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Hvert år kårer reisenettstedet TripAdvisor sine mest populære hotell, og denne gangen var det kun Hotel Continental (bildet) i Oslo som nådde opp under Loved by Guests Awards 2016, skriver Se og Hør.
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Stillehavsnasjonen Vanuatu ble torsdag rystet av et kraftig jordskjelv, målt til 7,3 på Richters skala meler det amerikanske jordskjelvsenteret USGS, ifølge NRK.
Skadeomfanget er så langt ikke kjent, men det er nå sendt ut tsunamivarsel. Det er ikke meldt om omkomne eller skadde.
Jordskjelvet hadde sitt senter på land fem kilometer fra landsbyen Norsup på øya Malakula, melder BNO News og flere andre medier, skriver VG torsdag kveld.
– Farlige tsunamibølger fra dette jordskjelvet er mulig innenfor 300 kilometer fra episenteret langs kysten av Vanuatu, lyder det ivarselmeldingen.
Malakula er den nest største øya i Vanuatu, etter Espiritu Santo, og ligger rett nord for øya Efate, der hovedstaden Port Vila ligger.
Hovedstaden ble ødelagt av syklonen “Pam” i mars 2015, les mer om dette her: http://hovedsteder.blogg.no/1426292042_port_vila.html
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Paraguay has been added to the list of countries jointly hosting the Dakar Rally (formerly known as The Paris Dakar Rally) with the 2017 edition starting in its capital Asunción, organizers announced yesterday, The Buenos Aires Herald can report.
The 2017 Dakar Rally will have 12 stages covering between 8,000 to 9,000 kilometres of gruelling South American terrain.
It will be the ninth time the marathon car, motorbike and lorry race has been held in South America after switching from western Africa, with the dates being January 2-14.
After a single opening stage in Paraguay, the route will take an international field of contestants into Bolivia for five stages, passing through the capital La Paz, at the height of 3,500 metres.
Then Argentina will be the stage for the final week of the rally which will make its way down the Andes mountain range to finish once again in Buenos Aires.
“The event will now head to its 29th different country, Paraguay, for a stay in the capital city, Asunción,” race director Etienne Lavigne said.
“The visit to Bolivia will take on a new dimension on this 39th edition, with five stages in total for jaunts along the shores of Lake Titicaca and a rest day in the highest capital city in the world, La Paz.”
“The money time will finally come for the title contenders on a diagonal drawn on the map of Argentina towards the loyal Buenos Aires.”
“The Dakar Rally will be an exceptional way for promoting our country. This edition will be a more sustainable race, more focused on social issues, optimizing the resources and improving the promotion of tourist destinations,” Argentina’s Minister of Tourism Gustavo Santos said.
This year’s car race was won by Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel with the motorbike honours going to Australian Toby Price.
Read more here: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/213331/dakar-rally-to-start-in-paraguay-in-2017
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Thailand har i april hatt en gjennomsnittstemperatur på over 40 grader, noe som er den lengste hetebølgen på 65 år, skriver vg.no
Landets myndigheter råder innbyggerne til å holde seg i skyggen slik at de ikke får heteslag, og i hovedstaden Bangkoks dyrehage blir dyrene foret med spesiallaget, frossen fruktis.
– Hold dere innendørs og forsøk å begrense aktiviteter utendørs. Bruk solbriller og hatter med stor brem. Drikk mer vann enn vanlig, lyder myndighetenes råd.
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The Mayor of Kuala Lumpur (KL), Datuk Seri Mohamed Amin Nordin Abd Aziz yesterday unveiled Kuala Lumpur Tourism Bureau and City Hall’s plans to boost tourism and travel to the Malaysian capital city, the most notable of which is the official ‘brand identity of KL’ – complete with a new logo and tagline. Here it is:
Image: Kuala Lumpur Tourism Bureau
Kuala Lumpur is now known as ‘A City of Contrasts & Diversity’, and tagged onto its new logo are the words ‘exciting’, ‘surprising’ and ‘enticing’.
According to the latest release, this new brand identity refers to KL’s ‘contrasting heritage, multi-cultural society and religion, diverse attractions and metropolis’. In simpler terms, KL is unique, and ‘contrasts and diversity’ is apparently the way forward to distinguish our capital city from other cities around the world.
News source: TimeOut.com Blog
Read more here: http://www.timeout.com/kuala-lumpur/blog/this-is-kl-citys-new-branding-and-tagline-042616
Please note: Kuala Lumpur is one of the two capitals of Malaysia, and the seat of the King, the Parliament, and foreign embassies, while the city of Putrajaya, 25 kilometers south of KL, is the administrative capital and the seat of government.
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Manuela Carmena
Plukk opp etter hunden din, ellers risikerer du å måtte jobbe med å vaske gatene. Det er den krystallklare advarselen fra Madrids markante borgermester Manuela Carmena, skriver Dagbladet.
