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It's why officials at Park City Mountain Resort brought in members of the Northern Ute Tribe to perform a snow blessing. On Saturday, they prayed, danced and chanted as hundreds of helmet-clad skiers and boarders watched and hoped the ritual would ...
Egypt tourism earnings fall 30% in 2011
AFP
CAIRO — Revenues from Egypt's lucrative tourist industry dropped by 30 percent in 2011 due to unrest that rocked the country following the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak, the minister of tourism said on Sunday. Munir Fakhri Abdel Nur told reporters ...
AFP
Laos Tourism Interview - ATF 2012 - HD
YouTube
Interview with Mr Saly Phimphinith Director-General Tourism Marketing Department Laos at ASEANTourism Forum 2012 in Manado, Indonesia. In this HD video interview, Mr Phimphinith tells us about his plans for ATF 2013 which will take place in Vientiane ...
Coffee Tourism in Latin America
Fox News
Coffee tourism exists all throughout Latin America – you can even stay at B&B's where the beans for your coffee come from the bushes right outside your window. These days, many people are traveling to places specifically to learn about the food and ...
Tourism industry suffers big losses in Tunisia
Al Jazeera
Tunisia's tourism minister says his country has lost almost half of its European tourists since the revolution a year ago. More than a million people work in the tourism industry, and the government desperately needs visitors to start coming back. ...
Agency to vote on proposed Adirondack resort
Wall Street Journal
AP ALBANY, NY — The Adirondack Park Agency plans to vote this week on whether to approve a proposed 6200-acre, year-round resort and residential development in Tupper Lake. The agency, a sort of zoning board for the Adirondack Park, will consider the ...
EAC single tourist visa likely to fail
East African
Rwanda's Minister of East African Community Affairs, Monique Mukaruliza says that much as Rwanda is ready to implement the EAC single tourist visa, it cannot go it alone. The EAC Sectoral Council on Tourism and Wildlife Management is not happy too, ...
We respect beach tourism, says Brotherhood
Al-Masry Al-Youm
Saying it wants to boost tourism, the Muslim Brotherhood has issued assurances that it will not seek to impose stringent restrictions on foreign tourists. In a meeting on Sunday with members of the Egyptian Businessmen Association, Ahmed Suleiman, ...
Ski resort happy to see snow falling
WIVB
The return of Old Man Winter is a welcome sight to many local businesses, especially the ones in ski country.
Gay Tourist Marriages Create a Headache for Canada
Arbitrage Magazine
By Khristopher Reardon, Staff Writer A story came out earlier this week that caused a bit of undeserved hatred towards certain politicians. It was a news story about how the Canadian government was suiting up to dissolve thousands of gay marriages of ...
Bay Valley Resort & Conference Center owners plan to open prep academy for ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
By Shannon Murphy | The Bay City Times View full sizeThe new owners of Bay ValleyResort & Conference Center hope to use it to house international students and help them adjust to life in America. FRANKENLUST TWP. — Living and working in Shanghai, ...
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Tourism board clamps down on craft market
Cayman News Service
(CNS): Reports of improper conduct by vendors, poor customer service and the sale of unauthorised products at the Cayman craft market has led to the Tourism Attraction Board instigating a new set of rules. The code of conduct prohibits the use of ...
Beijing sees brisk tourism business in 2011
Xinhua
15 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese capital's tourism sector experienced a brisk year in 2011 as it received a record 200 million domestic travellers and five million visitors from overseas, according to a government document. The number of domestic tourists to ...
The Greenbrier: Resort lays off 100 to offset loss
Beckley Register-Herald
By Sarah Plummer Register-Herald Reporter WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — Due to a $13 million loss during the winter season in 2011, The Greenbrier has laid off around 100 of the resort's 1850 employees in what owner Jim Justice hopes is a temporary, ...
Police to take action for 'Jarawa tourism' advertisements: DGP
Daily News & Analysis
Place: Port Blair | Agency: PTI Cracking the whip, the Andaman & Nicobar police today warned tour operators of stern action if they resort to 'Jarawa tourism' by offering tourists any glimpse of the near extinct tribe as part of their package. ...
Sustainable tourism need of the hour
Hindustan Times
Simply, by touting this as a spot for tourism. Instead of preserving this vulnerable heritage, Odisha's department of tourism is inviting people to disturb this breeding turtle. At a time when the tourismindustry is finding ways to become sustainable, ...
New tourist spots promoted during Dakar Rally in Peru
Andina - Agencia Peruana de Noticias
“Peru's image in the 2012 Dakar Rally will generate a lot of tourism and visits as people have discovered new tourist places. The desert has a huge potential,” the president of IPD told TVPeru. Speaking from the Plaza de Armas of Lima, Boza emphasized ...
Tourism-wise, Philippines was not fun in 2009–NSO
Business Mirror
Here's something for the Department of Tourism to mull over. In 2009, it definitely wasn't fun in the Philippines (the DOT recently adopted "It's more fun in the Philippines" as the tourism slogan; in 2009, it was Wow! ...
The tourism product needs to be nurtured so Caribbean economies can grow
Stabroek News
By David Jessop | 0 Comments | Features, Sunday | Sunday, January 15, 2012 In a week's time Caribbean Market Place, the Caribbean Hotels and Tourism Association's (CHTA) premier annual business event will take place in Nassau. This very large gathering ...
Dubai Tourism reviews 2011 performance
Trade Arabia
The meeting also reviewed a report, prepared by the DTCM, about the global tourism and travel trends and their potential impact and benefits to the Dubai tourism industry in terms of hotel occupancies and tourist arrivals for the year 2012. ...
