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Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2022

EU ministers to study call for ban on Russian tourists SOURCE: EURACTIV.com with AFP

The venue of the EU ministerial meeting which will discuss on 30 August 2022 an appeal led by Ukraine to ban Russian tourists from visiting Europe. [Czech Presidency website]

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

The Real Cost of Cruises | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix

Friday, August 10, 2018

Why Does Airline Food Taste So Bad? Turns Out, It’s All Your Fault by Barbara Peterson FROM Conde Nast Traveler

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

The Growing Global Problem of Overtourism FROM The Wire BY Claudio Milano and Joseph M Cheer and Marina Novelli

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Trump Immigration Debacle May Cost US Tourism Industry $3 Billion BY Kevin Drum FROM Mother Jones

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

"The America That I Have Seen" by the Egyptian Sayyid Qutb



Here is an essay entitled "The America That I Have Seen" by the Egyptian Sayyid Qutb published in 1951. He was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. Some of his observations are rather interesting.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Resentment of first-class passengers can be a cause of air rage FROM The Economist

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Why is Japan such an unpopular tourist destination? FROM Japan Today

Friday, April 15, 2011

You Can Now Rent Entire Villages On Airbnb. Oh, And An Entire Country Too! MG Siegler FROM TechCrunch

"Rent a Village by Xnet partners with these destinations to transform them into highly customized settings for events, corporate retreats, conferences, and more."

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Is the 'ugly American' label fading? By A. Pawlowski FROM CNN

"Over the years, many U.S. travelers have worried about what kind of welcome they might receive when they leave home -- whether because U.S. culture and foreign policy are disliked in some parts of the world or because of the stereotype that brands U.S. visitors as loud, demanding, too casually dressed and unversed in local culture."

Monday, October 4, 2010

When Stewardesses Were Hot and Jets Were Cool by HUGH HEFNER FROM The WSJ

"Stewardesses used to look like Bond Girls; now they look like your mother." 
Maybe in the US, but not in Asia.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Wikitravel: Have Web, Will Travel By DAN FLETCHER FROM Time

"It takes its anyone-can-edit philosophy, too, and applies it to the travel world"

Monday, May 3, 2010

Shanghai World Expo: glory outside but a mess inside by Mo Yu

"But one essential thing they miss: the World Expo itself."

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Passengers again free to move around cabin FROM MSNBC

" On the plane, crew announced that the toilets would be shut down the last hour of the flight and passengers would not be able eat, drink, or use electronic devices."
Only read the article up to "What now?"

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Inside a flight attendant's not-so-glam life By A. Pawlowski FROM CNN

"The chance to see the world while offering an important service still lures many men and women to the job, and the flight attendants who spoke with CNN said they enjoy what they do. But they also described work that can be draining and sometimes given little respect."

Friday, March 27, 2009

Why Asia Has the World's Best Airports By Moon Ihlwan FROM BusinessWeek

"Where is the world's best airport? Seoul, according to the annual Airport Service Quality Survey released this month by Geneva-based Airports Council International. Asia practically swept the survey's top honors, winning four—Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Nagoya, Japan—of the first five spots in the ranking. Nova Scotia's Halifax was the only non-Asian airport in the top five."

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Air Travel Won't Suck in 2093 By Dave Demerjian FROM Wired

"The Finnish carrier is celebrating its 85th anniversary and, curious to see how air travel might look that far in the future, invited academics, business types and journalists to tell us what we might see in 2093. Their vision is laid out on the website Departure 2093: Five Visions on Future Flying, and it includes sleek planes that run on algae and venture into space, airlines that offer everything from personal flight attendants to pre-flight yoga and an industry that — gasp! — runs efficiently."

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Fewer flights, higher fares By Aaron Smith FROM CNN Money.com

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As oil prices continue to break records, the nation's six leading airlines have announced capacity cuts for 2008, trimming flights in major hubs and cutting off service to dozens of discount destinations.

All told, the industry will cut capacity by 9% in 2008, according to James Higgins, analyst for Soleil-Solebury Research.

Experts are also expecting more fare increases. Tom Parsons, travel pricing expert at BestFares.com, said airlines have imposed about a dozen fare increases or fuel surcharges since the end of last year.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Feds want to require visitors' fingerprints when leaving US by EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer, FROM Yahoo!

Tue Apr 22, 2:42 AM ET

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration would require commercial airlines and cruise-line operators to collect information such as fingerprints from international travelers and send the information to the Homeland Security Department soon after the travelers leave the country, according to a proposed rule.

The proposal, which will be announced Tuesday, will close a security gap identified after the 9/11 attacks and identify which visitors have overstayed their visas.

Airlines and cruise ship operators must already provide the department with biographical information on international passengers before they leave the country. But this rule would require biometric information — such as fingerprints — to be collected and then transmitted within 24 hours of a visitor leaving the U.S., according to a Homeland Security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not yet been made.

Over 10 years, officials estimate it will cost air and sea carriers about $2.7 billion to carry out the requirement. The department plans to enforce the rule by June 30, 2009. Some air carriers have complained the federal government should cover the cost of implementing this rule.

U.S. officials already collect fingerprints from visitors when they come into the country, but the administration has yet to complete the exit portion of the tracking program — known as US-VISIT.

Lawmakers, including Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., have pressed the department to roll out its biometric exit system for more than a year.

"Any uncertainty about who is entering and leaving our country is an unacceptable risk that must be addressed," Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement Monday.

There will be a 60-day comment period for the proposed rule.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Lonely Planet's bad trip FROM The Daily Telegraph

THE Lonely Planet guidebook empire is reeling from claims by one of its authors that he plagiarised and made up large sections of his books and dealt drugs to make up for poor pay.

Thomas Kohnstamm also claims in a new book that he accepted free travel, in contravention of the company's policy.

His revelations have rocked the travel publisher, which sells more than six million guides a year.

Mr Kohnstamm, whose book is titled Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?, said yesterday that he had worked on more than a dozen books for Lonely Planet, including its titles on Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Chile and South America.

In one case, he said he had not even visited the country he wrote about.

"They didn't pay me enough to go Colombia,'' he said.

"I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating - an intern in the Colombian Consulate.

"They don't pay enough for what they expect the authors to do.''

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