To hell with the downturn, Jane E. Fraser reveals the latest travel trends.Set aside the tales of gloom some sectors of the travel industry are selling their socks off and savvy travellers are finding destinations and holiday options that offer great value for tight budgets.Britain and EuropeAustralians are flocking to the traditionally expensive destinations of […]
LOS ANGELES - Move over, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The hot new Southern California tourist attractions are the restaurants, boutiques, and tattoo parlors where some of reality television’s most popular shows are filmed.Tourists from as far away as Germany fly in to visit the West Hollywood tattoo shop featured in the Learning Channel’s “LA Ink.’’ Fans […]
At least 66 people have been injured in a mass pile-up involving 259 cars on a motorway in Germany. Ten people are said to be fighting for their lives in hospital after the huge crash near Hanover. Source: BBC.
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Melbourne residents will wake up this week to a significantly enhanced local transportation network, with over 230 new train services added to their already growing metropolitan system. In addition, the Melbourne Age has reported that the city’s iconic tram system will add almost 100 further frequencies to its schedule in an endeavour to relieve the […]
Authorities in Cannes have banned naturists from a public beach after the southern French town’s yacht club complained the naked bathers had begun to get out of hand.Naturists have been tolerated for years on Palm Beach, which lies directly in front of the exclusive club.But the yacht club said they had recently begun exposing themselves […]
Costa Crociere SpA, Europe’s number one cruise company, has announced that it will become the first international cruise company operating in China to introduce regular Taiwan cruise itineraries for mainland tour groups, from January 2010. Offering 15 cruises throughout the year, the Taiwan cruise itinerary will depart from Hong Kong aboard the Costa Classica to […]
THE BASICSThe Hotel Fasano was the talk of Rio in 2007, eclipsing the fabled Copacabana Palace as the top play den for Brazil ’s rich and famous. While the initial hype may have faded and celebrity sightings are less common, the Philippe Starck -designed hotel still retains an aura of exclusivity, especially from its bossa […]
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S iconic Huntington Beach Pier is essentially a boardwalk peninsula, an ambling parade extending a third of a mile into the Pacific: fishermen, seal watchers, teenagers swinging shopping bags, retirees taking measure of a distant oil rig, boyfriends informing girlfriends they could totally dive into the water if they wanted to. Then, every so […]
The owner of the QE2 is considering opening the iconic ocean liner as a floating hotel elsewhere in the Middle East or Africa, rather than in the Dubai. Nakheel said it was evaluating options for the ship ahead of a planned refurbishment and that other ports had expressed interest in hosting the ship.South Africa’s Business […]
The Victorian government has been accused of pulling up short with its new trams. According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, the new trams are about 32 metres long - two metres longer than some recently built passenger platforms. The government says it is still working out which routes the new trams will take and […]