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• Make tourism and conservation compatible - the money you spend on your trip helps determine the development and direction of tourism. Use your money to support reputable, conservation-minded tour operators and suppliers.
• Learn about the culture and customs of the areas you will visit before you go.
• Visit parks and nature reserves - visitor demand and tourist expenditures support existing protected areas and can lead to the protection of additional nature. Get any necessary permits before visiting nature reserves or other protected areas. Leave these areas as you found them and do not disturb the wildlife there.
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Pleasant Holidays and the Sheraton Maui are offering reduced room rates in Garden View and Ocean View accommodations at the Sheraton Maui for all new bookings traveling November 28 through May 31, 2003. Partial Ocean View accommodations at the special rate will also be available for booking through May starting January 1, 2003.
Additional benefits are a fifth night free and daily buffet breakfast for all.
Blackout dates during holidays periods are November 23 –28, December 24 – January 7, and April 8-18, 2003.
Five-night, land-only holidays start at $749 per person, double occupancy, reflecting a savings of $550 per room. Included in
Qatar Airways Holidays has opened an outlet in Kuwait. The office will sell package tours offered by the holiday division of Qatar Airways. It already has offices in Doha and Bahrain and plans to open more centres in other Gulf states.
Garuda Indonesia and Garuda Orient Holidays hosted the annual Top Achiever Awards in Bali last week, to the delight of winning travel agents who spent a long weekend experiencing the ultimate in luxurious Bali getaways as a big thank you for the best year of Bali travel on record.
The Garuda Indonesia and Garuda Orient Holidays Top Achiever Awards recognise travel agents with the largest volume of sales in their Australian or New Zealand region. The getaway is very popular throughout the industry, and is known for including an exciting itinerary of tours and activities.
“Garuda Indonesia and Garuda Orient Holidays are
Tourists from Northern Ireland and the east of England are the most likely to have a holiday romance, a new survey claimed today.
The UK-wide survey by Teletext Holidays also revealed the Welsh were the most successful at turning a holiday romp into a romance.
Nearly half (49%) of all holiday flings lasted less than a week and almost a fifth lasted just one night.
A women`s top holiday fling was with a sports instructor, while men prefer local waitresses or air stewardesses.
Australia was the best place to find sexy locals and Portugal the worst, the poll of 1,529 UK adults found.
The survey
Emirates Holidays, the tour operating arm of Emirates Airline and one of the largest wholesale tour operators in the Middle East, declared a revenue of Dhs 355 million (US$97 million) for the financial year ended 31st March 2004 - an increase of 23 per cent over the previous year.
Around 100,000 tourists travelled with Emirates Holidays over the past twelve months, with the top destinations proving to be the U.A.E, Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Mauritius, the Maldives, Singapore, Lebanon and India. The six destinations growing fastest in popularity were Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
The past