Flooding Affected Over 2.3 Million People

Le Passage to India extends a helping hand to flood victims in Bihar

Le Passage to India (LPTI), India's leading destination management company, joined hands with TI Info Tech, TUI India, Indian Routes, and Select Hotels to help flood victims in Bihar.

New Delhi

Visitors: Tourist police of no help

NEW DELHI - A tourist is often greeted to the Capital by pesky touts or auto and taxi drivers trying to drive a hard bargain.

Ireland

Limerick street ambassadors help 15,000 tourists

More than 15,000 visitors to Limerick were helped this summer by guides, according to the Limerick co-ordination office.

Chinese Embrace Volunteerism

A helping hand for Olympic tourists, a wary eye on political dissent

BEIJING--The Beijing Olympic Games have created a wave of volunteerism involving more than 1 million people, including those not registered as official volunteers.

China

Beijing opens website to help Olympic tourists

BEIJING -- A Beijing municipal government-run website was launched Wednesday to help worldwide athletes, referees, officials, journalists and tourists easily find restaurants, shopping centers and en

Disability And Air New Zealand Don't Mix

Airline says 'no' to help for tetraplegic

A Christchurch tetraplegic is being forced to pay thousands of dollars for an in-flight carer because Air New Zealand staff cannot help him into his seat.

Alan Pullar said he had to pay for a carer to fly to the United States with him and his wife next month because Air New Zealand would not provide staff to lift him in and out of his ... read more

Aloha + ATA = 9000 Stuck In Hawaii

Special flights for stranded Hawaii tourists

The Hawaii Tourism Authority has contracted with Hawaiian Airlines to schedule special round-trip flights Monday and Wednesday between Honolulu (HNL) and San Francisco (SFO) to help travelers who were stranded by the sudden shutdown this week of Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines.

Aloha Shutdown: What About The Passengers?

United, Hawaiian offer help but no guarantees to Aloha passengers

While Aloha Airlines customers won't be stranded, those with reservations for future flights or who want a refund will face some challenges.

Aloha said passengers with confirmed reservations for travel after March 31 should contact its code-share partner, United Airlines, or Hawaiian Airlines, which has offered to honor Aloha tickets on ... read more

Kenya's Tourism - Germany To The Rescue

Germany to help Kenya’s tourism

The German government will help Kenya to revive the tourism industry, Germany Foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier said on Saturday.

Dr Steinmeier said that the power-sharing deal signed by President Kibaki and Raila Odinga was the only recourse to peace.

He said this when he met a delegation from Kenya led by Vice-President ... read more

Australia

Help scrawled in desert sand saves tourist

Font Size: Decrease Increase Print Page: Print By Rebekah Cavanagh | February 29, 2008
THE word "HELP'' drawn in the desert sand has led searchers to a lost French tourist who had been missing in the Northern Territory Outback for five days.

American Airlines

Airline says traveler who died was helped

NEW YORK - American Airlines on Monday insisted that it tried to help a passenger who died after complaining she could not breathe. It disputed the account of a relative who said the woman was denied oxygen and that medical devices failed.

Sierra Leone

Libya to help Sierra Leone boost tourism, energy sectors

Libya has offered to help Sierra Leone in its post-war rescuscitation of the tourism industry and energy supply sector, the government here said on Tuesday.

A team of technical experts is due in Sierra Leone "within weeks ... to undertake feasibility studies in tourism and energy provision," a government statement said.