Archive for June, 2009

Free Music Series in New York City – South Street Seaport Music begins 8th season on July 3

Recognized for presenting a plethora of indie music’s most relevant breaking and established bands on the Pier 17 stage in lower Manhattan, Seaport Music kicks off its eighth season with a stellar and notable line up, beginning Friday, July 3 with Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic and New Zealand’s Bachelorette.

June 26, 2009   Posted in: United States East

2009-2010: Burma/Myanmar targets 1 million arrivals

YANGON – Myanmar (Burma) has been making efforts to promote its international tourism market, targeting a tourist arrival of 1 million in the present 2009-10 fiscal year which began in April, sources with the Union of Myanmar Travel Association (UMTA) said today.

June 26, 2009   Posted in: Burma

PEZULA SOMMELIER TO REPRESENT SOUTH AFRICA IN INTERNATIONAL JEUNES SOMMELIERS COMPETITION

Knysna, South Africa – June, 2009: Mortimer Bester, a 24-year-old sommelier at Pezula Resort Hotel & Spa on South Africa’s famed Garden Route, has won the Chaîne de Rôtisseurs’ Jeunes (Young) Regional Sommeliers competition and will represent South Africa at the finals in the United Kingdom this September. Born and raised in Knysna, Bester, who [...]

June 26, 2009   Posted in: Africa

Says Cuba “The Americans are welcome here”

Cuba’s tourism industry will have enough capacity for the surge of American travelers expected should U.S. lawmakers lift restrictions on visits to the island, said Miguel Figueras, an adviser at Cuba’s tourism ministry. Cuba agrees with an estimate by the American Society of Travel Agents that 835,000 U.S. tourists a year, excluding cruise ships or Cuban-American [...]

June 26, 2009   Posted in: Cuba

Plethora of Cultural Events Announced for 2010 Asian Games

GUANGZHOU, China – June, 2009 – The 16th Asian Games (www.gz2010.cn/en), part of the worldwide Olympic movement and governed by the Olympic Council of Asia will be scheduling a plethora of new events coinciding with the final 100 days before the Games. 

June 26, 2009   Posted in: China

Pigeon Forge Tennessee Seeks 75 Families for $75 Gas Giveaway

To help celebrate the 75th anniversary of neighboring Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this gateway city is seeking 75 families so it can give them $75 in gas, $75 of attraction tickets and a challenging list of 75 fun activities. The 75 families will get a Dolly Parton Smoky Mountains CD, too, the sound track [...]

June 26, 2009   Posted in: United States South

Michael Jackson’s death is a huge blow to London’s travel industry

ETN/Jun 26, 2009: Did you buy tickets or a travel package for Michael Jackson’s comeback concerts starting next month in London? Now comes the news that the superstar died this afternoon after he stopped breathing and was rushed to UCLA Medical Center from his nearby rented home, officials said.

June 26, 2009   Posted in: England

New York’s Lockport Locks & Erie Canal Cruises and Events for Summer 2009

Tomorrow welcomes Fred Vine taking you to the keys and playing all your Jimmy Buffet favorites on our first Thursday Night Music Cruise of the season. A few seats remain and the weather forecast looks great!            

June 24, 2009   Posted in: United States NorthEast

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Lone Star Film Society Present Catch the Wave – A Film Festival Celebrating the Nouvelle Vague August 13-16 and 20-23

“There were many film waves in the 1960s which were just that, waves. They broke on the shore and were gone. But the original wave, the French Nouvelle Vague, which crashed upon an unprepared world at Cannes in May 1959 and which brought to the fore filmmakers like Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut and Alain Resnais, [...]

June 24, 2009   Posted in: United States South

Sri Lanka Defeats Tigers and Lures Tourists

Sri Lanka wants to attract more tourists. Now, after the 30 years war they want to boost tourism by promoting the destination in international media. Sri Lanka has once more become the main topic for world’s media. The government forces managed to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels after some 30 years of war. The conflict severely [...]

June 24, 2009   Posted in: Sri Lanka