Showing posts with label Tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tourism. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
South Downs: A National Park at last!
The South Downs area has been given National Park status. Read more here. Also see this article in the Guardian.
I have put a quick poll on the right hand side to see what you think about this. A few questions to think about to inform your response/vote:
Does the South Downs have the right sort of landscape to be a National Park?
Does it need protecting?
How will local people (You!) be affected?
Designated National Park Area
Click on the picture below to see some images of the South Downs landscape.
There are some more photos i have taken here of our landscape.
I have put a quick poll on the right hand side to see what you think about this. A few questions to think about to inform your response/vote:
Does the South Downs have the right sort of landscape to be a National Park?
Does it need protecting?
How will local people (You!) be affected?
Designated National Park Area
Click on the picture below to see some images of the South Downs landscape.
There are some more photos i have taken here of our landscape.
Friday, 21 November 2008
Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai. How sustainable is it?
Dubai- a place where the best architects compete to create the most impressive buildings. Atlantis, The Palm cost $1.5bn and is the latest expression of the emirate's desire to attract tourists and to maintain the flow of foreign currency.
(Photos EPA)
There are 1,539 rooms, including the Bridge Suite, which unites the two wings of the complex above an arch and will cost £14,000 a night. There is almost a mile of beach, 2 huge pools and a large aquarium featuring stingray, dolphins and sharks. By early next year the hotel will have its own monorail stop, linking it to the Palm Jumeirah and downtown Dubai. You can sign up for an "interactive experience" with the cetaceans at Dolphin Bay (flown in from the South Pacific and unlikely to survive), or book an "Amazon deep forest aqua cure" at one of 27 treatment rooms in the spa.
How sustainable is it? If the 20 million pound firework display yesterday is anything to go by, not very. Already, pressure is growing to release the 4m Whale Shark from its aquarium. See the story here
(Photos EPA)
There are 1,539 rooms, including the Bridge Suite, which unites the two wings of the complex above an arch and will cost £14,000 a night. There is almost a mile of beach, 2 huge pools and a large aquarium featuring stingray, dolphins and sharks. By early next year the hotel will have its own monorail stop, linking it to the Palm Jumeirah and downtown Dubai. You can sign up for an "interactive experience" with the cetaceans at Dolphin Bay (flown in from the South Pacific and unlikely to survive), or book an "Amazon deep forest aqua cure" at one of 27 treatment rooms in the spa.
How sustainable is it? If the 20 million pound firework display yesterday is anything to go by, not very. Already, pressure is growing to release the 4m Whale Shark from its aquarium. See the story here
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Malaga Unplanned!
I have just finished reading Chris Bray's journal about his travels to Malaga, Spain. The moral of the story is...plan your holiday?!
Malaga Unplanned
Malaga Unplanned
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Sunday, 29 June 2008
Where have you travelled?
Thankyou to Alan Parkinson for highlighting this map generator. I have not been very far, nothing like dancing Matt (See below). I need to take more holidays and i really want to get out of Europe!
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