Archive for July, 2007

18 July, 2007 | No comments

The hotel on Maldives will teach visitors to fish

The hotel “Naladhu Resort” on Maldives offers the visitors to go on fishing excursion “Line and Pole” and to live as real Maldivians do.
Turquoise waters of islands simply teem with a fish. Maldives still remain one of few tourist countries, where fishery remains the basic kind of local inhabitants’ activity. Here, it is possible to seine tunas, mackerel and many other fishes.
“Naladhu Resort” hotel’s lodgers are offered to learn to catch fishes as local inhabitants do. They organize on excursion on traditional Maldivian boats, which are called “dhonis”. Equipped only with a short fishing tackle and a fishing hook, travelers come up early in the morning on sunrise. They are loaded on the ship on quay of hotel and float in the place, where local fishermen on colorful boats gather. And here fishing begins. The tourists are told, how Maldivians fish, how it is necessary to choose correct bait. All this is accompanied with colorful stories about last catches and adventures. Then everyone can try to fish. During excursion the dinner with fresh fruits is also offered to visitors.
Excursion costs 210 US dollars.
The hotel “Naladhu Resort” is located on island Velighandu Huraa and it is considered as one of the best islands on Maldives. In total the hotel possesses 12 small houses, each of which is named by a name any of Maldivians’ plants.

 
 

17 July, 2007 | No comments

Alitalia’s stewards are preparing for the new strike

Italian airline Alitalia has warned about an opportunity of infringement of the schedule of flights next Wednesday, on July, 25th, because of intention of stewards to stop work for day. As it is said in Alitalia’s message, the company will try to inform passengers on carries and a canceling of flights. Passengers are recommended to check the Internet-site of the company. Nothing has been informed about the directions, on which canceling of flights is expected, and their quantity.

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.
 
 

15 July, 2007 | No comments

Traffic jams have saddened rest of tourists

Traffic jams in length in some kilometers and long expectation in stuffy car - so summer holiday for many Europeans, who have decided to go to holiday by car, has begun.
The most critical situation is in Austria.
On entrance to one of the main tunnels of the country, leading through the Alps to the Southern Europe, cars stand in traffic jams for some hours.
On this route the majority of tourists of Germany go to Italy, Croatia and Adriatic Sea resorts.
Other highways of the Central Europe are also overloaded. Road services recommend taking meal and cool drinks.
 

15 July, 2007 | 1 comment

Asia Property Show will be held In Singapore

Exhibition Asia Property Show - is a prestigious event in the world of the Asian real estate, in which investors, owners of the real estate and developers, and also leading financiers and lawyers take part. As it has become known Asia Property Show will be held in Singapore on August, 3-5rd. This year organizers of an exhibition do accent on sale of the inhabited and commercial real estate.
More than 40 international firms from the USA, the Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, China, India and Central Asia have made a decision to visit this exhibition. Asia Property Show will be held in expocentre Singapore Expo.

14 July, 2007 | No comments

Americans promise visa regime facilitation

In 2006 the percent of refusals in reception of the American visa has decreased up to 11%. For the comparison, four years ago this parameter was up to standard of 25 %. Such data have been presented on July, 12th in the American embassy to experts of the tour agencies, arranging tours to America, and 10 journalists, who have been invited to assembly of committee VisitUSA. Similar committees already operate in other countries, uniting travel companies and public organizations and being some kind of body of information interchange between branch and the American tourist authorities.
Russia’s trading expert at embassy has told, that after September, 11th, American tourist industry has appeared the most suffered business. Toughening of visa regime and decrease in the general positioning of the USA as tourist direction has played its fatal role. 194 thousand workplaces have been lost; the American economy has received less than $94 billion.
The American government, concerned by it for the first time in history, has passed the law on allocation of the advertising budget for popularization of trips to the USA (its sum is not disclosed yet).
Us travel minister has made the review of an operating visa regime, having told, that initially American legislation considers each applicant as the potential emigrant - while it will not prove the return. Journalists, naturally, had a question about how Americans are going “to liberalize” a visa regime and they received the following answer: visa regime facilitation may be reached due to the increased number of employees of boundary and customs services and new security measures’ implementation …

13 July, 2007 | No comments

Emergency state is being entered in Costa Rica

On July, 12th, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has signed the order in which he has declared about the introduction emergency state in the country because of the storm rains proceeding within last several days in the north of the country and coastal areas of Caribbean Sea.
According to the order, the state commission on liquidation will develop saving operation in a zone of disaster as soon as possible in order to restore the destroyed houses and public services’ infrastructure.
As the chapter of the commission in northern part of Costa Rica and its coastal areas of Caribbean sea has informed, damage from a plenty of the deposits proceeded within all last week, and the flooding caused by them has exceeded 9,6 million US dollars.
 

13 July, 2007 | No comments

“Family” resort will be constructed in Oman

Company Radiance International and the investor from Malaysia, company Transmit Nanyang Engineering Construction, are to start construction of the family recreational project in Oman. The approximate cost of the project makes $500 million
The given project, which has gained the name “Green Acres”, will include thematic water parks, a golf court, golf academy, stable and autodrome.
Besides, investors plan to be engaged in construction of similar projects in other parts of the country - in the northwest, in the north and in the south.
“Green Acres”, which are positioned as “the largest project of such Persian gulf in region”, will be settled down within the limits of administrative area Muscat.

12 July, 2007 | 1 comment

Five-star hotels of Nepal are to become more expensive

Five-star hotels of Nepal are to become more expensive. As it has become known, it is planned to increase the prices - for 15 % - in October, and on 20 % - in January. In comparison with today’s quotations the general growth of tariffs for accommodation will make approximately 36 %.
Agency Xinhua informs, that the owners of hotels name the following reasons of increase in prices: increased number of tourists, change of a parity of a dollar exchange rate and monetary unit of Nepal, and also increase in charges at the attendants and the maintenance of hotels. During the first half of 2007 the quantity of the tourists, who have visited Nepal, has increased on 37,5 %.
Today the average price for room-number in five-star hotel of Nepal makes about $35-45 per day. After a rise in price of five-star hotels’ room-numbers the rise in prices and in hotels of other categories is also expected.
 

11 July, 2007 | No comments

The impatient Irish has attacked the worker of restaurant KFC

The drunken tourist from Ireland, being not in forces to wait for the order any more, has attacked the worker of restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken, located in shopping center Royal Garden Plaza.
The Irish man, as he said, has been for the meal “for ages”, and having received it, all over again he began to eat the hen directly at a rack of orders, then, probably having satisfied the first famine, he began to shout and show loudly the discontent and when the manager of the hall has taken an interest with what the tourist was so much dissatisfied, the brawler has attacked him and, having fallen down on the floor, has put some impacts to face. In his turn the manager has twice struck the tourist in a nose.
In result of this the fight has started, which lead to the broken eyebrow and a cheek of the restaurant worker, the stained with blood nose of the tourist and some broken chairs.
The police, who have arrived on a call, have delivered both of them in a site for finding-out of accident circumstances and the person of the attacked.
Finally, it has been found out that it was 37-year-old tourist from Ireland.
The police have called the tourist for the order, he has recognized his fault, and after payment of the penalty and compensation of moral harm to KFC manager, he has been released.

 

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