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In Great Britain was made up a list of the hotels which don’t harm the environment with their activity. In this list there are the independent corporate hotels which are situated on the territory from the England’s coast till the North Scotland plateau.

“It is mare than just a list, it is the list of future, because more and more people prefer to accommodate in the hotels which don’t harm the surroundings. Our experts have visited each hotel from the list and checked the correspondence with requirements. We are glad that such a great number of hotels is striving to obtain our highest approval - Gold Award, many receive Bronze Award and Silver Award. These are the pioneer hotels”, pointed out Andrea Nicolas, the chief of The Green Tourism Business Scheme.

In Great Britain “ecologically rational” tourism becomes an important part of the travelling industry. The lately made research has shown that 84% of tourists choose the tourist agencies which keep to the politics of “ecological rationality”, 68% of them have pointed out that they will cooperate with the “green” agencies even if their prices were a bit higher.

Tourists can see the sights of the old Vilnius in Lithuania while drinking some beer and twiddling the pedals. It is possible to do this with the help of special transportation mode, which name changes depending on the assortment of heating drinks that tourists take with them. For some people it will be a beer-bicycle, and for the others it will be even a vodka-bicycle. It is better to travel by such transport in a large company. Tourists sit down in the armchairs of this alcohol-bicycle and go to see the sights of the old Vilnius simultaneously twiddling the pedals and seeping alcohol. Beer-bicycle enjoys a special popularity among tourists from Great Britain and Germany.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Plans to build the world’s longest golf course, across 1,200 km (750 miles) of treeless desert, received a welcome boost on Wednesday when the Australian government offered seed funding for the venture.

The 18-hole course will stretch along the Eyre Highway which crosses the arid Nullarbor Plain in the south of the continent, with one hole placed in each town along the way, and one at a remote sheep farm.

Doughty golfers who tee off in the Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie will end their round in the South Australian south coast town of Ceduna, more than 1,200 km to the east. (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.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Canada must move to lift visa requirements on new European Union member states or face possible retaliatory steps, the European Commission is expected to warn Tuesday.

In a report to be presented to EU interior ministers, the EU executive is expected to call on Canada to allow at least one more EU country to enjoy visa-free travel by the end of the year and show tangible progress in abolishing the visa regime for the others in the first half of next year.

The report, seen by The Associated Press, will say “appropriate steps could be considered” if Canada drags its feet in changing the regime for the eight new EU members that still need visas to travel there. It does not specify what steps the EU or its individual member states could take. (more…)

Red telephone booths are the same symbols of British Empire as Big Ben, The Tower and double-decker buses. However, the wide distribution of cell phone connection replaces the usage of telephone booths, and soon London can loose the red booths, which are so loved by citizens and tourists.

For the last five years the number of telephone booths in Great Britain has declined by thirty-three thousands. And more than one-third of those 62 thousands remained are profitless. The largest British telecommunication company British Telecom, that owns booths throughout the country, sustains serious losses.

European Commission is going to release “green book” about further destiny of the telephone booths in the changing world and to disengage British Telecom from the necessity to maintain telephone booths in working order.

The first red telephone booth appeared in London in the year 1926. Today there remained only thirteen thousand old traditional red booths. The rest ones are more modern glass or plastic cabins.

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Sixty representatives from London community of Sherlock Holmes will come next week to Prague. Annually the members of this community meet at a certain place connected in a way with the stories of Sherlock Holmes. This year the Holmsologs are coming to the Czechs capital being invited by their Czechs fellows. Bohemia is mentioned in the Arthur Conan Doyle “The scandal in Czech Republic” where a part of relevant proof was written on the “paper from Czechs”. There are over 760 Holmsologs in the world. The Czechs community of Sherlock Holmes appeared in the year 2000.

The network of British hotels Hotel du Vin located in Winchester, Cheltenham, Henley-on-Thames and Glasgow has presented a very unusual concept of cigar houses. Due to the fact that on the 1st of July in Great Britain the law about smoking prohibition in public places was accepted, the administration of the hotel has built special small houses where the guests can enjoy smoking of the high-quality Hawaiian cigars.

The cosy houses are located near the principal hotel building which allows the guests not to refuse their habit of smoking in a building. Irrespective of the weather and season, in the cigar houses is always kept comfortable temperature - they are equipped with a warm heating floor, protecting from the wind by the curtains and built in the walls gas heaters.

The houses for cigar smoking were projected by a Scottish company which is specialized in design and the small houses building, huts and cabins.

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Kempinski hotel network is going to open a hotel in Senovázné Square in the centre of Prague the next year. Luxurious hotel apartments are to rent both for a short period of time and in long lease. 75 hotel rooms will be furnished with the furniture made of valuable tree species timber, produced by RPW Design Company. 24 hours five star service, including personal maidservants and “delivery at door” shopping facilities are at clients call. Lodgers will also be able to avail themselves of health-sports complex and business centre.

Rocco Forte Company, the owner of the fashionable hotels, has chosen the former St. Foma monastery for the new hotel. The splendid view at Old Prague Town, famous Valdstein orchards and other sights greets from the hotel.

Reconstruction of the monastery building should be completed before the end of this year. According to Rocco Forte Company idea, more than one hundred large rooms and apartments will be in the hotel under the plan, as well as original ceilings and stone domes.

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New five star Royal Hotel& Spa construction is almost completed on the Villars skiing health resort in Switzerland. This first spa-hotel in Villars will be opened in 2008. New modern spa-center with more than 1000 squared meters surface, 65 rooms and 25 suits, 3 restaurants and a large terrace with a picturesque view will be offered to the clients.

In this season, beside free ski-pass for children, Villars will not charge for the usage of the elevators and routes for beginners, that are situated near the health-resort center, nor for the kindergarten service. Night skiing with a mountain chalet dinner and a torch slope down will be organized weekly for all comers.