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Ken Chase savors life’s cosmopolitan pleasures: fine food and wine, conversing in several languages, European travel. He’s also a longtime Republican activist capable of flame-throwing opinionating. He refers to President Obama as “the dear leader,’’ invoking North Koreans’ term for their leader, Kim Jong Il.
So what do you get when you stir - no, mix - these passions?
You get Conservative Tours, recently launched by Chase, 48, out of his Belmont home, which (more…)

The redeveloped Marina Beach area in Chennai was opened to the public yesterday. The Times of India reported that the 3.1km stretch now includes viewing galleries, landscaping and fountains. Galleries, a walkway along the sands and high-tech lighting arrangement have also been added to enhance the visitor experience. 

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HONG KONG, October 13, 2009 - Royal Caribbean Cruises’ senior management Michael Bayley, Senior Vice President, International, Rama Rebbapragada, Regional Vice President, International and Kelvin Tan, Regional Director, Asia Pacific are currently in Hong Kong to promote the Legend of the Seas’ upcoming Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore cruises. Over the one-day visit, they will also be meeting with government officials and trade partners to discuss matters related to growing the company’s presence (more…)

Lake Placid, N.Y. — THERE are beach people, and there are mountain people. The first long to be barefoot on a wide stretch of sand by an ocean; the second live to wake up with the sun, pull on thick socks and lace up mud-crusted hiking boots. My daughter Becca is the second.
Which is how I, a beach person, came to be clinging with every finger and toe to a rock face high above tree line in the Adirondacks , wondering whether either going up or coming down was actually possible, and whether (more…)

The Fiji government and tourism stakeholders said on Tuesday they expect tourism numbers to boom with increased airlines servicing Fiji and a direct flight from China to the Fiji resort city of Nadi.
    It has already been confirmed that Australian airlines Jetstar, a low-cost Qantas subsidiary, and V Australia will start servicing Fiji within months with competition expected to heat up.
    The direct flight from Hong Kong to Nadi starts on Dec. 3.
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Chinese tourist arrivals have been increasing significantly over the last one decade, indicating that China is becoming one of the top markets for Nepal’s tourism, the Kathmandu Post reported on Wednesday.
    Compared to the arrivals from January to September in 2008, Chinese inbound during the same period this year surged by 14.6 percent to 11,583 persons.
    In 1999, Nepal hosted only 3,977 Chinese tourists.
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The number of domestic tourists to China’s far western Xinjiang region slumped 26.6 percent year on year to 1.3 million during the National Day holiday, local authorities said Saturday.
    The tourism slump came despite government measures to attract visitors after the deadly July 5 Urumqi riot and a wave of needle attacks from mid August to early September.
    The tourism revenue plunged more than 30 percent annually to 652 million yuan (95.5 million (more…)

Indonesia’s Bali launched its first coral transplantation project in Nusa Dua on Tuesday in a bid to restore the coral reefs and boost marine tourism, a media reported here Wednesday.
    The project invited tourists, fishermen’s groups and several organizations to join the Adopt a Coral program, by donating 25 U.S. dollars for a fragment of transplanted coral, the Jakarta Post said.
    The artificial submarine reef is a man-made construction, which (more…)

An international butterfly museum will be built in Pyin Oo Lwin, a northern city of Myanmar, in December this year, aimed at promoting tourism industry of the country, sources with the National Kandawgyi Garden (NKG) said on Wednesday.
    Over 40,000 butterflies and insects from home as well as those from China, Africa, Malaysia and Thailand will be kept in the museum established in the NKG’s orchid garden, the sources said, adding that butterfly fossil from across the country (more…)

Bangkok, Thailand, October 29, 2009:  Amadeus, a global leader in technology and distribution solutions for the travel and tourism industry, and Rail Europe 4A, the leading distributor of European Rail worldwide, have partnered to increase the reach of Rail Europe’s European railway products and offer Amadeus travel agencies unparalleled pan-European rail content.
Amadeus will connect Rail Europe’s content through the Amadeus Selling Platform - the company’s travel agency point of sale. Travel (more…)