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  • Shikaras in Kashmir to promote culture and tourism

    Around 50 Shikara boats in Jammu and Kashmir lined up in the renowned Dal Lake on Sunday to participate in a race, which was organised to showcase the culture of the state and promote tourism in the valley. The participants in the race, comprising of owners and operators of Shikaras, said boat racing was a prominent attraction in the region 20 years ago, but had faded over time. "This ...

  • Paramount Hotels Resorts to open a hotel in Boao in 2016

    Dubai-based CEO Thomas van Vliet Paramount Hotels & Resorts CEO Thomas van Vliet says merging Hollywood and hotels is rather like making a movie, and reveals the concept and cast behind the operator’s first big release, the US $1 billion Damac Towers by Paramount in Dubai. Like a film production, the concept behind Paramount Hotels & Resorts is the result of collaboration and ...

  • 100 Russian travel agencies invited to explore Hainan tourism market

    According to the deputy director of Hainan tourism association Zhang Tiejun, as the only tropical tourism island in China, Hainan will invite 100 Russian travel agencies to explore the tourism market this year. In recent years, Hainan Island has been one of the most popular tourism destinations amongst Russian tourists for its warm winter, spectacular tropical seascapes all year round, ...

  • Paterson Keys Heritage Tourism to Strike Centennial

    A century ago today, 26,000 Paterson silk workers under the banner of the Industrial Workers of the World were already four months into a citywide strike that captivated a nation. Whether that event can still captivate the imagination of Americans is a question that the Paterson Falls National Historic Park and area museums and colleges hope will be answered with a resounding "Yes!" ...

  • Cabell County tourism channel expanding

    HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- When Alisa Sizemore was a hotel manager in Myrtle Beach, S.C., telling folks about what was happening in the area was a breeze. Tell them to turn on Beach TV in their rooms. An area native back in the Tri-State after 17 years in South Carolina, Sizemore, the general manager at the Super 8 on 16th Street Road in Huntington, is happy that telling hotel guests about ...

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Red Desert (Il deserto rosso) [DVD]

Red Desert (Il deserto rosso) [DVD]

In an article Michelangelo Antonioni wrote in the late 1940s, he imagined a fictional situation in which an Italian director (obviously his stand-in) approached the Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn about making a color film that doesnt have fixed colors. So you see, Mr. Goldwyn, Antonioni wro ... ...

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  • 2014 Asian Golf Tourism Convention to be held at Mission Hills Haikou

    Asia’s golf tourism industry will be gathering on China’s tropical island of Hainan next spring as the region’s most important golf tourism convention moves to award-winning golf resort Mission Hills Haikou. The baton for the 3rd Asia Golf Tourism Convention was passed to China at a signing and hand-over ceremony on the final day of AGTC 2013, held at the Royal Cliff Hotel ...

  • Hainan Airlines to add new routes to Abu Dhabi this summer

    The companies, which handle in-flight catering services, ground handling and cargo operations, are being incorporated, subject to regulatory approvals, into Etihad Airport Services, a unit of Etihad Airways. It comes as Abu Dhabi Airports Company (Adac) is predicting a 15 per cent increase in the number of flights over the peak summer period, between May to August, compared with last ...

  • Saudi Arabian Airlines takes delivery of first-of-its-kind Boeing plane

    Boeing has delivered a 777-300ER extended range plane to Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), marking the latest milestone in its longstanding relationship with the airline and the kingdom. The airplane, the first-of-its-type to be fitted with a three-class cabin configuration, was delivered to the airline at a ceremony in Washington. The airline currently has a backlog of 21 Boeing airplanes on ...

  • Airlines offer big discounts for domestic flights to Hainan during off-season

    Many airlines companies are offering great deals on domestic flights to Hainan to boost the air travel business during the off season. Flight tickets from Beijing to Haikou and Sanya can be purchased at discounts of more than 85%, while flights from Chongqing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou can be purchased with 80% off. Besides, the discounts of 70% will be also applied for flights departing from ...

  • Two airlines to open this fiscal year in Iran

    (MENAFN) Iranian Civil Aviation Organization head Hamidreza Pahlavani declared that two new Iranian airlines should begin their services during this Iranian fiscal year, reported Tehran Times.With 19 planes added in the last fiscal year, Hamidreza said that a new number of planes will be added to the national fleet.He also said that the country has added two Airbus 340 planes, three Fokker 100 ...

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