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The Brazilian Tourist Board, EMBRATUR, announced the world’s first Google/YouTube brand channel combining videos and Google maps to provide an interactive online Brazilian tourism experience. Accessible at www.youtube.com/visitbrasil, the site features more than 85 videos from Brazil. This is the first convergence of its kind involving Google Maps into YouTube to date.Source: Brazilian Minstry of […]

R (On the Application of I’m Your Man Ltd.) v North Somerset Council [2004] EWHC 342Planning permission had been obtained for the erection of a helicopter museum. Some time after it opened it began to increase the number of helicopter flights at the site. M sought judicial review of the planning authority’s decision not to

Public Service Vehicles Accessibility (Amendment) Regulations 2005These Regulations, made under the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, provide wheelchair accessibility and general accessibility requirements for disabled persons on buses and coaches.

In a letter to the Chilean tourism authorities, the UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, conveyed the Organization’s “solidarity with the people of Chile” after the earthquake that hit Chile on 27 February. Through its Regional Representation for the Americas, “UNWTO will deal extensively with the issue of natural disasters”, he added. Mr. Rifai underscored his conviction

The Victoria Falls World Heritage Site was proclaimed in 1989. When the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe signed the agreement with UNESCO, they committed themselves to work together for the protection of the Victoria Falls and its surrounding area.UNESCO required the governments to form a Joint Management Team and an Integrated Management Plan for the

The Senate voted 78 to 18 for the legislation, which sets up a nonprofit corporation for travel promotion. It now goes to President Barack Obama for signature.The necessary money would come from a $10 fee levied on travelers from the 35 (mostly European) countries participating in a visa waiver program. The United States now requires

The ministers of the Court of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) are set on Thursday, March 25, the distribution by the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) of the slots (spaces at the airport used by airlines to park / park aircraft) from Congonhas Airport (SP) will or not with the spaces in the Pantanal

UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai today issued the following statement on the events of Autonomous Region of Madeira: “We are deeply saddened by the tragic events that struck Madeira Island last Saturday 20th February and have already expressed our full support ,as well as our commitment to help in any way considered, to the government of

The European Commission will hold a full-day stakeholders’ workshop on the revision of the Package Travel Directive (90/314/EEC) on 22 April 2010. The workshop will take place at the Albert Borschette Conference Centre in Brussels. It will primarily aim at hearing and collecting stakeholders’ views on the impacts of identified policy options for a revision

The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism in South Africa is organizing the International Summit on Tourism, Sport and Mega-events in Johannesburg, South Africa from 24 to 26 February 2010.The Summit will provide a forum to consider the impact of mega events – particularly sport, culture, exhibitions and