Archive for October, 2007

19 October, 2007 | No comments

Roads of Malta are named by the safest in the European Union

The European Council on traffic safety has published the report on European Union’s roads safety. In 2006 the number of victims of the European Union’s roads has made 39200 people.
According to the report’s data, the worst situation is in the Baltics. In Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia parameters on death rate in road and transport incidents on 1 million inhabitants are the highest. Lithuania is leading on this parameter: in the country 223 people on 1 million inhabitants die in road accident.
Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary are close to the Baltics by quantity of road victims. And roads of Malta and Holland (27 and 45 person, accordingly) are the safest.
he purpose declared by the European Union relies in reducing by 2010 number of victims of auto failures on half - while France, Luxembourg and Portugal, where since 2001 the number of death on roads was reduced to 40 percent, are close to this parameter.

 

 

18 October, 2007 | No comments

Vegetarian festival is being held in Thailand

From October, 10 till October, 19th Vegetarian festival is being held on the Thai island Phuket.
The festival refers to vegetarian because during its celebrating it is forbidden to use meat in food. Other carnal pleasures, including sex and alcohol, are also forbidden.
Among “sights” of festival it is necessary to allocate participants who pierce their cheeks with iron sticks, sabers, spears and other subjects.
They, without any narcosis, penetrate every possible subject through a mouth and then some hours per such kind go a procession on heat. All this is done in order to cajole gods for the nearest year.
In the evening the same “penetrated” participants will run barefoot on the heated coals.
The holiday has the Chinese roots and it is celebrated by Phuket inhabitants, coming mostly from China. Today the vegetarian festival is one of the largest tourist sights of island.

 

 

 

17 October, 2007 | No comments

Sydney is recognized as the best tourist city

Sydney is recognized as the best tourist place in the world. It is showed by results of the interrogation among readers of the main American travel magazine Conde Nast Travel. 387 thousand subscribers from different countries have taken part in it.
Similar researches are being organized by the edition since 1988. Fans of wanderings are offered to estimate the most popular cities, islands, resorts and even airlines on a level of comfort, sphere of services, entertainments, hospitality, and nature uniqueness.
This year Sydney has received the highest point (87,7), having overtaken Florence (86,8), San Francisco (85,9) and Bangkok (85,8), becoming besides and the most friendly city.
Moreover, Melbourne is the second largest megacity of the Fifth continent, it also was included into the list of favorite tourist places (76,3).
 

14 October, 2007 | No comments

Mоvenpick Resort - the second in Thailand

Mоvenpick Hotels and Resorts has made one more significant step in realization of strategy of expansion of the network in Asia and has just signed the agreement with administration Apex Development Public Company Limited (PCL) about development of the magnificent tourist project in Pattaya, Thailand. The prestigious 5-star hotel Movenpick Resort and Spa Pattaya will offer 300 room-numbers and suits; opening of hotel is planned for 2010.
The elite resort is located on one of white sandy Pattaya beaches, 90 minutes from the international airport of Bangkok and 10 minutes from the center of Pattaya.
Each of 300 modern numbers and suits of Movenpick Resort and Spa Pattaya hotel, which becomes an integral part of the elite tourist project, has a tremendous view on the sea. The complex includes the main restaurant where the glorified Mоvenpick buffet, two specialized restaurants and the center of entertainments are being arranged.
Visitors of a resort will appreciate the ample opportunities of rest and entertainments, including a huge SPA-zone, wellness and fitness center, swimming pools, tennis courts, club of water kinds of sports and children’s club. The golf club Phoenix Golf and Country Club is located all in ten minutes of walking.
As Chairman of Apex Development Public Company Limited, Pongphan Sampawakoop speaks that they are very glad to partner cooperation with Mоvenpick Hotels and Resorts. This Swiss hotel group has shown that philosophy Mоvenpick Hotels and Resorts’ is very suitable for Thailand.
 

13 October, 2007 | No comments

New York will become a wedding capital

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to transform city into the “wedding capital” for attraction of the tourists, intending to get married here. As first step Michael Bloomberg is measured to present the city with an original “wedding gift” - mullions-strong reconstruction of the Bureau of weddings which the designer-set dresser James Drake , engaged an interior of a residence of the mayor, will supervise.
The bureau of weddings now settles down on the second floor of a municipal building, walls of a premise are decorated with inexpressive color by marble, and the door in a hall of weddings is painted in red color. Couples sit on established along walls of lobby plastic chairs and wait for the call. On walls in some places graphitties are scratched, and, the worst of all is that there is no toilet here. Drake will work above the project of reconstruction for which 13 million dollars has been offered and all works should be completed to spring of 2008.

