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Innehaver Stine Helles utenfor kvinnerestauranten Suffragetten. Foto: aok.dk
Suffragetten er navnet på en ny restaurant på Nørreport i København. Alle ledende medarbeidere er kvinner, det samme gjelder alle vinprodusentene, skriver Se og Hør.
-I baren serverer vi musserende vin og coctails med en delikat, feminin touch. Det betyr for all del ikke at menn ikke er velkomne, men hvis man vil ha en øl, må den hentes på den andre siden av gaten, sier innehaveren Stine Bardeleben Helles.
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad open to all of his citizens for the first time in 12 years Sunday amid efforts to cut spending and appease citizens who have been protesting for basic public services, businessinsider.com / Associated Press reported.
Al-Abadi referred to the opening of the Green Zone as part of the “measures promised to our citizens and this opening that we are witnessing points to continued plans to reform – actions which we will not back down from,” a statement from his office said, adding that al-Abadi was the first to pass through the newly-opened Green Zone, or the International Zone as it is officially known.
The four square mile (10 square kilometer) compound, on the west bank of the Tigris River, was declared off-limits to the public in the wake of the 2003 U.S.-led occupation. The complex, with its high concrete walls lined with barbed wire, and heavily guarded checkpoints, is home to several palaces once belonging to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and was turned into the administrative headquarters for the U.S.-led coalition following the 2003 invasion.
Today, it contains a number of residential apartment buildings and homes, including those of many senior Iraqi government officials. A number of foreign embassies are also there, including the U.S. embassy, which, at 104 acres, is the largest and most expensive embassy in the world.
The zone has continued to be a target for bombings and rockets over the years, despite the concrete walls that surround it.
A senior Green Zone security official told The Associated Press that much of the restrictions on movement inside the Green Zone will still remain in place, particularly on streets leading to high-level government buildings and embassies, including the U.S. embassy. The official spoke anonymously because he is not authorized to brief the media.
The decision to open a passage in and out of the Green Zone comes as calls for reform continue across Baghdad to end government corruption and reckless spending.
Last month, in a rare show of unity, the Iraqi government unanimously backed a program proposed by al-Abadi to eliminate senior government posts and slash spending.
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Brandenburger Tor under lysfestivalen i Berlin et tidligere år.
Under lysfestivalen i Berlin denne måneden forvandler den tyske hovedstaden seg til en gnistrende spektakulær metropol hvor kjente bygninger som Brandenburger Tor, fjernsynstårnet på Alexanderplatz, Domkirken og en rekke andre kjente landemerker blir opplyst, skriver bladet På Reise.
Det blir fyrverkeri og lysende kulturarrangementer over hele byen – i perioden 9.-18.oktober.
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Shopping along Calle del Carmen, Madrid. Photo: masterfile.com
The Shopping Tourism and Economy Summit, the first European summit dedicated to the shopping tourism phenomenon, kicked off in Madrid on Monday.
The summit aims at analyzing the economic impact and the possibilities of the shopping tourism in urban development and the Spanish capital is one of the main cities where this phenomenon takes place.
Madrid is the fifth European city where non-European tourists spent the most after London, Paris, Barcelona and Istanbul, the Chinese News agency Xinhua reported.
At the summit, speakers will address topics such as how to promote shopping tourism in cities and how to boost collaboration between the public and private sector.
Among the speakers are the president of the Spanish airline Iberia, Luis Gallego, and the secretary general of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, Taleb Rifai.
Spain is the third most visited country in the world after the US and France and is the second country where tourists spend more money.
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Er du glad i sjokolade? Da kan du oppleve selve himmelriket om du besøker Paris fra 29.oktober til 2.november, for da er det nemlig sjokoladefestival i Parc de Expositions, skriver bladet På Reise.
Her får man vite alt om sjokoladetrender og nyskapning innen sjokoladebransjen, det er prøvesmaking og opptog med kostymer av sjokolade.
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As part of the effort, the number of surveillance cameras on streets across the city has increased 29 per cent year-on-year, state-run China Daily reported.
Police in the Chinese capital city have for the first time covered 100 per cent of the sprawling city of over 21 million people under video surveillance and deployed more officers to improve the security facilities during the current weeklong holidays.
City police have covered every corner of the capital with a video surveillance system, the Beijing Public Security Bureau said stating that complete coverage by the video system during the National Day holiday is part of a move to tighten the capital’s security and avoid crimes in crowds.
The video surveillance system has covered 100 per cent of the capital during the holiday, the first time that the system has provided complete coverage in the city since being upgraded in 2012, a statement by the bureau said.
Additionally, the police presence has been improved in crowded places such as markets, bus stations and parks.
China is virtually shutdown for a week since October 1 to celebrate the National Day during which millions of people visit different cities putting pressure on the public security system.
The capital’s tourism committee said, a total of 2.7 million travellers visited 180 major scenic spots in the city on October 2, a 12 per cent increase year-on-year.
The measures followed number of tragedies including this year’s new year stampede at Shanghai’s beach front in which 36 people were killed and 42 others injured.
During the current holiday season, police so far had detained 23 people suspected of stealing and theft in crowded places in Beijing.
