Archive for July, 2007

30 July, 2007 | No comments

Monument to the prostitute in Riga

In the context of social campaign “STOP sex-terrorism!” the symbolical monument to the fallen girl entering thoughtless communications for one night has been opened in the center of Riga.
The representative of advertising agency “Alfa Centrs” has explained that the purpose of the action -is to draw attention of young girls and to warn them against chaotic sex, in fact it makes negative impression about Latvia abroad, and the part of tourists comes here only in searches of very young girls, instead of for admiring monuments of culture. Meanwhile, according to statistics, since 2004the number of tourists has grown on 53 % in Latvia.
The symbolical monument represents campaign’s trade mark: the image of opened mouth with the text “Sex? Terrorism”, cards of Latvia on a background of night city and the inscription “factory” and half-naked girls in bikini.
Social campaign “STOP sex-terrorism!” proceeded in Latvia for more than a month. In the context of this program organizers (public organization “Re!Action” in cooperation with “Alfa Centrs”) tried to dispel opinion that Riga - is a place of cheap night amusements with readily available sex-services.
Except for accommodation of the outdoor advertising, discussions on TV and in press on a theme of struggle about sex-tourism and spot-checks in Old Riga, during which participants of the action distributed visual materials of campaign, have been carried out.

27 July, 2007 | No comments

Physicians advise sex-tourists to get acquainted with statistics

Inflow of foreigners from the East Europe will, most likely, lead to that the number of venereal diseases in Czech Republic will increase. Are those, according to guidebook The Czech Walker, is the unreasonable fear of Czech physicians. Third of revealed cases of a syphilis is revealed at foreigners who has been living in Czech Republic for a long time.
Therefore tourists, who consider Czech Republic as the sex-tourism country, it is necessary to familiarize closely with statistics on the revealed venereal diseases.
According to department of medical statistics, last year 502 cases of syphilis have been registered in Czech Republic that is on 5 % less, than in 2005.
The syphilis basically is revealed at men at the age of 30-34 year-old, among women the basic contingent is represented with girls till 30 year-old.
On a background of syphilis decrease another dangerous disease - gonorrhea - grows. 1082 cases of this disease, that is on 25% more than in 2005, have been revealed basically at youth of 25-29 year-old.
The medical organizations, working with sex-industry “employees”, inform, that disease of gonorrhea has also significantly grown within the last few years.
Sex-business is getting civilized in Czech Republic.
Sex-tourism in Czech Republic has become obvious only after 1989 and reputation of tourist “sex-direction” was fixed after 1994.
Sex for money here -is the big business. Among cities of the East Europe Prague is recognized by the most suitable for sex-tourism with “traditionally good choice at reasonable prices”.
According to from different sources, from 10 000 up to 25 000 prostitutes work in Czech Republic.

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.

25 July, 2007 | No comments

Hotel Indigo Pearl on Phuket has deserved star recognition

According to the results of a season 2006-2007 an independent command of experts from USA Condе Nast Traveller has included hotel Indigo Pearl, Opened in December, 2006 on island Phuket, into the list of five best new hotels of Thailand and a hundred of the best new hotels of the world. The rating has been made on the basis of reports of independent travelers. In general during a choice of the best hotels of the world thousand hotels from forty six countries have been investigated. Besides in June, 2007 the press-service of company CNN has included Indigo Pearl into the list of ten most exclusive hotels of Thailand.
Indigo Pearl is located on the coastline beach, protected from waves and monsoons by a ridge of coral reeves and consequently safe for all-the-year-round bathing. In opinion of experts, the hotel became a real masterpiece of the legendary Bangkok-based architect Bill Bensley, who has embodied a unique combination of postmodernist art and traditional Thai style into intriguing design. Choosing rest in hotel Indigo Pearl, visitors of island not only enjoy excellent service and comfortable conditions of residing, but they also touch realities of the last century, characteristic only for Phuket.
Now Indigo Pearl offers accommodation for 4 days for two people in cost from $500 up to $1200. The price depends on chosen room-number, and also on additional services - various kinds of massage, opportunities of productive leisure and yoga.

 
 

24 July, 2007 | No comments

Epidemic of malaria in India

Physicians consider that in east India epidemic of malaria has begun. According to the official data, at least 25 people have died of this illness for last 2 weeks in state of Tripura. Authorities try to take a situation under the control and to appoint quarantine in areas of malaria.
Medical brigades are forwarded to separate areas of staff by helicopters. Local hospitals are already over flown by the patients, who have been infected by malaria. The informal statistics is at least in 2 times worse - according to some information more than 50 people have died of illness for last two weeks.
The malaria represents a great danger to India now. In this country disease of a malaria has grown in some times for last 20 years, and, according to experts, there was a number of mutations, in result of which doctors even more often should collide with infecting agents, steady against derivatives of quinine and other kinds of anti-malaria medicines.
 

