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The number of tourists visiting Indonesian Capital Jakarta has leveled off in recent times, but the Tourism Ministry expects that its new Tanjung Lesung and Thousand Islands tourism development programs will revive growth in the capital city?s tourism, thejakartapost.com reported.
Foreign tourist arrivals grew by a mere 0.33 percent in the January-September period of this year, to 1.7 million visits, from the same period last year.
On a monthly basis, tourist visits to Jakarta dropped 15.9 percent in September, to 212,706 visits, compared with August’s figures.
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The Vietnamese government is about to sell its stake in the hotels of Thang Loi, Hilton and Kim Lien in Hanoi. The move has attracted special attention of both domestic and foreign investors.
In the context of the budget deficit and the State decision to divest from 10 large State-owned Enterprises, including the huge names such as Vinamilk, FPT, Binh Minh Plastic and Bao Minh insurance, the Vietnam Association of Financial Investors (VAFI) has proposed to the Government to sell its shares in large hotels, vietnamnet.vn reported.
Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in Vietnam so the sale of the hotels located in prime locations has attracted a lot of attention from both domestic and foreign investors. Here are some major hotels in Hanoi that are most interested in by investors, including private investors.
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Ireland has opened an embassy in Jakarta proving that countrys commitment to increasing its relations with Indonesia, antaranews.com reported.
The opening of the embassy and the extension of credentials of its ambassador to the President were carried out in September 2015, according to a press statement from the foreign ministry.
Irelands foreign minister Charles Flanagan confirmed the report during a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Retno LP Marsudi on the sidelines of the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting in Luxemburg on November 5.
At the meeting between the two countries foreign ministers, which was the first, foreign minister Retno had asked for Irelands support to Indonesias request for a free visa facility for its citizens to visit Schengen countries.
In response the Irish foreign minister pledged he would give positive consideration to the request.
At the meeting the Irish foreign minister also said that the Irish government would send its ambassador to represent his country at the Bali Democracy Forum to be held in Bali on December 9-10.
Minister Retno had used the 12th ASEM from November 4 to 6 to conduct bilateral meetings. She has held around 13 bilateral meetings with her counterparts from among others Ireland, the Netherland, Luxemburg, Belgium, Greece and Germany.
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A constitutional stipulation for the demarcation of Bangladesh capital city of Dhaka’s boundary has been ignored for the past four decades since Bangladesh’s birth, bdnews24.com reported.
The matter has not been legally settled but state institutions including police and the city corporations have fixed the boundary limits to suit their needs.
Urban planners say this is hampering efforts to gather vital information regarding the city’s size, population, and literacy rate.
Allegations are there that many establishments are having problems providing services because of the capital’s undefined area.
Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, however, claims he is unaware of the issue.
“Nobody ever told me anything about this,” he said to a bdnews24.com, adding that he would discuss the matter with stakeholders.
Rulers have always chosen 400-year-old Dhaka city as their administrative centre.
Mughal ruler Islam Kha was the first to make the city the capital of Bangla in 1610. Back then, its area had been left amorphous.
British colonial rulers chose Dhaka as capital of East Bengal after the 1905 partition of the Bengal province.
Dhaka remained the provincial capital in the Pakistani era, too.
The first Constitution of Bangladesh chose Dhaka as the country’s capital and said its boundary would be fixed by law.
But no precise information on Dhaka’s area could be had from the Dhaka Division, district, metropolitan and RAJUK authorities.
The boundary outlined by capital development authority RAJUK for project implementation spills beyond the one prepared by the city corporations, and even the one found in the Dhaka district map.
“The area fixed for RAJUK?s projects extends to Gazipur City Corporation in the north, Dhaleswari River in the south, Rupganj’s Shitalakkhya River in the east, and Dhaleshwari and Bongshi rivers in the west,” Ashraf Ali Akhand, one of the key RAJUK planners, told bdnews24.com.
He said RAJUK had fixed the boundary by issuing circulars.
Akhand said the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, WASA, and the city corporations had tailored Dhaka’s limits to their needs.
“A single and precise boundary is not important here,” he added.
The Dhaka City Corporation was bifurcated in 2011 but the law did not clarify whether the undivided city corporation area represented the capital?s land limits.
Police officials say the DMP map serving as a guide to maintain law and order has been drawn up on the basis of population.
Its Assistant Director Tawhidul Islam explained that population figures provided the yardstick for fixing the area under each police station.
“Some DMP police station areas extend beyond the city corporations,” he told bdnews24.com.
Police stations at Hazaribagh, Kamrangirchar, Demra, Kadamtali, Jatrabarhi, and Badda, among others, cover areas well outside the city Corporations.
Former deputy commissioner of Dhaka Abdul Mobarak says it is important for Dhaka being the capital to have a precise boundary.
“Dhaka’s boundary as the capital has not been demarcated and no law has been framed for this,” Mobarak, an election commissioner, said. “This issue should be discussed with importance.”
Recently, Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon, too, demanded the delineation of the capital’s area.
The Centre for Urban Studies Chairman Nazrul Islam says it is the government’s responsibility to do so.
He advised policymakers to sit with urban planners and geologists to resolve the issue.
Islam said the government could formally accept any of the boundaries as fixed by RAJUK, DMP or two city corporations.
“It can also fix boundaries outside the ones shown by these entities,” he told bdnews24.com.
He cited Canberra, in Australia, and Islamabad, in Pakistan, as suitable examples.
“The capital in many countries is only known as the capital city,” the urban planner pointed out. “No other authorities are there.”
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The Hanoi municipal Department of Tourism made its debut on September 21, which is expected to reinvigorate the capital city’s tourism industry.
