jeudi 12 février 2015

Mountain professionals courting singles

Collaboration between resorts and club meetings, specialized agencies, speed dating on chairlift: the mountain professionals do not lack imagination to combine skiing and dating soulmate. Wide open spaces, clean air, sport and a little cold to encourage closer: the cocktail seems more conducive to meetings. This is certainly rely on this element that many mountain tourism stakeholders to attract singles crowns. It must be said that the statistics...

North Korea launches a website dedicated to tourism

North Korea has launched a website exclusively designed to allow tourists to calmly prepare a unique stay in the most closed countries. For the fans. North Korea has decided to open if not, at least be interested in foreign avid original tourist experience. According to South Korean news agency Youhap the country, led an iron fist by Kim Jong-un, now has a new information site for tourists who wish to venture in the Democratic People's Republic...

The Marmara Hotels resume clubs colors

Slowing it a few years ago, the brand Marmara standard of the hotel club cheap French, upslope. In the program, the renovated site, more focused on Europe and new concepts. After chained poorest seasons, Marmara is optimistic about the current year and renews 30% of its offer for the summer. The chain had hitherto been hit hard by the collapse in sales in Tunisia and Morocco, especially as some of its facilities were aging and is increasingly...

Disney and Center Parcs launched Villages Nature

It took over ten years to get this project up, but Villages Nature is now on track. This entertainment resort and accommodation designed by a company jointly owned by Disneyland and Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs should be operational by the end of 2016. As Center Parcs faces a tough opposition on its draft Roybon (Isère), the latter should experience a more peaceful future, supported by a broad coalition of elected officials, with the notable...

This winter, the Alps will be too expensive for many Russians

VIDEO - With the collapse of the ruble, the cost of skiing holidays abroad will increase and part of Russian clients will give up. The decline could exceed 10%. More than the political crisis is the decline in the Russian currency which should prevent some of these customers to taste this year at skiing in France. According to the body for promoting France Montagnes, attendance of Russian customers (nearly 80,000 people last year) and Ukrainian...

No memories for visitors to the Eiffel Tower

Employees gift shops of the most famous monuments in France are on strike to demand an increase in their salary.   Those visiting the Eiffel Tower were deprived of memories today, due to a strike by employees of the famous building shops for their salaries, do we learned from the CGT. Rémi Picaud, union representative, announced this evening that the strike is renewed tomorrow because of the refusal of the management of SCSC, which manages...

The France leverages its regions to get tourists to Paris

IN PICTURES - The country hosts every year nearly 85 million international visitors, most of which focus on the capital and "two or three regions." The "Destination contracts", launched by the government to promote certain territories, hoping to change all that. advertising "France is in tourism much like a gifted student who did not give his full measure," said Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, on 16...