cases will even stop and offer the clients to smoke outside.
The dish called Fortress Aquamarine worth of $14500 can be tasted in Sri-Lanka restaurant Wine3. Here travellers are served a tiny tartlet with fresh berries, decorated with an 80-carat aquamarine brilliant. The gourmands with a thick purse will also be pleased with Brownie Extraordinaire - a chocolate cookie soaked in Crystal champagne. It is served with a sprinkler filled with vintage port wine which is used to spray the mouth after each eaten slice of food. You can taste this delicacy worth of $1000 in Tropicana Casino and Resort (New Jersey).
The Serendipity restaurant (New York) will offer its guest the ice-cream worth of $1000, prepared from several kinds of vanilla, truffles, bitter chocolate and sweetened caviar. The crystal vase which was used to serve the dessert might be taken away. The Istanbul Ciragan Palace Kempinski offers the unique “sultan pie” which costs $1000. The pie is staffed with fresh fruit and figs pickled in Jamaica rum, and then covered with plates of gold. In Bangkok restaurant Mezzaluna you can taste the ice-cream made of truffles, decorated with hand-worked chocolate and soaked with a forty-years aged cognac - just for $200.
This rating of the most expensive desserts of the world is offered by Forbes Traveler.
PUNE: About 50 youths duped by a city based travel agent over the last two months ransacked his NIBM road office on Saturday afternoon, demanding justice and their money back.
The agent — identified as one Alam —according to these youths, was running a travel agency situated near the Jyoti hotel. He duped them off Rs 70 lakh in the last two months by providing them forged visas of Gulf countries.
Yogesh Thakur of Ahmednagar, one of the ill-fated youths, said that Alam allegedly issued an advertisement in an English and a Marathi newspaper in June this year. “The advertisement claimed that jobs could be obtained in Gulf countries against some fees.”
About 200 youths from different parts of the state approached Alam, who allegedly demanded Rs 15,000 to Rs 45,000 from each them. “He demanded money depending upon the educational qualification of the candidates,” Thakur said.
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