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29 September, 2007 | 2 comments

Goa: only five-star hotels have a right for casino

The government of the Indian state of Goa has entitled 5-stars hotels to operate a casino in which playing only automatic devices are allowed.
Though Goa - is one of the most popular tourist directions, infrastructure and the services market, which could keep tourists for long time, are insufficiently developed. Authorities hope, that the casino will help hoteliers with this problem and, as consequence, it will increase inflow of means to treasury.
Originally the license for a casino cost 1 million rupees, except for that it was necessary to pay an annual payment in 40 000 rupees for the main machine and on 30 000 - for additional one. It is allowed to have no more than 20 slot machines at each hotel.
It was already informed, that soon in Goa there will be a casino on water. For them the registration payment for 5 years makes 50 million rupees, except for that they should pay 100 000 rupees for updating of the license every year. The government also receives 200 rupees as an entrance payment for each casino’s visitor.
The casino has been operating in Goa for already some time, but only one year ago the government began to take taxes from them. Since almost 8,5 million rupees has gone to the treasury of Goa.

 

 

27 September, 2007 | 1 comment

Best coffee hotels-plantations

Independent has published the list of the best hotels located on coffee plantations. The first place has been given to the Lime Tree Farm, which is located in mountains of Jamaica: on a farm coffee from grains of the best grades and also dishes of national kitchen are being cooked. The cost of accommodation deviates from $200 per night.
The second place has been given to the plantation Ndali (Uganda), smartly arranged in colonial style: here the lodgers are offered tea, coffee and bananas from own plantation. Cost of accommodation starts from $320 per night.
Guatemalan hotel Tak’alik Maya located on a farm of XIX century is on the third place: here lodgers can visit an operating coffee plantation, and also try to weld coffee. The cost of accommodation is not high- just $130 per night.
The fourth place is occupied with the Indonesian hotel Losari, numbering 32 magnificent country houses: besides coffee trees, on a local plantation fruit and vegetables are being cultivated. The price of accommodation starts from $275 for a night.
Costa Rican hotel Xandari Resort and Spa, where the lodgers can try some of the best local coffee, is on the fifth place. Cost of accommodation starts from $192 per night.

 
 

23 September, 2007 | No comments

The longest in the world golf court in Australia

Australia has again all chances to appear on pages of The Guinness Book of World Records. With the purpose of attraction of foreign tourists the federal government will construct the longest golf court in the in the world.
According to the plan of engineers, its total area will make over 1200 square kilometers. The court will have 18 hollows and will be located in the southern part of the country and will cross border of Southern and Western Australia. In cities, through which the huge lawn will be stretched, one hollow will be placed, and one more will even become a “sight” at the sheep farm. Four of 18 hollows are completely ready, while the other 14 will appear in the middle of the next year.
On experts’ tentative estimations, the total cost of the project will cost hundred thousand US dollars; however, Australian authorities are full of optimism and confidence, that this idea will quickly help them to get huge profits.
 

21 September, 2007 | No comments

Most popular villas of the Mediterranean Sea

Magazine Forbes has made a rating of the most popular tourist villas of the Mediterranean Sea. The first place was given to the villa Luna Blue. The ancient building is in an ideal state. Here, the loggers will be offered - six bedrooms, satellite TV, Internet and warmed up pool. The average price for a week rent makes $11 200.
Villa Incantessimo, Ancona, Marches is on the second place. The lodgers are offered seven bedrooms and six baths. The main peculiarity of this villa is that it offers charming views of the Le Marche region and Mediterranean Sea. The renting price is not so high - just about $4000 a week.
The third place was given to the villa Brusceto. All five bedrooms of this villa are arranged with antiquarian furniture. The villa is located in a picturesque place among hills. Week rent makes $21 000.
The fourth place is occupied by villa Giuncheto in Tuscany, where tourists can enjoy their staying at eight bedrooms, pool, sports club, sauna and small football court just for $18 000 a week.
Villa Viola, which is also located in Tuscany, is on the fifth place. Fans of luxury and elite resorts will surely admire this villa: the marble bathrooms, equipped according to last techniques tendencies, a cozy garden and a marvelous view on the Florentine Hills. This beauty will cost $43 000 per week.
Other villas - Il Cigno (Lake Como), Sorrentina (Amalfi Coast), Le Terme (Tuscany) and Olmo (Sicily) - have been also included into this list.

18 September, 2007 | No comments

Finnish scientists have found dependence between region of residing and propensity to a healthy lifestyle

Interesting supervision has been made by experts of National Institute of public health services of Finland: their researches have shown that there is a certain interrelation between a place of residing of the person and the propensity to a healthy lifestyle.
For example, scientists have come to conclusion that big cities inhabitants in a greater degree, than provincials, watch over their health and respond to last tendencies in this sphere. In particular, inhabitants of Helsinki prefer a dietary feed whereas, for example, in the north of the country the healthy diet is considerably less widespread. Local residents prefer to adhere to the diet developed by centuries including high-calorie and thermally processed food and other “regional delicacies”. Naturally, both the quantity suffering excess weight and adiposity in a province is much more usual, than in big cities. On the other hand, in the north people consume less alcohol, than inhabitants of capital watching a diet.
The Finnish doctors with pleasure mark, that obligatory three times a week walks on fresh air became a “banal” thing everywhere. People began to think more about their safety: people use seat belts more often and put on helmets, riding a bicycle. Doctors are worried with female smoking: the quantity of smoking men is steadily reducing and this bad habit is still widespread among women. Optimism is inspired by Helsinki citizens, who also gradually stop smoking: there is a hope, that smoking, becoming more and more provincial habit will gradually come to naught, including by virtue of feature of the female character which is not allowing inhabitants of peripheral areas to lag behind capital fashion.

