Travel News and Stories for 09/17/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

Below is a list of travel news and stories from 09/17/2009

A Trip to Paradise? Italian Island of Pantelleria
Where celebs like Giorgio Armani relax and enjoy Pantelleria’s passito wine.
http://abcnews.go.com

Man Joins Mile-High Club With Other Woman While GF Sleeps A society beauty who had a drunken romp with a male passenger while his girlfriend slept caused mayhem on an international flight, a court heard yesterday. http://www.dailymail.co.uk

When it comes to lobbying, have travel companies thrown in the towel? Don’t look now, but the lobbyists appear to be giving up on Washington — at least when it comes to travel.
http://www.elliott.org

Frills? Who Needs Frills? With the struggling economy, hotels have been scaling back their amenities in an effort to save cash.
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com

American Airlines Crew Busted After Decade Of Smuggling Cocaine
You won’t see it offered with in-flight meal service, but that doesn’t mean your flight crew hasn’t got a stash of it in the back; it’s cocaine, and $20 million dollars worth of the nose candy has apparently been ferried into and out of Puerto Rico by American Airlines staff since 1999.
http://www.jaunted.com

Apparently Denmark Has A Custom Of Anonymous Sex With Tourists You know, we always thought that Southeast Asia and Jamaica were the hotspots for sex tourism, that is until we watched this video advertisement for Denmark.
http://www.jaunted.com

Groping Epidemic On Tokyo Trains Has Us Watching Our Butt On the whole, Japan is a dream for travelers; it’s full of polite people who go out of their way to help tourists. But that can all come to an abrupt stop when you get on a train in Tokyo (or, to be fair, probably any big city). That’s when the gropers appear, and we don’t mean the fish.
http://www.jaunted.com

New ‘Harry Potter’ theme park casts its spell
It sounds like a new book in the Harry Potter series, but “Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey” will be a high-tech ride and the marquee attraction at the “Wizarding World of Harry Potter,” a new theme park area opening in spring 2010 at Universal Orlando Resort.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com

The Amundsen Mystery Still Unsolved The more than 80-year-old mystery of the disappearance of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his airplane remains unsolved, as New Zealand explorer Rob McCallum and his team returned from their two-week search for the aircraft empty-handed.
http://ngadventure.typepad.com

China covers suicide bridge in “butter”, safety margarinally improved
According to China Daily & the UK’s Metro Newspaper, Government officials in Guangzhou have ordered a 1,000ft long steel bridge to be covered in greasy fat, to prevent people from climbing on the structure.
http://www.gadling.com

Airports are ready for passengers seeking flu shots According to experts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, each year 5% to 20% of the U.S. population will get the flu. More than 200,000 people will end up hospitalized from flu complications. And about 36,000 people will die from flu related causes.
http://www.usatoday.com

Industry veteran: Pricing for cruises is bouncing back — albeit slowly It was fun while it lasted, no doubt. But the days of wildly low pricing and aggressive incentive offers for cruises may be coming to an end.
http://www.usatoday.com

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