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Airbus lanserer ultra-lang-varianten av den nye flytypen Airbus A350, og Singapore Airlines blir første flyselskap som tar denne i bruk, skriver www.travelnews.no

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Den spesialbygde modellen gir selskapet mulighet til å gjenoppta flyvningene mellom Singapore og USA. Langruter selskapet hadde fram til 2013.

Singapore Airlines har totalt bestilt 67 nye fly av typen A350-900, og syv av disse oppgraderes nå til A350-900ULR. De nye flyene får en rekkevidde på mer enn 16 000 kilometer. I tillegg kommer en opsjon på ytterligere 16 fly.

De nye ultra-lang-variantene (ULR) av flytypen A350 blir leveringsklare fra 2018, og settes da i trafikk mellom Singapore og New York og Singapore og Los Angeles. Singapore Airlines utelukker ikke at det blir flere destinasjoner i USA.

– Kundene har lenge ønsket seg en gjenåpning av direkterutene mellom Singapore og USA, og med de nye flyene blir det nå mulig. De nye rutene vil være på plass fra 2018, sier CEO Goh Choon Phong i Singapore Airlines.

– Oppstarten av langrutene er nok et eksempel på hvordan Singapore Airlines hele tiden jobber med å ligge i forkant i luftfartsindustrien. Rutene blir de raskeste mellom Nord-Amerika og Sørøst-Asia, og vil føre til at Singapore som knutepunkt styrkes ytterligere.

Airbus’ President og CEO Fabrice Brégier mener at den nye A350-900 ULR er perfekt som flytype til denne type ruter.

– De nye flyene er bredere, har stillere kabin og er perfekte som utgangspunkt for å oppleve Singapore Airlines verdenskjente service.

Avtalen om å lansere nye A350-900ULR kommer i forkant av at Singapore Airlines mottar sin første A350-900 i starten av 2016, og følger selskapets langsiktige strategi om å ha en ung og moderne flyflåte.

#Airbus #By #California #Ferie #Fly #Flyselskap #Hovedstad #LosAngeles #NewYork #Reise #Singapore #Turisme #USA

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Minister for Tourism Paschal Donohoe has unveiled a ?1m marketing campaign for Dublin in a bid to boost the capital’s appeal to overseas visitors, Irish national broadcaster www.rte.ie reported.

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The marketing campaign will centre on a new brand for Dublin and will be pitched at potential visitors in the UK and Europe throughout the autumn.

“What we have here in Dublin is unique,” said Mr Donohoe.

“We have a young, vibrant, happening city with a rich culture and heritage which is nestled between the wide open spaces of Dublin Bay and the Dublin mountains.

“There is no point, however, in being Europe’s best kept secret and I very much welcome this new campaign to reposition the city and county and ensure that its unique appeal cuts through in the international marketplace,” added Mr Donohoe.

Following extensive research in overseas markets to find out what prospective visitors look for when choosing a destination, a new brand titled ‘Dublin – A breath of Fresh Air’ has been developed.

Fáilte Ireland says the new brand “seeks to communicate Dublin’s unique position as a vibrant capital city … where city living thrives alongside the great outdoors”.

“This is the first Dublin-dedicated tourism campaign in many years and it is very much a welcome development,” added Fáilte Ireland CEO Shaun Quinn.

From Monday, the new brand will feature in a marketing campaign in the UK. A marketing campaign will also begin shortly in France and Germany with an emphasis on digital and social media marketing.

The new Dublin marketing campaign is funded by Fáilte Ireland, the four Dublin local authorities and a collection of private-sector partners.

Following the announcement for Dublin, Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central Jerry Buttimer has said a similar dedicated tourism brand needs to be developed to promote and sell Cork.

Mr Buttimer said: “A dedicated and specific tourism brand needs to be developed to promote and sell Cork as a leading tourism destination.

