60 reputed craft villages to join craft village festival
The festival “Vietnamese Craft Village 2009” will take place from March 24-29, 2009 at 29/3 Park in the central city of Da Nang, gathering 60 typical craft villages in Vietnam. The festival will be divided into specific areas, including an area for craft villages and area for food. The zone for craft villages will display traditional products of famous craft villages in Vietnam, such as stone-made fine-art products from Non Nuoc village in Da Nang, sedge mats from Cam Ne village, fish nets from Tho Quang village, pottery products from the villages of Bat Trang, Chu Dau and Bau Truc, bronze-made products from Phuoc Kieu and Phu Xuan villages, lacquer products from Thach That, Thu Dau Mot, wood products from Dong Ky, Kim Bong and Tien Son, silk from Van Phuc and Ma Chau, rattan and bamboo-made products from Ha Nam and Tra Vinh, brocade from Dong Giang and northwestern provinces, folk paintings from Dong Ho and Sinh villages, palm-leaf conical hats from Chuong, Go Gang, ornamental trees from Nam Dinh, horn-made products from Ha Nam province.
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60 reputed craft villages to join craft village festival
The Only Way is Up For Tourism in North West England
It has been all hands to the deck over the past couple of days with the monthly delivery of What’s On in Chester & Cheshire to hotels, attractions and other leisure facilities in the City and surrounding area. The glossy A4 magazine is a free guide to eating, drinking, shopping and entertainment in the area – although it will be downsizing to a “chic and petite publication” next month with a “
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The Only Way is Up For Tourism in North West England
Social Networking Takes Off
Travellers on Air France and KLM can now find each other at the airport, on the airplane and/or at their destinations through a new social networking site called Bluenity . The airlines launched the site to provide travellers with a web-based platform to network around and during their travel. They claim it is the first social network launched by an airline although as others have pointed out it resembles British Airways’ Metrotwin and Lufthansa’s GenFlyLounge , although the later seems to be focusing primarily on travelling students
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Social Networking Takes Off
Prospects for Polar Tourism
To coincide with the International Polar Year in 2008 Cabi Publishing in the UK published a book entitled Prospects for Polar Tourism, Edited by John Snyder & Bernard Stonehouse of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Mike wrote Chapter 6 Development of Tourism in Arctic Canada outlining some of the his early professional experiences in helping communities in Nunavut to develop carefully controlled cultural tourism, when catering for tourists indicated a possible route towards both economic self-sufficiency and cultural preservation.
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Prospects for Polar Tourism