 

29 August, 2007 | No comments

Tourists will be protected from terrorists

Moscow authorities are taking measures in order to protect tourists not only against hooligans and thieves, but also from terrorists, from representatives of radical youth currents and even from flooding and landslips.
Recently city authorities have approved the concept of safety increase and antiterrorist security.
Capital hotels and their lodgers are threatened theoretically with set of dangers - terrorist, criminal, technogenic and natural - not only “habitual” fires and robberies. It is possible to prove that in opinion of experts, hotels of Moscow need to be preserved also against participants of radical political groups, which can get into a building to scatter from its roof provocative leaflets.
Serious threat is represented with terrorists, who in addition, can spray radioactive substances through ventilation or poison water in a hotel water pipe.
The hotels will be protected from all misfortunes by strengthening protection of buildings and establishing systems of video observation and video recording, the air-gas environment control, explosives detectors, the disturbing signal system and other automatics. And than more briskly the hotel is, the higher the building is, the more rigid measure of protection should be.
In general the quantity of the “protective” equipment depends on set of nuances. The hotels, accepting vip-persons, should be equipped on the maximum class. Hotels, where lodgers “eliminate” to professional, age or other attribute - for example, departmental hotels are considered as not too “dangerous”. And if the solid part of hotel is occupied with offices or it is used not to destination - their owners may save on protection and automatics.
 

26 July, 2007 | No comments

Stop of health

The Italian highways expand a spectrum of services for auto tourists. Roadside supermarkets became habitual and are widespread almost everywhere. So, now it is a high time for drugstores. The network of snack bars on highway Autogrill has opened first road drugstore Sosta Salute (the Stop of Health) on line А1 Rome-Florence.
Sosta Salute offers travelers about 2500 names of medicines, which may be bought without the recipe. All personnel of a drugstore – are the qualified pharmacists, who can lead primary diagnostics and recommend a necessary medicine. Autogrill plans to create some tens of “stops of health” on the basic Italian highways.

26 July, 2007 | No comments

No smoking during sea cruises

Company Regent Seven Seas has changed a policy concerning smoking and has forbidden smoking in suites, cabins and on the balconies of cruise liners. Since December, 29th, 2007, the interdiction will come into force at the following ships: Seven Seas Voyager since December, 21st, 2007, Seven Seas Mariner since December, 21st, 2007, Seven Seas Navigator since December, 27th, 2007, and Paul Gauguin.
Seven Seas has spent 20 million dollars for reorganization of the ships by spring-2007, now Seven Seas Voyager, Seven Seas Mariner and Seven Seas Navigator are equipped with the wireless Internet, mobile phones services, and also special service for i-pod.
Smoking can become not only the reason of fire, but it also brings a lot of inconveniences to non-smoking passengers. The company has declared that the ignorance of these rules can lead to landing of tourists from the ship without any indemnifications.

21 July, 2007 | No comments

On Saturday Burj Dubai will become the highest tower in the world

On July, 21st the highest building in the world will be represented. It will be built in Dubai. Construction of huge Burj Dubai will be finished, and a record, which before belonged to Taipei 101 (509 m), is beaten.
Burj Dubai (the Tower of Dubai) will be the highest building in the world on all four categories established by Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which spends estimation. The building should correspond to the following criteria - height of a spike/aerial, height of a floor of last “manned” floor, height of a roof and constructive height of a building.
The spike of a tower will be visible from distance of 95 kilometers. And the view from the viewing platform, established on a tower, will reach 80 kilometers. The building is also the champion by quantity of floors.
Geometry of a deserted flower with thin petals and patterns, characteristic for Islamic architecture relies in the basic design of the tower.
Tower Burj Dubai is located in the central Downtown Burj Dubai, the multipurpose project in cost of $20 billion, combining the inhabited and commercial real estate, and also objects of the industry of hospitality and trade, including Dubai Mall - one the greatest of shopping centers-entertaining in the world.

17 July, 2007 | No comments

Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia suffer from heat

Plus 52 on Celsius! Such temperature has been fixed in several areas of the East Europe. Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia have appeared in a real tropical heat zone.
It is a hard trial for Europeans: all hospitals are overflown with patients with cardiovascular diseases. In Germany it is hardly cooler. Columns of thermometers show plus 35 in a shadow. But even at such temperature asphalt on roads smelts. In order to prevent failures, movement is limited, and community services water carriageway with water periodically.
 
 

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