“Cork city and county offer great attractions and have great potential. Although Cork is included as a major part of marketing campaigns, we must develop a unique brand for the city and county, so that we can increase our share of overseas visitors,” Mr Buttimer added.

#By #Cork #Dublin #England #Ferie #Frankrike #Hovedstad #Irland #MInister #Reise #Storbritania #Turisme #Tyskland

#Capital #City #France #Germany #Holiday #Ireland #Tourism #Travel #UnitedKingdom

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Flere av Københavns største taxiselskaper har sluttet seg til en felles servicekodeks, som skal gi kundene en bedre opplevelse, skriver VG.

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Også på Kastrup er det innført en ny kjøreordning, slik at taxikøene på flyplassen blir kortere og bilparken tilpasses antallet flypassasjerer i og utenfor rushtidene.

Den nye servicekodeksen for drosjene tilsluttet bl.a. Amager Øbro Taxi, DanTaxi og TaxiNord er et regelsett for hvordan sjåførene skal oppføre seg overfor passasjerene.

-Taxisjåførene er ofte turistenes første og siste møte med København, så dette er viktig, sier Allan Agerholm i Horesta, som har laget den nye servicekodeksen.

På Kastrup passerer opptil 3900 drosjer gjennom holdeplassene hver dag. Passasjerkøene har tidvis vært altfor lange, men nå blir det altså tatt grep for å skape bedre flyt i drosjekøene, ifølge Standby.dk

#By #Danmark #Drosje #Ferie #Flyplass #Hovedstad #Kastrup #København #Reise #Taxi #Turisme #VG

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K-pop Dance lessons in Seoul. Photo credit: The Straits Time

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Seoul City will expand its programme offering free K-pop dance classes to tourists as part of its efforts to better boost the hallyu industry, officials said Thursday, asiaone.com reported.

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and SM Entertainment reached a deal to offer the free K-pop dance classes.

Since August, renowned SM choreographers have run the dance programs for foreign visitors twice a week at Coex in the capital city. While the maximum number of participants is 450 a year, over 850 already applied for the programme as of this month, officials said.

While expanding the free dance classes, the city vowed to diversify the free courses to song and language programs and broadcast tours.The mayor also pledged to set up 10 hallyu sightseeing tours in the city by early next year.

To promote better access to the Seoul tourism information, the city will also provide Seoul City’s tourism data to potential mobile application start-ups.

#Borgermester #By #Dans #Ferie #Hovedstad #Korea #KPop #Musikk #Ordfører #Pop #Reise #Seoul #SørKorea #Turisme

#Capital #City #Dance #Holiday #Mayor #Music #SouthKorea #Tourism #Travel

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London welcomed a record 5.1m tourists between April and June this year, continuing London’s five-year tourism boom, www.cityam.com reported.

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The number of international visitors to London was up six per cent on the same period last year, according to the figures published by the Office for National Statistics yesterday.

The total spent in the capital by tourists was £3.2bn, an eight per cent jump on last year and roughly equal to 160m rides on the London Eye.

London’s tourism sector has been expanding over the last five years with the number of visitors flocking to the capital increasing 22.5 per cent. Last year, a record high 17.4m overseas visitors travelled to London, spending £11.8bn. London accounted for half of all tourist visits to the UK between April and June.

“These numbers prove that our great capital is without a doubt the best place on earth to visit,” said Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

“With our spectacular autumn season of culture and the Rugby World Cup having put London in the spotlight once again, we”ll undoubtedly be welcoming even more tourists to London in the months ahead.”

Mastercard named London as the most popular destination in the world earlier this year for the second time in a row.

The British Museum was London’s top attraction last year, with 6.7m visitors, according to London and Partners, the capital’s official prom­otional company.

