Amadeus, a major booking system provider for travel agencies, reported a steep drop in the number of business travel bookings. In January and February bookings fell 20%. Liesure travel bookings for the same period fell 12%.
Airlines and travel agencies expect that the slump in business travel bookings will continue because the global economic slowdown will keep budgets tight. At the ITB Traveler fair, Philp Chereque said "We have a feeling that leisure bookings reached the bottom in the last four to five weeks. Business travel is still getting worse,"
What better way to spend the day than to make a trip to the Dublin Zoo, spread over 60 acres and divided into different regions like the Artic zone, plains of Africa and the Indian Rainforest. It houses elephants, tigers, orangutans, chimpanzees, giraffes and many more exotic and endangered species. The zoo is definitely family friendly with rest stops, nursing stations, food outlets and kiosks. K...
Formerly known as Babylon by the Romans, Old Cairo is located on the southern tip and is considered the oldest part of the city. Old Cairo is also often referred to as “Coptic Cairo because the area reflects Cairo's Christian past. Old Cairo is a must see on anyone's itinerary....
The Notre Dame cathedral is one of the city's oldest churches. In the twelfth century, Paris was growing and consolidating its power as France’s capital. The new bishop, Maurice de Sully, decided to build a new cathedral. Construction began in 1163, and it was not finished until the mid-1300s. Notre Dame is one of the earliest examples of Gothic architecture and its trademark flying ...
Located between the Loop and Lake Michigan, Grant Park is known as Chicago's front yard. It covers 319 acres. The park was built after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire on landfill and the 1893 Columbian Exhibition was held here. It is named for former president/Civil War general and Chicago-area native Ulysses S. Grant. The recently completed Millennium Park is at the northwest ...