TRAVEL NEWS
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Death camps call for right to charge for entry ticket
Some of the most notorious Nazi death camps, including Dachau in Munich, could soon charge an entrance fee from visitors to help finance education facilities.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: concentration camp, Dachau, museum
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Acropolis marbles to move
Greece has announced plans to relocate hundreds of priceless marble sculptures, including the Parthenon friezes and Erechtheion's Caryatids, from the Acropolis to a new museum set to open later this year.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Acropolis, marbles, Parthenon
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Climber brings half tonne of rubbish from Everest
A Japanese mountain climber has brought half a tonne of rubbish down from Mt Everest as part of his clean-up campaign that started in 2000.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: cleanup, Mt Everest, rubbish
Monday, May 28, 2007
Singapore Airport Terminal Opens in Jan
Construction of Changi Airport's Terminal 3 has been completed at a cost of 1.75 billion Singapore dollars and will being handling flights from January 9.
chron.com (page not found)
chron.com (page not found)
Labels: Changi, Singapore Airport, Terminal 3
London cabs to pick up fares in China
London's cabs will soon be operating in China in a dozen colors apart from the iconic black and costing around half as much as they do in Britain.
cnn.com (page not found)
cnn.com (page not found)
Labels: China, London cabs, taxi
Friday, May 25, 2007
Garbage crisis overwhelms Italy's south
Bad administration, shady political deals and the interference of the Mafia are at the heart of southern Italy's illegal waste racket.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Room mit ein view: German travel company buys up entire Tuscan village
The giant German tour operator TUI has bought the entire Tuscan village of Tenuta de Castelfalfi with a view to turning it into a holiday playground for German tourists within the next two years.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: Tenuta de Castelfalfi, tourists, TUI
Kazakh 'reporter' Borat to pen book of travel advice
'Kazakh television reporter' Borat Sagdiyev has signed a publishing deal to write a book of travel advice.
www.cnn.com (page not found)
www.cnn.com (page not found)
Labels: Borat, Kazakh, travel book
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Trafalgar Square green with turf
Trafalgar Square has been temporarily transformed into green space with more than 2000 square metres of turf being laid over its pavement.
bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
Labels: green, Trafalgar Square, turf
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
'We're clean' pledges Tripadvisor
Tripadvisor has responded to suggestions that fraudulent reviews are still being published on its site by saying that 'no reviews go unmoderated'.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: fraudulent, reviews, Tripadvisor
Japanese top good tourists' league
The Japanese are the most polite and tidy tourists in the world according to a survey based on responses from European hoteliers.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Japanese, survey, tourists
St Helena joins the jet age
Britain's last working Royal Mail ship will cease operations in 2012 when a new airport opens on the Atlantic island of St Helena.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: airport, Royal Mail, St Helena
Monday, May 21, 2007
London buses inspire new Tehran tourism
Tehran now has a fleet of London-style red buses that will provide tours across the city described by the Lonely Planet Guide as Iran's 'big, loud, chaotic, vibrant and ugly beating heart'.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: Iran, Tehran, tourist buses
After the fire, heritage chiefs dare to hope that a treasure can be rebuilt
The condition of the Cutty Sark is yet to be confirmed as investigators try to establish if the blaze that damaged the London icon was started deliberately.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: arson, Cutty Sark, fire
Backpack baggage: it's all in the name
A landmark Australian study has recommended that the term 'backpacker' be dumped from the vernacular because it denigrates young foreign travellers as 'heavy-drinking freeloaders'.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: backpacker, denigrates, vernacular
Sunday, May 20, 2007
US to tighten entry rules
The US Homeland Security chief has revealed plans to enforce strict new entry laws that could see British travellers being forced to apply for visas to enter the USA.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Friday, May 18, 2007
Tourism UK: The missing millions
The British tourism industry is suffering due to the pound's strength against the all important American dollar and Japanese yen.