#Borgermester #By #England #Ferie #Hovedstad #London #LondonEye #MasterCard #Museum #Ordfører #Reise #Rugby #Storbritania #Turisme

#Capital #City #Holiday #Mayor #Tourism #Travel #UnitedKingdom

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Longyearbyen

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Neste år kan turister og fastboende kjøre turer fra Longyearbyen på Svalbard til de russiske bosettingene Barentsburg og Pyramiden, skriver nrk.no / NTB

Et privat selskap ønsker å sette katamaranen «Vågsfjord» inn i trafikk fra Longyearbyen fra rundt 20. mai og til høsten neste år.

– Det blir et helt nytt tilbud i reiselivet på Svalbard. Bruk av denne båten vil gjøre at turister og andre kan komme seg mye lenger på kortere tid, sier mannen bak selskapet og satsingen, Sten-Are Paulsen, til Svalbardposten.

Det er 40 år siden de første hurtigbåtene ble tatt i bruk på fastlandet, mens utviklingen på Svalbard har stått stille.

Før båten skal settes på vannet, har Paulsen planlagt å endre navn på katamaranen. Til å drifte båten skal det være et mannskap på tre pluss en guide som også skal være matros.

– Planen er å starte fra Longyearbyen klokka 9 om morgenen, kjøre til Barentsburg, og være tilbake i Longyearbyen klokka 13, sier han.

Paulsen har i lengre tid jobbet med å få godkjenning fra myndighetene til å drive denne typen virksomhet på Svalbard. Saken måtte til behandling i Næringsdepartementet før Sjøfartsdirektoratet kunne se på den.

Lenke til saken: www.nrk.no/troms/svalbard-far-hurtigbatrute-1.12606534

Kilder: NRK, Svalbardposten, NTB

#Barentsburg #By #Båt #Ferie #Hovedstad #Longyearbyen #Pyramiden #Reise #Russland #Spitsbergen #Svalbard #Turisme

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A screengrab from the Facebook page of Tajikistan’s first online sex shop.

Tajikistan’s first online sex shop has launched, pledging discretion and doorstep delivery of anything from inflatable dolls to vibrators within hours and infuriating religious leaders in the conservative, mostly Muslim state in the process, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.

An administrator at sex_shop_tj told RFE/RL’s Tajik Service via the Viber message service that the company would deliver items as quickly as 30 minutes but within five hours of receiving an order.

The shop also guarantees complete anonymity of its customers, the administrator added.

Since credit cards and online payments are uncommon in Tajikistan, payments are made upon the delivery of the products.

The shop, whose presence on social media includes Instagram and a Twitter account with a modest following, doesn’t disclose its exact location.

But it says it delivers to customers in the capital, Dushanbe, and the country’s second city of Khujand.

A blow-up doll sells for around $70, or about half of the average Tajik monthly salary.

Reactions have been mixed on social media and in interviews on Dushanbe’s streets, with some expressing fear that it might erode moral values and others stressing that freedom of choice was important.

“We need to prevent our youth from such diseases. This is not something you would want to teach your children in schools,” “Myhammad” commented on the RFE/RL Tajik Service’s website. 
 
“These people must be sick, they should see a doctor,” “Azizov Azizov” wrote on Odnoklassniki.ru 

Behruz, a Dushanbe resident who didn’t give his full name, said that “in the 21st century and the age of the Internet, you cannot and should not control people’s choices and desires.” 

Others took the whole thing more lightheartedly: “Chinese-made rubber brides — now I’ve seen everything,” an anonymous reader commented on toptj.com. 

However, it’s no laughing matter for religious leaders, who believe the sex shop and its erotic toys pose a serious threat to traditional marriage, family values, and Young people’s moral well-being.

Mavlavi Abdurahim Karimov, a professor at Tajikistan’s Islamic University, urged Tajiks to stick to real men and women, saying that engaging in sexual acts with dolls amounts to “fornication.”

Qobiljon Boev, a Dushanbe-based cleric, said using sex toys is incompatible with Islamic values.

Mullahs enjoy respect and influence in Tajik society, which has turned increasingly to religion in recent years despite efforts by the staunchly secular government to control people’s practice of Islam.

