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Barbados tourism not badly affected by Zika virus concerns

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The Zika virus is a virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito ; the symptoms of infected personne are  mild fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain, malaise or headache. These symptoms normally last for 2-7 days. There are no medicines or treatment available .
Zika appeared in Afriqua, Asia, America and Pacific.
In Barbados only few tourists cancelled their vacation beacause of Zika, and the Ministry of Tourism and other stakeholders in the industry are thinking about a solution to eradicat the mosquitos .
Only three case of Zika disease appeared into the island and to keep the population safe, the gouvernment will programm a campaign of education awareness and prevention.

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Wednesday February 2, 2016 - Tourism officials say only a few tourists have cancelled trips to Barbados as a result of concerns about the Zika virus.

However, the Ministry of Tourism and other stakeholders in the industry are working on preventative measures to ensure the eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the virus.

Minister of Tourism and International Transport Richard Sealy said that with three confirmed cases in the island, the government was taking a number of steps to ensure the safety of Barbadians and visitors alike.

He said there will also be a national awareness campaign and his ministry, as well as the Ministry of Health, the Caribbean Tourism Organization, the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Authority and the Caribbean Public Health Agency would be working together.

Sealy was adamant that there is a need for a sustained programme to eliminate the Aedes aegypti mosquito "once and for all".

"For as long as I can remember, as soon as the rain came in or a few people [contracted] dengue the fogging machines came out and when it died down the fogging machine was packed up again. That doesn't really make any sense...The point is that a sustained campaign along with education awareness and prevention should be used," he stressed.

The tourism minister added that his office would continue to monitor the situation and provide any relevant information that was needed to global airlines, tour operators and travel agents to ensure that they get the most up-to-date advice on Zika.

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Wednesday February 2, 2016 - Tourism officials say only a few tourists have cancelled trips to Barbados as a result of concerns about the Zika virus. However, the Ministry of Tourism and other stakeholders in the industry are working on preventative measures to ensure the eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the virus.

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I spent most of the rest of the first day exploring the Anthem of the Seas and planning what I would do during my time on the ship, using the Royal iQ app to check out options and make reservations. I was going to dive headfirst into the ship's many amenities on the following day, or so I had thought.

The seas had been rough from the get-go on Day 2. At breakfast I noted that the servers, veterans of working at sea, were at times having trouble walking and maintaining their balance. But it wasn't until I walked into the ship's solarium just before 3 p.m. on Sunday that I began to worry that something was seriously amiss. There I saw that the water in the pools and hot tubs housed within was spilling all over the place because of the ship's rocking back and forth. Passengers stood sort of frozen inside the hot tubs, seemingly confused about what was happening or what to do - as Jacuzzi jets shot water straight into the air, the hot tubs no longer contained enough water to cover them. At this point, I went back to my room and did my best to secure everything and anything that was fragile or could get thrown around by the storm. I forgot about two cocktail glasses on a shelf in my bathroom, and it didn't take long for them to come crashing down on the hard tile, spraying glass across the floor of my bathroom and, because the bathroom door had been flung open, much of my stateroom. Not long after that, my virtual balcony gave out, no longer affording me a view of what was going on outside in the ocean. Frankly, I'm glad that it did; it's probably best that I didn't have a view during this ordeal.

There were two things that happened during the storm that made me begin to believe that my life was in jeopardy. The first involved a tilt of the ship that came so hard and so fast that I was completely knocked off my bed and onto the floor. It gave me some insight into how extreme the winds and seas we'd encountered were at the time. For a colossal ship like the Anthem of the Seas to get jerked around like that, well, it said something.

The second was when the Anthem of the Seas remained in a tilted, roughly 45-degree position (this is known as "listing") for a lengthy stretch of time (estimates vary; it seemed like an hour to me, but it was probably really 20 or 25 minutes). I'm no nautical expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm knowledgeable enough about ships to know that any sea vessel listing for an extended period of time is a ship that is in potential danger, especially a top-heavy ship like the Anthem of the Seas. All that weight - tons upon tons - hanging at an incline runs the risk of capsizing a ship because of the duress placed on it by its own heft, which means it could then potentially sink.

These events triggered a pair of thoughts in my mind. The first being, how could I possibly survive? I had plotted how I'd get to the highest point on the ship, as well as where to procure some form of flotation device. The second thing I began contemplating was composing farewell messages to the people I love, as well as apology notes to people I have let down. The ship's vaunted Voom Wi-Fi was somehow holding steady during the storm, presenting the opportunity to send some emails or perhaps post a blanket statement to social media. I also contemplated writing a sweeping goodbye note on paper and sealing in the Ziploc bag I had packed my toothbrush and toothpaste in, hoping that it might float to the surface and be discovered by rescue crews.

