Tag: reconstruction
$840 million in DOT infrastructure grants to 381 US airports announced
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $840 million in airport infrastructure grants, the first allotment of the total ... Read More
Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Bartlett lauds Seaga as icon, champion of the people
Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett has lauded the work of former Prime Minister, the Most Hon Edward Phillip George Seaga, who passed away today, on his 89th birthday. Minister ... Read More
Kazakhstan PM goes all out inspecting ongoing tourism and infrastructure improvement
Kazakhstan Prime Minister Askar Mamin visited the East Kazakhstan, Almaty and Karaganda regions on a working trip to check the implementation of the instructions of the Head of State Kassym-Jomart ... Read More
US Transportation Secretary announces $779 million in funding for airport infrastructure
US Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the intent to award $779 million in supplemental funding for infrastructure grants to 127 airports in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. ... Read More
Russia’s Saint Petersburg introduces ‘tourist tax’
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the introduction of a tourist tax on foreign visitors in St. Petersburg, Russia. The head of state made a statement at a meeting with the ... Read More
Sudan Tourism Industry: ATB President St. Ange wants Africa to stand by Sudan
People in Sudan are tasting freedom for the first time. It will be impossible to go back and tourism is a way to eventually rebuild the confidence and economy of ... Read More
The Iconic Transformation of the Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo
Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo in the heart of the Monaco playground for the world’s rich and famous founded in 1864 was turned into a modern age hotel, piece by piece and ... Read More
Cyclone Idai: What the African Tourism Board is doing?
“The situation is terrible,” Jamie LeSueur of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Tuesday in a press statement. “The scale of devastation is enormous. It ... Read More
World Bank announces Air Transport Annual Report
The 14th edition of the World Bank Group (WBG) Air Transport Annual Report, which outlines the support that is given to emerging and developing countries in air transportation has made ... Read More
Prague Airport opens new Commercial Zone
Prague Airport has launched operations of a new commercial zone at Terminal 2 featuring a total of 2,200 sq.m. The new area, located right after the security checkpoint, comprises six ... Read More
Very, very big business: Macau tourism numbers are in
Tourism to Macau is very biog business. 35.8 million went to the Las Vegas of Asia last year. an increase of 9.8 percent. The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced ... Read More
The Living and Itinerant Christmas Crib of Baia and Latina
Faithful to the origins and, according to tradition from the will of St. Francis to revive in a natural setting the birth of Bethlehem with real characters: shepherds, peasants, craftsmen, ... Read More
Prague Airport: Record 16 million serviced passengers in 2018
The third historical record in a row has been broken at Václav Havel Airport Prague when the number of serviced passengers per year reached 16 million milestone on Wednesday December ... Read More
H.I.S. reports full year results
H.I.S. Co., Ltd., a leading travel and airline ticket agency, has announced results for the full year ended October 31, 2016. Read More
Padang vanishing history
PADANG (eTN) - It has now been 15 months that West Sumatra (Indonesia) was struck by a powerful earthquake, which officially killed over 1,100 people and damaged some 200,000 houses ... Read More
Priorities change for Kisumu Airport in Kenya
It was learned that the various ongoing work stages of the reconstruction of the Read More
Reconstruction of Kasubi Tombs in Kamapala begins
Kampala’s one and only UNESCO World Heritage site, the Kasubi Tombs of the Buganda Kingdom, is now being readied for rebuilding, following a Read More
Bordeaux’s winemakers reconstruct the past to charm tourists
Jean-Francois Janoueix and Jean-Michel Cazes have more in common than producing wine. Read More