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  • Marilyn Monroe voted passengers dream flight attendant

    Passengers of American Airlines have chosen Marilyn Monroe as their dream flight attendant and George Clooney as the ideal pilot, in a survey. Monroe was voted the first-choice fantasy flight attendant with 22 per cent of the overall votes, followed by Audrey Hepburn at 20 per cent, News.com.au reported. The survey was done in two categories - Hollywood's golden age and the modern-day ...

  • Railways to launch ticket booking through non-internet based mobile phones

    With an aim to further facilitate the passengers, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC),a public sector undertaking of the Ministry of Railways, will launch a pilot project of ticketing through non-internet based mobile phones with effect from July 1. This will enable people using non-internet based mobile phones to easily access Railway ticketing services through ...

  • Airlines performance improves lags other industries U.S. poll

    (Reuters) - U.S. consumers are more satisfied with airlines in recent years but the industry still gets relatively low marks, mainly due to the onboard experience, according to a new customer poll released on ...

  • Study shows airlines dont rank high in customer satisfaction

    It's a good news, bad news story for airline customer satisfaction: Scores are the best in nearly two decades, but consumers still love to hate airlines more than most any other industry, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Despite raising its benchmark score 2 points, to 69 out of 100, the airline industry beat only cable TV companies and ...

  • Rwanda gets ready to launch religious tourism circuit in Kihebo

    (eTN) - The Tourism and Conservation Department of the Rwanda Development Board will this week launch the country's first religious tourism product, focusing on the Kibeho area in Southern Rwanda. On November 28, 1981 the first apparitions were reported from that little village, with teenagers talking of having seen the images of Mary, mother of Jesus, something that kept occurring time ...


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Pay It Forward

It's hard to know exactly what to think about a film like Pay It Forward. It is blatantly obvious how the filmmakers want you to feel and thus respond: by weeping in both celebration of the human spirit and in pain at the ugliness of the world. But, responding emotionally to a film and actually thinking about it are two very different things, and Pay It Forward is the ... ...

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  • Mubadala JV buys Saadiyat Island homes project

    A joint venture between Abu Dhabi investment fund Mubadala and US-based Prudential Financial has bought a newly built residential development on Saadiyat Island from the emirate's loss-making tourism development ...

  • Taiwan county opens tourism office in Xiamen

    Taiwan 's Penghu county has opened a representative office in China's coastal city of Xiamen. At the office's founding ceremony on Sunday, Wang Chien-fa, head of the county, said, "Xiamen's tourism industry has seen fast development, and we hope more people in the mainland will be attracted to visit Penghu with our promotion." Xiamen is a coastal city in ...

  • Report gives tourism power

    Shire of Augusta-Margaret River tourism stakeholders say the district has the green light to demand more money and resources for local tourism projects following the release of a State Government industry development strategy last week.The South West Development Commission released its finalised Tourism Futures South West report on Monday in which Margaret River was the centrepiece for driving ...

  • Nyungwe women’s cooperative benefits from tourism income

    (eTN) - The Rwanda Development Board's (RDB) Tourism and Conservation Department, led by Ms. Rica Rwigamba, is the country's custodian body to not just promote the country abroad but also to manage the country's three national parks and tourism attractions and conserve the precious wildlife, foremost, of course, the prized mountain gorillas. Ms. Rica was, in fact, saying ahead of ...

  • In Transit Blog More Google Maps for Bikes

    The Louvre at night. As short-term bicycle rentals like Paris' Velib bikes expand in cities worldwide, navigating by bike has proposed a new set of challenges, including what's the least trafficked route between X and Y? Google Maps, which began providing bike directions in the United States and Canada in 2010 and in nine European countries in ...

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