October 2024 – Page 6 – आवारा मुसाफिर

Losing up to a day of productivity due to badly planned journeys

October 16, 2024232 Views

# A report from global chauffeur services provider Blacklane looks at how the integration of premium experiences and business travel is essential for productivity # 86% of survey participants claimed to lose at least one hour of productive time across their trip whereas almost half of C-level executives (45%) are losing between four and eight hours of productive work time # Boundaries between personal and professional lives are blurring - 9 out of ten business travelers merge work and leisure. As business travel bounces back, with the sector poised to hit a record spending high by year-end, a new report, "The Changing Face of Travel and Work", uncovers the impact that travel planning is having on business travelers' productivity. Blacklane, the premiere global chauffeur servi...

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Egypt opens more galleries in long-awaited antiquities museum

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October 15, 2024185 Views

Egypt opened a series of galleries to the public on Tuesday in its flagship new museum, but the glittering King Tutankhamun collection and solar boats buried by the Pyramid of Khufu are yet to be unveiled, pending a long-delayed grand inauguration. Tourists visit the Grand Egyptian Museum during a partial trial in Giza, Egypt, October 15, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany More than 20 years under construction, the sprawling Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) next to the pyramids of Giza was initially scheduled to open in 2012 but the launch was repeatedly pushed back due to cost overruns and political tumult. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly last week announced a "trial opening" ahead of a formal inauguration. Egyptian officials say a number of world leaders have expressed interest in a...

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Malaysia evicts ‘Avatar’ sea nomads

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October 15, 2024230 Views

Patches of palm thatch entwined with a few forlorn stilts sticking out of the emerald waters in a Malaysian marine park off the island of Borneo are the only traces remaining of the homes of hundreds of sea nomads. Robin, one of those left homeless among a community that inspired the fictional 'Metkayina' tribe in the 2022 film 'Avatar: The Way of Water', took to a boat with his children to flee the Malaysian officials who razed their home. Houseboats of the indigenous seaborne Bajau Laut community anchor in the waters of Semporna, Malaysia August 20, 2024. REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain "I don't know where to go now," he told Reuters from the deck of a wooden houseboat festooned with drying clothes, where he lives with a cousin and their eight children after the demolition drive razed ...

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Shangri-La Muscat welcomes top Indian planners to its wedding fair

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October 15, 2024247 Views

Shangri-La Muscat, Oman is all set to celebrate the grand return of its highly anticipated wedding fair after seven years. Scheduled for October 18-19, the two open days of Love, Shangri-La: A Muscat Wedding Showcase will feature the resort’s versatile venues, luxurious offerings, tailored packages, and top-tier amenities. Oman being one of the latest gem and favourites to host Indian destination weddings, Shangri-La Muscat has invited top Indian wedding planners including Kraafted Events, Swaaha Weddings & Experiences, Mpire Weddings, Discovery Events, The Doli Diary, Ziel Events & Experiences, Millenium Events, KKings Events, Shadi N Vogue and Shubh Muhurat Luxury Weddings, to see the resort’s beautiful locations and wedding set ups as well as meeting with prominent stakehold...

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Haunted UK: The best places for ghost-spotting

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October 15, 2024314 Views

Halloween loving Brits looking for a spooky encounter are being given tips on the most haunted stately homes and castles to visit across the UK – as 23% confess to believing in ghosts and 42% say they know someone who’s seen one. The travel and motoring insurance experts at Tiger.co.uk conducted a spooky survey and started investigating some of the ghostliest destinations with the most haunted tales. Some of the earliest recorded ghost sightings date back to the first century AD and while there are no official recordings throughout the centuries, stories of ghosts and ghouls lurk across every corner of the UK. The experts have found spooky stately homes and castles in Scotland, Cornwall, Norfolk and North Yorkshire, uncovering ghosts including the White Lady in Lanc...

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Hungary mulls freeze on Airbnb licences in Budapest

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October 14, 2024222 Views

Hungary's government is considering a plan to impose a moratorium on new Airbnb licences in Budapest and to raise taxes on short-term apartment rentals in the capital city, the economy minister said on Monday. Marton Nagy announced the plans about a month after residents of Budapest's sixth district voted to ban short-term rentals from 2026, the first such ban in one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Some residents in European tourist hotspots blame short-term lets for driving up home prices. In central Europe, Budapest was the most popular city for short-term stays in 2023 with 6.7 million guest nights, according to Eurostat, ahead of Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Krakow and others. Eurostat figures show almost 719 million guest nights spent in the European Union were...

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Awareness on sustainable travel rising, but gap on action remains

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October 14, 2024232 Views

Trip.com's 2024 Sustainable Travel Consumer Report insights released # Gap between awareness and action among travellers for sustainable travel # Around 54.7% of respondents seek access to sustainable options when booking online # Gen Z's attitudes toward sustainability highlight greater need for motivation and targeted engagement Trip.com Group, a leading global travel service provider, has revealed that while sustainability awareness is rising among travellers, there remains a gap between awareness and action. This is one of the key insights from the Sustainable Travel Consumer Report 2024 that the Group released recently. The report draws from 9,867 survey samples from 109 countries and territories, including the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Europe, the M...

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Avani Maldives Resort invites to vote for Best AI-Generated Festive Theme

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October 14, 2024245 Views

In preparation for the festive season, the team at Avani+ Fares Maldives Resort has tapped the creativity of artificial intelligence (AI) to come up with ideas for this season’s Christmas theme. Following the prompts, AI's 'hive mind' generated four imaginative themes - Tropical Wonderland, Candy Cane Christmas, Frosted Paradise and Santa’s Surf Shack. Now, it’s up to the resort’s Instagram followers to decide which one will set the tone for the resort’s Christmas celebrations this year. The four themes will be posted on the @AvaniMaldives Instagram account on 15 October at 10am MVT, giving the public 24 hours to vote for their favourite festive theme through an exclusive poll. The AI-generated image with the most votes will inspire the resort’s festive theme and experiences through th...

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Columbus holiday in Latin America revives centuries-old historical debate

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October 13, 2024203 Views

While, a new study finds, Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe An Argentine claim that European contact brought civilization to the Americas has provoked rebukes from across Latin America, where heated debates often flare up over the era's contested historical legacy. Commemorating Christopher Columbus' landing in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492, the office of Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei posted on social media on Saturday that the Italian explorer's arrival introduced enlightenment to the region. Workers clean the statue of Italian explorer Cristobal Colon, also known as Christopher Columbus, surrounded by metal fencing during Columbus Day, or Day of the Race (Dia de la Raza), in remembrance of when Colon came to the Americas, in Mexico City, Mexico O...

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Saudi Tourism launches “Where Winter Lights Up” with packed calendar

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October 13, 2024347 Views

# Running from now through March 2025, Winter in Saudi features more than 1,000 activities and experiences, plus 500 special offers, bringing the world together in one place # Key annual calendar events including Riyadh Season, AlUla Festival and Events, Diriyah Season and MDLBEAST make a much-anticipated return, promising to be bigger and better than ever, inviting visitors to feel the spark of Saudi's sensational winter season # Saudi winter this year contains even more iconic offerings, from a Harry Potter Experience to major boxing and football matches, Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and the Dakar Rally Saudi's national tourism brand, 'Saudi, Welcome to Arabia', is announcing "Where Winter Lights Up" – the second phase of the iconic global Saudi tourism campaign "This ...