Archive for March, 2007

31 March, 2007 | No comments

New type of tourists

“Marathon” tourism becomes more popular in the world. Some people participate in marathon running not so much for the sake of sports, but for the sake of an opportunity to visit new places.
It is worth of mentioning that the number of the people who are taking part marathons and, so, the potential tourists, has grown almost on third during the last decade. The organization of these actions favorably affects a urban economics. As it has become known during one weekend of large marathons in Boston, Chicago, New York and Honolulu the city can receive more than 100 million dollars.
During a marathon in Los Angeles all hotel rooms in city on March, 4th have been reserved. The set of large running is spent outside the USA - in London, Rome and in more exotic places - in Kenya, China or in Mexica. Even less scale marathon running bring millions to city hotels and restaurants.
Marathon-travelers are usually regarded as a top-middle class and spend significant sums of money during the trips. Approximately a half of marathon-travelers take friends or spouses with them.

30 March, 2007 | No comments

School of scotch

Today any decent bar will not do without Scotch whisky - the so loved (for the delicate and refined taste) Scottish alcohol drink. And in fact very few people remember, what exactly that this drink came to us from Scotland - a Mecca of whisky. About 9 whisky factories have been successfully established in Campbeltown on Islay Island. It is possible to get there from Glasgow and to have unforgettable days of “drunken cruise” and to get acquainted with the best grades of this wonderful drink.
This unusual 3-day’s travel passes under the direction of Captain Gordon Wright. The ship heads from port of city Glasgow and stops on coast of the island. The well-known Scotch whisky also is made in other regions of this island (Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila, Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Port Ellen, Bowmore and Bruichladdich).
Of course, it is not necessary to agree on this cruise if you for any reasons abstain from alcohol. During 2 days the command of the ship, led by the captain, will treat you to various grades of whisky. In the first night (during the testing under the name “Global cruise with Islay”) the captain will tell about all nuances of whisky from each region of island and will offer to taste the drink. Trying this magic drink, you can simultaneously admire amazing landscapes of Scotland.
The second night will be passed on the coast. It is possible to drink some whisky till a dinner or supper, and after that - to go on studying of local territory with its numerous pubs and bars. However, you will taste the same sorts of whisky in other bars - do not go too far with a doze of alcohol as the third, most responsible night - “Double vertical testing” ahead is expected. During it 3 grades of whisky from one whisky factory are represented to show differences of flavoring qualities on a difference of ligneous and peat tones.
The ship, to a word, can brag not only excellent whisky, but also comfortable accommodation (cozy room-numbers with new furniture) and the affable, obliging stuff. All this pleasant trip will costs you about 895 pounds sterling (nearby $1800) per one person. However, so high price for 3 days of travel pays off with interest: everything, that is required from the visitor- is to reach Glasgow, and all other things are to be easily done by the perfectly well organized stuff.
 

29 March, 2007 | No comments

Hotel of the future: Egyptian pyramids on the water

Modern world became so vain and restless, that it became practically impossible to find the pacified corner. Therefore some people prefer to move on serene surface of the ocean. In the distance from crowds of people and iniquitous electronic machines - such life is chosen by those whose opportunities are the widest.
The floating island, yacht-house, the plane-boat - at fans of a “sea” life have already got their certain choice. But in the nearest future one more “house on the water” - the Egyptian pyramids - hotel will appear.
Oceanic-Creations Swiss Company has declared about the beginning of construction of the whole series of commercial and residential buildings from new composite materials. The casino, shopping centers, offices, factories and even student’s hostels - all this should appear in the nearest future and will exclusively function on a water table. Well for now the most expected project of this company - hotel Maya Hotel- is to represent the floating Egyptian pyramid.
As it has become known the budget of this project - 209 million dollars and the hotel will be built up to 2010. The hotel in Caribbean Sea in the south of Cancun Mexico (will) resort will be settled down. Owing to full isolation, the hotel will be protected from sever frosts, the scorching sun, and in any climate it will be possible to enjoy all convenience which, undoubtedly, will be offered at room-numbers. Night clubs, disco centers and a lot of other institutions, which can be visited both by the clients of the hotel, and ordinary people from street will be settled down inside the complex.
Maya Hotel is only one of many other the water hotels, planned by Oceanic-Creations company. All of these hotels will be settled down in ports of resort cities, where construction of usual hotel is impossible because of absence of territory. Hotels will be also provided with parking which will be either inside of a building, or on a mooring. These will be 5-stars hotels, and their architectural registration will be very specific and nonconventional. It is necessary to wait only till 2010 when it will be possible to have the unforgettable rest in a modern variant of the Egyptian pharaohs’ apartments.

