Archives: 2009 February
  • Chernogorsk resort Zabljak improves its hotel industry

    February 8th, 2009

    The new hotel will Planinka 160 luxurious rooms. / / A. BarinovaNa Montenegrin resort of Zabljak open new hotels. Thus, the hotel Gorske osi ( “Eyes of the mountain”), located in the heart of the city, up to 65 people and has 9 double rooms, 15 suites and 7 poluapartamentami. There are also visitors - a restaurant, aperitif bar and conference room. The first occupants Gorske osi take in these winter holidays.
    After the New Year holidays until February 8, accommodation in apartments for two will cost 90 euros, and after the February 8 - to 72 euros. During the same period prices in poluapartamentah of 80 and 64 euros, respectively, in double rooms - 30 and 25 euros. For children under the age of 12 years, a 50% loss allowance, the portal “All of Montenegro.”

    In 2010, there is a new building will begin construction of the hotel Planinka. The new hotel will be 160 luxury rooms, restaurants, conference halls, swimming pools, a gym and shopping mall. Completion of construction is scheduled for 2012, investment in the project amount to 27 million euros.

    Located in the north Zabljak - a popular center of mountain tourism. The entire mountain range is protected as Durmitor National Park and offers good opportunities for recreation. Snow on Durmitore is 120 days a year. Cliffs and slopes are well suited for an array of mountaineering. Around the town of Zabljak there are many good walking trails.

    Also here excellent conditions for rafting: the second largest canyon in the world (the depth of up to 1.3 kilometers), the Tara River put on the List of World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Rafting on the Tare is one of the most popular types of tourism in Montenegro.

  • Access to space tourist in space would cost $ 45-55 million

    February 5th, 2009

    The U.S. company Space Adventures, organized under an agreement with Roskosmos space tourist flights to the ISS, published on its website on future flights prices. Out in the open space in the Russian suit will cost unprofessional party flight from 45 to 55 million dollars, depending on the program, but necessarily, accompanied by an experienced astronaut, said Space Adventures. Needless ten stay at the International Space Station podorozhalo from 30 to 35-45 million dollars. The latest, sixth-account American space tourist Richard Gerriott paid for the flight to the ISS, which he undertook in October 2008, about 30 million dollars.

    Unknown, but in general will pay his second flight to the ISS the fifth space tourist, an American of Hungarian descent, Charles Simonyi, whose start to the station crew, consisting of 19-second expedition is planned for spring 2009. But even with discounts for the second flight, the price in relation to the world finkrizisom be higher than 30 million dollars. Simonyi has already visited the station in April 2007, paying for the flight of about 25 million dollars. The Russian representative of Space Adventures did not disclose the contract value of its clients.

    The first space tourist, go to the ISS in 2001, became an American Dennis Tito. A year later, the station went on the second flight of the non-party South African Mark Shuttleworth. In 2005, went into orbit an American Gregory Olsen in 2006 at the ISS in the ten-trip off the first female tourist, American of Iranian origin Anoushe Ansari. All four space tourists have paid for the flight of about 20 million dollars.

  • Economy

    February 4th, 2009

    For almost half a year for the world crisis and the ghost walks the dollar for tomorrow and the forecast of the euro is now waiting for a great deal, and the forecast of oil prices. All the complexity of the situation is that the market is very unpredictable, but that does not mean that the analyst had died. No. Just surviving will be the most literate. Others, though changing the profession. And tourism market will to a large extent, depend on where to turn the Euro. Fly, or whether the people will hold a holiday grandmothers in Taganrog.

  • In Vilnius, a skidochnaya map guest

    February 3rd, 2009

    In spring 2009, Vilnius tourist information center will offer visitors “travel card”. Similar projects are successfully implemented in many European capitals and other places frequented by tourists. Buy “card of Vilnius” will be in all tourist information centers, as well as ordered over the Internet. Her actions - 24 or 72 hours.

    The card will provide an opportunity to use public transport and to visit museums free of charge, as well as receive special discounts at participating in the restaurants, cafes, souvenir shops, recreation centers, at the order of the different tours and other relevant tourist attractions.

    The project is timed to action “Vilnius - the cultural capital of Europe - 2009″, for which the Lithuanian capital expects 15% rise in turpotoka. During 2009, in Vilnius will host more than 900 different cultural, artistic and social events. Among the most interesting of them - “The European cafes,” said RATA-News. Throughout the city will open a network of coffee shops, where you will meet prominent figures of culture and talk with them over a cup of coffee.

    2 May, 2009 in the heart of the city held the “Day of street music”: the 24-hour marathon, dozens of street bands. May 14, speaking in Vilnius, the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev. And with 20 to 22 November in the darkness Vilnius Festival ozaritsya beams of light LUX.

  • In the Bahamas, killed the son of John Travolta

    February 2nd, 2009

    In the Bahamas, killed the son of a famous American actor John Travolta. 16-year-old Travolta Jettou was hospitalized on Friday at Memorial Hospital Rand “on the island of Grand Bahama.

    There, doctors confirmed the death of a teenager. According to the family Travolty Michael Ossi, on Friday at a hotel in the Bahamas, where the family was on vacation, the 16-year-old Dzheta Travolty sudden attack occurred.

    Travolte Jr. was given first aid but were unable to save him.

    In turn, as the AP reported, with reference to the police Loretta Mackay, Jet, died as a result of the fall in the bathroom.

    Jet Travolta, which in the past cases, such attacks - oldest child in the family Travolty and actress Kelly Preston. A couple also have a daughter, Ella Blue, born in 2000.

    John Travolta is married to actress Kelly Preston, at last, there are also 8-year-old daughter. The actor known for roles in the films “Briolin,” “Saturday night fever”, “Criminal fiction”, “Face”, “cracked boom” and many others.