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
Labels: Britian, pound, tourism
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Greens angered by one million flights giveaway
Ryanair has begun a giveaway of one million flights where the airline will pay for taxes, fees and charges at a time when it is struggling to fill planes due to a doubling in air passenger duty.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: giveaway, passenger duty, Ryanair
Rail link reopens line from Koreas to rest of the world
In a symbolic act of reunification, trains will cross the Cold War frontier between North and South Korea today for the first time in over half a century, bring the dream of continuous rail travel between London and Seoul closer to reality.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: North Korea, South Korea, train
British pair first to walk all of China's Great Wall
A British couple has become the first people to hike the entire 3000 mile length of the Great Wall of China.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: Great Wall, hike, walk
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Pollution turning famed Taj Mahal yellow
Therapeutic mud packs have been recommended to restore the Taj Mahal's famed white marble facade which is yellowing due to high levels of air pollution.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: pollution, restoration, Taj Mahal
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Australia ecotourism leader
Australia and Costa Rica are good examples for the multibillion-dollar world ecotourism business, according to The International Ecotourism Society.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Australia, Costa Rica, ecotourism
Saturday, May 12, 2007
'Open skies' deal forces down price of summer flights
Fiercely competitive transatlantic airfares are expected over summer as a host of airlines launch budget deals to the US.
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
Labels: airfare, budget, transatlantic
Friday, May 11, 2007
OFT announces flight pricing ruling
The Office of Fair Trading has ruled that airlines and travel companies will have to include all fixed, non-optional costs in the advertised price of their services, spelling the end of the '99p' flight.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: costs, Office of Fair Trading, price
Asia Pacific tourism expected to rise
Tourism is set to rise significantly in the Asia Pacific region over the next three years, with China expected to lead the way.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Asia Pacific, China, tourism
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Woman defies Venetian tradition in struggle to pilot a gondola
A court has allowed a female gondolier to paddle the canals of Venice, the first woman to do so in over a thousand years of the Venetian tradition.
iht.com
iht.com
Labels: female, gondolier, Venice
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Green groups dismayed as flights soar to record high
With aviation growth soaring to an all-time high, green campaigners are saying that the cost to the environment will be paid by the victims of climate change.
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
Labels: aviation, climate, environment
Dry run for Venice's first new bridge in 70 years
Venice's first new bridge in more than 70 years will erected first in a hangar to reassure its engineers that its great weight will not cause the banks of the Grand Canal to sink.
independent.co.uk
independent.co.uk
Labels: bridge, Grand Canal, Venice
Spitting crackdown
Beijing has stepped up its campaign to 'civilise' the city before the 2008 Olympics, fining more than 50 people for spitting in the past week's holiday.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Beijing, Olympics, spitting
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Kenya Airways jet crashes in jungle: 114 feared dead
A Kenya Airways plane carrying 114 people has crashed into thick jungle in southern Cameroon.
theaustralian.com.au
theaustralian.com.au
Labels: Cameroon, crash, Kenya Airways
Travel: the new tobacco
Rough Guides founder Mark Ellingham believes that traveling is so environmentally destructive that there is no such thing as a genuinely ethical holiday, with our addiction to 'binge flying' killing the planet.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: 'binge flying', environment, Rough Guides
Friday, May 04, 2007
New flight connects Vegas, Atlantic City
A new direct flight connecting USA gambling hotspots Atlantic City and Las Vegas has begun operations.
yahoo.com
yahoo.com
Labels: Atlantic City, flight, Las Vegas
Why Tiananmen Square could go from red to green
One of China's leading architects has proposed a radical transformation of Beijing's centerpiece ... to turn Tiananmen Square into a forest.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: China, forest, Tiananmen Square
Thursday, May 03, 2007
A holiday at the end of the Earth: tourists paying to see global warming in action
A US tour company is set to run expeditions to Warming Island, the new feature of the Greenland coastline borne as a result of the melting Greenland ice sheet.
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
news.independent.co.uk (page not found)
Labels: expedition, Greenland, Warming Island
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Postcard misidentifies Oklahoma state capital
Postcards sold at a Wal-Mart in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma misidentify Tulsa at its state capital instead of Oklahoma City.
usatoday.com
usatoday.com
Labels: Oklahoma, Tulsa, Wal-Mart
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Tourists not exempt in Iran dress crackdown: police
In a nationwide crackdown on slack dressing, Iran has also asked travel agencies to 'warn tourists and to explain the laws of this country' with regard to its strict Islamic dress code.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: dress code, Iran, tourists