 

 

28 March, 2007 | No comments

Lonely ladies go to Kenya for sex

Recently having a rest in Kenya has started gaining the increasing popularity among rich lonely women. Rich ladies come to Kenya to relax and get the intimate relations with handsome Kenyan men. It is interesting, that the ladies prefer to spare time and start getting acquainted with local taxi drivers just at the arrival. Rich ladies pay greater money for sex for with Kenyan men: a man, who has agreed for this “work”, gains from 100 thousand up to 500 thousand Kenyan shillings ($1450-$ 7300) for a week of “love”. Some foreign ladies offer Kenyan taxi drivers get divorced with their wives and marry them for some period of time.
It is impossible to say, that Kenyan drivers in delight from this. They complain, that lonely ladies does not excite, whether the man is married or single, whether he wishes to have any relations with them or not.
Taxi drivers are perplexed, from where the hearing about sexual temperament of Kenyan men and their readiness to render sexual services has come.

 

27 March, 2007 | No comments

Hotels for honeymoon

The first trip of spouses by should be unforgettable. And it is not obligatory to spread many thousand euros on “suite” in luxurious hotels. We offer you the mini-guide on the most magnificent hotels for romantic rest (”Premium” class), and also inexpensive, but not less seductive alternative variants (”Economy” class).
There are hotels are best-known for the romantic rest, but most of them are quite expensive. Well, it is high time for us to start looking for alternatives.
Bali is an ideal place for pleasure. The sea is serene, beaches are desert, and the way of life is measured and slow.
Premium class. Magnificent “Amankila” hotel has been settled down on a steep of Lombok rock. The hotel offers only 34 room-numbers, each of which is represented as a separate bungalow in tropical jungle. Each of guest small houses is a tiny copy of well-known Water Palace, sea bowls, coconuts and banana palms are widely used in their interior. The luxury suites, which are more often chosen by just-married couples, offer own pool and a pond with water-lilies. And it is possible to enjoy the sea and green hills of East Bali just from the window of the bedroom. One day in bungalow will cost you from US 900 dollars.
Economy class. One day of residing in “Sofitel Seminyak Bali” room-number costs 420 dollars (for two) but if a just-married couple reserves a suite a minimum for three days and order of the supper - the pleasure will manage in US 1200 dollars. This hotel has amazing interior, in which the Italian marble is combined with traditions of art of the island Bali. The hotel offers 137 room-numbers, which are decorated by stone and wooden sculptures of manual work. The hotel is surrounded by 4,5 hectares of a magnificent tropical garden with pools and lonely bowers.
Paris - romance and luxury
Premium class. Romanticism in extremely magnificent embodiment is represented at “George V” hotel, located near to the Champs Elysee and the Triumphal arch. The legendary palace has been constructed in 1928 and became the sensation, owing to the first class hardware, ideal service and magnificent furniture. Room-numbers are trimmed by exclusive fabrics, crystal and marble. French interior experts have recognized that by quantity of the works of art decorating its interiors, “George V” has no competitors among the European hotels. A day in royal apartments would cost you from 1700 euros.
Economy class. The residing in not so grandiose; but not less luxurious “Plaza Athenee” hotel will manage you much more cheaply - 3 days and 2 nights will manage you into 700 euros. It is not a high price for   romantic week-end for two.
This private residence is constructed in the beginning of XX century and it is located in the center of Paris and is one of symbols of traditional Parisian style. “Plaza Athenee”’s architecture and design is a synthesis of two most significant stylistic directions: the refined classics of Lui XIV and easy and graceful art-deco style.
Venice is a haert of love and magic.
Premium class. Channels, and palaces of Venice are better observed from windows of magnificent “Danieli” hotel. It can be named as one of the most picturesque hotels in the world. “Danieli” hotel is three, connected among themselves buildings, the main one from which - Palazzo Dandolo - was a palace of the Governor of Venice in 14 century. In hotel original interiors and conditions in style of the Venetian gothic style with gilding, a pink marble and masterpieces from muran glasses are represented. This fairy tale will cost you from 500 euros a day for room-number.
Economy class. “Bellini” hotel is situated in the historical center of Venice, in a building of one of the ancient Venetian palaces, leaving a facade on the Big Channel. Special luxury of Venetian mirrors and lusters, a decor of XVIII century make hotel look as a castle. Perfect room-service and national cuisine are guaranteed. The price of room-number costs 260 euros a day (in case of the reservation for a week -8 days, seven nights).
 
