TRAVEL NEWS
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Blazing car crashes into airport
A car was on fire at the time its drivers attempted to drive it into the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport, a day after two cars were found containing explosives in central London.
bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
Labels: bomb, Glasgow Airport, London, terror alert
Friday, June 29, 2007
Second time around, UNESCO adds Opera House to heritage list
The Sydney Opera House has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List on its second attempt.
theaustralian.com.au (page not found)
theaustralian.com.au (page not found)
Labels: Sydney Opera House, UNESCO, World Heritage
Pisa's tower loses some of its lean
A £20 million project to return the Leaning Tower of Pisa to its 1838 position has been hailed a success.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: lean, Leaning Tower, Pisa, restoration
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Barcelona ends bar ban on badly dressed tourists
The Barcelona office of civil rights has overturned a bar's ban on badly dressed, 'low-quality' tourists, calling it discriminatory.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: ban, Barcelona, tourists
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Galapagos Islands could lose world heritage status
A UN committee has declared that damage to the Galapagos Islands caused by mass tourism could endanger the Ecuadorian archipelago's world heritage status.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: Galapagos Islands, UN, World Heritage
Southern Europe sizzles in heat wave; Greece warns against unnecessary travel
Southern Europe is in the grip of a heat wave that has killed 30 people in Romania and led Greek health officials to warn against travel in parts of Greece where temperatures have soared to 115 degrees.
seattletimes.com
seattletimes.com
Labels: Greece, heat wave, Romania, southern Europe
The coast is clear - of men, that is
Italy has opened its first all-female beach, a short stretch of sand on the Adriatic coast designed to let bathers relax away from prying eyes.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: all-female, beach, Italy
9 EU nations on course to joining borderless travel zone
Nine new European Union members are still on course to join the bloc's borderless travel zone at the end of the year, despite individual problems the countries had to solve in aligning their border and customs security standards with zone members.
iht.com
iht.com
Labels: borderless travel zone, European Union, members
Crumbling glory gets new lease of life
Italy's state owned historic villas and palazzos are to be leased out for use as hotels on the condition that they are restored to their former glory.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: Italy, palazzo, restoration, villa
Monday, June 25, 2007
Harry Potter casts spell on location vacations
The latest bout of Pottermania looks certain to provide Britain with tourist success.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Britain, Harry Potter, location, tourism
Versailles Hall of Mirrors unveiled after facelift
The Chateau de Versailles' Hall of Mirrors has reopened its doors to the public after a €12 million restoration program.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Chateau de Versailles, Hall of Mirrors, restoration
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Air Travel Scary in South America
Air travel in South America has become frightening and time-consuming for all concerned as underfunded air traffic control systems struggle to cope with a surge in travelers.
guardian.co.uk (page not found)
guardian.co.uk (page not found)
Labels: air travel, South America, traffic control
Passport to Frustration
To get an American passport these days, you have to know which buttons to push, starting with those on your touch-tone phone.
washingtonpost.com
washingtonpost.com
Labels: American, application, passport
Friday, June 22, 2007
Sicily's mafia lands turned over to tourism
Confiscated mafia land in Sicily has been turned over to agrotourism as the island slowly comes to terms with its tumultuous past.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: agrotourism, mafia, Sicily
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Air Travel Not So Bad For Environment: UK Report
A British Airline Pilots Association report says that air travel is being used as a scapegoat for global warming and that air travel accounts for only 2-3 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
newswire.co.nz
newswire.co.nz
Labels: air travel, carbon emissions, global warming, scapegoat
QE2 set for rebirth as luxury hotel off Gulf playground
The QE2 has been sold to the Dubai World company for $118 million and will be turned into a luxury hotel to be berthed at the Palm Jumeirah tourist resort from 2009.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Dubai, Palm Jumeirah, QE2, Queen Elizabeth 2
Latvians worried about sex tourism
A media campaign has been implemented to stop sex tourism in the Latvian capital, Riga, which they claim is at risk of becoming the 'Baltic Bangkok'.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Baltic Bangkok, Latvia, Riga, sex tourism
Friday, June 15, 2007
Swiss open world's longest land tunnel
Swiss officials have inaugurated the world's longest rail link tunnel under the Alps, built to ease traffic jams in the mountainous country.