At the same time, there was part of me that couldn't stop thinking about the absurdity and surrealness of it all. Like, who dies at sea anymore? This is 2016, after all, an era in which we build giant, floating sea fortresses and have apps on our phones that can predict when it's going to rain down to the minute. This is not the 1700s. Was this really how I was going to go, dying at sea while on assignment for The New York Times to write a travel story about a splashy (pun intended) cruise ship? Was I going to be Titanic'd without ever having drawn any French girls in my life?

The more I thought about the Titanic, the more I became convinced that perhaps the Anthem of the Seas was destined to become the 21st century's version of it. I began to think that the law of averages was coming into play, that it had been far too long - the Titanic's sinking was over 100 years ago, remember - since a hyped, hubris-laden monstrosity of a luxury cruise liner went down at sea, sending thousands of souls to perish in a watery grave. The world was overdue for this sort of tragedy.

Thankfully, the ship remained afloat. The wind and the seas eventually calmed and we survived the storm. It was a harrowing afternoon and night, but the ship made it through, and miraculously only a handful of passengers were injured, none of them seriously. In an announcement the next morning, the Anthem of the Seas Captain Claus Andersen called it "one of my worst days at sea." It was a sentiment likely shared by all 6,000 people on the ship.

On the morning after, I ventured out of my stateroom for the first time post-storm. Crew members were scurrying around doing their best to return a sense of normalcy to the ship, cleaning up debris, sweeping up broken glass. I made my way to the Windjammer Marketplace, the ship's huge, buffet-style food pavilion to get some breakfast. To my surprise the staff had managed to get it up and running almost flawlessly. Had it not been for me and my fellow traumatized passengers walking around looking as if we'd all just emerged from a bomb shelter after an air raid, the whole scene would have probably appeared fairly normal to an outsider unaware of what had taken place the previous day.

While that entire Monday was off, for obvious reasons - the whole ship seemed overcome with a palpable vibe of anxiety - the next two days felt, well, pretty close to ordinary. Most of the ship's elaborate calling cards like the RipCord, FlowRider and North Star had been rendered inoperable by the storm, and all the pools and hot tubs had been emptied by the ship's hours of side-to-side rocking and were never refilled, but that didn't stop people from getting out to do things and have fun. They played bingo, attended comedy shows, took Zumba classes, slow-danced to cheesy love songs played by cover bands - they did all the types of things people do on cruises.

Aside from the Voom Wi-Fi and the Royal iQ app, the one elaborate amenity unique to the Anthem of the Seas that remained functional after the storm was the Bionic Bar. Called "the Robot Bar" by some passengers, the Bionic Bar looks like something straight out of an '80s sci-fi comedy in the vein of "Back to the Future" or "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," films that made no attempt to hide the fact that they were goofing on "The Future" for laughs. Attended by two robotic arms that mix cocktails amid an array of flashing lights and thumping techno music, patrons sit a few feet away from the bar and order from a menu of available drinks, many of them coming in bright neon colors that evoked thoughts of nuclear waste, on a tablet computer. The list of "Bionic Signature" drinks included a Fembot, a Cybertail and a Mnemonic Madness. Among the "Bionic Classics" were a Sex on the Beach, a Long Island IceTea and a Green Lagoon.

A friend I had made on the ship met me for drinks there one night after the storm and we sadly couldn't bring ourselves to order more than one drink each, agreeing that the cocktails in our first round were, well, kind of terrible. Score one for human bartenders; your jobs are safe for now.

The morning I departed the ship after our early return to Bayonne - the trip was cut short after the storm - was a quiet one. Before walking out of my stateroom one last time, I turned to take a photograph of it, the 178-square-foot space where I'd had something of a come-to-Jesus moment. I walked down the long hallway past the same framed posters featuring motivational sayings that I'd passed when I boarded the ship. The irony of their presence was not lost on me this time.

As I walked through the cruise terminal I was greeted by smiling employees welcoming me back to land. Once outside, there were news crews set up all around intent on interviewing passengers coming off the boat. I bypassed them and bee-lined to a car service S.U.V. to begin my journey home. As the vehicle inched its way toward Manhattan in morning rush-hour traffic, the Anthem of the Seas began to fade from view behind me.

