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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 ...

  • 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 ...


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Man of Aran [DVD]

Man of Aran [DVD]

Robert Flaherty, who is widely regarded as being responsible for developing the feature documentary genre with his 1922 masterpiece Nanook of the North, spent two years of his life filming the residents of the rocky islands of Aran off the western coast of Ireland. The resulting film, Man of Aran, which is a heady mix of documentary realism and mythical exaggeration, is a spellbindi ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Korean airlines fixing sights on Chinese market

    Korean Yonhap News Agency (YNA) recently reported that along with the booming of Chinese tourists travelling to Korean, the number of flights between China and Korea has exceeded those between Korea and Japan ...

  • Intl. Seminar on Journalism and Tourism Starts in Cuba

    Havana, June 17 (Prensa Latina) An International Seminar on Journalism and Tourism started today in this capital with a study of routes and cultural proposals in Havana and the potentials of the tourism industry in Cuba. At least 48 communications professionals from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba have gathered for a week for this ninth seminar at the Jose ...

  • Hong Kong turns airport into cruise terminal

    Hong Kong has turned a former airport into an HK$8.2 billion ($1.1 billion) cruise terminal as the city seeks to woo wealthy Chinese travelers to help it become Asia's hub for luxury ...

  • Finnair opens routes to Xi’an and Hanoi

    ?????? ??? ???????? ?????????? ??? ????????? ?. ?????? ?????????? ???? 41? ??????? ?????? ????????? ??? ?.?.?- --> HONG KONG - Finnair begins flying to Hanoi and Xi'an , further sharpening the airline's strategic focus on transfer traffic between Asia and Europe. Currently the only European carrier offering direct connections between the two cities and Europe, Finnair also offers ...

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