Saturday, October 1, 2011

Actress becomes first ambassador of Vietnam tourism

Actress becomes first ambassador of Vietnam  tourism — Talk Vietnam
Actress Ly Nha Ky has been nominated as the first ever ambassador for Vietnam Tourism by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Ky, whose real name is...
Talk Vietnam
Ethiopian Finding the True Cross (Meskel) Celebration and Tourist ...
Ethio-TourismEthiopian Finding the True Cross (Meskel) Celebration and...
DireTube - Ethiopian Largest...
Private sector fears tourist number will miss target in 2015 ...
By Thailand News
The private sector is concerned over the possibility for the tourist number to be lower than targeted in 2015 while tourism-related laws are being studied ahead of the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). In response to the ...
Siam Daily News Online
8 Adventure Tourist Destinations That Respect Tribal Peoples ...
8 Adventure Tourist Destinations That Respect Tribal Peoples. Adventure travel can be ... Tribal lives can be severely disrupted or even threatened by tourism. ...
www.alternet.org/.../8_adventure_tourist_destinations_that_res...
Female Japanese tourist murdered in Myanmar ‹ Japan Today ...
A Japanese tourist has been killed in Myanmar and a motorcycle taxi driver arrested on suspicion of her murder, a…
www.japantoday.com/.../female-japanese-tourist-murdered-in-...

Turkish resort targeted by suicide bomber, official says
CNN
By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN Istanbul (CNN) -- An explosion outside a gendarme station rocked Turkey's popular Mediterranean resort region of Antalya Friday afternoon. A local government official told CNN one man who appeared to be a suicide ...
Tourism splash a sweet benefit to Valley wineries
Vancouver Sun
Jessie Campbell, tourism marketing manager with Penticton and Wine Country Tourism, said there's little doubt of the "incredible" value to regional tourism generated by the festival. "Really we see an extension of our peak season, July and August, ...
Tourism sector's Saudization in 3 years
Arab News
The prince chaired the first session of the Al-Aqaba second economic conference titled “Tourist Industry and its Impact on Reducing Poverty and Unemployment.” “Tourism is one of the important industries which plays a big and significant role in ...
'Tourist' Makeover of Union Square Statue Gets Parks Department OK
DNAinfo
Artist Leon Reid IV won last-minute approval by the Parks Department to dress the statue of George Washington in Union Square Park in tourist garb. (Art in Odd Places/Leon Reid IV ) UNION SQUARE — After much debate and controversy, ...
Aust's passport IT system out to tender
Ninemsn
Seal 'helped rescue' swimmer mauled by sharkA seal tried to ward off a great white shark from striking twice as a swimmer mauled off a tourist beach in South Africa was dragged ashore, the man's rescuers say. Teen gunned down outside MaccasA crowd on a ...
Tourism losses from Arab uprisings estimated at $7bn
Arab News
By ABDUL JALIL MUSTAFA AMMAN: A conference opened at the Red Sea port of Aqaba on Thursday to look into means for spurring regional tourism which incurred losses amounting to $7 billion as a result of Arab uprisings. The three-day meeting, ...
World's top tourist draws
CBS News
"In fact, the number one destination out of the top 50 most visited tourist attractions was Times Square with 39 million people. They call it the crossroads of the world and it truly, truly is. Number two on the list, as you mentioned, (is) beautiful ...
Tourism industry on a high in Dunhuang
China Daily
The number of foreign visitors coming to Dunhuang topped 40000 in the same period, with the United States becoming one of the largest overseas tourist sources after South Korea and Japan, according to data from the city tourism administration. ...
Tourism industry: 'Non-professional government attitude caused decline'
The Express Tribune
By Faryal Najeeb Tourism has many allied sectors like aviation, hotels and rent-a-car, he said, adding that other businesses like restaurants, local recreational destinations, shopping malls and bazaars all benefit. PHOTO: FILE/THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE ...
Web portal for tourist travel approvals
Daily Mirror
The new system was created by the Department of Immigration and Emigration in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. The ETA, which will be made mandatory after January 1st, is currently ...
FP Passport: Was Anwar al-Awlaki still a US citizen?
Foreign Policy (blog)
I got into this question a bit with an explainer earlier this month about Chris Jeon, the UCLA student who traveled to Libya to fight with the anti-Qaddafi rebels. It was once possible to lose one's US citizenship by fighting in another country's army ...
Nigeria: Tourism, Instrument of Economic Development
AllAfrica.com
Results confirm that, in spite of multiple challenges, international tourism continues to consolidate the return to growth initiated in 2010. Over the decade of the 1990s, Africa has experienced a rise intourist arrivals from 8.4 million to 10.6 ...
Mauritius and Seychelles tourism leaders meet in Paris
eTurboNews
Mr. Michael Sik Yuen, the Mauritius Minister responsible for tourism, discussed the possibility of visiting the Seychelles in January to see for himself the developing tourism infrastructure especially in the new resort hotels. ...
Costa Rica's Tourism Board To Launch Aggressive Advertising Campaign To ...
Inside Costa Rica
The Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) - Costa Ricas Tourism Board - is getting ready an aggressive campaign to attract American tourists to Costa Rica for the 2011/2012 tourist season. The ICT says it is going to be aggressive in its campaign to ...
RTД wins National Tourism Award — RT
By RT
The Russian Federal Tourism Agency has named the winners of the 8th National Tourism Award. A film produced by RT's newly-launched RTД documentary channel has won in the category Best Televised Tourism Story. ... Chernobyl – the scene of the world's worst nuclear disaster – has been attracting a growing stream of adventurers hungry for a glimpse of its post-apocalyptic landscape. Now, though, the globe's most surreal tourist site looks set to close its doors. Chernobyl ...
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Is medical tourism a dire threat to American surgeons?
By Kevin
Medical tourism is where one travels outside one's own country in order to obtain medical care elsewhere. ... What is feasible is to become a medical tourist for those one-time medical services that can be scheduled and planned, for which there is a long waiting period at home, or which is simply too expensive in one's own country. Such medical services often include coronary artery bypass surgery, hip replacements, knee replacements, and numerous minimally-invasive and ...
KevinMD.com
Thai Tourist Attractions Affected by the Flood (30 September) | Thai ...
By Richard Barrow
The current flooding is having little impact on tourism. Key tourist destinations and attractions across Thailand are not damaged by the floods and most are open. Provinces in the other parts of Thailand including the northeast, east, west and ...
Thai Travel News
Ghana: World Tourism Day Held in Volta | Thenigeriandaily.com
By admin
The Tourism Minister, who was addressing a durbar at Tafi-Atome in the Hohoe Municipality to mark this year's World Tourism Day, noted that tourism, apart from being the fourth national foreign exchange earner after cocoa, gold and timber, ... Mr. Tia was hopeful that the effective manner thetourism sector was being managed would help achieve much in socio-economic development, and asked people who had tourist sites in their areas to lead lives that would attract tourists to visit ...
Thenigeriandaily.com

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