 

26 March, 2007 | No comments

Underwater hotel in China

The government of China has started the implementation of the program on utilization of developed and flooded opencasts. As it has already become known, hotel complex in province Songjiang (near to Shanghai) is to become the pilot underwater project.
The idea of Atkins Company, which has won the international tender for development of the half-flooded opencast and adjoining territory, provides the construction of the 4 floor complex. Two top floors of the complex would look as tower on a surface, and two bottom ones, including inhabited room-numbers and restaurant, are to be under the water. Lodgers should not consider through windows of hotel muddy waters opencast - the water will please with the cleanliness, and the huge aquarium will be built near to hotel.
The complex will have 400 room-numbers. Each room-number can brag of unusual underwater windows with a kind on the fantastic alive underwater world - an aquarium, or a magnificent panorama of the surrounding nature accessible to lodgers of the top floors.
The facade of the basic building of the hotel, made of glass and steel, will be decorated with waterfalls. The infrastructure of a complex will have all necessary for rest and business meetings, including a conference hall for 1000 people. The idea of environment protection became a basis not only for unusual design of the buildings, entered into a landscape, but also, for a technical stuffing - a part of the electric power, necessary for hotel,  will be gained from solar sources.

25 March, 2007 | No comments

Wine SPA-hotels: stupefying procedures in the name of a youth and beauty

You are laying in a bath similar a flank from an oak, filled with Pinot Noir, your face is covered by a mask from seeds Merlot of grapes. You are washed with pure cool wine water, and then your back is massaged with pounded grapes. After that you go for a dinner where you drink the wine made from grown up in garden behind a window of grapes and go into magnificent hotel room. Will you tell what it is a dream? No, it is a reality, waiting for you on the best wine resorts of the world.
For this reason wine SPA-hotels have been established in resort sphere, offering a spectrum of various services which can be named as wine therapy.
Wine therapy is a treatment with application of derivatives of a grapevine: seeds, marcs and berry coats.
Nowadays it is already difficult to find a resort which does not offer this service. Resorts of luxury class, like The Inn in Arizona or Shore Club in Miami, offer wine procedures with oils Olavie Le Vin made from the best, in the tempted Frenchmen’s opinion, grade of grapes - “chardonnet”. And the European resorts use ISHI elements - a cream and oil from the best grape grades, such as “chardonnet” and “pinnot”, specially grown up in Tuscany.
The tendency of visiting of wine spa-hotels and resorts becomes more and more popular. To a word, recently even the list of the best specialized wine SPA has been published. The following hotel has been entered into this list: Marques de Riscal (Spain), Les Sources de Caudalie Bordeaux (France), Sante Winelands Hotel and Wellness Centre (Southern Africa), Wine and Spa Resort Loisium Hotel (Austria), Patios de Cafayate Hotel and Spa (Argentina), Kenwood Inn and Spa (California), Relais San Maurizio (Italy) and some other hotels. In these places, except for the stylized “wine” interior of rooms, various rejuvenating, toning up, treating and weakening services, the best wine brands (in which you can take pleasure in an environment of the wonderful nature) will be pleasntly offerred to you.

