Hanoi, 15 December 2009 - Bhaya Cruises, the premier cruise operator in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay, has launched a series of short videos to introduce its luxury cruise vessels and the natural beauty of Ha Long Bay to prospective travelers worldwide.Filmed entirely on location in Ha Long and aboard Bhaya Cruises’ vessels, the video clips […]
Costa Cruises, the largest Italian tourism group and Europe’s number one cruise company, continues to invest in fleet quality and sustainability, with four ships in the Costa group entering dry-docks for maintenance operations totalling €66 million.The most significant works, worth approximately €55 million, are being carried out on Iberocruceros’ Grand Holiday in the S.Giorgio shipyards […]
21 Dec 09 (TravMedia.com): Calls by international cruise vessels to Sri Lanka are on the rise in the post-war era with an increasing number of cruise liners including Sri Lanka as a port of call in their itineraries according to the Middle East Office of Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau.Several cruise lines had changed their […]
P&O Cruises has celebrated the start of Pacific Sun’s maiden Western Australian cruise season today with news that the ship will return in 2011 for a second cruise season.Ann Sherry, CEO of Carnival Australia, which operates P&O Cruises, made the announcement of a second season onboard Pacific Sun in Fremantle this morning as the ship […]
A railway company in Japan is planning to install special cameras on its Tokyo commuter trains to help solve the problem of groping on public transport. According to a BBC report, the cameras are to be introduced on the Saikyo line. Japanese police receive approximately 2,000 complaints of groping every year, the report said
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The UNESCO-listed town of Hoi An, in central Vietnam, will open at night from 2 January 2010, offering sightseeing sites along with F&B services. According to a Thanh Nien News report, visitors will be able to choose places they want to go to instead of being restricted to places listed on tickets, as happens during […]
Shanghai Metro’s Line 9 will be extended to the ancient town of Songjiang, in the southwest of the city, according to a Shanghai Morning Post report. Construction will begin on 30 December, and is expected to open in 2012. The new Metro stretch, with three new stations, will cost an estimated CNY2.7 billion (US$393 million), […]
BRASOV, Romania - Thick morning fog was lifting from Council Square, slowly dissipating as the sun pressed above the rim of the nearby mountains and pastel buildings glowed in the brightening light. At that moment, as the cool air carried a scent of burning from distant fields, it struck me that I was quite far […]
WHO: Alice Foote, 65, of Wilmette, Ill., with sons Mike Foote, 30, of Montpelier, and Jesse Foote, 30, and his wife, Beth Huston, 29, of Jamaica Plain.WHERE: China.WHEN: Two weeks in July.WHY: To view the total solar eclipse on July 22. “It was my mom’s idea,’’ Mike Foote said. “She’s a retired teacher and an […]
Hong Kong is the first choice of many Chinese mainland residents when they travel abroad, according to the Beijing office of Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) Friday, quoting survey results. More than 90 percent of over 8,000 netizens on the Chinese mainland surveyed said Hong Kong is the very place they hope to visit most, said […]