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By Jade Witten Court Reporter Two cleaners at a five-star Cape Town hotel have been charged with theft for allegedly stealing $40 000 from a safe in one of the hotel's rooms....

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By Colleen Dardagan Visitors on board the Moses Mabhida Stadium sky car this week had their experience ruined after the ride shuddered to a halt and left them stranded on top of the 106m-high arch. And it is not the first time that the car has broken down....

Working together to ensure that global policies are supportive of the sustainable growth of tourism and position travel and tourism as one industry speaking with one voice were some of the challenges highlighted by UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, speaking on the occasion of the opening of this year’s ITB Travel Trade Show . ITB 2010 kicks off as the tourism...

THE Ministry of Finance has...

A new conservation...

BERLIN: Malaysia was declared the second best destination in Asia by 'Go Asia', a tourism marketing network specialising in Asia, which gave good marks to the overall facilities available for tourism in Malaysia. In addition, the Frankfurt office of Tourism Malaysia was voted as the third best foreign tourist promotion office in Frankfurt, decided over a...

VICTORIA is attracting more overnight international visitors than the rest of the country with 30 per cent of tourists coming to state in 2009. A Tourism Research Australia's International Visitor Survey showed Victoria's tourism industry was outperforming every Australian state with the...

The finance minister has created a largely unrestricted provision in Budget 2010 that enables any hotel of two star or above category that starts functioning after April 1, 2010 to avail of full tax deduction on capital expenditure. This provision amends a previous provision that made profits deductible for a certain category of hotels in specified areas. India as a country has underinvested in its tourism infrastructure for the last 60 years. China has 10 times more and the US 40 times more hotel rooms than India....

South African Airways has...

The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia's dark recent history to be transformed into a tourist spot. In a controversial move that underlines the increasing allure of the country's genocidal history and the importance of tourists to Cambodia's coffers, the government has decided to "preserve and develop" Anlong Veng. The jungle town in the far north of the country was the last stronghold of the rebel movement responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million people. In a statement, the...

- HAVANA - Production at Cuba's sugar plants has been hit hard this year by inefficiency, a spate of breakdowns and other technical problems, state-media reported Wednesday, adding to sobering news for the Communist-run island's crisis-addled economy. Breakdowns and other interruptions have idled plants nearly 19 percent of the time so far in 2010, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said. A further 11 percent of production reportedly has been lost due to a lack of sugar cane. The paper said problems were worst in the key sugar-growing region of Las Tunas, 360 miles east of the capital. It also blamed poor planning and "a lack of discipline." "Overcoming delays and...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia will preserve 14 sites at the last bastion of the murderous Khmer Rouge, including the home of their leader Pol Pot, as tourist attractions, an...

A delegation of Chinese tour operators arrive in Miami this week for some hotel shopping. The group of wholesalers from Beijing and Shanghai will tour the Everglades, inspect the Four Seasons and other top hotels, and generally hunt for the best vacation options they can sell travelers back home in the increasingly mobile nation. Tourism agencies, Continental Airlines and other local travel companies are sponsoring the trip. It's part of a growing effort by local tourism marketers to attract the attention of a tightly-controlled economy expected to become one of the world's largest sources of travelers. On a recent South Florida visit by Chinese travel writers, Grace Zhong saw Fort...

By Stanislaus Jude Chan SINGAPORE - Vehicles with foreign license plates filling the car park is the first unfamiliar sight that greets visitors in the basement of the Singapore's first casino, which opened nearly a month ago. But surprises are to be expected after the casino opened its doors to its first clients during the Chinese New Year on February 14 - and to a proverbial Pandora's box of social impacts to be seen in the coming months and years. On the surface, Resort World Sentosa , of which the casino belongs, is a theme park for the family. The facade of a fairytale castle looms on the horizon on the way to Sentosa gateway bridge, inviting visitors to enter a world of fantasy....

 

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