 

23 March, 2007 | No comments

Transatlantic flights will become cheaper

The European Union and the USA have agreed upon free transatlantic area. It can lead to toughening of a competition and decrease in quotations. The American companies can transport more Europeans, and European companies will receive freedom of a choice: they can take off from any city of the European Union and land at all airports of the USA and on the contrary.
Air flights between Old and New World make about 60 percent of the international traffic. About 50 million passengers cross Atlantic annually. Due to the new contract their quantity may increase in one and a half time within the nearest 5 years.
Meanwhile, analysts quote that the air agreement between the European Union and the USA can lead to toughening of a competition and reduction of prices of the European and American airlines. The “Standard and Poor’s” airlines’ analysts consider that the new agreement will be reflected differently in airlines’ activity. According to their predictions the most advantageous position large European carriers will be occupied by Lufthansa and Air France companies. They have more opportunities to fly to the USA from different places. In loss there will be the greater part of English companies - British Airways and Virgin- may loose their market positions. In due course they will face with a serious competition from the European and American airlines.
Now, these are the passengers, who will be the unconditional winners on both parties of Atlantic. Rivalry will necessarily lead to reductions of prices for air tickets.

 

 

22 March, 2007 | No comments

“Boeing” has been transformed into a yacht

Nowadays, using large-scale vehicles on non-direct purpose becomes the latest fashionable tendency. A yacht-island, the plane-house is not far from the only indentures that can surprise us today. Have you ever dreamed to travel by the plane… on the sea? We hope, yes, because now it has become quite possible with new plane-boat Cosmic Muffin.
These unusual means of transportation are made on the basis of very rare “Boeing
-307 Stratoliner” plane, constructed in 1937. Plain-yacht has been introduced by the Goward Huse pioneer aircraft company.
However present owners of the plane, the PlaneBoats Company, reconstructed it up to unrecognizability, having transformed the plane into something average between plane and a boat.
The plain has received the name “Cosmic Muffin”.
The cabin of the pilot, from which management of a boat is carried out, was kept inside. However, the speed of the plain, which is carried out by means of the engine, is provided by the accurately copied V-8 engine, used in “Boeing”, and it can gain a little bit more than 32 km/h. However, for those who wish to spend time with coziness in unusual cruise, so small speed will not be an obstacle for having a pleasure during the trip.
Now Cosmic Muffin is accessible to public only on order. The boat leases to all interested persons, corporate parties, advertising, films and television projects.
 

21 March, 2007 | No comments

The most stylish cities of the world

Global Market Insite’s researchers have published a rating of most stylish cities of the world.
The rating is made on the basis of the answers received during online-poll in which15, 26 million respondents in the age of from 18 till 64 years have taken part. The inhabitants of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Spain, England and the USA have become the participants of the poll.
Respondents were offered to estimate cities-applicants by following criteria: “the International status”, “Site”, “Potential”, “The Rhythm of a life”, “People” and “Conditions”.
In the final rating, including 60 cities of the world, - Sydney which has risen in comparison with the previous research on 2 items, owing to improvement of image of city and minor alteration in a technique of interrogation, occupies the first position. London is on the second place, Paris is on the third position, and the fourth and fifth lines were divided by Rome and New York. Washington, San Francisco, Melbourne, Barcelona and Geneva are the first ten leaders.
According to “climatic conditions” and “hospitality” categories Moscow is in the end of the list. The climatic aspect of a brand of city is most important for tourism and emigration. Cities, which are deprived this natural advantage, should seriously work on positive perception of social, cultural and economic sphere in order to compete in the field of attraction of tourists and new inhabitants. In other words, they should find other ways to warm the “city”.
Petersburg is regarded as “the European city, in which many beautiful museums, historical a building and architectural monuments are accumulated”.
British scientists say that today cities compete with each other for consumers, tourists, investments, respect and attention. Megacities are the economic and cultural centers of the nation, which are also becoming a place of the international rivalry in the field of capitals, talents and glory.

 

 
 

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