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Archive for January, 2009

The Issue The Bill last night broadcast on Radio Canada yesterday gave a good boost for traditional travel agencies. Hosted by journalist Peter Craig survey posed the following question:”travel prices they are lowest on the web? ”. Answer: Yes, most of the time but the price difference is minimal.

Seven employees of the show, very young for the most part, spent a full day to call to 34 traditional branches across Quebec and consulted 21 locations of line agencies with specific requests to compare package prices all inclusive or plane tickets. More text …

(Source Jaimonvoyage)

Zoom Airlines could resume service this summer under the leadership of a new owner, Mr. b [James Hultquist-Morrissey], owner and president of Globe Span Capital, reports the Globe & Mail this morning. The businessman says he is in friendly talks with the bankruptcy trustee Doyle Salewski Inc.. to take control of 2 of 3 aircraft leased by Zoom Airlines in Canada. Destination cities include Toronto, Montreal, Rome, London and Paris.

(Source Jaimonvoyage and Globe & Mail)

The lights of Christmas and New Year are not sufficient to erase the traces of recent conflicts, yet Belgrade, the white city dear to the Serbs, is engaged in a lengthy and ambitious renovation, determined to turn back the dark past 90s. Nearly ten years after the NATO bombing in March 1999, to compel the forces of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to loosen their grip on Kosovo, the ruins of buildings hit by NATO missiles are still there, the middle of the city, with its blind windows and gaping facades.

Written By AeroportVoyage.Com

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada has issued an official warning that advises against all travel (the highest level of warning given by ACS) in the area of Preah Vihear temple (Khao Phra Viharn in Thai) between the Cambodian province of Preah Vihear and Thailand’s Sisaket province, due to border conflict continues. The armies of both countries exchanged gunfire. The tension is high and military hostilities could escalate without warning.

(Source Expressvoyage)

Like London, New York or Dubai, Paris put on winter sales to attract tourists shopaholics from around the world and fill the hotels that have begun to feel the first effects of the crisis. Operation Sale by Paris “, launched for the first time in 2007 at the initiative of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP) and the City of Paris, aims to boost tourism in January, a traditionally low months.

(Source Expressvoyage)

There are not that great in love. Originally from Langenhagen, a suburb of Hanover, Germany, two children ran away madly in love with the firm intention to marry. From single-parent families, Mika and Anna-Lena, fourteen years between them.

(Source Jaimonvoyage and 20minutes.fr)

St. Martin is the smallest ground in the world that is shared by two states. And, for over 350 years. A very special story.

When Christopher Columbus landed on St. Martin November 11, 1493, no one in the following days no one imagined that this little island would fall into oblivion for almost two centuries. Until in 1631, the Dutch are interested. Driven out of the island by the Spaniards, they returned in 1648 and fall face to face with the French. From this chance meeting, was signed the Treaty of Concordia, stipulating the division of the island and establishing the border with northern French, Dutch to the south. No drop of blood will have been paid.

Written By AeroportVoyage.Com

Tourism officials in Queensland have launched a recruitment campaign a bit peculiar: they seek a guardian for an island paradise against a salary of more than 1,000 euros per hour.

(Source Yahoo News)

Spared by the financial crisis, Tunisia began to feel the effects of the global economic downturn in key sectors of its economy wide open to Europe. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has set the tone: “The year 2009 will see many dangers because of the economic and financial crises,” he said recently in the press. He assured that his country will keep heading in “taking advantage of opportunities” despite the crisis, even though the economic growth rate initially expected to more than 6% of GDP in 2008 fell to 5% by year end.