Tag: stolen
Melbourne Gay Night Club shooting kills one, injures three
Juergen T Steinmetz- April 14, 2019 12:55Melbourne and locals alike find Love Machine nightclub in Prahran to be a popular part of Melbourne R&B and house music over 3 floors. This flashy gay and mixed nightclub ... Read More
Hotel History: Asian American Hotel Owners Association
Stanley Turkel CMHS hotel-online.com- April 6, 2019 20:45The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) is a trade association that represents hotel owners. As of 2018, AAHOA has approximately 18,000 members who incredibly own about half the 50,000 ... Read More
Aloha is not “Aloooooha”: Stop visitors from offending Hawaiians
Juergen T Steinmetz- March 24, 2019 22:44Do not say ALOHA or better ALOOOOOHA when visiting Hawaii. "Those of you particularly in the tourist industry and in entertainment, stop saying "ALOOOOOOOHA". There is no such word and ... Read More
Uganda travel and trafficking
editor- March 23, 2019 19:00Sub-Saharan Africa has enormous tourism potential: leopards lounging in acacia trees, elephant herds drifting across vast savannah plains, gorillas and chimps rioting in deep forests, the earliest traces of human ... Read More
U.S. Visa for Cubans: Cuban tourists face harsh restrictions
Juergen T Steinmetz- March 16, 2019 05:34The U.S. Embassy in Cuba posted a bomb-shell message on their website today, punishing Cuban citizen and the travel and tourism trade between Cuba and the United States. The message ... Read More
Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver
Rita Payne - special to eTN- March 5, 2019 02:18Queen Elizabeth l, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh were the celebrated figures of their age, but what did they really look like? In the years before photography and ... Read More
Execution Tourism: The next trending niche?
editor- January 15, 2019 02:59Alcatraz East Crime Museum will capitalize on execution tourism with a Ted Bundy display for the 30th anniversary of the serial killer’s execution. Read More
Marriott data breach: Passports not encrypted
editor- January 4, 2019 21:05Marriott said for the first time that 5.25 million passport numbers were kept in the Starwood system in plain, unencrypted data files Read More
Travel alert! Everyday Carry Shirt to prevent pickpocketing?
Juergen T Steinmetz- December 11, 2018 13:45A former U.S. State Department Security Officer has a safety message for business travelers and advice for tourists with a solution for everyone carrying a smartphone, a passport, or a ... Read More
Avoiding dangerous vacations 2018
Hon. Thomas A. Dickerson- September 19, 2018 21:27This is the sixth year that we have posted dangerous vacations destination information collected from news articles and reported law cases. Read More
The history of the SMS Cormoran II
Juergen T Steinmetz- March 30, 2017 12:17Tamuning, Guam – On Friday, April 7, 2017, the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) will commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the scuttling of the SMS Cormoran II. Read More
Drunk British tourists steal penguin from Australian park
editor- April 21, 2012 03:32Three British tourists have been accused of stealing a penguin from an Australian marine park, during a night of revelry. Read More
Iraq demands Israel return stolen ancient Torah scroll
editor- August 31, 2010 04:23Iraq's Tourism Ministry is calling on Israel to return an ancient Torah scroll that was illegally smuggled out of the country. Read More
Update 1: Minister retracts claim that police had recovered van Gogh
editor- August 22, 2010 13:18CAIRO – Egypt's culture minister on Saturday retracted his claim that police had recovered a van Gogh painting stolen from a Cairo museum, saying it was based on inaccurate information ... Read More
”Some low-life tourist has taken it, it’s a bloody disgrace”
editor- October 21, 2009 07:06The sign identifying the most northerly tip of mainland Australia has disappeared and tourists are being blamed. Read More
Couple sentenced in airline vouchers scandal
editor- November 21, 2008 08:04A former Bexar County bailiff and an ex-employee of Southwest Airlines were sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for a scandal in which more than 5,000 stolen airline ... Read More
3000 blank British passports hijacked
editor- July 30, 2008 04:11LONDON - Hijackers made off with boxes of blank British passports worth a fortune on the black market in a raid on a delivery van, police said Tuesday, in the ... Read More