After spending a few minutes answering questions from my driver about my experience, I peered out the window at the passing New Jersey scenery. Suddenly there, on my right, a futuristic looking structure caught my eye. It was the Liberty Science Center, and draped along the side of the museum was a large banner promoting, of all things, a Titanic artifact exhibition. I couldn't help but imagine how, if things had gone another unfortunate way, 22nd-century citizens attending an Anthem of the Seas exhibit might have gawked at items encased in glass that I had left behind on the ship.

Before stepping foot on the Anthem of the Seas a few days before, perusing the Titanic exhibit would have been something that would have interested me. After this week, however, not so much.

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I spent most of the rest of the first day exploring the Anthem of the Seas and planning what I would do during my time on the ship, using the Royal iQ app to check out options and make reservations. I was going to dive headfirst into the ship's many amenities on the following day, or so I had thought.

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The news paper "The Independant" asked his Travel Correspondent about the impacts of terrorist attack which happened on Janary the 12th and the paper does a "Q&A". It killed 10 people and 15 people were injured, ISIS claim this suicide bombing.

It happened on a busy place, Sultanahmet Square, located between the Blue Mosque and the Aya Sofia, the former Byzantine Church of the Divine Wisdom.It's the most visited tourist area in all Turkey.

It's not the first time that Turkey has been attacked by islamists, this summer there were four bombings!

The independant's Correspondent said that the tourist economy will suffer from these bombings.

The foreignr office orders Britishs travellers to follow the instructions of the local security authorities and to think before leaving Turkey .The Foreigner Office advise to do not go, it will be a tragedie for Istanbul and Turkey's economie.

But, if the British travellers, even the others, want to cancel their holidays, they will have to pay a penalty; or the holiday company can propose you an other destination but they don't have to do that "present".

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Flights from the UK to Istanbul and other Turkish airports are continuing as normal, following the suicide bombing in the Sultanahmet district of Turkey's largest city.

Hundreds of thousands of British holidaymakers travel to or through Istanbul each year, and around two million more visit resorts on the nation's Mediterranean coast.

Here, The Independent's Travel Correspondent assesses the impact of the attack - and the options for people with future bookings to the country who are concerned about their safety:
Q| Besides the tragic loss of life in Sultanahmet, how significant is the bombing?
A| Bomb attacks by Kurdish, leftist and Islamist militants are common in Turkey. In Istanbul alone, there were four bombings last summer, and just before Christmas a mortar attack on the city's second airport killed an aircraft cleaner and caused serious damage. But what is different about this attack is that it appears intended squarely to harm tourists.

To give you a sense of what this area is like: Sultanahmet Square is vast, and flanked by two ancient and monumental places of worship: the Blue Mosque and the Aya Sofia, the former Byzantine Church of the Divine Wisdom. It's also at the heart of the tourist area, with many hotels and restaurants within a few minutes walk - including the Pudding Shop, the legendary cafe that was the starting point for the Hippie Trail across Asia in the Seventies. It's an area that tourists keep returning to, and presumably the people behind the attack knew that they would be able to murder foreign visitors as well as local people.

The timing, though, is curious: although Sultanahmet is tourist-central, visitor numbers on a Tuesday in the second week of January are as low as they ever get. Some experts speculate that this suggests an element of desperation by the bombers.
Q| What is the Foreign Office saying?
A| Within hours of the blast, it told British travellers: "If you're in the affected area you should follow the instructions of the local security authorities." More generally, the FCO warns - as it has done for years: "There is a high threat from terrorism."
QI have organised a city break to Istanbul. Will I now be able to cancel or change destination?
A| Not without paying a penalty. You will have booked the trip while that "high threat from terrorism" prevails. Unless the Foreign Office warns against travel to Turkey's biggest city - and experience suggests that it would take a very serious atrocity aimed at tourists to do that - then flights and holidays will go ahead as normal. If you want to change then you are likely to lose some or all of your money. "Disinclination to travel" is not an insurable risk.
Q| I was tempted to book a family summer holiday on Turkey's Mediterranean coast this summer, but now we want to cancel. What are my rights?
A| If you decide to cancel you will lose the deposit you have paid. It is possible that some holiday companies will allow anxious travellers to switch destinations for little or no penalty, but there is no obligation for them to do so.
Q| I have a trip to Africa booked with Turkish Airlines via Istanbul. Should I be worried?
A| Istanbul is becoming one of the world's great aviation hubs, with flights to more destinations than any other airport. Turkish Airlines, the main carrier, is stepping up flights from a number of UK airports this summer, and offers connections from its Ataturk airport hub to a wide range of destinations - most recently adding Madagascar and Mauritius to the route network. Following the attack at Sabiha Gokcen airport on 23 December, security around airports has been intensified. The risks remain extremely low.
Q| What will the longer-term effect of the Sultanahmet atrocity be?
A| Istanbul's tourist industry will suffer. The city is immensely popular, not just with British and other Western European visitors, but also with tourists from the Arab world - especially the Gulf area. Experience suggests that will trigger discounting in an effort to lure travellers back. The attack will undoubtedly have an impact on holidaymakers' summer plans, and again prices may be cut to fill plane seats and hotel beds. Cruise lines may also adjust their schedules to cut down on time in the city.

