tourism
- David Kushner: Going to Space? First Stop - Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City
- Welcome to Star City, Russia, the tiny town where cosmonauts have trained since the 1960s. Today, clients of Space Adventures should expect to spend about eight months here (after forking over millions of dollars) to learn the ropes before blastoff.
- 2008-09-21 to bestof, russia, space, tourism, travel by soobrosa
- Olympic Concierge Sead Dizdarevic
- Once king of the under-the-rug deal, Sead Dizdarevic is now the official corporate concierge to the Olympics. A $650,000 suite, anyone?
- 2008-08-08 to bestof, business, hospitality, olympic games, sport, tourism by bagoly
- Mexican standoff: the battle of Chichen Itza
- Since being named as one of the Seven New Wonders of the World, the Mayan temple has been the focus of an ownership dispute between a local family and those who want it to be returned to the people.
- 2007-11-16 to bestof, business, history, seven wonders, tourism by bagoly
- John Vidal: 'We said to them, 'Come closer' but they said to us, 'Go further back''
- Increasing number of isolated groups being found in world's last wildernesses.
- 2007-11-04 to exploration, people, society, tourism, travelling, tribes, world by soobrosa
- Rome struggles with a rowdy, drunken boom in tourism
- It is "ladies night" at Sloppy Sam's, a popular pub on Campo dei Fiori just in front of the statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno. Bruno was condemned to death in 1600 by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy. Shirtless male bartenders this night are
- 2007-07-02 to bestof, business, tourism, travel by bagoly
- A new day dawns
- Though the legacy of Cambodia's troubled past is never far away, Hari Kunzru finds ease and optimism in Phnom Penh, and a country preparing to reinvent itself as a major tourist destination
- 2007-05-17 to bestof, business, cambodia, tourism, travel by bagoly
- A holiday at the end of the Earth: tourists paying to see global warming in action
- A US tour company will be running a special trip this summer to view Warming Island, the remarkable new feature of the Greenland coast produced by the melting of the Greenland ice sheet
- 2007-05-04 to bestof, business, global warming, tourism, travel by bagoly
- Voyeurismo
- In First World cities they do it because time hangs heavier—the rich, who read less and play more and suffer a surfeit of channels as well as food, are often bored out of their minds. So the bolder of them go on tour to the ends of the earth where “extrem
- 2007-03-07 to bestof, business, society, tourism by bagoly
- Wei-Campanella: China’s Global Beacon
- Alexandria had its lighthouse, and now Guzhen will have the Century Giant Lamp Tower.
- 2006-12-25 to arts, china, tourism by soobrosa
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