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28 April, 2008 | No comments

New York hotel offers rest in style “Sex and the City”

After travel agency in New York, which will organize round in the places connected with a plot of a serial “Sex and the City”, hotel Mandarin Oriental offers the visitors the special package, also devoted to this film. For $1988 tourists can stop for one night at the hotel, to visit places of shootings of a serial, to try two cocktails, to do shopping in boutique Henri Bendel for the sum, included in a package $200, to receive a gift in shop of linen Cosabella and to participate in role game “Sex and the City”.
On May, 30th, 2008, four heroines of the well-known teleserial will appear on the big screen in the movie “Sex and the City”. In this connection in New York there are the various tourist offers, devoted to this event.
The five-star New York hotel of network Mandarin Oriental does not lag behind the general tendencies. Visitors of one of 248 room-numbers of hotel will have an opportunity to make shopping not only in boutique Henri Bendel, but also to visit shop of the stylist of a serial. Then during excursion on a limousine in places of shootings the guide will tell the visitors the funny cases, which have occurred during creation of a serial, and will open some secrets of popular film.
Besides, tourists will receive a gift in shop of underwear of the Italian mark Cosabella. Then participants of the program will visit shoe boutique Jimmy Choo on Madison-Avenue.
After such sated day visitors can have a rest in a lobby and enjoy such famous cocktails as Mr Big Apple Martini, Carrie Cosmo, Miranda’s Manhattan and Flirtini Samantha-style. In end of the program the visitors will be offered to take part in role game “Sex and the City”.

25 April, 2008 | No comments

Biometric scanners at the EU airports this summer

This summer in a number of the airports of the world the passport control system, equipped only by scanners (without control service employees) for recognition of biometric data of the air passenger and its overlapping with those in the passport will be already established. , authorities consider that powerful machines will make passport control more quickly and better.
Such pilot project will be introduced this summer for the European Union countries and the Great Britain. Passengers with new biometric passports will pass through scanners.
Nevertheless, it is not excluded that some passengers can negatively react to result of their check given by machine. It is supposed, that such passengers can rise in usual turn to the officer of passport control who has powers to pass the passenger at own discretion, using the additional information and instructions. The matter is that machines-scanners are adjusted on absolutely closing pass for police services appearing in lists, but the applied technology supposes some segment for mistakes concerning people, who are being under suspicion. As a result the machine can give refusal, but there are no acknowledgements - they do not appear in the lists.

18 April, 2008 | No comments

The most severe countries of the world

This year China has reduced number sentenced to death penalty in comparison with 2007, however, all the same China remains the world leader on number of executed people. The Amnesty International group has informed on it in the annual report.
Iran with 377 executions including the person, hammered by stones for matrimonial change is on the second place. The third position has been given to Saudi Arabia (143). The number of executed in the USA has fallen up to a 15-year minimum and because of this the country has appeared on the fifth place with 42 executions a year.
It is worth of mentioning that, according to research, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Libya are the leaders by quantity of executions per capita. In three states - Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, - citizens under 18 years have been sentenced to death penalty and it contradicts norms of international law.
In total in 2007 in the world more than 1200 death sentences have been resulted in the performance and the general number of such verdicts has made 3347.

5 April, 2008 | No comments

Best underground of the world

At the international conference on underground Metro Rail Conference the underground of the Danish capital has been named the best one in the world.
Concerning the main reasons for the choice experts from New York, Tokyo, London and other cities with the developed system of the underground railway, have named stability, a high level of approval from passengers, a high level of safety and speed from which the new branch up to the airport has been put into operation.
Probably, the given factors have not mentioned, that the underground in Copenhagen has appeared just five years ago, unlike such developed undergrounds, as Singapore, London and Madrid.
According to recent interrogation on a level of passengers’ satisfaction, 98 % of citizens are quite satisfied or very happy with the services given by the Copenhagen underground. These are the highest parameters for all time of existence of the given underground.
The network of public transport of Copenhagen consists of the underground (Metro), a city electric train (S-tag) and buses. The system of tariffs, general for all types of transport, is based on division of city into zones. In buses it is necessary to pay to the driver, in the underground it is necessary to buy the ticket in cash department, and then to punch it in the yellow device placed on a platform.
The capital of Denmark has joined number of the world cities having the underground, in 2002. The first line of the Copenhagen underground in the extent of more than 20 km was opened by queen of Denmark.
Construction has been financed from sale of the ground areas, the apartment houses allocated under a construction, shops, offices of various firms and office buildings in again mastered within the frames of “green belt” parts of city.
After construction of a ring line of the underground, which is planned for 2018, using all existing advantages of available underground lines, Copenhagen citizens and visitors of the Danish capital will receive the effective and stable transport system connecting areas of city and enabling free movement, despite of weather conditions and transport stream in city.

