Police have arrested a travel agency employee on suspicion of using tourists as smugglers of 13 kilograms of stimulants through Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, the largest amount seized at the airport ever, the police and customs office said Friday.
Akira Miyano, 47, who organized a bargain group tour to Thailand, and five people who joined the tour, were arrested. Two others who were to receive the stimulants in Japan — Masao Fujii, 61, a business operator, and Hideki Ao, 37, a business executive — were also arrested, they said.
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Bulgarian police busted a major shipment of a substance used to make synthetic drugs. They believe that the produce would have been shipped to the Middle East.
The seized amphetamine base is enough to make 300,000 amphetamine pills, worth six million dollars, the police said.
Arrested S.T., 32, is suspected of running a drug lab near Sofia. His house in the village of Malo Buchino was raided by policemen to discover various substances used in narcotics making.
According to media reports, the suspect was an ally of late underworld leader Bozhidar Dobrev.
Officials believe that the latter was a key
Ghana needs more hotels, especially near tourist sites, to enable the Tourism Sector achieve its strategic action plan in 2007 to attract over a million tourists into the country.
This was expressed by the Minister of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital City, Mr. Jake Obetsebi-Lampety who said it was for this reason that the Ministry was involved in encouraging investors to build the Hilton Hotel, the Ambassador Hotel, the Intercontinental Hotel and other hotels in the country to create an appreciable level of interest in the tourism industry by 2007.
Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey said this yesterday when Ms. Mary Carlin Yates,
Travel agents have proven to be far more resilient than they've been given credit for.
They've survived airlines cutting their commissions. They've weathered wars, SARS and economic downturns. And it appears they're holding their own against the biggest threat of all: the Internet.
With consumers booking their own travel online, conventional wisdom held the traditional travel agent was doomed to extinction.
The inroads made by big booking sites such as Expedia or Travelocity were surely the last straw.
But a study released this week shows the majority of Canadians trust their travel agent over their computer.
According to the Online Travel study by TNS Canadian
It's the height of the summer travel season. So which is cheaper- booking trips over the Internet or using a travel agent? NewsChannel 5's Ann Rubin put them to the test.
We're pitting a travel agent against several online sites. The assignment is to book two trips from St. Louis: one to New York City, the other to London.
This experiment has specific rules. Everyone must search at the same time and for the same dates. The goal is to find the best possible price on airfare and a hotel for two people.
Our first volunteer, KSDK Web Coordinator Diana Melton, searched Orbitz.
An Australian travel agent is refusing to sell holidays to the Indonesian island of Bali in protest against the treatment of alleged Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
The 27-year-old is accused of trying to smuggle more than four kilograms of marijuana into the Indonesian island of Bali last October, a crime punishable by firing squad.
Tony Foster, who runs a travel agency in the island state of Tasmania, says he believes Ms Corby is not receiving a fair trial in Indonesia.
He says his refusal to sell holiday packages to Bali is his way of making a personal protest against the Indonesian justice
