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The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has opened a 200-room hotel in the Hungarian capital Budapest, according to the TTG Media website.

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The hotel is owned by the Al Habtoor Group, based in the United Arab Emirates, and was previously a Le Meridien-managed hotel but will now operate under the Ritz-Carlton flag following a significant refurbishment. 

The hotel is in a protected historic building, built in 1914 as the headquarters for an Italian insurance company, and many of the period features have been retained such as elegant statues on the exterior walls and the stunning stained-glass cupola at the heart of the building.

Beneath this, The Kupola Lounge restaurant has been created, offering farmer’s market breakfast or lunch.

The hotel also has a street-side casual restaurant, Deak Street Kitchen, by British firm B3 Designers, complete with ice-cream cart and an outside terrace on Fashion Street.

Located on Elizabeth Square, with views over St Stephens Basilica, the hotel also has a bar with street entrance to attract the local market. 

Of the 200 rooms, 30 are suites and the hotel also has a Ritz-Carlton Club Level offering on the top levels – 8th and 9th floors – and a spa and fitness centre with indoor pool and three treatment rooms, will follow soon.

Ritz-Carlton Budapest joins sister European properties such as Abama in Tenerife, Hotel Arts in Barcelona and Ritz-Carlton Vienna, as well as the group’s concept hotel in Wolfsburg within the famed Autostadt and home to a three-Michelin-starred restaurant.

The group is also working on a property in Geneva, Hotel De la Paix, likely to be completed next year.

Also coming soon are hotels in Langkawi in Malaysia, Los Cabos in Mexico, Koh Samui in Thailand, Bermuda, and Turks and Caicos Islands, TTG Media can report.

Read more and see photos at https://www.ttgmedia.com/luxury/luxury/ritz-carltons-latest-european-venture-revealed-4265

Source: www.ttgmedia.com

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Foto: roskilde-festival.dk

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Roskilde-festivalen sender frivillige på kurs hos det danske sikkerhetspolitiet PET som en del av styrkingen av sikkehetstiltakene på grunn av den høye terrorberedskapen i Danmark, melder NRK. 

Årets festival varer fra 25. juni til 2. juli. Roskilde ligger 30 kilometer vest for København.

Kilde: www.nrk.no

Les mer på www.roskilde-festival.dk

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www.hovedsteder.blogg.no is a Norway-based blog about the capitals of the world, with a focus on tourism and travel, the environment, diplomatic affairs and politics, lifestyle, culture and entertainment, food and drink. See also our travel blog at www.minbestereise.blogg.no – Contact us at [email protected]

Vientiane

Thai AirAsia (TAA) looks set to start serving Vientiane as the second city in Laos, which until recently was largely off-limits to low-cost carriers (LCCs), the Bangkok Post can report.

TAA will become the first no-frills airline to operate on the Bangkok-Vientiane route when it launches daily flights to the Laotian capital city in July.

The Vientiane start-up follows TAA’s successful entry to the old royal city, and former capital, of Luang Prabang. 

The airline commenced a daily service from Bangkok on March 24, becoming the first LCC to serve the city. 

Laos’ Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism estimated there were 4.3 million international tourist arrivals to the landlocked state last year, an increase of 4.88% from 4.1 million in 2014, generating US$670 million in revenue.

Thai nationals represented the majority of those arrivals, followed by Vietnamese and Chinese. 

Read more here: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/933005/thai-airasia-to-inaugurate-flights-to-vientiane-in-july

Source: www.bangkokpost.com

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www.hovedsteder.blogg.no is a Norway-based blog about the capitals of the world, with a focus on tourism and travel, the environment, diplomatic affairs and politics, lifestyle, culture and entertainment, food and drink. See also our travel blog at www.minbestereise.blogg.no – Contact us at [email protected]

Harare

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Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, is the dirtiest capital city in southern Africa and the city fathers are anti-tourism, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke told the independent Harare-based Daily News newspaper this week.

Mr Kaseke said coupled with the dirt, most roads leading to high density areas from the city centre are potholed to an extent that motorists cannot negotiate their way.

He said coupled with the dirt, most roads leading to high density areas from the city centre are potholed to an extent that motorists cannot negotiate their way.

“All sides of roads in Harare have been buried in tall grass and you wonder what kind of a council you have that cannot even cut grass along the roads.”

The ZTA chief who was recently awarded the Mega Fest CEO of the Year award had no kind words for the city fathers whom he said have also neglected the newly-commissioned Airport Road in Harare.

He added that the city fathers are always in other countries on business visits but they do not learn anything while there.

“They have been to Singapore which is by far the cleanest but they do not learn. Cities in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Malawi are so clean that you are amazed at the glitz. Kigali for instance is the Singapore of Africa.”

Mr Kaseke said Harare, known as Salisbury until 1980, was once a model city, hence the name Sunshine City.

“In the 1980s Harare used to be clean until 1985 when standards began to fall and in 2000 we had lost it completely.”

Read more here: https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2016/04/14/harare-dirtiest-city-in-southern-africa-kaseke

Source: www.dailynews.co.zw

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Syklister og trafikklys i København. Foto: tur.no

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Syklister i Danmark skal få lov til å svinge til høyre på rødt lys, skriver NRK. 

Transportminister Hans Christian Schmidt har gitt beskjed om å endre dagens regelverk etter et vellykket prøveprosjekt som Vejdirektoratet har gjennomført i 33 lyskryss i København.

Kilde: www.nrk.no

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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

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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

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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.

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Reykjavik. Photo credit: ©Visit Reykjavik and ©RagnarThSigurdsson

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.

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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.

Les mer om Bataclan og terrorangrepet her: http://hovedsteder.blogg.no/1455238936_bataclan.html

Kilde: www.nrk.no

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