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I Warner Bros Studio Tour i London, har Harry Potter-fans lenge kunne vandre rundt i en “ekte” Harry Potter-verden, blant filmsett, kostymer og rekvisitter.
Nytt av året er Harry Potters “gompehjem” i Privet Drive 4, skriver Se og Hør. Det blir også en utstilling av de vises stein og muligheten til å lære om hvordan sjakkbrikker og djevelsnøre ble til.
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Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, today opened the Turkish embassy in Kigali, capital city of Rwanda. The minister raised the Turkish flag at the new embassy, which is located at Kimihurura sector in the Gasabo disitrict, the ktpress.rw website reported.
National flag of Turkey
Rwandan citizens have previously been going to Kampala, capital of Uganda, to obtain visas before travelling to Turkey.
“Various agreements signed to develop political, economic and cultural relations in Rwanda are a big step made and we look forward to establish more businesses here”, Mr Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said at the opening ceremony.
Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo congratulated Turkey upon the step made and promised good bilateral trade.
“We are going to put more effort in our trade not forgetting our coffee which will be often exported in Turkey,” foreign minister Mushikiwabo said.
She went on to say that besides the normal trade between the two countries, Turkey is soon going to invest in Rwanda’s cloths industries, electricity and infrastructures.
Turkish Airlines has been operating in Rwanda since 2012. In 2013, it when Rwanda opened an embassy in Turkey’s capital city Ankara, in a bid to boost its bilateral and economic ties.
See the full story here: http://ktpress.rw/2016/05/turkey-opens-embassy-in-kigali/
Paris on Monday launched a major drive to attract tourists to the French capital city following an alarming drop in visitor numbers after the November 2015 terror attacks and a wave of protests and transport strikes, France24.com reprted today.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault today announced an advertising campaign, jointly funded by City Hall and the state, to lure visitors back to the City of Light.
“The objective is to reassure both visitors and professionals in the city about the security situation in Paris and to project a positive and enthusiastic message that makes Paris a desirable destination again,” they said in a shared statement.
For Paris residents, life in the city has mostly returned to normal since the November 13 terrorist attacks. But the number of visitors to the capital, vital to its economy, has plummeted, and the effort to entice tourists back has been hampered by a recent wave of sometimes violent social unrest against proposed changes to France’s employment law.
Figures provided by the Paris tourist board show that the number of Japanese tourists was down 56% in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the previous year while 35% fewer Russian visitors came to Paris. The number of Chinese tourists, which reached a record 1.2 million in 2015, fell by 13.9%.
Accordng to an MKG Hospitality report in January, the November attacks cost hotels in Paris 270 million euros in lost revenue.
See the full story here: http://www.france24.com/en/20160530-france-paris-launches-bid-lure-frightened-tourists-november-13-2015-strikes-protests
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Latin-Amerikas største flyselskap, LATAM, innstiller alle flyvninger til det kriserammede Venezuelas hovedstad Caracas på ubestemt tid, etter at tyske Lufthansa nylig gjorde det samme.
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Den tyske hovedstadens nye storflyplass, Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt, åpner trolig ikke før i 2018, og ikke i 2017 som tidligere annonsert. Dette er seks år etter den opprinnelige åpningsdatoen, skriver Travelnews.no
Problemene med den nye flyplassen, som skal samle alle av dagens flyplasser i Berlin, ser med andre ord ikke til å ta slutt slutt.
Sist uke understreket Berlins borgermester Michael Müller at det ikke kan utelukkes at åpningen ikke finner sted før om rundt to år, altså i 2018.
Årsaken til problemene – utfordringen med brannsikkerheten – er fortsatt ikke ordnet opp i. Risikoen for at røyken fra den underjordiske jernbanestasjonen siver inn i terminalen er fortsatt tilstede.
Det gjør at systemet som skal hindre det ikke kan godkjennes av myndighetene, skriver Stockholm-avisen Dagens Nyheter.
Den opprinnelige åpningen skulle ha vært i 2011.
Les hele saken på Travelnews.no her: http://travelnews.no/nyheter/fly/berlin-apning-utsettes-trolig-til-2018/
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Fra Hotel Bristol i Wien. Foto: womensensitivehotels.com
Hotel Bristol i Wien er ett av fem hotell, i Østerrike og Tyskland, som tilhører den nyoppstartede plattformen «Kvinnevennlige hotell», skriver VG.
På hjemmesiden til Women Sensitive Hotels er det listet opp hvilke ting som gjør hotellene særlig godt egnet for kvinnelige reisende:
Lavkalorimat, krølltang, allergivennlig sengetøy, sminkespeil, helkroppsspeil og yogamatte med tilhørende iPad med treningsinstruksjoner.
– «Kvinnevennlige» hoteller har helkroppsspeil, lavkalorimat og fornemme toalettartikler. Det er sånt kvinner vil ha, sier gründeren bak konseptet, Heike Labetzki.
De andre hotellene i samarbeidet ligger i München, Dresden, Berlin, og ett hotell til i Wien i tillegg til Bristol.
Les mer på www.womensensitivehotels.com
Les hele saken her: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/kvinner/satser-paa-kvinnevennlige-hoteller/a/23693188/
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Det tyske flyselskapet Lufthansa stanser alle flyginger til Venezuelas hovedstad Caracas på grunn av den økonomiske situasjonen i landet, melder NRK.
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Athens
It’s been a busy winter in downtown Athens, where scaffolding, tarpaulins and dust have been symbols of hope: a mini construction boom heralding a tourist renaissance, The Guardian newspaper reported.
Nine hotels are being built or restored around the city centre. Their arrival correlates with the huge upturn in holidaymakers visiting the Greek capital since a low point in late 2008.
“It’s a miracle, what’s been happening in Athens?”, Greece’s tourism chief, Andreas Andreadis, told the Observer newspaper. “The tourist industry in Greece grew two to three times faster than in Spain, Portugal, Italy or France last year. This year we expect around 4.5 million visitors in Athens alone.”
A record 23.5 million holidaymakers visited Greece in 2015 – generating 14.2 bn euros in direct receipts, or 24% of gross domestic product.
In 2010, at the start of the country’s debt crisis – which has seen it struggle to avert default and remain in the euro – revenues from tourism were 10 bn euros, or 15% of GDP.
Read the full story in The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/28/greece-tourism-boom-athens-jobs-growth
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MS Nordstjernen på Svalbard. Foto: Spitsbergentravel.no
I sommer arrangerer Hurtigruten i samarbeid med Spitsbergen Travel et eksotisk yogacruise til Svalbard, skriver Se og Hør.
Avgangen går fra Longyearbyen med MS Nordstjernen mandag 29.august, og det er lagt opp til to yogaøkter daglig på den fire dager lange seilasen, som går langs vestkysten av Svalbard.
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Byrådet i Oslo har økt parkeringsavgiften i sentrum av hovedstaden med 50 prosent, noe som kan ha kostet kommunen 85 millioner kroner. Dette fordi færre bilister parkerer på avgiftsplassene, melder NRK.
Færre parkerer på betalingsplassene og gratisplasser for elbiler tar stadig flere av plassene.