Demand for Mediterranean holidays is strong, and some of this is likely to switch to destinations seen as safer, particularly Greece, Spain and Portugal. But one effect of this move is to trigger price rises for both flights and accommodation in those countries. You are unlikely to find the same value in, say, Tenerife or the Costa del Sol as in Bodrum and Antalya.

Sadly, one likely effect if the attack is viewed as a "success" by the perpetrators is that further assaults aimed at tourists could be carried out.

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Flights from the UK to Istanbul and other Turkish airports are continuing as normal, following the suicide bombing in the Sultanahmet district of Turkey's largest city. Hundreds of thousands of British holidaymakers travel to or through Istanbul each year, and around two million more visit resorts on the nation's Mediterranean coast.

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On board Jin Air Boeing 737-800, the filght turned to horror : the passengers were in pain because of ear pain, headache and nausea; indeed a door of the plane wasn't closed enough and caused a drop in cabin pressure.

The safety of passengers was in danger : the cabin depressurization can cause numb, and can lead to death by lack of oxygene.

A passenger shut the gap in the door whit his smartphone. On the video you can hear the wisthle created by the leak of air.

The company announced that the wistle might have been created by the door which wasn't completely closed.

Mr.Mcdonald, a passenger of the flight, describe the state of the people who were in the flight as a horror and panic scene.

Jin Air said that they will give the equivalent in won of 57£ to all the passenger for the damage created, but Mr.McDonald confessed to journalist that he hasn't received any money from the company !

A traveller believed that he was going to die because he was stuck by a numb of member with a headache.

Jin Airlines was awarded a top seven-star by AirlineRatings.com, an organisation that assesses the safety of 407 airlines around the world and an official airlines told to a korean journal that the door seemed to be in order and the gap must have been caused by an error from the staff and stewarts who probably didn't close it well.

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Some passengers reported nausea and ear pain during the flight, symptoms that resemble those reported in instances of a slow loss of cabin pressure, which can lead to a fatal lack of oxygen on board.

Jeff McDonald, an American who has worked in South Korea for eight years, told Telegraph Travel he was on the flight and saw a small boy "rolling back and forth holding his ears", laid out across two seats. "In hindsight I think he really was in pain and wasn't over-acting."

Mr McDonald said he "knew something was really wrong" as he described how the plane "flew kind of erratically." He said he heard other passengers asking stewards why the flight was turning round, but said they were only told it was due to "a noise".

He said he was not aware it was because of an open door and "started to go over all the different situations in case of a crash landing...I knew that a bad noise couldn't be good so I told my girlfriend again what to do in case we crashed over land or water and how to act differently."

One traveller interviewed by South Korean radio claimed that he saw the curtain dividing the crew and passenger areas blowing inwards and realised that something was wrong as other passengers began to complain of pain in their ears. The passenger, referred to only as "Kim", reported an "excruciating feeling" like that of an "eardrum being torn", and seeing a gap between the fuselage and the plane door "just [wide] enough for a pinky finger to fit through."

A Jin Air official admitted that the sounds might have been caused by the plane's front door not being completely closed.

"We presume that the windy sound came from a gap in the door, which could have led to a drop in cabin pressure." he told South Korean agency Yonhap News.

Passengers record terrifying moment cabin door left open at 10,000 ft #7News @#JinAir WATCH https://t.co/NZnLyxbtiM pic.twitter.com/Cu38iQy3dy
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Officials said there were no serious injuries or hospitalisations, although travellers were delayed by 15 hours.

The plane operated by Jin Air - a low-cost carrier owned by South Korea's flag carrier Korean Air Lines Co - had taken off from Cebu International Airport in the Philippines and was 30 minutes into a flight to Busan in South Korea when it was aborted.

* Would you be told if your plane was going down?

An airline official told Korea Joongang Daily that the door appeared in good working order, and "it shut properly when staff members made another attempt", but would not be drawn on whether the open door was down to flight attendant error.

Passengers were safely returned to Cebu, although Mr McDonald claimed passengers were made to wait in the terminal before being bussed to a hotel. "It was more or less that they were stalling until people started screaming and yelling", he told Telegraph Travel.

