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Jul12

Culinary festival in Singapore

From July, 4, till July, 27th, the grandiose culinary festival is being carried out in Singapore. Its program includes culinary carnivals, thematic actions, seminars and joint advertising actions of manufacturers of food stuffs.
One of culinary holiday organizers is the Singapore management on tourism, and the special program is offered to travelers: each tourist can visit [...]

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May13

Competition to Boeing

Chineses are going to start manufacture of own huge air liners.
The last Sunday became day of an official birth of the new company which field of activity will include manufacture of capacious passenger planes on 150 and more landing places.
Engineers and aircraft designers of the country earlier have already mastered assembly of small air courts [...]

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May6

The largest park in the Europe will be opened in Iceland

Next month in Iceland the biggest in the Europe national park Vatnajokull which area borrows thirteen percent of territory of the country (half of territory of the Wales) will be opened.
The landscape of park is extremely various. In territory more than three millions acres high-mountainous plateaus, volcanoes, streams, gorges, sandy plains, the rivers, lakes are [...]

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Apr19

Starwood opens magnificent hotel on Mauritius

On June, 1st, Hotel group Starwood Hotels and Resorts opens hotel Grand Mauritian Resort and Spa in the northwest of island Mauritius.
As it has become the hotel will have 193 room-numbers, including - suits and junior suits. This hotel will become the first hotel of mark Luxury Collection in Indian Ocean. The architectural decision of [...]

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Jan6

The most popular routes of 2008

The list of directions, which will enjoy special popularity at tourists in coming year, has been made by experts of British edition Guardian. According their opinion fans of parties will choose Berlin; gourmets, most likely, will go to Istanbul; the most economical should go to Albania - this Balkan country will pleasantly amaze travelers with [...]

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Dec1

One more boutique-hotel has been opened in Dubai

New boutique-hotel Raffles Dubai has been opened in Dubai. The 19-storeyed building is constructed in the form of the Egyptian pyramid. The hotel is located near to the trading complex Wafi, offering unlimited opportunities of shopping and entertainments.
All 248 Raffles Dubai room-numbers and suites have balconies with panoramic view. 11 restaurants and bars offer their [...]

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Nov30

The most unusual and mad services of hotels

Brazilian hotel Hilton Sao Paulo Morumbi is ready to offer its lodgers the most comfortable movement across the city, not dependent on traffic jams and other obstacles. The hotel offers to overcome road from hotel to shops and airport by the helicopter.
New York hotel The Benjamin is ready to store your dream as a pupil [...]

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Nov13

Vietnam: tourists have appeared in an epicenter of flooding

More than 2 thousand foreign tourists have appeared in an epicenter of flooding in the central part of Vietnam, caused by torrential rains.
Water cut off approaches to roads and tracks from those areas, where there are tourists now.
The storm rains proceeding already of some weeks, became the reason of destruction of hundreds people. This flooding [...]

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Nov8

The Ring - is a new 5-star hotel of the Vein

On November, 8th in the Vein the magnificent five-star hotel of network The Ring will be open. It will possess 68 room-numbers of various categories: Casual, Special and X-Ordinary, Cosmopolitan and The Ring. Casual room-numbers will consist of gracefully decorated bedroom and a bathroom; Special room-number will include sitting room, and X-Ordinary - breakfast room. [...]

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Nov7

Chinese build the largest big wheel in the world

The biggest in the world the big wheel will appear in capital of China. As AFP, referring to the state mass-media, informs, construction of a design in height in 208 meters will be finished in 2009. A wheel under the name “Beijing Sky Boat” will rotate 48 capsules, each of which is calculated upon 40 [...]

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