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Norges lengste vannsklie kommer til Torshov i Oslo i juni. Fotomontasje: Eventart / VG

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Lørdag 11. juni blir en våt drøm til virkelighet for mange når en 300 meter lang vannsklie rulles ut i Oslos gater, skriver VG. Her får publikum seile nedover på baderinger, og turen tar rundt et minutt.

Det van(n)vittige arrangementet var først planlagt til Karl Johan, men er nå lagt til Treschowsgate på Torshov, 

Det er Erik Holm (26) som står bak det hele, sammen med Morten Brøndmo (34). Sistnevnte driver firmaet Eventart.

Så langt har hele 90 000 meldt sin interesse på Facebook.

Også Larvik og Stavern får skliebesøk i sommer. 

Norges lengste permanente vannsklie ligger i Bergen og er 120 meter lang, ifølge Aftenposten.

Les helesaken her: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/oslo/norges-lengste-vannsklie-kommer-til-oslo/a/23658797/

Kilde: www.vg.no

#Bade #Bergen #By #Destinasjon #Event #Facebook #Ferie #Festival #Hovedstad #KarlJohan #Larvik #Norge #Oslo #Reise #Reiseliv #Reiselyst #Reisemål #Stavern #Storby #Torshov #Treschow #Tur #Turisme #Turist #Vann #VG

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Old Nicosia

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The Nicosia tourism board is offering free guided tours around the Cypriot capital to tourists and locals who want to experience the city, in cooperation with the Cyprus Tourist Guides Association, the Cyprus Mail newspaper can report.

According to an announcement, the regular tours include visits to the capital’s museums, bus and walking tours of Nicosia outside the walls, even half day tours to Dali or Kakopetria.

The programme also includes tours in various areas of the old town – Ledras and Onasagorou Streets, the Archbishopric Palace, Paphos Gate, and Famagusta Gate areas .

On Saturday, an alternative guided tour of Nicosia will take place – “Discover Nicosia’s best hidden secrets” – where participants can upload their photos on the spot using the hashtag #myNicosia!

The aim is “to fill the web with photos of our beautiful city”. Starting point is the Cyprus Archaeological Museum, at 10.30am.

Source: www.cyprus-mail.com

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Vienna

Air India’s decision to start three-times-a-week flight to Vienna might prove to be a money spinner. Air India started the flight connecting Indian capital New Delhi with Austrian capital city Vienna on April 6. The airline started the service after Austrian Airlines withdrew it’s route between the two capital cities, according to The Hindu Businessline website.

Not only are the number of Indians travelling to Austria increasing, the country is also generating a lot of interest among affluent Indians wanting to tie the knot in a foreign locale. Officials from the Vienna Tourist Board told newspersons, who travelled on the inaugural Air India flight to Vienna, that the city witnessed close to 50 per cent increase in tourist arrival from India in 2015.

Pankaj Srivastva, Commercial Director, Air India, said that the flight is expected to link Vienna not only to the Indian subcontinent, but to South-East Asia and Australia as well.

“The first flight to Vienna had 106 transit travellers, 53 of them from Bangkok,” he added.

Ishvinder Maddh, Managing Director, Robinville, a market entry specialist for tourism boards and sight-seeing in the region, pointed out that in 2015, Indians had 2,15,000 room nights in Austria, far more than the average of 1,63,000 room nights in the previous years.

The Austrian capital is also the new attraction for big, fat Indian weddings.

The Viennese hospitality industry is currently abuzz with a Jindal family wedding scheduled to take place soon.

Sources say most luxury hotels in the capital have been booked and about 1,000 guests are expected to attend the wedding.

#Australia #Bangkok #Bryllup #By #Dehli #Destinasjon #Ferie #Flyselskap #Hotel #Hovedstad #India #Luksus #NewDehli #Reise #Reiseliv #Reiselyst #Reisemål #Storby #Thailand #Tur #Turisme #Turist #Wien #Østerrike

#Air #Arline #Austria #Capital #City #Destination #Holiday #Luxury #Tourism #Travel #Vienna #Wedding

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Reykjavik. Photo credit: ©Visit Reykjavik and ©RagnarThSigurdsson

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Low-cost Hungarian airline Wizz Air has announced the addition of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to its Iceland network – with more destinations possibly in the pipeline, the icelandmonitor.mbl.is website reports.

According to Icelandic tourism and travel news website turisti.is (link in Icelandic), Wizz Air will begin their service to Vilnius in October 2016 and will operate the route all year round.

Wizz Air already links Iceland and it’s capital Reykjavik to Gdansk and Warszaw in Poland, and Budapest, capital of Hungary.

Gabor Vasarhelyi, Communications Manager at Wizz Air, told turisti.is that the airline is not ruling out the possibility of further direct links to Iceland, with cities in Romania, Serbia and Ukraine the most likely candidates.

Source: www.icelandmonitor.mbl.is

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Bataclan.

Konsertsalen Bataclan, der 90 mennesker ble drept under terrorangrep i Paris i fjor, skal gjenåpnes i november. Det er planlagt en rekke konserter, opplyser ledelsen ved Bataclan, ifølge AFP. Det melder NRK.