Jin Air is understood to have promised 100,000 won (about £57) in compensation to each passenger on board, although Mr McDonald said he has not yet received any money. He also asked Jin Air for compensation for the 126,000 won he had to pay for a taxi on the delayed arrival to Busan, but has not had a response.

The door incident will be investigated by South Korean air authorities, who are reviewing safety at the country's six budget airlines following a previous incident with a cabin pressure control malfunction.

* What happens when flight attendants forget to disarm the plane doors?

Jin Air says it prides itself on its "newest aircraft, highly skilled pilots and world-class aviation maintenance." It is awarded a top seven-star rating by AirlineRatings.com, an organisation that assesses the safety of 407 airlines around the world.

The airline was not available for further comment.

* What flight attendants really think of you

While it is impossible to fully open a plane door mid-air, slow loss of cabin pressure due to an incorrectly sealed aircraft is possible. There are believed to be 40-50 cases globally per year, and in 2005 a Helios Airways aeroplane crashed following a gradual loss of cabin pressure, killing all 121 passengers and crew.

* What happens when you try to open a plane door in flight?

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After its take-off, the plane MH132 flew in the wrong direction on Christmas da

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The Malaysia Airlines plane has been seen on radar, instead of going directly to Kuala Lumpur from Aukland by  a direct route heading north-west, a radar has shown that the plane flew, for one hour, in direction of the south.

Passengers were not alerted during the flight, there were no safety concerns but it's an other accident after the disappeared MH370 in Indian OCean where 239 passengers and crews died and whose the reason for its diseppearance are unknow, and the plane disaster in Ukraine which was exploded maybe by a Russian missile, it caused the death of 298 persons.

It's bad news for Malaysia AIrlines which suffers heavy economic losses.

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There were no safety issues with MH132's flight path but air traffic controllers are investigating

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An investigation has been launched after a Malaysian Airlines plane appeared to fly in the wrong direction after taking off from New Zealand on Christmas Day.

Flight MH132 usually takes a direct route heading north-west over Australia on its way from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur but radar data showed the aircraft heading south for almost an hour.

The New Zealand Herald reported that the pilot questioned the Airbus A330's path just eight minutes into the flight, which took off at 2.23am local time.

Passengers were not alerted during discussions with air traffic controllers at the Auckland Oceanic control centre, as the plane Tasman Sea before turning north.

Airways, which manages air traffic control for New Zealand, said there were no safety concerns but that it would investigate why the normal flight path had been changed.

"We have an internal safety team who will investigate it," a spokesperson told the Herald.

"The flight plan the airline filed with us was going to Kuala Lumpur but via a slightly different route than the pilot was expecting."

It came as the disappearance of MH370 continues to be investigated, with the search for wreckage in the Indian Ocean - the largest and most expensive hunt of its kind in history - due to end in June.

All 239 passengers and crew have been declared dead after their plane vanished on 8 March 2014 and the cause of the disaster is still unknown.

Meanwhile, investigators continue to examine the scene of another Malaysia Airlines disaster in Ukraine.

1/10 Shot down in a military training exercise

While the Australian officials leading the search for MH370 say they remain "absolutely convinced" it ended up in the southern Indian Ocean, some passengers' families - and theorists - distrust the unprecedented satellite data analysis involved. Among those who support this view are the British journalist and author Nigel Cawthorne, who has controversially already published the first book on the plane's disappearance. e supports one theory, based on the eye-witness testimony of New Zealand oil rig worker Mike McKay, that the plane was shot down shortly after it stopped communicating with air traffic controllers. At the time there was a series of war games taking place in the South China Sea involving Thailand, the US and personnel from China, Japan, Indonesia and others, and Cawthorne has linked this to Mr McKay's claims to have seen a burning plane going down in the Gulf of Thailand.

2/10 Stolen by Putin

Jeff Wise, a private pilot and science writer, claims he has evidence that the plane made its way to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is run by Russia as its largest space launch facility. He claims Vladimir Putin ordered Russian special forces to hijack MH370 and fly it to the spaceport, but admits he has 'no idea' why the Russian president would want to do such a thing

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3/10 Flown north and shot down deliberately, prompting cover-up

At a stage in the investigation when it was believed the plane could have flown for some time from where it disappeared along either a northern or southern corridor, many posted on forums suggesting that if it had been the former we would never hear about what happened. Some still support this view, and former RAF navigator Sean Maffett told the BBC that after 9/11, any unidentified airliner entering the airspace of another country would lead to fighter jets being scrambled. "If the plane is in the northern arc it could easily have been shot down," he said. This theory also involves a national - or possibly international - cover-up, based on the premise that no country would want to admit to shooting down an airliner full of passengers from all over the world.