24 July, 2007 | No comments

China has made the black list of hotels

It is the first time that the ministry on Tourism of China has published the black list of hotels. In the list there are about 800 hotels located in China, the star-criteria of the majority from which mismatch their level.
As Chinahospitalitynews.com inform, more than 78 hotels have been included into this list: “Shenzhen Bay”, “Guangzhou New Century”, “Xili Hotel Shenzhen”, “Far East Hotel”, “Feng Yuan Hotel”, “Jiangjian Hotel”, “Yuetong Shiji Hotel”, “Camp David Club”, “Hengfeng Hotel”, “Luohu Hotel”, “Lijiangchun Hotel”, “Xin Ming Zhu Hotel”, “Jiahao Hotel”, “Tianzi Henghuahai Hotel”, “Huang Gang Hotel”, “CTS Hotel”, “Jialv Hotel”, “Mingdu Hotel”, “Shenzhen Wenshanhu Hotel”, “Ganglong Hotel”, “Huaqiao Hotel”, “Chengyuan Hotel”, “Xiangmihu Holiday Resort”, “Yicheng Industrial Company Hotel”, “Luofang Hotel”, “Qiushuishan Park Resort”, “Longgang Huidu Hotel”, “Jicheng Hotel”, “Caifu Hotel” etc.

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.

20 July, 2007 | 1 comment

The most fashionable cities of the world

Russian capital is officially recognized the most expensive city in the world, but it is not still the leader of the most fashionable mega cities. Research Company Global Language Monitor has made a rating of twenty five most fashionable cities of the world, according to which 3 lines were given to the American cities, 4 European and 3 Asian cities.
Californian company Global Language Monitor makes annually ratings of the most fashionable cities of the world, tracing words and phrases on the English-speaking Internet sites. Relaying on linguistic base - frequency, context uses of words and their occurrence in global media-sources, it has named the most fashionable city of the world -New York, which has even surpassed Paris - a traditional cradle of a fashion. Other two American cities, star Los Angeles and “city of sins” Las Vegas, have also entered in ten “dandies”, having accordingly borrowed 7th and 9th places.
Paris has occupied only the third position in 2007, having passed forward Rome (2nd place). London has got on the 4th place, and Milan has closed the five of leaders. Hong Kong, which has occupied the 8th place, became the most fashionable South-Asian city, and the African continent has been presented by Johannesburg (republic of South Africa), which has located on the 23rd place. the Polish Krakow which became the last, having conceded the best places to Shanghai, Buenos Aires and even Santiago have managed to get into the list of fashionable cities.
As Millie Lorenzo Payack, Fashion Correspondent and Director of the GLM says, the rating presents many surprises, showing all varies in the global industry of fashion.
Ten most fashionable cities of the world:
1. New York
2. Rome
3. Paris
4. London
5. Milan
6. Tokyo
7. Los Angeles
8. Hong Kong
9. Las Vegas
10. Singapore

19 July, 2007 | No comments

Alcohol will be forbidden and limited in 80 countries of the world

Now the tourists should properly consider local laws and traditions on travel. Two reasons even more often lead to serious, at times to tragic incidents with tourists - ignorance of national features and the false feeling of permissiveness, arising on rest far from the house.
For example first reason has been implemented in the arrest of the Swiss, who has received 10 years of prison in Thailand for the insult of king serves. The recent death of the 17-year-old tourist from Denmark, who died on July, 13th, from drunkenness on a resort in Bulgaria, has reminded of the second reason.
It appears, approximately two thirds of population of the Earth in general conduct a sober way of life. About 600 people and nationalities of the planet do not drink, do not smoke and do not use drugs by virtue of their traditions, cultural and religious values. Accordingly, the drinking or smoking foreigner irritates them.
In many countries abusing binge or smoking can cause various kinds of administrative or criminal punishment.
The countries, where the use of alcohol is forbidden or limited:
Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Benin, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Butane, East Timor, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti, Egypt, Zambia, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Iceland, Yemen, Cambodia, Cameroon, Qatar, Kenya, China, Comoro islands, Kuwait, Laos, Lesotho, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritius, Mauritania, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Maldives, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, the Incorporated Arab Emirates, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Seychelles, Senegal, Singapore, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Tanzania, That, Tunis, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uganda, Finland, Central African republic, Chad, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia.
Religions, religious beliefs and the doctrines condemning alcohol:
Islam (it is more 1 billion adherents); Sunnis (850 million people); Indusium (793 million people); Buddhism (500 million people) etc.
Travelers should remember, what even in the countries, where the “cultural” and moderate use of spirits is not considered reprehensible, the society all the same imposes restrictions on many things - drinking of alcohol in public places and in the street, driving transport in a state of intoxication, the minimal age for purchase and the uses of spirits and many other things.
The use, storage and distribution of narcotic substances not in the medical purposes, in overwhelming majority of the states is regarded as law infringement.

 

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