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  • Chiranjeevi to inaugurate incredible India exhibition at Cannes today

    To promote India as a " Filming Destination", Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi will inaugurate incredible India exhibition at the 66th Cannes film festival in France today. The joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting at the festival is consequent to their entering into a Memorandum of Understanding to promote Cinema of India as a sub ...

  • Shikaras in Kashmir to promote culture and tourism

    Around 50 Shikara boats in Jammu and Kashmir lined up in the renowned Dal Lake on Sunday to participate in a race, which was organised to showcase the culture of the state and promote tourism in the valley. The participants in the race, comprising of owners and operators of Shikaras, said boat racing was a prominent attraction in the region 20 years ago, but had faded over time. "This ...

  • SIA SilkAir Shenzhen Airlines inked codeshare agreement

    Singapore Airlines (SIA), together with its regional wing SilkAir, said on Monday that it had inked a codeshare agreement with China's Shenzhen Airlines, aiming at enhancing cooperation between the two sides.According to the announcement, the SIA will add its "SQ" code and subsidiary SilkAir will add its "MI" code to Shenzhen Airlines- operated flights between Singapore ...

  • United Airlines to restart 787 flights on May 20

    Following the recent exercise of unbundling various services like charging for privileged seats, meals and excess baggage, several airlines put a price on seat ...

  • Paramount Hotels Resorts to open a hotel in Boao in 2016

    Dubai-based CEO Thomas van Vliet Paramount Hotels & Resorts CEO Thomas van Vliet says merging Hollywood and hotels is rather like making a movie, and reveals the concept and cast behind the operator’s first big release, the US $1 billion Damac Towers by Paramount in Dubai. Like a film production, the concept behind Paramount Hotels & Resorts is the result of collaboration and ...


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The Avengers (2012)

The Avengers (2012)

One could argue that the long-awaited arrival of The Avengers marks the cinemas closest approximation to date of the extreme breadth and flexibility of the comic book universe. Up until now, the movie industry has been content to seize on a single superhero and spin out a serie ... ...

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  • 100 Russian travel agencies invited to explore Hainan tourism market

    According to the deputy director of Hainan tourism association Zhang Tiejun, as the only tropical tourism island in China, Hainan will invite 100 Russian travel agencies to explore the tourism market this year. In recent years, Hainan Island has been one of the most popular tourism destinations amongst Russian tourists for its warm winter, spectacular tropical seascapes all year round, ...

  • Paterson Keys Heritage Tourism to Strike Centennial

    A century ago today, 26,000 Paterson silk workers under the banner of the Industrial Workers of the World were already four months into a citywide strike that captivated a nation. Whether that event can still captivate the imagination of Americans is a question that the Paterson Falls National Historic Park and area museums and colleges hope will be answered with a resounding "Yes!" ...

  • Cabell County tourism channel expanding

    HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- When Alisa Sizemore was a hotel manager in Myrtle Beach, S.C., telling folks about what was happening in the area was a breeze. Tell them to turn on Beach TV in their rooms. An area native back in the Tri-State after 17 years in South Carolina, Sizemore, the general manager at the Super 8 on 16th Street Road in Huntington, is happy that telling hotel guests about ...

  • 2014 Asian Golf Tourism Convention to be held at Mission Hills Haikou

    Asia’s golf tourism industry will be gathering on China’s tropical island of Hainan next spring as the region’s most important golf tourism convention moves to award-winning golf resort Mission Hills Haikou. The baton for the 3rd Asia Golf Tourism Convention was passed to China at a signing and hand-over ceremony on the final day of AGTC 2013, held at the Royal Cliff Hotel ...

  • Hainan Airlines to add new routes to Abu Dhabi this summer

    The companies, which handle in-flight catering services, ground handling and cargo operations, are being incorporated, subject to regulatory approvals, into Etihad Airport Services, a unit of Etihad Airways. It comes as Abu Dhabi Airports Company (Adac) is predicting a 15 per cent increase in the number of flights over the peak summer period, between May to August, compared with last ...

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