Ultimately, however, sales are more likely to determine whether the sex shop has a place in Tajik society.

For the time being, the administrator said, the shop has enough customers for a start-up business.

Kilde / Source: www.rferl.org

#By #Dusjanbe #Ferie #Hovedstad #Instagram #Islam #Reise #Religion #Sex #Tadsjikistan #Turisme #Twitter #Universitet

#Capital #City #Dushanbe #Holiday #Tajikistan #Tourism #Travel #University

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De innbydende sengene, den vakre patioen og frokosten på Old Chocolate Factory blir høyt verdsatt av gjestene. Bildet viser det minste rommet, Versailles, som ser større ut enn sine 11 kvadratmeter takket være kreativ motivmaling på veggene. Foto: Hugo Ryvik, Canariajournalen.no

Er du lei av stereotype hoteller uten særpreg og ser etter annerledes overnatting på Gran Canaria? På Old Chocolate Factory i hjertet av Las Palmas kan du drømme søtt og rimelig i sjarmerende, historiske omgivelser, skriver canariajournalen.no 

Klikk her for å se bildeserie fra Old Chocolate Factory.

Hvis du er ute etter overnatting på et sted som er mer personlig enn det meste som fins, og skiller seg ut fra alt annet på Gran Canaria, kan ærverdige, emblematiske hus være noe for deg.

Husene har særpreg fra gulv til møne både innvendig og utvendig, og ligner ikke noe annet sted du har overnattet.

De siste årene er noen av disse staselige, gamle bygningene i Las Palmas gjort om til overnattingssteder.

Old Chocolate Factory er et slikt hus.

Den 110 år gamle bygningen, en tidligere sjokoladefabrikk, ligger sentralt i den gamle bydelen Vegueta, omringet av museer, katedral, kirker, vakre torg, markeder og koselige smårestauranter.

Byens beste handlegate ligger en kort spasertur unna.

Les hele saken her: www.canariajournalen.no/Nyheter/OVERNATTING-Droem-soett-paa-sjokoladefabrikk-i-Las-Palmas

Kilde: www.canariajournalen.no

#By #Ferie #GranCanaria #Hotell #Hovedsteder #Kanariøyene #LasPalmas #Reise #Sjokolade #Turisme #Versailles

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The City of Reykjavík, capital of Iceland, wants to be able to either create their own “tourist tax” or receive a part of the current lodging tax, the Reykjavik Grapevine website – www.grapevine.is, reported.

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Reykjavík Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson believes that those who pay out the costs of the ever-increasing stream of tourists to Iceland should also be getting revenue from them, RÚV reports.

“We are actually pointing out that the municipalities bear the costs of upkeep and all kinds of other pressures that come with tourism,” he said. “This is why it would be natural for the lodging tax to go to the municipalities.”

To remedy this, Dagur proposes that either the lodging tax be increased, and the increase go towards municipalities, or that the lodging tax go directly to municipalities in their entirety.

It is predicted that one million tourists will visit Iceland this year, many if not most spending at least some time in the capital area, while 1.5 million are predicted to visit Iceland next year.

#Borgermester #By #Ferie #Hovedstad #Island #Ordfører #Reise #Reykjavik #Skatt #Turisme

#Capital #City #Holiday #Iceland #Mayor #Tax #Tourism #Travel

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Matgleder i London (illustrasjonsfoto)

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Alt fra Michelin-restauranter til nabolagsbistroer er med når den britiske hovedstaden arrangerer London Restaurant Festival denne måneden. Over 200 spisesteder lokker med spesialmenyer, og i tillegg er det ulike eventer og matturer, skriver bladet Reiselyst.

Festivalen varer frem til 31.oktober.

Les mer på www.londonrestaurantfestival.com

#Bistro #By #Cafe #England #Ferie #Festival #Hovedstad #Kafe #London #Mat #Reise #Restaurant #Storbritania #Turisme