4/10 Tried to land on a desert island beach

After reports that the plane had turned left shortly following its disappearance from civilian radar screens, speculation grew that it could have landed on a remote beach somewhere like the Andaman Islands, which lie between Indonesia and the coast of Thailand. Though CNN reported that locals dismissed the idea a Boeing 777 could land on an airstrip there undetected, the archipelago consists of hundreds of remote islands with some long stretches of sand. Former BA pilot Steve Buzdygan said it would be difficult - but not impossible - to bring a 777 down on a long deserted beach.

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5/10 Landed at a US military base

One of the more outlandish conspiracy theories that has gained some traction online is the idea that MH370 could have been "captured" and flown to a military base on the UK-owned tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The base is run by the US, and some have reportedly said in forum postings that the Kremlin has put some credence into this possibility. Such is the strength of belief in this theory that the US government has been forced to issue a denial. A spokesperson for the US embassy in Malaysia told the local Star newspaper that there was "no indication that MH370 flew anywhere near the Maldives or Diego Garcia". "MH370 did not land in Diego Garcia," he added.

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6/10 Headed for a remote airport in Langkawi, Malaysia

One theory, put forward by another aviation blogger named Chris Goodfellow, has it that the sudden left turn came after major catastrophe knocked out a range of the plane's electronics, from transponders to communications equipment. In this scenario and in the middle of the night, Goodfellow argued, the pilot would redirect towards the nearest safe airport. "This pilot did all the right things," he said. "Actually he was taking a direct route to Palau Langkawi, a 13,000ft (4,000m) strip with an approach over water at night with no obstacles. He did not turn back to Kuala Lumpur because he knew he had 8,000ft ridges to cross. He knew the terrain was friendlier towards Langkawi and also a shorter distance." This theory assumes that the plane was in fact controlled manually once it disappeared - and that it did not make it to Langkawi.

7/10 An explosion in the cockpit

The theory of a sudden explosion within the cockpit before the turn left could explain why there was no attempt to signal for help. Since 9/11 cockpits doors have been fortified to become extremely difficult to bypass, and such a sudden incident could perhaps have incapacitated both pilots while keeping out the rest of the crew. This explanation does not seem to tally with the claims of some Malaysian officials, however, that the change in direction was the result of "seven or eight keystrokes into a computer on a knee-high pedestal between the captain and the first officer".

8/10 A struggle at altitude

Though Malaysian officials believe that the plane was deliberately diverted, and that its communications systems were turned off one after the other, a detailed background check into all 227 passengers has cleared all of suspicion. If, however, we do accept that the plane was the subject of a passenger hijacking, it remains to be explained why the hijackers did not try to do more than fly the plane into the middle of the southern Indian Ocean. One theory suggests that there was some kind of struggle for control of the plane that ultimately ended with mutual destruction. Further analysis of data by Malaysian officials suggests that the plane was flown erratically once it left civilian radar, climbing to 45,000ft before dropping very low. Buzdygan told the BBC he would resort to this sort of flying if faced with would-be hijackers. "I'd try to disorientate and confuse the hijackers by throwing them around," he said.

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9/10 Pilot suicide

As part of the ongoing criminal investigation in Malaysia, police are looking into the state of mind and possible motives of the captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid. The Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar has said that "all possibilities" will be looked into, and there have been reports that Shah was going through a difficult marriage break-up.Yet such comments have been rubbished by the man's relatives, who have described him since as a dedicated family man and model professional. Hugh Dunleavy, the commercial director of Malaysia Airlines, described Shah as a seasoned pilot with an excellent record. "There have been absolutely no implications that we are aware of that there was anything untoward in either his behaviour or attitude," he told Reuters. "We have no reason to believe that there was anything, any actions, internally by the crew that caused the disappearance of this aircraft."

10/10 A CIA cover-up

Finally, the former prime minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad has waded in with his own theory - suggesting that, one way or another, the CIA is definitely hiding something. In a blog entry posted on 18 May entitled 'Boeing Technology - What goes up must come down', Dr Mahathir Mohamad makes ten claims including that the plane was taken over remotely by officials working for Boeing and the CIA. The plane is somewhere, maybe without MAS markings," reads Dr Mohamad's post on chedet. "Someone is hiding something. It is not fair that MAS and Malaysia should take the blame," 88-year-old Dr Mahathir, who was Malaysia's prime minister between 1981 and 2003, alleges. "Airplanes don't just disappear," he said, concluding: "For some reason the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA. I hope my readers will read this." Boeing have denied Dr Mohamed's theory.

