Toronto wins bid for 2015 Pan Am Games on first ballot

Friday's vote in Guadalajaro, Mexico selected Toronto as the host city of the 2015 Pan Am Games.  Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller made their last pitch prior to the ballots being...

WTF? Wisconsin Tourism Federation Changes Its Name

After becoming the butt of several internet jokes, Wisconsin Tourism Federation - WTF - has changed its name to Tourism Federation of Wisconsin.The federation has had the same name since its inception in 1979, but...

South Indian tourists make beeline for Sri Lanka after end of war

"   CHENNAI: K. Palaniappan, an industrialist, had to shelve a business collaboration when the insurgency broke out in Sri Lanka in the latter part of the 70s. He had not had a chance to visit the island...

CNN mix-up tickles Alberta tourism officials

It sure looks as if we need to get Jeannie Moos out of New York once in a while.  Jeannie, a well known CNN reporter, did the story on that squirrel that accidentally showed up in the picture of those...

Hawaii: 50th State is 50 Today

There are unconfirmed rumors President Obama was born in Hawaii.Hawaii is about the size of New Jerseyor about half the size of Nova Scotia with a population of 1,300,000.It is a major tourist destination for...

08/11/09 Tourists are Vegetarians, too

Animal Friends about the deficiencies in its Croatian tourist offer - Vegetarian tasting and info stalls in Zadar, Sibenik, and Split! Even though being a renown tourist destination, Croatia keeps forgetting that...

Italy Travel: Naples Hires Ex-Convicts as Tour Guides

In Southern Italy, the city of Naples started to hire ex-convicts as tour guides. The program, "Esco-Dentro" or Exit-Inside, was launched to help ex-cons reintegrate into the society and decrease the crime rate....

VIA Rail and Union settle on Arbitration - Strike Over

340 unionized locomotive engineers walked off the job Friday afternoon, after a noon deadline passed without a new contract.  This essentialy shut down all passenger rail travel in Canada. In a joint...

VIA Rail engineers to strike 12 EDT, Tourism hit in Canada

Travel plans have been derailed for many tourists in Canada.  VIA rail is poised to go on strike at noon today.  This will essentially cancel all passenger rail travel in Canada. Talks between the...

International sexual terrorism - your ambassadors abroad

When people travel from their home land they become ambassadors to the nation they belong to. However it would seem that countries that have citizens worried about sex predators. Within a neighborhood or play...

Mexico Requires Visas for Canadian diplomats-Retaliation

Canada has implemented the requirement for visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic for Visas.  The stated reason was that 9400 Mexicans applied for refugee status and Canada was attempting to slow this...

Update: Toronto CUPE Strike Supense

Update 2: Add to the Insult, Macleans Magazine's Cover feature Mayor Miller in a garbage can with a banana peel with raccoons all around him.  That adds to more insult to the city and brownie point to the unions.  Yikes, now we know who Maclean sided with!Update:...

Ensaio Fotografico.

Fotografias tiradas por mim , durante os últimos dois anos em cidades como : Recife , Olinda e Natal. Cada foto mostra principais pontos turísticos dessas cidades e suas belezas naturais e porque não única....

Tory Minister loses funding program responsibilty

"Tourism Minister Diane Ablonczy has been stripped of responsibility for administering a major tourism funding program after she signed off on a grant for Toronto's gay pride week." "Ms. Ablonczy, who retains her title as minister of state for small business and tourism, was...

UK surfers eye Sri Lanka for Champion of Champions - Ex LTTE area

" Champion of Champions UK Pro Surf TourArugam Bay, Sri Lanka20 -21 June 2009 UK surfers hit Sri Lanka for Champion of Champions event Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 17 June, 2009 : - - The UK Pro Surf Tour...

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