Special Report: Spring Festival Special 2009 Shanghai has received 1.57 million tourists in the first three days of the weeklong holiday of traditional Spring Festival, according to local authorities on Wednesday. Statistics from the holiday management office of Shanghai municipal government showed that the number was up 4.7 percent from the same period of […]
Mondo Konoba may be the best little restaurant that you may never reach. It is what eating in the Old World should feel like. Just be warned that you’ll have to work for it.Istria , the part of Croatia that’s closest to Italy , was under its neighbor’s rule until the end of World War […]
VAIL does not have the charm of Telluride . Nor does it exude the glitz of Aspen . Even Breckenridge, arguably, has better night life. But the one thing that Vail does have is great snow: some 5,300 skiable acres with a seven-mile-long mountain face, 193 trails and not one but seven bowls. That hasn’t […]
More than 9000 people from 162 countries have joined the race to score a $150,000 tropical island dream job on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef.Tourism Queensland’s Best Job in the World promotion gained worldwide attention when it launched earlier this month, offering a six-month gig in which the successful applicant will live in a luxury Hamilton […]
A ship carrying hundreds of passengers stuck in the ice in the Saint Lawrence Seaway off Matane in eastern Canada has been freed, news reports said.Ice breaker Terry Fox succeeded to clear a path for the stricken CTMA Vacancier with 300 people on board on Tuesday afternoon.However, a second ship, the Georges-Alexandre-Lebel, a cargo ship […]
‘I’d like Cleopatra to have shown me the wonders of the Nile’First holiday memory?The first holiday that was a bit out of the ordinary was when I was 14. A friend and I went to Cannes, where we combined morning dance lessons with afternoon beach life. It was great! We met lovely girls, learnt a […]
If Austin Powers visited Paris, the Murano Urban Resort, on the sketchier fringes of the hip Marais district, is where he’d stay. But while this hotel’s retro decor is sunny and playful, the Parisian crowd takes it very seriously indeed. It’s quite an art to remain poker-faced while being eyeballed by the red plastic alligators […]
The world’s biggest observation wheel reopened Monday after a pre-Christmas fire trapped passengers for hours and led to a one-month shutdown of the attraction.Singapore Flyer spokesmen said it had obtained, late Sunday, the licence allowing it to operate again.The Flyer said authorities issued their approval after German-based firm TUV SUD gave the attraction “a clean […]
A technical malfunction shut Frankfurt international airport for nearly an hour on Thursday, causing the cancellation of 75 flights as well as the re-routing of 25 inbound flights to other airports, authorities said.The airport, one of Europe’s busiest with about 500,000 traffic movements per year, was out of service from 6.35 am to 7.25 am […]
The Gold Coast used to be all about the sun, surf and sand.But after 50 years as one of Australia’s leading tourist hotspots, it’s evolved into much, much more. Where else can you go on wine trails, hike rugged mountains, jet-boat and hug koalas all within 50km of one another? And if money is no […]