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A report released earlier this year said flight MH17 was downed by a missile that exploded just outside the cockpit, causing the aircraft to break up mid-air and crash.

Rebels armed with BUK missiles in the territory it was passing over have denied responsibility and investigations continue into who fired the weapon, killing all 298 people on board.

Malaysia Airlines has suffered heavy financial losses in the wake of both disasters and has cut thousands of jobs in attempts to prevent bankruptcy.

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An investigation has been launched after a Malaysian Airlines plane appeared to fly in the wrong direction after taking off from New Zealand on Christmas Day. Flight MH132 usually takes a direct route heading north-west over Australia on its way from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur but radar data showed the aircraft heading south for almost an hour.

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A Russian travel company, Moscow City News Agency is planning tours in Syria next year.

The tours will last 5 days and the group will be composed of 3 to 5 persons, they will go at the limitsof front lines ; the first problem is that Syria has been ravaged by a terribled civil-war since 2011, there have been 220,000 deaths and it created 4 million refugees. The second problem is about the security of the travellers.

Russia is very involved in ISIS war, Vladimir Putin, the Russian

president, is supporting Bashar Al Assad, the contested dictator of Syria.

The British Foreign Office strongly advises against all travel to Syria, and do not support the idea and the project of trips in that zone.

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A Russian travel company is planning to launch holiday tours to war-torn Syria next year, with a focus on the front line of the country's bloody civil war.

Megapolis Kurort has submitted an application to trademark its Assad Tour to the Russian Agency for Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent), according to the Moscow City News Agency, and hopes to be able to start selling the trip in 2016.

Syria has been in the midst of a civil war since 2011, which has seen the deaths of an estimated 220,000 and created 4 million refugees, with the Foreign Office advising Britons against all travel to the entire country. In early December, MPs voted to launch RAF airstrikes of Islamic State targets in the Middle Eastern country.

Syrians run for safety in the town of Douma Photo: Getty

The Foreign Office advises Britons to "leave now by any practical means", adding that "the situation remains extremely volatile and dangerous".

* Unusual holiday destinations where the terror risk is low

Russia, also involved in the fighting, is supportive of heavily-criticised president Bashar al-Assad, after whom the holiday is thought to be named.

Anatoly Aronov, president of the First Patent Company, which assisted in filing the application, told the news agency: "The applicant, Megapolis Ltd., expects to launch tours from Moscow to Syria next year, with the possibility of a trip to the front line."

The trips will last four to five days and be intended for small groups of three to five people, Aronov said.

The Holiday Beach Resort near Tartous in a photo posted on Facebook this August Photo: Holiday Beach Resort/Facebook

He said that Megapolis, which earlier this year began similar tours to Eastern Ukraine, where unrest followed a Russian invasion, was already in touch with the Russian Embassy in Syria and was negotiating with hotels and transport companies.

"Despite the crisis in the tourism industry, there are always people who are willing to combine the cognitive goals with the opportunity to see natural disasters or visit the places located near the fighting," said Aronov.

The Russian Federal Tourism Agency, however, claimed not to have received an application and told Russian news agency Interfax that Megapolis is therefore not authorised to sell the trips.

* Mapped: the terror threat around the world

The British Foreign Office strongly advises against all travel to Syria (Foreign & Commonwealth Office)

A spokesperson for the Russia Travel Industry, Irina Tyurina, said the tours would be illegal as the company could not guarantee the safety of guests.

Telegraph Travel reported earlier this month that the Syrian regime was actively promoting tourism to the country, despite the civil war.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) - the government mouth piece - reported in October that ministries are to send "promotional items" overseas to bolster the tourism industry and, "facilitate tourism promotion activities abroad."

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A Russian travel company is planning to launch holiday tours to war-torn Syria next year, with a focus on the front line of the country's bloody civil war. Megapolis Kurort has submitted an application to trademark its Assad Tour to the Russian Agency for Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent), according to the Moscow City News Agency, and hopes to be able to start selling the trip in 2016.

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North face co-founder Tompkins died of hypothermia after a kayaking accident, other boats weren't seriously damaged .

He was kayaking in the Patagonian region of Chile with five others persons.

After the shock he was airlifted to a hospital.

Tompkins has filmed lots of documentaries, he and his climbing partners completed the third ascent of Mount Fitz Roy on the trip.

And he also focused on environmental conservation of Chile, he has bought 2.2 million acres of conservation land ans helped to create five national parks in South America.

It's a good person who leaves us today, rest in peace.

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The North Face co-founder Doug Tompkins passed away after his kayak capsized in a Patagonian lake.