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Kilde: www.nrk.no

#Bataclan #By #Destinasjon #Ferie #Frankrike #Hovedstad #Konsert #Paris #Reise #Reiseliv #Reiselyst #Reisemål #Storby #Terror #Tur #Turisme #Turist

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Mövenpick Ibn Battuta Gate Hotel, Dubai

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The Swiss hotel group Mövenpick is eyeing entry into Abu Dhabi as the city grows its tourism offerings, according to The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Demand for hotel rooms in Abu Dhabi outstripped supply in March, the research group STR Global said yesterday. Average occupancy levels stood at 83.3 per cent, a 4 per cent increase over the same period last year. 

Large trade fairs and exhibitions fuelled demand for hotel rooms last month, led by the four-day Integrated Offshore Commissioning course, and the week-long Abu Dhabi Aviation and Aerospace Week, which included the Abu Dhabi Air Expo and the Red Bull Air Race.

Mövenpick is currently in the final stages of signing a contract for a hotel in Abu Dhabi, according to Andreas Mattmüller, the chief operating officer at Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts for Middle East and South Asia.

This year, it will open Mövenpick Hotel City Star Jeddah in Saudi Arabia with 230 rooms and a third property in Doha, capital of Qatar, with 136 rooms.

It plans to open two more properties in Dubai in the next two years. Mövenpick Hotel Apartments Downtown Dubai with 246 apartments is expected to open next year. The opening of the 251-room Mövenpick Hotel Dubai Media City has been pushed to 2018.

Mövenpick said it expects to add 15 properties in the Middle East by 2020. It currently operates 30 hotels in the Middle East. In the UAE, it operates six hotels, all of which are in Dubai.

As part of the strategy it is looking at projects in Muscat, capital of Oman; Sohar and Salalah besides Abu Dhabi, Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah.

Dubai, which had around 78,184 hotel rooms at the end of November, according to STR Global, is expected to add more in the run-up to Expo 2020.

Read more here: http://www.thenational.ae/business/travel-tourism/mvenpick-prepares-to-open-hotel-in-abu-dhabi

Source: www.thenational.ae

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Vilnius. Photo credit: welcome2vilnius.com

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Low-cost Hungarian airline Wizz Air has announced the addition of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to its Iceland network – with more destinations possibly in the pipeline, the icelandmonitor.mbl.is website reports.

According to Icelandic tourism and travel news website turisti.is (link in Icelandic), Wizz Air will begin their service to Vilnius in October 2016 and will operate the route all year round.

Wizz Air already links Iceland and it’s capital Reykjavik to Gdansk and Warszaw in Poland, and Budapest, capital of Hungary.

Gabor Vasarhelyi, Communications Manager at Wizz Air, told turisti.is that the airline is not ruling out the possibility of further direct links to Iceland, with cities in Romania, Serbia and Ukraine the most likely candidates.

Source: www.icelandmonitor.mbl.is

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Photo credit: City Sightseeing / Thelocal.es

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“Tourists go home. Refugees welcome” is just one of the slogans to have appeared this week daubed on the walls of the historic centre of Palma, the capital of Mallorca, The Local.es online newspaper can report.

“Stop Guiris” and “Tourism is destroying our city” are two of the others in a recent spate of graffiti that is angering visitors and local residents alike.

The anti-tourism phrases suggest a growing malaise at the number of holidaymakers crowding into Palma de Mallorca as residents complain that tourism is destroying local neighbourhoods.

Residents of La Seu, the historic old quarter of narrow cobbled streets around the city’s Gothic cathedral, bemoan the fact that on top of having to suffer inundations of tourists, they now also have their neighbourhood blighted by graffiti.

“Not only have we do deal with the burden of tourist saturation which is bringing the neighbourhood to near collapse, but we are now held to be responsible for removing the anti-tourist slogans from our walls,” said a written complaint from the residents association to City Hall.

“The council has ignored the problem, claiming that residents should be responsible for cleaning and repainting walls. They will only deal with graffiti if it is on council property,” it continued.

Read more here: http://www.thelocal.es/20160412/tourists-go-home-refugees-welcome-graffiti-appears-in-mallorca

Source: www.thelocal.es

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#Baleares #Capital #Cathedral #City #CityHall #Destination #Gothic #Holiday #Refugee #Tourism #Travel

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Foto / illustrasjon: Naust – AART Architects / Statsbygg

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Naust – AART Architects, JAJA ARCHITECTS i samarbeid med Coast Studio og Favn – Arkitekturfabrikken er vinnere av designkonkurransen om nytt vikingtidsmuseum på Bygdøy i Oslo, melder NRK. 

Hele 107 bidrag har konkurrert i Statsbyggs åpne plan- og designkonkurranse om det nye vikingtidsmuseet.

Les mer på www.statsbygg.no

Kilder: NRK, Statsbygg

#Arkitekt #Arkitektur #By #Bygdøy #Coast #Design #Destinasjon #Fabrikk #Ferie #Hovedstad #Konkuranse #Museum #Naust #Norge #Oslo #Reise #Reiseliv #Reiselyst #Reisemål #Storby #Studio #Tur #Turisme #Turist #Viking

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National flag of The Gambia.

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The Islamic Republic of The Gambia and the Russian Federation have reinforced the diplomatic relations between the two nations, as The Gambia opened a new Embassy in Moscow, the Daily Observer newspaper in The Gambia can report.

 Russia is yet to open an embassy in The Gambia, but maintains a honorary Consulate General in Banjul, the capital city. The Russian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, is also accredited to The Gambia.

Read more here: http://observer.gm/banjul-moscow-ties-reinforced-as-gambia-officially-opens-embassy/

Source: www.observer.gm

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