Thieves steal from tourist train
The West Australian
Thieves have stolen irreplaceable parts from steam trains at the Hotham Valley Tourist Railway in Pinjarra. The railway is one of the oldest preserved railways in Australia and a backbone of the Peel tourism industry, taking in almost half a million ...
The West Australian
British man has passport tattooed on back
UPI.com
15 (UPI) -- A British man had his passport tattooed on his back and even used the image as an ID to take money out of the bank, he said. Richard Ashton, 27, told The Sun he had his passport inked on his back while backpacking in Australia in 2006. ...
The focus of tourism globally is shifting towards the East: David Kong
Business Standard
Clearly, the focus of tourism globally is shifting towards the East. The hospitality industry in India has been eroding its competitiveness as a cost effective destination. What is your take on this? If you look at the rates charged at the five or ...
Business Standard
Two-state organization encourages tourism, recreation on the river
Quad City Times
It would only benefit tourism in the Quad-Cities. It could be a big win for our community." An immediate benefit for the Quad-Cities would be to encourage some of the 8 million people who live in the Chicago area to paddle down to the Quad-Cities' ...
Pike County Tourism moves to new location
Williamson Daily News
“We have a great relationship with the tourism commission and I – just like them – see tourism as one of the most viable economic development tools available.” Formerly located in the old C&O railcar on Hambley Boulevard, Pike County Tourism Executive ...
M. Resort President Opposes Online Poker Legalization
Tight Poker
By Renee | January 15, 2012 Anthony Marnell III, the president of M. Resort, has stated that he opposed the legalization and regulation of the US online poker industry. In an interview he had recently given Nevada Newsmakers, Marnell made remarks ...
Cebu firm opens new tourist destination
The Online Zamboanga Times
CEBU CITY — Islands Sinulog Square, a new tourism complex located on Magallanes St., Cebu City, hopes to position itself as a “new hub” for all tourism-related activities, including a jump-off point for unique walking tour concepts. ...
Denver's 2012 calendar is a tourism magnet
Denver Post
Denver's tourism cheerleaders are trumpeting 2012 as The Big Year that will push the city into the top tier of American tourist destinations. One of the stone lions brought back from Egypt by Titanic survivor Molly Brown sits in front of the woman's ...
CM banks on tourism to earn revenue
Times of India
During the inauguration of the Digha Beach Festival on Friday evening, Mamata had spoken at length over the state's tourism potential. While pressing for the upgrade of existing tourist destinations like Darjeeling, the Sunderbans and Digha, ...
Croatian Tourism: Interview with Alan Mandic from Secret Dalmatia ...
With 1.2 million more tourists in 2011 than the corresponding period two years previously, Croatiantourism is officially booming. The National Tourist Board's marketing campaign based around the slogan, The Mediterranean as it Once Was ...
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Ski resort happy to see snow falling | WIVB.com
By Bryan Shaw
The return of Old Man Winter is a welcome sight to many local businesses, especially the ones in ski country.
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USA: INTERNATIONAL TOURISM TO HELP THE ECONOMY ...
By World Footprints Media
The USA is beginning to learn from its mistakes done in the wake of 9/11 and realizes that it needs the international tourists it used to take for granted. International tourism is seen as one of the ways to solve the country's financial woes.
World Footprints Travel Radio
Tourism in Kuwait - 2:48AM
By Mark
Tourism in Kuwait. Have guests coming to Kuwait and not sure where to take them? Architecture of Kuwait have posted a handy schedule although I personally don't agree with some of their activities (flight simulation?) as well as some of their ...
2:48AM
International Tourism Fair in Vienna Promotes Ionian Islands ...
By Fani Toli
Ionian Islands Prefect, Spiros Spirou, addressing a Press Conference at the international fair for holidays, travel and leisure in Vienna, in which Greece.
Greek Reporter Europe
Minister of Tourism presents cheques on behalf of FCCA.
By info@smn-news.com (SMN-NEWS TEAM)
Philipsburg:--- Minister of Economic & Tourism Affairs, Telecommunications & Transport Hon. Franklin Meyers, on Thursday presented students Alyssa Sadheidha Clarke (St. Maarten Academy) and St. Dominic High student Kamila Gumbs (a ...
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Say Anything » North Dakota's Tourism Ad Debacle Is More Than ...
By Rob Port
It was a bad week for the North Dakota Tourism Department and their new tourism campaign for 2012, put together by the ubiquitous (and politically well-connected) Odney advertising firm (try finding a state-funded ad campaign in North ...
Say Anything
Being A Voluntourist: Embracing the Role of Tourist as a Volunteer
By The VolunTourist
Ill-conceived attire, accoutrements that speak like neon signs, and uncouth verbal assaults on the language of a destination are but some of the items that come to mind when we are confronted with the word “tourist.” Donald L. Redfoot, in his ...
VolunTourism.org
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TOONPOOL Cartoons - Tourist by caknuta-chajanka, tagged travel, tourist, tourism - Category Media & Culture - rated 5.00 / 5.00. ... (medium) by caknuta-chajanka tagged travel,tourist,tourism. Tourist. Click to enlarge | Send as e-Card Tweet ...
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United States Passport Renewal For Minors | Travel News
By Jasper Wyncliffe
passport renewal. Obtaining a passport for a minor can be an extremely tough task for any parent. With new laws to prevent child abduction and trafficking, passport renewal by mail is simply not an option. Parents should begin the application ...
Travel News
N.D. tourism director says ad not meant to be racy | Grand Forks ...
Instead, some found it a tawdry come-on, prompting the state's tourism ... Manitoba is one of North Dakota's primary tourist markets; many residents travel south ...
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Passport officials expect to reject many photos - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Passport Canada is expecting a surge in business this year, as five-year passports expire and people get them renewed, and based on past ...
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