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migrabt?
the horror and the difficulties
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After few terrorists attacks, the price of air plane tickets has fallen and fewer and fewer people travel :

The economy of many countries like France has dropped, airplane company are worried about their futur .

But George Osborne said “The most important response to acts and threats of terrorism is to show that we will not let the terrorists change our lives” .

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Average return fares were five per cent cheaper (in currency-adjusted terms) worldwide in the first eight months of this year than they were in the same period in 2014.

This supported a rise of three per cent in passenger traffic in the year to date.

"In most parts of the world we see strong demand for travel exceeding the growth in capacity," said Tony Tyler, IATA's director general and CEO. "Load factors (the number of seats filled) are averaging over 80 per cent and consumers are the big winners with fares trending downwards."

George Osborne had warned airlines at the start of the year that he wanted to see a drop in air fares for UK travellers in line with plunging oil prices.

IATA said today however that average fares had not fallen further because the rise of the value of the dollar - in which oil is denominated - had offset the drop in oil's value. He said: "So for most non-US airlines the price benefit has not been that spectacular. Plus, many were on long-term hedging of oil prices and these need to unwind for the benefit of lower oil prices to be felt."

* Airlines' premium economy class compared

Mr Tyler said the growth in air travel showed that terrorist acts around the world "will not get the better of us".

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"The most important response to acts and threats of terrorism is to show that we will not let the terrorists change our lives," he said.

He said that an industry of 8.7 million aviation professionals would, "create opportunities for business and leisure and for greater understanding among people and cultures. By doing so, flying is a force for good in our world. As we look to 2016 and beyond it's a reality that should continue to inspire us all."

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A drop in air fares was noted in September by Trailfinders, the travel company. A spokesman told Nick Trend, our consumer travel expert, that it seemed that air travellers were now getting slightly better value for their money, although the picture was varied.

This view was backed up by Skyscanner.net, the fare-comparison website. Its data, based on many millions of fares, suggested that average return fares from the UK to European destinations have fallen 16 per cent from 2013 to 2015 (from £204.43 to £171.96).

It said there have been falls of five per cent in fares to Asia and Africa, and four per cent in those to Australia/Oceania. On the other hand, it appeared that there had been slight rises in fares to North America and the Caribbean.

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BBC - Travel - Announcing 2015’s Travel Pioneers

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6 travellers changed the world :

Jason Lewis did the world tour with no motor and no wind !

Jimmy Nelson photographed the disappearing tribes and posted them in his project "Before They Pass Away"

Paul Salopek did the migrant's travel on foot, he discovered horror and difficulties !

Maria Leijerst wants to prove that we can appreciate the world on bicycle !

Don Parrish is the first traveller on earth : he has visited every geographic entity .

And to finish Lenison Wood has walked 4000 miles along the Nile !

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The Giant's Causeway has won the first awards of "the most attractive spot of tourism".

It's the most famous site of Northern Ireland and the most visited !

It has been nominaded twice and last year it has won bronze !

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ONE of Ireland's most popular scenic spots has scooped a top h eritage a ttraction award .

The north Antrim landmark, which is managed by the National Trust, won gold in the British Travel Awards at a gala event in London on Wednesday that was attended by almost 1,000 travel industry representatives.

The Giant's Causeway, which is famously comprised of thousands of interlocking basalt columns, is the north's first World Heritage Site as well as its most visited tourist attraction, attracting thousands of people every day.

Commercial and visitor operations manager at the Causeway Esther Dobbin said it was the first time a heritage attraction in the north had won the award.

"The awards are voted for by visitors which makes them all the more special. We are really passionate about what we do, and I'm so proud of our entire team. This is great for the National Trust and for Northern Ireland."

This is the second year that the Giant's Causeway has been nominated, having won bronze last year. It is also the first ever win for the National Trust in this category against competitiors that included National Maritime Museum Cornwall and Sterling Castle along with last year's winner, Edinburgh Castle.

British Travel Awards' chief executive Lorraine Barnes Burton said: "More than a quarter of a million consumers voted this year to determine the winners of the 2015 British Travel Awards - it's the largest awards program in the UK and to win is a clear statement that companies are providing excellence in travel to the discerning consumer."

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You want to have great holiday ? The cruise is for you ! With differents prices and topics, there is the choice !

You want to discover the placers where setted war, go in Mekong or in the Along Bay !

You want to see the beauty of the nature ? With cruise you can discover the wildness and the power of "The Great White Continent" !

On the ship you have your own room, swimming-pools, restaurants, bars, lot of entertainments and many others things !

Take a different look on our world !