News tagged with tourism
Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.
Sir Richard Branson All Fired Up With Latest Rocket Motor Test
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 31, 2009 |
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Virgin Galactic owned by Sir Richard Branson completed a successful test on May 28, 2009 of its hybrid nitrous oxide motor designed by Scaled Composites and a subcontractor Sierra Nevada Corporation. The ...
Swine flu fears evident as world's cases top 6,000
May 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In China, mask-wearing police cordoned off more hotels Wednesday, quarantining anyone who came in contact with swine flu patients, no matter how mild their symptoms. Not so in Mexico, where the health ...
The end of the line for space tourism?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2009 |
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A US software mogul who made history this week as the first person to travel to space twice as a tourist could also be the last paying passenger to head into space for several years.
Majority of doctors skeptical of organ transplantation practices in China
Apr 23, 2009 |
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The globalization of health care and the growth of "transplant tourism" (traveling abroad to purchase donor organs and undergo organ transplantation) have outpaced the implementation of internationally accepted ethical standards ...
New research shows a global trend in nature-based tourism
Jun 30, 2009 |
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A new study out today found that many nations throughout the world, including the United Kingdom, are seeing an annual increase in visitors to their conservation areas.
Obtaining kidney transplants abroad carries certain medical risks
Oct 15, 2008 |
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People traveling to other countries to receive kidney transplants experience more severe post-transplant complications with a higher incidence of acute rejection and severe infections, according to a study appearing in the ...
Balance between traditional activities, tourism key to sustaining coastal Alaska communities
Nov 13, 2008 |
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When Lee Cerveny arrived in coastal southeast Alaska in 1999, she intended to interview local women about their relationship with the natural environment. She soon found, however, that women she met were more interested in ...
Combining sun, sand and science in the Bahamas
Sep 29, 2009 |
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It is well known that people from all over the world come to the Bahamas to enjoy the pristine waters, spectacular coral reefs and great fishing. Tourism produces approximately 55 % of the gross domestic product ...
Landmark national study reveals significance of green practices in attractions industry
Jan 08, 2009 |
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The results of a national survey released by PGAV Destination Consulting, a planning and design firm in the international entertainment, tourism and hospitality industries, in collaboration with the world-renowned Missouri ...
The suicide tourist trap
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2009 |
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The international media report that citizens from across the world are travelling, or seeking to travel, to Switzerland, where they hope to be helped to die. But this 'suicide tourism' presents distinctive ...
Coral reefs inspire rare consensus -- just save them
Nov 05, 2009 |
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One of the first set of studies to examine what tourists and recreation enthusiasts actually think about coral reef ecosystems suggests they are a rare exception to controversies over human use versus environmental ...
US space tourist shrugs off 10 mln dollar price hike
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2009 |
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American software tycoon Charles Simonyi on Thursday shrugged off a 10 million dollar price hike by Russia for his next space flight, saying space tourism was the way of the future.
Russian ship with tourist docks with space station: reports
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2009 |
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying second-time space tourist Charles Simonyi along with a US and a Russian astronaut docked Saturday at the International Space Station, media reports quoted the control centre near Moscow as ...
Russian ship with tourist docks with space station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2009 |
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying second-time space tourist Charles Simonyi docked Saturday at the International Space Station, media reports quoted the control centre near Moscow as saying.
