Here's a great idea - Business Traveler (US version) have put together a number of online travel guides for a range of popular business destinations worldwide. These provide an overview of the area, with specific places to visit and directions to get there. Especially geared toward the business traveller or anyone with a little time to spare and a new place to explore outside their hotel door...
Or if you prefer the UK edition, Business Traveller also have a section offering slightly more detailed city guides with helpful maps included.
The August issue of ABTA magazine is jam-packed as always with news from the travel industry. Adventure travel is the cover story in this one with examples given of various activities and links to tour operators. Destinations in focus are the Red Sea Riviera, Argentina, India and Chicago. News stories include air travel, technology, business travel and hotels. A profile of Sunvil Holidays is given. Just some of the other topics discussed are homeworkers, business travel and high-speed rail travel across Europe with samples of destinations.
RSA Tourism 08: Developing tourist destinations: Denmark, 26-28 Nov 08
SportBusiness.com publish a journal which focuses on events, marketing and media within the sports industry. Within these sections articles cover a range of sport-related matters, including:
education
event management
finance
hospitality
law
gaming
sponsorship
sports tourism
technology
ticketing
TV rights
The website provides a list of various sporting activities which link to related news articles, or there is the option of searching articles by country. News stories have also been archived.
For email alerts on contents of the latest issues, subscribe by entering your email address at the top of the page on the website. The print journal can be found in print at Summer Row library.
Birmingham has taken an historic step by becoming the first city to sponsor two of its local football clubs - Aston Villa and Birmingham City. Marketing Birmingham have signed a 3 year contract with the teams in a project which will promote the visitbirmingham.com brand, in order to boost tourism in the city. The Chief Executive of Marketing Birmingham Neil Rami commented, "Football has a global audience of 3.13bn and is a major influence on tourism, helping to shape people's perceptions of a city, particularly with international visitors...it's the first time that a city has supported its football clubs in this way and we're very excited about the project." more...
Key facts:
31.9m visitors to Birmingham in 2007, 1.5m more than 2006
The campaign is to launch in September
Visit Birmingham - the name of Marketing Birmingham's new leisure campaign
Way back at the end of June, I had an opportunity to satisfy my somewhat obsessive-compulsive nature and end this blog on a Significant Number (144 posts, to be precise). I chose to linger rather than leave, feeling I had more left to say. Perhaps I should have seized that moment when I could, because now, a little more than month and only two posts later, The Recreation Annex is indeed drawing its curtains closed.
I have started a new blog on WordPress called WalakaNet that combines a few of my outlets into one source; comics will no longer be the sole focus of the site, but will have its own section. You might say I am moving the dial a little bit away from the Fortress of Fortitude end and toward the Estoreal end. (As long as I don't move into Capespotting territory; where the heck are ya, Cap?)
I want to thank everyone who has come by or offered support. Realizing that over the past two and half years people have paid something like 40,000 visits here to see what I was up to makes me feel like I was a small but real part of the comicsweblogosphere. I hope some of you come by the new place for my occasional observations.
And now, two short videos, both (coincidentally) with political themes, that made me laugh.
An example of hard-hitting investigative reporting from San Diego, with surprising results:
I don't know how to categorize this, but that doesn't mean it's not cool:
Well, so long, and as Stan The Man used to say, Excelsior!
This paper by DCMS forms a legacy plan which sets out in detail what they hope will be achieved by holding the Olympics in London, including regeneration and its aims to engage all sections of the community. There is a chapter which explains how the legacy will be delivered across Great Britain with tips for employers, local government and the public on participation and taking advantage of opportunities created by the upcoming event. An illustrated time-line is included to show the activity programme upto 2012. Results to research carried out on the awareness of and attitudes towards the Olympic Legacy and its aims, are also shown.
With the Beijing Olympics also now underway, the official website is a one-stop info point. Here you can find out the latest news, schedules, live results, details on athletes, sports and venues. Also includes videos, photo gallery and an educational section.
Here's a great idea - Business Traveler (US version) have put together a number of online travel guides for a range of popular business destinations worldwide. These provide an overview of the area, with specific places to visit and directions to get there. Especially geared toward the business traveller or anyone with a little time to spare and a new place to explore outside their hotel door... 