1 April, 2008 | No comments

Best B&B hotels in Venice

The raised tourist interest to Venice allows hoteliers to hold the prices at height. However in this city economic places are also accommodated on water and, of course, B&B (bed and breakfast) hotels concern to them. Of course, here you are not offered 24-hour room-service, but the lodger will receive a room in an apartment house and will get acquainted with radical Venetians, who will tell about local bars, restaurants and sights much better than any guidebook.
Today in Venice visitors can lodge at about hundred B&B hotels - usually hidden from eyes of the mass tourist in private houses, on which ground floors without ceremony can be transformed into on blowing workshops glasses or Venetian masks manufacture. All these places should be booked as soon as possible in view of peak seasons in May-June and September-October. The price for a double room with a breakfast will deviate from 150-200 euros.
Casa Besaggio - the newest hotel B&B in Venice - has opened in 2008 near to church Madonna del Orto, in the court yard of a building, which was Misericordia abbey in XIV century. In a warm season breakfasts will move in a shadow of cypresses.
Hotel Sandra - is one of the best B&B hotels in Venice, where lodgers are treated as family members. Here it is possible to receive the invitation to Prosecco glass before a supper on a terrace, whence the unforgettable kind on La Serenissima opens.

29 March, 2008 | No comments

Concern “Airbus” will deliver new planes to Russia and the CIS

In the nearest years West-European aviabuilding company “Airbus” will deliver 111 planes to Russia and the CIS countries. Such information has been given by the vice-president of the company on sales in the Europe, the Central Asia and Pacific region. According to his words only within 2007 “Airbus” has received firm orders for 22 liners A-350 XWB and five of them were from А-231 “Aeroflot”, 25 - from А-320 airline S7, seven - from “Uzbekistan Airways”.
Besides in December, 2007 “Airbus” has signed the memorandum of mutual understanding with the Kazakhstan airline “Air Astana” about purchase of six planes A-320.
Earlier it was informed that the general portfolio of orders for 111 liners of various types and passengers capacity from the Russian airlines and the CIS countries is distributed as follows: “Aeroflot” - 50 planes, S7 - 29 machines, “Air Astana” - nine, ” the Ural Airlines” - nine, “Uzbekistan Airways” etc.
Now already 12 airlines of the CIS countries maintain 92 “Airbus” liners. Two-impellent А-310 became the first plane of the western manufacture, which in 1991 have received the Russian type certificate.
Under the forecast “Airbus” since 2007 till 2026 the demand of the Russian aviation market will make not less than 921 planes in the total cost for the sum of 79 billion dollars.

21 March, 2008 | No comments

Transparent hotel has been built in Spain

Now owners of restaurant Les Cols Pavellones offer a unique hotel, which basic material is glass. Five magnificent pavilions were placed in territory of family manor of the chief-cooker of the restaurant.
Walls of hotel are absolutely transparent, and transparent room-number is protected from another’s looks by panels of matte glass and metal fence. Suite has a mini-bar, a small case and the wide stove bench.

20 March, 2008 | No comments

Marriott is to open 150 hotels

Strategy of Marriott hotel network development provides creation of 500 hotels till 2011. Only in 2008 the network assumes opening of 150 new hotels in 48 countries.
First of all Marriott wants to get hotel market of Asia and the Near East. Besides, till 2010 six hotels will be put in operation in Scandinavia.
In 2007 Internet-portal Marriott.com has got in first ten of web-sites, engaged in sales, owing to what the proceeds, which the companies have brought room reservation through the Internet, have made $5,2 billion
Marriott International - is one of the largest hotel operators in the world, operating 2900 hotels in 67 countries of the world. The company was created in the USA in 1927.

19 March, 2008 | No comments

Pilot of the passenger plane has overslept landing

American airline Go! airlines has dismissed one of the pilots and his assistant after careless employees have fallen asleep during short-term flight between Hawaiian islands, having flown by the airport on 24 kilometers. During 30-minute flight from the airport in Honolulu on island Oahu in a Sickly on the Big island, made by passenger plane of company Go! airlines from Arizona, offering tickets for a reduced price, even a half 40 passengers had no time to fall asleep. However, the main pilot and his assistant have decided to take a nap, having put the plane on the autopilot at height of 6,3 thousand meters above Pacific Ocean.
At that time, when the plane should lower speed, air movement controllers have noticed, that the machine flies were at the same speed after what they have started to call to the pilot cabin. Eleven attempts of employees of control service to phone to sleeping pilots have appeared unsuccessful, and only on 32-nd minute of flight it was possible to contact the pilot’s assistant, who, on the question about any emergency, has answered that everything was OK.
Some minutes later the plane has landed at the airport. Incident has got in sight of Federal management of aircraft of the USA, which has asked Go! airlines to tell about the details of accident. Representatives of airline refuse from comments.
 

15 March, 2008 | No comments

Majorca and Menorka are Europeans’ favorite vacation spots

Results of the sociological interrogation, lead by German magazine Urlaub Perfekt, have shown, that Spanish islands Majorca and Menorka are favorite vacation spots of inhabitants of the Western Europe.
Turkey takes the second place among the countries, where the majority of Europeans prefers to spend the holiday.
In a rating of the most popular directions the European tourists have given the third place to Greece. And resorts of Italy and Tunis have appeared right at the end of charts, on 133 and 120 places accordingly.
Research is based on the statistics, given by 1 208 tour operators, working on territory of Germany.
Research has shown amusing paradoxes. Having become the second favorite country of the European tourists, Turkey has also become one of leaders by quantity of negative responses about its hotels. In participants opinion the worst resorts are in Tunis.
In 2007 Turkey has received about 23 million visitors, half from which was made by citizens of Russia and Germany. This year the tourist industry of the country has already got 26 million visitors.

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