The Department of Tourism is now separate from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and headquartered at No. 17 Dien Bien Phu street in Ba Dinh District, www.vietnamnet.vn reports.
It is tasked with preserving, tapping and developing local tourism resources, the environment and places of interest.
Another mission is to grant, amend, extend and revoke licences to establish foreign travel company representative offices while classifying hotels and tourism villages based in Hanoi.
Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao said the department will improve the State’s management of tourism while boosting the development of tourism products and promotion activities, helping to effectively tap the capital city’s tourism resources and turn the sector into a spearhead industry for Hanoi.
As a tourism magnet in northern Vietnam, Hanoi sees an annual tourist volume growth rate of over 10 percent and attracts 40 percent of the total visitors to Vietnam. It has also been the venue for a number of domestic and international tourism events.
However, local tourism activities are believed to fall short of Hanoi’s potential and advantages.
Last October, Ho Chi Minh City set up its Department of Tourism, previously part of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In early 2015, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung also approved the foundation of a similar tourism agency in the central city of Da Nang.
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Lavprisselskapet AirAsia krever hastereparasjoner av den nye KLIA2-rullebanen på flyplassen i Kuala Lumpur i Malaysia. Selskapet hevdes at banelegemet rett og slett synker, og at den sprekker flere steder, skriver nrk.no
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The capital city’s tourism sector has launched a number of promotion programmes to attract tourists from Belarus and five Western European countries – Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain, reports www.vietnamnet.vn
The move comes after the Government granted one-year visa exemptions for tourists from Western European countries and five years for Belarus, as heard at a conference in Hanoi on July 23.
Chairman of the Vietnam Tourism Association Vu The Binh revealed that tourists from the five Western European countries all consider Hanoi their primary destination when visiting Vietnam.
As such, the Government’s visa exemption policy presents a good opportunity for the capital to build new high-quality tourism products, he said.
Businesses asked the tourism sector to host more art performances such as puppetry, ‘ca tru’ ceremonial singing, ‘cheo’ (traditional operetta) and circuses to entertain visitors.
Meanwhile, the municipal Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism should hold similar programmes at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel, Van Mieu (the Temple of Literature) and Quoc Tu Giam (Vietnam’s first national university).
Deputy Director of the Ho Guom tourism company Do Mai Huong said other destinations such as Ha Long, Da Nang and Quang Binh are pushing ahead with tourism product Development.
Therefore, if Hanoi is not quick to create high-quality products, visitors will flock to these vicinities, she noted.
Tourist agencies and service suppliers should collaborate on promotion programmes, Director of the Newstartour Company Luong Duy Ngan recommended.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Vietnam Tourism Association ought to work with airlines to reduce air tickets prices, experts said.
They also advised launching agency promotion campaigns and ask them to open new tours with reasonable prices.
The Vietnam Tourism Association, in particular, has been encouraging businesses to join the drive and popularising the visa exemption policy to target markets.
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Laos has introduced tourism maps in the Korean language as more tourists from South Korea visit the country, www.ttrweekly.com reports.
Lao News Agency reported the tourist maps, paid for by the Maum Donghaeng Foundation of South Korea, will become a useful tool to guide Korean tourists and help them learn about the key tourist attractions of Laos in their own language.
The tourist maps in the Korean language will help to promote tourist attractions in and increase the tourism market, it said.
The first batch of 5,000 maps were handed over by the Maum Donghaeng Foundation president, Pak Gun Sun, 26 May, to the Tourism Advertising Department, Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism’s Deputy Minister Chaleun Valinthalasack.
The second batch of 10,000 copies, will be handed over later this year.
South Korean visitors grew from 27,000 in 2010 to 81,700 in 2013, and to 94,600 in 2014, This year there should be around 100,000 visitors.
South Korea ranks as the fourth largest foreign investor in Laos and is currently financing and managing over 400 projects.
Investment is estimated at around USD712 million. Meanwhile, trade between the two countries reached approximately USD200 million, last year, but of that just USD20 million was earned by Laos on exports to South Korea.
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Den ultimate gutteturen? Kombinasjonen av business & pleasure? I hvert fall kan du nå for første gang oppleve Formel 1-løpet Singapore Grand Prix som gruppetur gjennom racets hovedsponsor Singapore Airlines, skriver VG.
Singapore Grand Prix er et nattrace, og foregår på banen rett under megahotellet Marina Bay Sands – med sitt spektakulære kjempebasseng på taket.
Løpet snur den 716 km2 store øyrepubiikken med 5,4 millioner innbyggere på hodet, og det løfter stemningen ytterligere at byen under racet arrangerer utendørskonserter med artister som Pharrell Williams og Spandau Ballet.
På dagtid kan du golfe, eller ta en shoppingrunde i berømte og populære Orchard Street.
-Siden 2010 har danskene hatt muligheten til å oppleve dette. I fjor dro 249 dansker på tur, og stemningen var høy. Nå er turen kommet til oss i Norge, sier Henrik Hanevold, salgsansvarlig for Singapore Airlines i Norge.
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Indonesia vil ha flere turister, og har besluttet å sløyfe visumplikten fra 45 nasjoner – deriblant alle de nordiske land, skriver VG.
President Joko Widodo har kunngjort at visumfrie ankomster vil være gyldig i 30 dager. Blant de 45 landene som blir med i visumforordningen har 15 hatt visumfrihet før.
Blant de 30 nye er de nordiske land, Tyskland, Frankrike, Storbritannia, Italia, Spania, Kina, Russland, Sør-Korea, Japan, USA, De forente arabiske emirater, og Sør-Afrika.
Dermed trenger man altså ikke lenger visum i passet ved innreise til flyplassene i Jakarta, Bali og Surabaya, som er de mest brukte ankomststedene fra Norge.