As the highest-level video surveillance system was launched in downtown Beijing, the Patrol Corps under Beijing’s Public Security Bureau also launched a video monitoring system throughout 19 sub-bureaus in districts and counties, as well as in 362 police stations, the bureau said.
As part of the effort, the number of surveillance cameras on streets across the city has increased 29 per cent year-on-year, state-run China Daily reported.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 4,300 police officers have been asked to take charge of their local video surveillance systems, the bureau said.
Based on the systems, the police solved more than 1,500 cases, up 22 per cent year-on-year, and caught 2,370 suspects, up 5 per cent year-on-year, it said.
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Hotellkjeden Scandic styrker sitt tilbud når de nå lanserer en ny kolleksjon med signaturhoteller. Hotellene skal markedsføres under sitt eget navn med tillegget «by Scandic».
Det første hotellet blir Stockholms-hotellet Grand Central by Scandic (bildet), skriver www.travelnews.no
Med de nye hotellene vil kjeden møte etterspørselen hos reisende som søker de mer unike hotellopplevelsene.
Signaturhotellene vil preges av sin unike historie og karakter, samt være utformet som tydelige sosiale møteplasser.
Det første hotellet i kolleksjonen er nåværende Scandic Grand Central i Stockholm, som den 1. februar 2016 omprofileres til Grand Central by Scandic.
Selskapets store hotellsatsning i PUB-huset i Stockholm, Haymarket, vil også bli et av signaturhotellene når det åpnes våren 2016.
Scandic planlegger å øke med flere signaturhoteller i kolleksjonen, med en håndfull hoteller i Norden de neste årene. Dette skal gjøres både gjennom omprofilering av eksisterende hoteller og nyetableringer.
– Vårt gode kundetilbud er allerede attraktivt for både nordiske og internasjonale gjester på privat- eller jobbreise. Dette bekreftes av våre kundeundersøkelser og høye andel av gjester som kommer tilbake til våre hoteller. Ved å lansere en kolleksjon signaturhoteller, realiserer vi hotellenes fulle potensial med tanke på kundetilbud og lønnsomhet, sier Frank Fiskers, konsernsjef for Scandic Hotels.
Hotellkonseptet, HTL, som i dag driver fire hoteller i Stockholm og Oslo, kommer samtidig til å knyttes nærmere Scandics varemerke og bytte navn til HTL byScandic i begynnelsen av 2016. Administrerende direktør i Scandic Norge, Svein Arild Steen-Mevold mener det blir et stort løft både for HTL og Scandic.
– HTL-hotellene får nå tilgang til en mye større distribusjon som vi har bygget opp gjennom 50 år. Scandic kan med dette tilby en enda mer komplett pakke jeg tror gjestene vil sette pris på, sier Steen-Mevold.
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Stor 25-års jubileumsfeiring ved Brandenburger Tor i Berlin. Foto: Sean Gallup, Getty Images.
I går, lørdag 3.oktober, feiret Tyskland sin nasjonaldag. Og feiringen var ekstra spesiell denne gangen, da det i år er 25 år siden den tyske gjenforeningen.
Dagen ble markert landet over, med hovedvekt på feiringen i Berlin, der både president Joachim Gauck og forbundskansler og hele det offisielle Tyskland deltok i jubileumsfesten med taler, kulturinnslag, lys-show og fyrverkeri, for å nevne noe.
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Flyselskapene kappes nå om å fly verdens lengste flyrute. I forrige måned annonserte Emirates at de fra februar 2016 vil fly nonstop mellom Dubai i De forente arabiske emirater og Panama by – en tur på 13800 kilometer, som skal ta 17 timer og 35 minutter, skriver VG.
Nå kommer Air India på banen og utfordrer Emirates. Sist helg bekjentgjorde inderne at de 2.desember starter opp nonstop-ruten New Dehli-San Francisco, som selskapet regner med å bruke 18 timer på å fly – selv om den er noe kortere rent avstandsmessig enn Emirates-ruten til Panama.
Times of India skriver at Air India vurderer å fly fra Bangalore alternativt til New Dehli. Ifølge avisen er verdens lengste flyrute per i dag det australske flyselskapet nonstop-flyging mellom Dallas-Fort Worth og Sydney – en tur på rundt 16 timer.
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Balearene med øyene Mallorca, Ibiza, Formentera og Menorca vil trolig innføre turistskatt fra neste år, skriver nettstedet www.travelnews.no
Målet med den nye skatten, som er beregnet å ligge på mellom ti og tyve kroner dagen, skal ifølge forslagstillerne bidra til å forbedre forholdene på øyene.
Detaljene knyttet til skatten er fortsatt under vurdering, blant annet om den skal innføres før, etter eller under høysesongen, eller bare knyttes til sistnevnte.
I tillegg er det snakk om sette tak på beløpet.
Skatten vil omfatte alle besøkende til øyene, men barn blir trolig unntatt. Den blir sannsynligvis også satt ned utenom høysesongen.
Inntektene skal brukes til å ta vare på øyenes naturlandskap og kulturelle arv, i tillegg til utbedring av infrastrukturen.
Kritikerne har argumentert med at skatten vil drive turistene bort fra øyene, mens tilhengerne argumenterer med at da Barcelona, hovedstaden i regionen Katalonia, innførte en nattskatt på syv kroner hadde det liten innflytelse besøkstallene.
