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  • Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland

    A flight from Melbourne to Qatar was diverted to India on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to save an Irish man on board. The man, Raymond McMorrow, 68, is believed to have had a heart attack on board Qatar Airways flight QR 031 while in transit from Melbourne to Doha, the Qatar capital. The Qatar Airways plane landed without incident at Cochin Airport, in southern India, where an ...

  • New frontiers new risks How safe is space tourism

    When choosing between two evils, Mae West quipped that she always picked the one she’d never tried before. Had the actress been ovulating at the time, however, a new study suggests she’d ...

  • Cableway to lift tourism says alliance

    THE president of the new Gold Coast and Hinterland Business Alliance believes Mount Tamborine has the edge over Springbrook in the cableway stakes.Bob Janssen said his alliance supported a cableway to the Hinterland and he said Mount Tamborine had the advantage because it already had extensive infrastructure."It has Gallery Walk, a lot of retail stores, other attractions and it is already ...

  • Total Revenue and Profit Growth for European Hoteliers During April 2013

    European Chain Hotels Market Review - April 2013 Total Revenue and Gross Operating Profit growth was achieved throughout Europe from Amsterdam to Warsaw, according to the latest HotStats survey. Amongst the eight cities surveyed this month, the biggest year-on-year profit gains (+76.7%) were experienced in Cologne followed by Dublin (+50.2%), Paris (+20.8%) and Amsterdam (+19.1%). Whilst ...

  • Middle East instability means tourism growth for Oman

    This year, hotels in Muscat have witnessed the strongest growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR), STR Global said in a statement. Regional instability has caused revenues in the Omani capital's tourism industry to grow by more than 15 per cent in the first four months of 2013, according to data released by STR Global. "Due to various reasons, tourists do not prefer Egypt and ...


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Dan in Real Life

Dan in Real Life

The title of Dan in Real Life is drawn from the fictional newspaper column written by Dan Burns (Steve Carell), a widowed father of three precocious daughters. His is one of those advice columns in which struggling people write in to someone they've never met and receive va ... ...

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  • Group discusses safety of space tourism

    The spacecraft SpaceShipTwo, center, carried by cargo aircraft WhiteKnightTwo, circles over Spaceport America Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 in Upham, N.M. Space-industry watchers expressed concern this week that the emerging space tourism sector is not being candid enough about the safety risks for travellers. (AP Photo/Matt ...

  • Hemingway Tournament Promotes Cuban Tourism

    Havana, May 25 (Prensa Latina) The 63 International Billfishing Tournament Ernest Hemingway prints greater attraction to the Cuban tourism industry because it diversify recreational modalities. Besides sports competition, this type of event highlights in the interest of thousands of people in the world who want an active holiday, where fishing is the main attraction. Visitors to this archipelago ...

  • US Hotel Occupancy Up 1.3 Week Ending May 18th - 2013

    ADR increases 3.8% to US$110.86 The U.S. hotel industry reported positive results in the three key performance metrics during the week of 12-18 May 2013, according to data from STR. In year-over-year comparisons, occupancy was up 1.3 percent to 66.8 percent, average daily rate rose 3.8 percent to US$110.86 and revenue per available room increased 5.2 percent to US$74.04. Among the Top 25 ...

  • Five climbers feared dead on Nepal mountainside

    Officials in Nepal said five missing mountain climbers were likely killed by an avalanche on Mount Kanchenjunga earlier this week. The Nepal tourism ministry said the group went missing while descending the mountain and included climbers from Nepal, Hungary and South Korea. "All our efforts to trace them have failed," Mingma Sherpa, the organizer of the expedition, told the BBC. ...

  • Men threatened to blow up plane Two arrested after RAF jet is scrambled to escort Pakistan Airlines passenger plane to London Stansted Airport

    Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a passenger aircraft was escorted through British airspace by fighter jets and redirected to land at Stansted airport in ...

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