By the 1990s family businesses and small-scale industries were being replaced by professional and service industry-propelling Amsterdam on the trade map of the world. Trade and tourism go hand-in-hand, and today Amsterdam is the fourth-most-popular tourism destination behind London, Paris and Rome. The NH Schiphol Airport is a busy airport with hotels in the near vicinity and providing full service…
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True Travel Value
When searching for value in travel, everyone comes in contact with the package travel holiday. Before you recoil in horror, let’s face it, if you are going to a place for the first time and want to do this safely and within a budget, packaged holidays often can’t be beat. They will provide your airfare, hotel, often with a choice…
The Art Of Travel And The Art Of Writing
In Alain de Botton’s engaging book, The Art of Travel, he distinguishes between the anticipation and recollection of travel versus the reality of actually traveling. When we anticipate, we study travel brochures and create in our imagination all sorts of exotic adventures, lying ahead of us. Once really there, we photograph the Eiffel Tower with our friends or family, their…
Christmas Gifts For Business Travellers
Does the person special in your life do a lot of traveling? Business travelers have to while away a lot of hours sitting in planes trains and automobiles. They are burdened down with a lot of luggage and often have to while away the hours in waiting areas. Here are some great gift ideas for the traveler in your life:…
Reasoning Behind Buying New Luggage
Some families have to justify why they would need to buy new luggage for a family vacation. A certain amount of reasoning goes in to justifying everything that we do. Travelers will usually rely on cost saving measures to justify the purchase of a new set of luggage. The cost of getting clothes professionally pressed at each hotel along the…
Magazines For The Traveler
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving (Lao Tzu, Chinese traveler). Now whether you want to do a spot of armchair traveling, or plan a family trip, or even catch up on your knowledge of world geography and culture, then you must be a subscriber to at least one travel magazine. Many people fall…
Interactive Language Learning For Advanced Beginners
Those who have mastered the “Talk Now” curriculum of the EuroTalk interactive language learning system (www.eurotalk.ie)will now have the opportunity to build on their newfound skills and abilities by challenging themselves with the “Talk More” series. Having found that utilizing native speakers to teach their languages to eager students is a winning combination, EuroTalk is committed to helping their students…