news.yahoo.com (page not found)
news.yahoo.com (page not found)
Labels: rail link, Switzerland, tunnel
Experimental jet tested at 10 times speed of sound
An experimental scramjet engine has been clocked at speeds of up to 11 000kph, or 10 times the speed of sound.
reuters.com
reuters.com
Labels: 11000kph, scramjet, speed
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Builder cuts off water to Rome's Trevi Fountain
A builder has accidentally cut the water supply to Rome's world famous Trevi Fountain, a mistake that may take several months to repair.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Rome, Trevi Fountain, water supply
Tourist space jet unveiled
A model of a jet designed to take tourists into space and weightlessness 100km above the earth has been unveiled.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Private jet travel is about to take off for friends prepared to share
An air taxi service costing little more than business-class fares has been launched, making private jets accessible to more than just the super rich.
timeonline.co.uk
timeonline.co.uk
Labels: air taxi, business-class, private jet
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
India bigfoot sightings prompt probe
Terrified Indian villagers have claimed that 'bigfoot' type hairy giants are roaming the jungles close to the borders with Bangladesh and Bhutan, prompting authorities to investigate the increased sightings.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: bigfoot, India, investigation
Ancient Rome recreated digitally
Experts have unveiled the 'largest and most complete simulation of a historic city' - a digital recreation of Rome as it looked in the peak of its power.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Ancient Rome, digital recreation, Rome
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Antwerp launches a brothel guide
Tourism officials in the Belgian capital are supporting a visitor map that recommends tourists visit a 'mega-brothel with 51 sex suites where 102 prostitutes alternately work around the clock' in the red light district.
timesonline.co.uk
timesonline.co.uk
Labels: Belgium, brothel, tourism
Friday, June 08, 2007
Concorde spare parts to be auctioned
Spare parts made for the obsolete supersonic jet Concorde are to be auctioned in France in late September to generate funds for an airplane park.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Concorde, France, spare parts
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Super jet could fit 1000, says maker
European super-jumbo manufacturer Airbus has flagged the possibility that up to 1000 passengers could one day be squeezed onto its A380.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: 1000, Airbus, passengers
Two Indonesian flights make emergency landings
Two planes belonging to separate Indonesian carriers have been forced to make emergency landings after developing technical problems in midair.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: airlines, emergency landing, Indonesian
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Illegal mining threatens Qing Dynasty tombs
China's 300-year-old Qing Dynasty tombs are being threatened by illegal mining despite their world cultural heritage status.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: China, mining, Qing Dynasty Tombs
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Egypt says no to pyramid stamps
Egypt has refused a Portugese proposal to depict the Pyramids of Giza on a set of postage stamps that will be issued to promote a contest to name the seven new wonders of the world.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Egypt, Pyramids, stamps
Monday, June 04, 2007
More Nudity Than Normal In Amsterdam
Dozens of naked women have posed on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals as part of a series of group photos by renowned US photographer Spencer Tunick.
cbsnews.com (page not found)
cbsnews.com (page not found)
Labels: Amsterdam, nude, Spencer Tunick
Labels will tell passengers the damage their flights do
A major European airline will today unveil what is claimed to be the world's first aircraft 'eco-labelling' scheme, a colour-coding system that rates what damage travelers are doing to the planet.
independent.co.uk (page not found)
independent.co.uk (page not found)
Labels: airline, eco-labelling, passengers
Friday, June 01, 2007
Melbourne to cut air fees as Tiger takes off
Melbourne Airport has cut its per passenger charge for domestic airlines, putting competing major air hubs on notice in aggressive move to encourage airlines to move more passengers through Tullamarine.
theaustralian.com.au
theaustralian.com.au
Labels: Melbourne Airport, passenger charge, Tullamarine
Toll dodgers tear road through Great Wall
A mining company has knocked down part of the Great Wall so that its trucks could deliver coal more efficiently.
guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk
Labels: China, Great Wall, mining
Loch Ness campaign for World Heritage status
World Heritage status is being sought by a group of Scottish business owners for Loch Ness.
theage.com.au
theage.com.au
Labels: Loch Ness, Scotland, World Heritage
