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From Cassell?s Guide to London, 1922. Image: londonist.com
London is visited by 17.4m foreigners alone every year. But the British capital city has been a popular tourist destination for centuries, with people drawn in by its lavish, exotic – and often oddball – attractions and events. The pop-up phenomenon has been going a while too, reports the Londonist.com website.
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Japan has opened it’s first ever embassy in the Maldives, reports haveeru.com
The embassy in the capital Male, was jointly opened Monday. Japan established diplomatic ties with the Maldives in 1967, and the Maldives established an embassy in Tokyo in 2007.
All of the dealings between both countries had since 1967 been made through the Japanese embassy in Sri Lankan capital Colombo.
Over the years, Japan has been one of the main sources of foreign aid to the Maldives. The most notable contributions made by Japan to the Maldives’ development include the building a seawall around capital Male and construction of several schools across the archipelago.
President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom visited Japan last year. During his visit, the president met Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and held official talks on strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries.
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The New Palestinian embassy in Brasilia. Photo: Facebook / Tuba Kawthar
The Palestinian Authority inaugurated its embassy Brasi’s capital city Brasilia Wednesday amid a diplomatic row between Brazil and Israel, reports telesurtv.net
The inauguration comes weeks after Brazil rejected Israel’s ambassador, a former leader of West Bank settlers.
Representatives of Arab countries and Arab Brazilians attended the event, hosted on land donated to the PA by former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
“This is the conclusion of a dream of mine that was also a dream of colleagues that came before me in this mission in the last four decades,” said Palestinian ambassador Ibrahim Alzeben. “I hope that this is the beginning of a new phase in relations between Brazil and Palestine, that they can be closer and more diversified.”
In Latin America, the Palestinian Authority also maintains embassies in Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela.
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Irakiske sikkerhetsstyrker har startet arbeidet med å bygge en mur rundt hovedstaden Bagdad, skriver nrk.no
Rundt 100 kilometer av områdene nord og nordvest for byen skal beskyttes av en kombinasjon av mur og grøfter. Talsmann for det irakiske innenriksdepartementet,
brigadegeneral Saad Maan, sier til telegrambyrået AP at arbeidet med muren startet denne uken.
Muren blir tre meter høy og vil delvis bestå av betongelementer. Generalen ville ikke si noe om bredden og dybden på grøften som skal bygges sammen med muren.
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I det som var en gammel, tom fabrikkbygning, er det nå blitt åpnet et hipt, og svært spesielt hotell – Hüttenpalats Caravan Hotel Berlin.
Her har man pusset opp campingvogner og små hytter innendørs, og for 700 kroner per natt kan man nyte campinglivet i vogna, inne på hotellet, skriver Se og Hør.
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Nord-Korea har signert Svalbard-traktaten, melder nrk.no
Det gir landet rettighet til å starte økonomisk og industriell aktivitet på den norske øygruppen, skriver Aftenposten.
Utenriksdepartementet sier til avisen at de foreløpig har notert dette som en ubekreftet nyhetsmelding.
Svalbardtraktaten, også kjent som Paris-traktaten, ble inngått i 1920 og er i dag signert av til sammen 43 stater.
Russland er i dag, ved siden av Norge, den staten med mest aktivitet på øygruppen, blant annet i gruvebyen Barentsburg sørvest for “hovedstaden” Longyearbyen.
Russland har et generalkonsulat i Barentsburg.
Av Svalbards nær 2600 innbyggere er vel 400 russiske.
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Tourists are giving London the cold shoulder and choosing to stay outside the British capital, driving profits up in the UK’s hospitality sector, reports the cityam.com website.
The average profit margin of hotels in the United Kingdom rose from 3.5 per cent in 2013/2014 to 4.5 per cent in 2014/2015 according to a new report by finance provider LDF.
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And for the first time ever, international tourists are now more likely to travel outside London, pushing occupancy levels to an expected 77 per cent in non-London hotels, an all-time high.
When occupancy levels rise above 72 per cent, hotels can start raising their prices due to a shortage of space.
More than 18.5m tourists stayed in hotels outside London in the year to June 2015, up from 17.9m the previous year, and 16.5m in 2010/2011. This has contributed to a total annual turnover of approximately £15.9bn in each of the last two years.
However, Londoners don’t need to worry about a lack of tourists just yet. The latest data from Visit Britain proves that London is still in high demand, welcoming 17.4m tourists in 2014, an increase of 3.53 per cent year-on-year.
“Whilst London continues to be a hotspot for tourists, travelling beyond the capital is increasingly popular With international visitors and this is helping to drive up overall income within the sector,” says Peter Alderson, managing director of LDF.
Alderson added that competition from budget hotel chains and Airbnb means that smaller hotels across the country need to raise standards and increase investment in order to make the most of the occupancy boom.
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Austria will open an embassy in the Belarusian capital Minsk om February 9, according to the naviny.by website, The decision to open the embassy was taken by Austria following the results of the visit to Minsk of the Austrian Federal Minister for European Integration and Foreign Affairs Sebastian Kurz in May 2015.
The new Austrian Ambassador to Belarus Alexander Beierl recently presented his credentials to president Aleksander Lukashenko.
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First Hotel Millenium, Oslo (illustrasjonsfoto). Foto: firsthotels.no
Den norske hotellkjeden First Hotels lager nå en egen romkategori for spesielt sengebevisste gjester, skriver VG.
-Mange gjester synes hotellsengen enten er for myk eller for hard. Derfor lanserer vi kategorien First Smart Bed, hvor sengens mykhet kan stilles inn etter gjestenes personlige ønsker, sier Roar Ingdal, administrerende direktør i First Hotels, til avisen.
Sengene fra leverandøren YouBed er fjærsenger som kan tilpasses personlige preferanser, og First Hotels blir den første hotellkjeden som lanserer slike senger på så og si alle hotellene sine.
Bevisstheten rundt hotellsenger øker, og i takt med at skandinaver generelt kjøper bedre senger, øker også kravene til hotellsengene.
-Med solide leverandører som YouBed, Jensen og Wonderland viser vi at vi tar gjestenes søvn på alvor og gir dem mulighet til å finne sin ideelle seng, sier Roar Ingdal.
