Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Barbados Tourism Disaster: Serial rape victims slam police

Barbados Tourism Disaster: Serial rape victims slam police ...
By BFP
The stories go on and on: British Tourist Shot, Robbed Near Sandy Lane Resort Barbados On June 4, 2009 – Victim Alleges Silence By Barbados News Media, Hotel, Tourism Authorities. Questions about the role of racism in the attacks and ...
Barbados Free Press
Anti-Urbanism in American Life: The Case of the Passport « Legal ...
By Jonathan Zasloff
Independence Hall in the Passport. Take a look at your US passport. In the section for visas, you will the standard collection of great sayings, as well as a standard collection of idyllic American scenes. Notice something missing? There isn't a ...
Legal Planet: Environmental Law...
Army on standby to deal with passport queues during public sector ...
Francis Maude said he expected soldiers to man passport queues at UK's borders during strikes over public sector pensions. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/ ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../27/public-sector-strike-army-borders
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Walt Disney World Resort Update
USA Today (blog)
The Walt Disney Company has canceled plans to build a mixed resort development at National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland, according to a report in the Washington Post. The 500-room resort—expected to be a combination of Disney Vacation ...
Tourism officials accuse New Seven Wonders of Nature campaign of charging huge ...
Daily Mail
Tourism officials in the Maldives and Indonesia have expressed concern about the voting methods and fees charged by the organisation that runs the campaign, according to a report by the Daily Telegraph. The 28 finalists, as selected from the top 77 ...
FP Passport: The South Korean president's underwear: Lee Myung-bak channels ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
South Korea has a problem: Energy demand is outpacing energy supply, and the country could face debilitating electricity shortages this winter (a surge in consumption during an unseasonably hot September already caused widespread blackouts). ...
Fake passport cases go up
Deccan Chronicle
Fake passport cases have seen a sudden spurt in the last few years with the maximum cases being detected at Cochin International Airport. While just 12 cases were registered at the airport in 2008, the figures over the next two years stood at 98 and ...
Indonesian resort island of Bali bans smoking in all public places
Channel 6 News Online
The provincial legislature passed the new bylaw on 'Anti-Smoking Areas' on Monday, forbidding smoking in tourism centers, hotels, healthcare centers, schools, government offices, markets, entertainment centers, airports and on public transportation. ...
Tourism Authority of Thailand rolls out "Beautiful Thailand" Campaign
Focus on Travel News
“We are now focused on restoring tourist arrivals for the duration of the high season. The TAT is confident that from the year-end holiday period until March 2012, the second half of the high season, the tourism sector will have recovered. ...
Brazil prepares for major tourism boost
BBC News
"The investments into the country's infrastructure and tourism are a legacy that we cannot begin to measure, as it will establish Brazil as an even greater touristdestination in the years to follow," he says. The statue of Christ the Redeemer standing...
Congo's erupting volcano boosts tourism
CNN
(CNN) -- Spewing red hot lava 300 meters in the air, an erupting volcano in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is turning the war-torn African country into an unlikely tourist destination. Tourists have been visiting the Virunga ...
Iceland Rejects Chinese Businessman's $200M Resort Bid
NTDTV
The government of Iceland has refused a bid by wealthy Chinese developer Huang Nubo to buy 120 square miles of land for a resort, because his plans deviated too far from foreign ownership laws. Huang, who's chairman of the Zhongkun Investment Group, ...
Lego tourist photographed around the world
Telegraph.co.uk
A two-inch tall "tourist" made of Lego is gathering a legion of fans after being snapped on a round-the-world trip. The tiny yellow figure has travelled thousands of miles and visited a host of famous landmarks. Lego Tourist, who has even grown a ...
2011-2012 Freeskier Resort Directory: Revelstoke Mountain Resort, British Columbia
Freeskier Magazine
With 30 to 45 feet of annual snowfall and North Amer- ica's highest lift-serviced vertical, it is easy to see why Revelstoke Mountain Resort is a powder playground. Incredible fall-line runs can seem like they go on forever, with every turn in the deep ...
A "tourist zone" might simplify Metro fares for casual riders
Greater Greater Washington
Hypothetical "tourist zone." All trips inside the zone could cost $3 with a paper farecard. As WMATA staff explained in their presentation on fare proposals, there's a tradeoff between simplicity and fairness in all fare proposals, and generally the ...
Tourist operators safe: Namotu
Fiji Times
"Nanoko village is about 50 kilometers up into Naitasiri so there is no potential threat to the tourism industry," said Mr Namotu. He said all patients at the village had been treated and an inspection team from the Ministry of Health had been sent to ...
Disneyland Resort Update
USA Today (blog)
It's thus surprising that DCA is the place to go if you want some of the best holiday desserts in theresort. A trio of new holiday desserts from Disney California Adventure. Photo by Adrienne Vincent-Phoenix. Cocina Cucamonga serves up holiday ...
