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  • Goa turns into an employment hub for Nepalese

    Goa has emerged as the favourite destination for Nepalese as hundreds get employment in the hospitality industry here. Tourism and the hotel industry flourish in Goa and the hotels and restaurants in Panaji employ a large number of people from Nepal. Offering enticing opportunities, good pay packages and other facilities; the industry has turned into a hub for employment for them. Viren, a ...

  • American Airlines introduces DIY bag tagging

    American Airlines released plans to speed up the boarding process and now it has redirected its attention to checking-in, with the introduction of DIY bag tagging. Passengers flying with the airline and checking in at Miami International Airport are now able to place tags on their own bags, a system officials expect to save travellers time, particularly during peak hours, WSVN.com ...

  • 20 years on South Africa plans tourism anniversary aims for more growth

    "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. ...

  • Mid and Far West Tourism festival held in Kathmandu

    Artists dance during the second day of the three-day Mid and Far West Tourism festival in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, on May 25, 2013. (Xinhua/Sunil ...

  • Hainan Airlines increase weekly flights to Abu Dhabi

    Abu Dhabi International Airport will receive a total of 1,065 flights a week this summer, up 15 percent on the same period last year, its operator has ...


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Space Jam

As we drove home from the theater, a friend and I were having a heated discussion about the merits of the new Michael Jordan movie "Space Jam." Personally, I hated it. I saw it as shameless attempt by Warner Brothers to ransack the Looney Tunes by ripping them out of their environment and dropping them in the middle of a computerized live action/animation film whose main purposes is to advertise ... ...

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  • Skagit bridge plan revealed feds will pay 90 percent

    The temporary replacement section for the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River will carry two lanes in each direction, as shown in this rendering, and should be open to drivers in mid-June. Gov. Jay Inslee today announced a plan to build a temporary I-5 bridge over the Skagit River, saying the state hopes to open the span to vehicles in mid-June. The interim fix will hold two lanes in each direction ...

  • Sanya farm tourism attracts large amount of foreign investment

    Sanya, a famous tourism city at home and abroad, has great investment prospects in the tourism industry in its agricultural areas, which have been attracting a great deal of foreign investment in recent years. At the recent Pan-PRD Regional Economic & Trade Cooperation Fair in Changsha, the Hainan State Farms Bureau signed off on 9 tourism industry projects, and all of them are located in ...

  • Sports tourism may help offset low numbers at Coast hotels

    GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - Hotel occupancy numbers on the Coast are down. But, while this holiday weekend may not be as rosy as tourism leaders would like. There might be a light in an unlikely form. Sports tourism may help offset the low numbers. With the crack of a bat, this Memorial Day weekend on the Coast is filled with softball. About 80 teams came to Gulfport from Mississippi, Alabama, ...

  • Tourism boss slams cuts

    Tourism Minister Kim Hames has to stand up for his portfolio and demand Budget cuts affecting marketing be excluded from the latest round of WA Government belt-tightening, according to senior industry figures.The cuts were announced at the weekend, affecting Tourism WA's marketing budget ahead of the winter slowdown which operators fear could lead to serious business losses.Under the plan, ...

  • Tourism giant set to buy Cadrona resort

    Source: Supplied by Chris Prudden Tourism giant Real Journeys says it has been named as the preferred bidder in the sale of Cardrona Alpine Resort. Speculation was reported last week that the firm was among the companies interested in buying the ski field near Wanaka, which was put on the market in February. The firm's chief executive, Richard Lauder, later released a statement saying the ...

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