Chinese tourism to New York City and elsewhere grows. CNN’s Richard Roth reports from Manhattan. CNN.com – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
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May 13th, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
Fascinating news that the U.S. is considering a law that would allow Canadians to spend more time on American soil. Currently folks are allowed to live in the U.S. only for 182 days or six months. After that, you’re considered an American for tax reasons. And you don’t want to be paying Uncle Sam and [...]
May 13th, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
If nothing says spend your vacation at the most easterly edge of North America more than a goat on top of a horse, then Newfoundland and Labrador should prepare for an influx of tourists. The province, known until now as the place where the sun… ABC News: Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]
May 10th, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
An avante-garde restaurant run by three brothers in north-east Spain hopes that being crowned the world’s best restaurant will boost food tourism in recession-bound Spain. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
May 2nd, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial “spaceline.” The company’s passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. CNN.com – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]
April 29th, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
Young, longer-staying visitors will be targeted to visit New Zealand under a joint .4 million marketing programme between Tourism New Zealand and the London-based STA Travel Group. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
April 23rd, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
Commemorating the war dead at Gallipoli’s dawn service on Anzac Day is now an established travel experience, and tour operators say the numbers are growing each year. However, specialist battlefield tour operators say bookings for 2013 and 2014 are weaker as travellers save their money for 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landings at [...]
April 23rd, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
For 18 years, allegations of sexual abuse have swirled around Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, levelled by a group of men who say the Nova Scotia businessman repeatedly molested them when they were young teens in small-town Cape Breton. On Monday, after a long-delayed extradition from India, two convictions in Nova Scotia on 17 counts of sexual [...]
April 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments
The government will allocate an extra 8m over four years to tourism in the May 16 Budget, Prime Minister John Key said today. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
April 16th, 2013 | Posted in Travel | No Comments