Strike Action: UK Tourism Could Grind to a Halt
hotel-industry.co.uk
The UK's tourism industry could be significantly affected on 30 November if Wednesday's strike action is as powerful as the unions forecast. Whilst some internal transport disruption is to be expected, hoteliers and others that work in the tourist ...
Tourism, Retail Boost Savannah Economy
GPB
By Orlando Montoya Tourism continued its resurgence in Savannah. Numbers for the third quarter saw more growth. Tourism numbers also are expected to increase when fourth quarter numbers come in. But tourism and consumer spending are the only bright ...
German Tourist Shooting Case Can Move Forward, As Long-Delayed Court ...
The San Francisco Appeal
by April Siese As previously reported, the trial for five suspects arrested in the shooting death of a German tourist to SF had been delayed by a court reporter who failed to turn in transcripts of testimony. Those delays might be over, however, ...
Nevada Tourism Campaign Targets Sacramento
Capital Public Radio News
Nevada is kicking-off a winter tourism campaign. The target audience includes people who live in the Sacramento region. By Steve Milne The ads show people skiing, sledding, dining out and gambling all to a mid-tempo song with lyrics about searching for ...
Foes fighting planned resort
San Antonio Express
CABO PULMO, Mexico — Another showdown in the decades-long struggle for the soul of this nation's tourist-magnet coastlines is flaring in this tiny seaside village near the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Villagers and an international coalition of ...
Deer Valley Resort Ranked the #1 Ski Area in North America an Astonishing ...
Jags Report
Deer Valley Resort has been named the #1 ski resort in North America by the readers of SKI Magazine a fifth year in a row. Park City Mountain Resort was named the “#1 Family Vacation,” by the editors of SKI Magazine and #6 Resort in North America by ...
Resort unveils 'Sugarloaf Replay' app
Bangor Daily News
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — Sugarloaf unveiled a new mobile app this week that allows skiers and riders to track their experiences on the mountain, compile their stats online, and share them with friends, all with the push of a single button. ...
Speed Week a tourism boost
Bahamas Tribune
THE gathering of 45 racing cars worth millions of dollars at Bahamas Speed Week Revival will assist the Bahamas in building its tourism brand and achieving long-term economic development goals, Minister of Tourism and Aviation Vincent ...
Thailand's tourism industry set to lose billions | CNNGo.com
By karlac1
Travel advisories, rumours of contagious disease keeping tourists away, says the Tourism Authority of Thailand. ... Travel advisories, rumors of contagious disease scare visitors away, say tourismofficials. 28 November, 2011. Tweet. Thailand ...
CNNGo.com
Tourism ramps up for holiday season (AUDIO)
By Allison Blood
Tourism Director Katie Steele Danner says holiday events in Branson, such as its music showcases, have been recognized across the nation as “must-see” during the holiday. Danner says it's not only religious events that draw people to the ...
Missourinet
Erupting volcano helps double tourism in eastern DRC
By Jonathan Kalan
With the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) elections scheduled for today, a massive volcanic eruption in the eastern part of the country continues to attract foreign tourists, boosting park revenues and testing the safety and security of a ...
How We Made It In Africa
Commentary: Taprooms and Temples: Beer, Buddhism and Tourism ...
By James Carter
Taprooms and Temples: Beer, Buddhism and Tourism in China. | More · Printer-friendly ... According to hotel-rack brochures, the obvious tourist destination was the city's brewery, which retains the old Tsingtao spelling. Founded by German ...
The National Interest
Brainfood: OSP adoption, Milk quality, Passport data quality ...
By Luigi
A large-scale intervention to introduce orange sweet potato in rural Mozambique increases vitamin A intakes among children and women. Just 1 year of training worked just as well as a higher intensity intervention (3 years) in increasing OSP ...
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Evolution of a London tourist (and photographer) | write meg!
By Meg
Evolution of a London tourist (and photographer). Freshly graduated from college and traveling abroad for the first time in my life, my first trip to London — in May 2007 — found me wandering around with my family and a tiny point-and-shoot ...
write meg!
Bali themed Pentai luxury resort in La Jolla, California boasts all ...
By Wrik Sen
Location: Located in the coastal boulevard of La Jolla, California, US, the 'Bali-themed' Pentai Resortis now open for operations, to those holidaymakers who have the cash, and the necessary taste for a pristine beach vacation. The 40-suite ...
Bornrich
Sarah Irving's “Palestine” tourism story in the Guardian omits one ...
By Adam Levick
Granted, tourism to Palestine still faces many challenges, not least the Israeli border authorities who control all routes into the West Bank and Gaza. All routes? Really? Ooops! It seems like our former International Solidarity Activist volunteer ...
CiF Watch

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