Latest travel and tourism news from around the world.
There are so many excellent travel apps out there to help you find affordable airfare (here’s looking at you, OnTheFly), flight status and even where planes are around the world, but what about help planning your next trip?
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A calm descended on Venice’s Grand Canal yesterday after authorities ordered the Italian city’s first ban on motorboats. The ban lasted for five hours between 10am to 3pm and was implemented to highlight the effects of pollution on the city’s architecture. It included all motor-powered boats but the city’s iconic gondolas – along with electric-powered or hybrid vessels – were exempt.
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Italian excellence in food and wine continues to shine on the global stage. Luca Martini, a Tuscan native, has been named Best AIS Sommelier of the World 2013, triumphing over an elite field of international competitors during the prestigious
Airports Council International (ACI) has named Incheon International Airport “Best Airport Worldwide for a record seventh year in a row. The award is considered the “Nobel Prize of the Aviation Industry”, and is determined through the survey of 1,700
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Zorlu Center picks Raffles, the premium luxury hotel chain, as the hotel to be located within the project as it is prepared to host the most famous brands in the world. Raffles, the winner of the Condé Nast Traveler “World’s Best Places to Stay” and Travel & Leisure World’s Best Awards, will be opened in the last quarter of 2012. Raffles Istanbul Zorlu Center, which will be opened with an investment of approximately 175 million dollars except the land value
Last week, the 2010 Seatrade All Asia Cruise Convention was held in Suzhou, highlighting the growing significance of Asia in the global cruise market. This prestigious event gathered prominent cruise operators and industry leaders from around the world. According
Picking up on Hollywood’s fascination with hotels throughout the years, Hotels.com®, the hotel experts, lifts the clapper board on ten hotels around the world that have been made famous by films. Hotels have been used in scenes of love, conspiracy, heartache and even murder and will continue to play an important part in film history. The versatility of hotels enables the creation of a specific world, era, mood or atmosphere for any particular film genre.
Visit London and Radisson Edwardian are bringing the “world’s smallest pop-up hotel” to London in a bid to highlight the capital’s main tourist attractions. Essentially a modified American Airstream trailer, the pint-sized property will open from March 15 for five nights only.
From April 2010 between St. Petersburg (Russia) and Helsinki (Finland) resumed a ferry service. To provide the transportation to St. Petersburg-Helsinki will be a passenger ferry “Princess Mary” of the Finnish shipping company St. Peter Line.
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Work is expected to begin this year on a 100-acre Michael Jackson entertainment complex that would include a museum, performing arts center, hotel, golf course and theme park inspired by the pop singer’s Neverland Ranch.
The coldest city in the earth is Yakutsk is a city in the Russian Far East, located about 4° (450 kilometres) south of the Arctic Circle.The coldest place into Yakutia is is Ojmjakon village, in 1933, the temperature here dropped to -67.7 ° C.
You may know these famous hotels by name, but do you know what they‘re famous for? Adlon Kempinski Hotel, Berlin, Germany The last tzar of Russia, Adolf Hitler, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker—they were all guests—so were Einstein, Edison, and
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William Carrick (1827-1878) was an Edinburgh-born artist, who established himself as a professional photographer in St Petersburg in 1859 and left a remarkable collection of images of Russian life.
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According to the head of the National Center for Public Opinion Research, Valery Fyodorov, the most popular holiday in the country is going to celebrate 91 per cent of Russians surveyed.
In Moscow, started to operate National Tourist Office of Armenia (NTOA). Organization’s activities will promote tourism opportunities of the republic in Russia and CIS countries.
“Among the priorities of the office – PR and marketing campaigns for the formation of Armenia’s image as an interesting and affordable tourist destination for Russians, as well as an increase in tourist flow to the republic and increasing revenues from tourism”, said director of the NTOA Marya Atayan
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