Travel Stories and News for 7/10/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

By traveldesk on July 10th, 2009

Below is a list of travel stories and news for 7/10/2009

New Sites Added to UNESCO World Heritage List – Intelligent Travel Blog
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee added 13 new sites to its World Heritage List last week, bringing the total of protected sites to 890 properties. The list, which encourages countries to preserve important cultural locations, now includes two additional Natural Heritage sites and 11 Cultural Heritage sites, including the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales.

Los Angeles – Airport Surprise: 1,200 Laptops a Week Lost at LAX – LA Daily – LA Weekly
Last year Dell computers commissioned a study that found that 12,000 laptops are lost each
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week at U.S. airports. Los Angeles leads the pack with 1,200 laptops reported lost or stolen at LAX weekly. Incredibly, most laptops are left behind at security checkpoints, with only 33 percent ever being recovered (17 percent before the flight, 16 percent after).

Canada’s most visited tourist attractions – Travel- msnbc.com
The global recession may have lowered tourism numbers in many vacation spots, but at Grouse Mountain resort in North Vancouver, British Columbia, things are looking up, both literally and figuratively.

Become The Official Blogger For A Polar Cruise || Jaunted
Potential alternative titles: “Become Antarctica’s Ben Southall,” “A colder chance to be Ben Southall,” or – more simply – “We hate Ben Southall.” Southall, you’ll recall, was the winner of Tourism Queensland’s Best Job In The World Contest. Contestants had to submit videos explaining why they should be allowed to house-sit the Great Barrier Reef and blog about it for six months. People voted on their favorite applications, the tourism board chose one, and that was that.
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