The largest company for tourism in Europe on Friday said that the explosions which took lace in the Egyptian Sharm al-Sheikh resort on Saturday pushed only 3% of its clients to cancel their flights to the city or change their bookings.
Folker Boucher, chairman of the German TUA company said that 3% of those already booked clients had actually changed their travel plans to Egypt following the explosions in which more than 60 persons were killed. He said that this number of changes in the booking might change to 5%.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit on Friday urged his EU, US and Japanese counterparts not to issue travel advisory for their nationals against visiting Egypt or Sinai Peninsula.
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Under pressure from European governments, the US has extended the deadline for countries to issue biometric passports by a year.
The delay comes after European Union countries said they needed more time to introduce the new technology, which includes fingerprints and other personal data. The original deadline was October 26 this year.
The move means British holidaymakers will not have to visit the US embassy for face-to-face interviews to obtain a visa.
The extension of the deadline to October 26, 2006 will apply to 27 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan. Initially, the US insisted that all new passports issued
A bed-rest study with female participants will help scientists understand changes to the immune response and decreased resistance to infection in space.
Investigators with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) are researching the immune system as part of the Women's International Space Simulation for Exploration (WISE), a collaborative venture that includes NASA, the European Space Agency, the Centre National D'Études Spatiales (French Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency. The study is being carried out by the French Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology (MEDES) in Toulouse, France.
“It is clear from existing data that space flight conditions alter
Dublin will retain full powers to promote itself as a holiday destination under a major revamp of regional tourism, it emerged today.
Five other tourist authorities around the country will hand over the operation of their tourist offices and their marketing functions to Fáilte Ireland, following a review of regional tourism.
Dublin Tourism said it had won the right to retain its autonomy after raising its concerns with Tourism, Sports and Arts Minister John O’Donoghue.
“My whole case is based on the fact that Dublin is in competition with other European cities. The Dublin market is different,” said chief executive Frank Magee.
He said
Srinagar, June 28: In winter this year, Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed and the Tourism Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir were in London to motivate the British government and many other European nations to remove adverse advisories about travelling to Kashmir. The presumption was that ‘normalcy’ has returned to the Valley and ‘acts of violence were aberrations.’ The PDP president Mehbooba Mufti urged McDonald’s—her favourite—to open its outlet here.
Senior officials of the Tourism Department also visited Madrid, London, Paris and Rome and lobbied for the removal of travel advisories.
The visits have so far neither brought McDonalds to Kashmir nor