Den 72 år gamle venstreradikale, tidligere dommeren har vært ordfører i Spanias hovestad siden sommeren 2015, og har allerede satt spor etter seg på en rekke områder.
Borgermesteren sier at politiet vil være på utkikk etter hundeeiere som ikke rydder opp etter dyrene sine. Hundeeire risikerer bøter på opp til 1500 euro (13 800 kroner), eller helgearbeid fra klokka 9 til klokka 14 med å vaske Madrids gater, der kommunen vil stå for gummihansker, en vest og støvler, dersom de ikke finner fram en plastpose etter at hunden har gjort sitt fornødne, melder nyhetsbyrået AP.
– Det er fortsatt ekskrementer i gatene, i parker og andre steder til tross for flere offentlige holdningskampanjer og utdeling av flere millioner gratis poser til å samle hundebæsj, heter det i en uttalelse fra byrådet, ifølge London-avisa The Guardian.
Madrid-avisa El Confidencial skriver at advarselen er en del av ordførerens pågående kamp for å gjøre Spanias hovedstad til en av de reneste byene i Europa.
Politiet skal i første omgang lete etter to- og firbeinte lovbrytere i to bydeler som er “spesielt skitne”.
– Madrid kommune har laget en “sjokk-plan” for å bekjempe disse lovbruddene, som snart skal iverksettes i to bydeler, sier byrådet i en uttalelse.
Byen har også laget et kart som skal vise hvilke deler av byen som er hardest rammet av hundenes dobesøk, skriver Dagbladet.
Flere spanske byer har kommet opp med kreative løsninger for å få folk til å plukke opp etter hundene sine, ifølge The Guardian.
I Tarragona i Katalonia varslet myndighetene at de ville ta DNA-prøver av hundeavføring for å spore opp eierne som ikke plukket opp etter dyra sine, og i byen Brunete, som ligger utenfor Madrid, gikk de så langt som å levere hundelort på trappa til “eierne” i små esker merket med “gjenglemte eiendeler”, skriver avisa.
Les hele saken her: www.dagbladet.no/2016/04/26/nyheter/utenriks/madrid/spania/besj/44004589
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En Airbus A380 – verdens største passasjerfly – sendte mandag ettermiddag ut nødsignal utenfor kysten av Norge. Flyet, som tilhører flyselskapet Emirates i Dubai i De forente arabiske emirater, var på vei fra Dubai til Houston i Texas, da en av passasjerene om bord ble akutt syk, skriver VG.
Dermed måtte flygiganten hastelande på Oslo Lufthavn Gardermoen, der ambulanser sto klare til å ta imot den alvorlig syke pasienten.
Flykjempen ble møtt av et stort antall flyspottere og andre interesserte som kom seg til Gardermoen på svært kort varsel. Flyet fortsatte senere mandag den nesten 16 timer lange ferden mot Texas etter et kort stopp i Oslo.
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Kazakhstani government officials and tourist companies recently discussed prospects of the tourism industry development in Kazakhstan at a meeting in Almaty, the country’s largest city and former capital, the The Times of Central Asia reported.
The meeting participants said a new impulse in this direction will be given by the international specialized exhibition EXPO-2017 “Energy of the Future”.
This significant world-class event will be held for the first time in Central Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in Kazakhstan’s capital city Astana between 10 June and 10 September 2017.
For Astana and the whole of Kazakhstan it will be the first and foremost opportunity to showcase the Kazakh state, its culture, history, traditions and modern achievements.
“Astana will turn into the biggest stage area of the world, and the EXPO will be the new direction of tourism and entertainment,” said Rosa Asanbaeva, adviser to the chairman of the board of JSC “Astana EXPO-2017.
It is expected that more than 5 million people will attend the event, including 85% Kazakhstanis and 15% foreign visitors.
The director of the regional Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Almaty, Yuri Tleumuratov, spoke about the tourism potential of Almaty and development of a roadmap for tourism in Almaty.
According to the roadmap, it is planned to develop a tourist navigation system for the city, launch a shuttle service from the airport to the city center, and build an ethnic village at Boraldai mounds.
Among the objectives on the national scale, it is planned to expand the list of visa-free countries, lower the prices for domestic flights, and improve beach areas at Kazakhstan’s water reservoirs and organize public toilets.
According to experts, all these measures will bring tangible results in two or three years.
Read more here: http://www.timesca.com/index.php/news/16583-kazakhstan-to-revamp-its-tourist-industry
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På 1990-tallet var det opp mot 3.500 videobutikker i Norge. I dag er det under ti igjen. Nå forsvinner den siste som er igjen i Oslo, Video Nova i Valkyriegata på Majorstua, skriver e24.no
? Da jeg startet, var det andre tider, sier Video Nova-gründer Pål Granlund (68), mannen som startet Video Nova-kjeden for 35 år siden, til nettstedet.
Les hele saken her: http://e24.no/media/video/leietiden-er-over-naa-stenger-oslos-siste-videobutikk/23664068
