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January 31, 2005Is Bigger Really Best?These are the days when smaller is better - as in iPods, BlackBerrys and tiny phones that take pictures - but for European leaders bruised by Washington of late, the unveiling of the hulking new A380 jumbo jet was a...Read this update January 30, 2005Man peed way out of avalancheA Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it. Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days...Read this update Trot of bother as pony raids storeFrom correspondents in London SHOPPERS at a British supermarket were astonished to find a pony alongside them browsing the shelves. The Daily Express said customers at a Cardiff branch of Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket chain, were joined by a stray...Read this update Posted by Joe E on January 30, 2005 09:36 PM
Category: Thai resorts ready, eager for return of tourist dollarsBy Ben Stocking Mercury News Vietnam Bureau PHUKET, Thailand - Just one month after the Asian tsunami battered the tourist mecca of Phuket, life is back to normal across most of the island -- with one glaring exception. The tourists...Read this update January 29, 2005Fox Says U.S. Travel Alert Won't Harm TiesLISA J. ADAMS Associated Press MEXICO CITY - A flap with the United States over violence on Mexico's northern border does not threaten the two nations' strong relationship, though Mexican officials maintain Washington went too far with a travel alert,...Read this update January 27, 2005Backpackers To Prop Up Post Tsunami Thai TourismLow-budget, international backpackers will prop up Thailand's crippled travel industry, after tsunamis killed more than 5,300 people, destroyed beach resorts and made wealthier tourists fearful, the author of Lonely Planet's Thailand guide books said. From Backpackers To Prop Up Post...Read this update January 26, 2005Millions ready for China New YearBEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China's peak Lunar New Year travel season, the world's biggest annual human migration, began on Tuesday and about 2 billion journeys are expected across China in the next 40 days, state media has said. From Millions...Read this update January 21, 2005Delta posts record losses for quarter, '04Delta Air Lines (DAL) last month dodged a bankruptcy filing, but it couldn't dodge records for the largest losses in airline history. The USA's No. 3 carrier said Thursday that it lost an unprecedented $2.2 billion, or $16.58 a share,...Read this update January 20, 2005Super JetAirbus today unveiled the world's largest civilian aircraft, capable of carrying more than 550 passengers, at an elaborate ceremony in France. Airbus unveils 'superjumbo'...Read this update January 19, 2005Water on Airlines Crap 17% of TimeThe Oregonian reports that the water on airlines is worse than thought. I coulda told you that without the experiments....Read this update January 07, 2005Americans face "new reality" as greenback skidsBy Carol Pucci Letizia Mattiacci won't be raising her rates this year at her six-room farmhouse inn in the hills above Assisi in Northern Italy. The travelers she counts on most — Americans — are already paying $95 to $120...Read this update Passenger says he found missing woman’s purse, saw tampered cameraFBI continues investigation into woman’s disappearance from ship By KOLLIN KOSMICKI - GM Today Staff WAUKESHA - A man aboard the cruise ship from which Annette Mizener disappeared a month ago says he’s the one who found an array of...Read this update January 06, 2005Tourism Chief Warns of 'Double Disaster'By Peter Woodman, PA Travel Correspondent The tsunami tragedy could turn into a “double disaster” if future travel advice is not handled carefully, a world tourism chief said today. National governments must draft travel advisories in a responsible manner, added...Read this update Pricegrabber unveils travel search engineBy Amy Yee in New York Pricegrabber.com, one of the leading US comparison shopping websites, has unveiled a travel search engine a move that could send more tremors into an industry already in flux. Its expansion into travel reflects the...Read this update Delta slashes priciest ticketsMove could cost industry billions By John Schmeltzer Tribune staff reporter Published January 6, 2005 Delta Air Lines on Wednesday cut its most expensive fares--some by more than 50 percent--prompting two other airlines to follow suit and causing Wall Street...Read this update January 05, 2005Thailand tourist numbers plummetTourist arrivals at Bangkok's international airport have plunged 27 per cent in recent days, prompting the tourism ministry to look at ways to lure back visitors after a deadly tsunami that killed thousands along Thailand's popular southern beaches. "The drop...Read this update Sing Sing Prison Could Become Tourist AttractionWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Officials in New York state want to put tourists behind bars -- for a day. Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano wants to transform part of the notorious Sing Sing prison into a museum. The main attraction...Read this update Phuket protests biased reporting in global media[World News]: Bangkok, Jan 5 : Unbalanced reports, many chasing sensational stories, are impeding the revival of the Thai resort of Phuket after the devastating tsunamis, a local magazine protested Wednesday. "The news broadcast by global satellite TV and news...Read this update January 04, 2005Trouble at airlines imperils flier milesBy Jennifer Heldt Powell Tuesday, January 4, 2005 If you've been saving your frequent-flier miles for a big vacation or emergency trip, you might want to use them before you lose them, air travel experts say. With five airlines in...Read this update January 03, 2005Starving islanders kidnap officialsLuke Harding in Port Blair, on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands A desperate group of starving survivors in one of the tsunami-hit Nicobar islands kidnapped the island's top civilian official and its police chief in protest at the inadequate relief...Read this update Can CNN, BBC get away with this corpse show in ‘sensitive’ Manhattan?After 9/11 they chanted privacy, sensitivity; Asian disaster open season to show bodies of men, women, children Six months after 9/11, a CBS documentary on the attack on the Twin Towers censored visuals of a woman burning to death. ‘‘The...Read this update Flight cancellations affect 1,200 passengersAer Lingus says in excess of 1,200 passengers have been affected by flight cancellations caused by yesterday's storm damage to planes at Dublin Airport. 550 transatlantic passengers at Shannon Airport have been delayed, some 200 of these have been waiting...Read this update Plan pushed to make Lynch coal mine tourist attractionBy ROGER ALFORD The Associated Press Appalachian town played out and shut down, state officials are hoping to revive old Portal 31 as a Disney-like tourist attraction with animatronic miners and underground tours. “The trend in tourism is this experiential...Read this update January 02, 2005Hardy British travellers refuse to cancel holidaysMark Townsend Sunday January 2, 2005 The Observer Fewer than one in 400 British holidaymakers scheduled to visit countries affected by the tsunami have cancelled their trip, according to industry estimates. Experts said the figures served to reinforce the reputation...Read this update |
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