 

12 October, 2007 | No comments

Travel agents have got into the list of the most unnecessary trades of Forbes

Forbes has published the list of the most unnecessary trades. It is necessary to choose other specialty to economists, and newspaper reporters should move to the cyberspace. Travel agents also have to think over other profession. By 2014 demand for their craft will fall to 6 %. With the advent of an opportunity to reserve hotel and air tickets through the Internet many travelers have preferred to refuse from tour agencies’ services.
As Forbes writes if you plan to become a travel agent, you should find any specific direction - for example, it may be sale of premium-class trips. Thus it is not necessary to forget, that the tourist market is strongly subjected to economic fluctuations, political situation in the countries and weather.
Besides, one of the American telechannels has named kinds of business, which will die out in the nearest 10 years. In experts’ opinion, by 2017 the newspaper will finally become digital and might be read in the Internet.
Manufacturers of film cameras, and also shops of compact discs will also have to struggle for their buyer in order to compete with digital chambers and the Internet-shops.

 

 
 

11 October, 2007 | No comments

Shopping in Czech Republic: Christmas souvenirs are already on sale

Czech shops have been already engaged into pre-Christian marathon and have opened sale of Christmas-tree decorations and celebratory souvenirs. Ikea network and shops of the goods for the house and garden Baumax, where various spheres, garlands, toys, and also Christmas gifts, a brown paper and traditional dens are being represented, have turned out the leaders in this Christmas marathon.
Within the next few days the New Year’s goods will start to be on sale at other shops. As it is usual, on October, 17th, supermarkets Tesco will open all greater Christmas section. Besides habitual ornaments and green fur-trees, shops will offer one more novelty - fur-trees of black color. Gloomy, at first sight, New Year’s trees became a hit of a season of 2006 in New York, and as it has appeared, Czechs have liked the idea of so unusual Christmas decor.
Besides one of these days the section of the New Year’s goods in Electro World shops will be opened, and in the beginning of November Christmas sales will be started in Albert and Hypernova supermarkets.

 

11 October, 2007 | No comments

The best budgetary hotels of New York under version Independent

Independent has published the list of the best budgetary hotels of New York. Pod Hotel, hi-tech issued in style and arranged by furniture of 50th years, is on the first place. The lodgers will be offered free-of-charge Wi-Fi and satellite TV. Cost of accommodation starts from $129 at night for a double room.
The second place was given to the hotel Marrakech decorated in traditional morocco style and equipped with modern technics. The price of a double makes $173 for a night. The third place was given to hotel Gershwin, in which is famous for restaurant, arranged in pop art style. The price of accommodation makes $127 for a night. Jazz on the Park hotel ($ 142 for a night), where jazz concerts are on a regular basis are being arranged, is on the fourth place and glamour hotel QT ($245 for a night) is on the fifth place accordingly.

9 October, 2007 | No comments

Gardening of Indonesia

79 million trees will be planted in Indonesia for one day. Authorities of the country plan to plant trees and shrubs in Indonesia and to stop cutting down of woods.
With a view of struggle against global warming and restoration of large forests Indonesia plans to plant 79 million trees on November, 28th, 2007.
The action, in which the president of the country will take part, will be dated for opening the summit of the United Nations on struggle against global warming which will pass in December, 2007 at the Indonesian island Bali. Eucalyptus and yew tree are the basic trees, which will be planted in Indonesia.
Trees will be distributed among 70 000 villages of the country, where officials and countrymen will be engaged in gardening of territory.
In May the independent public organization on environment protection has Green Peace has declared that Indonesia loses woods in an equivalent of 300 football fields per hour. Approximately 1,8 million hectares of a wood have been destroyed within the period since 2000 till 2005 that makes 2 % of all green territory a day.
Except for mass commercial preparation of wood, the Indonesian woods are also destroyed by fires and clarification of the grounds for plantations of palm oil. Since 2003 the government has shown the initiative on preservation of a wood, having signed the agreement with Japan.

 

 

8 October, 2007 | No comments

Bond Street - the most expensive street in the world

Well-known Old Bond Street in London, where the largest jeweler shops and design boutiques are located, is recognized as the most expensive street in the world.
According to the published in the British capital data cost of rent of square foot trading area has reached 1,4 thousand dollars a year.
In result Old Bond Street has bypassed the previous leader - the New York Fifth Avenue, where rent manages in 1 thousand 350 dollars for one square foot.

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