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In November 2009, tourism in Berlin reached a new record in numbers. The high registration numbers were attributed to it was a special occasion. It was the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall fell, and many people took a trip to Berlin to join the locals in this special celebration. However, now that they have been revealed to the tourism figures for the autumn of last year 2010, demonstrated that the German capital can increase its number of visitors without the need for celebrations and special events.

Berlin is growing in popularity as a tourist destination in itself as mentioned in other bog entries for this tour. Holiday in Berlin and take a trip to Berlin to enjoy a weekend or a longer stay in this cosmopolitan city are things that are becoming increasingly fashionable, especially in recent years.

The Statistical Office of Berlin and Brandenburg provided the recently published figures. These show that, for example, in November 2010, 736,714 people took part in a trip to Berlin. This represents an increase of 4.5% compared to the same month in 2009, which is especially surprising given the above celebration, which took place in 2009, while nothing special happened in Berlin to encourage visits during November 2010.

The figures include both customers in Germany as abroad. Total overnight stays was 1.6 million, an increase of 5.6% compared with November 2009. International visitors were 242,167, an increase of 8%. These people came mostly from the United States – an increase of 6.1% of visits -, Spain – 8.7% increases – United Kingdom – 7.5% increase – and the Netherlands – 8.9% increase.

The largest increase in percentage is the people who made their trip to Berlin from Russia, where the increase in the numbers recorded was 45%. As for the Germans, 494,547 fled their villages, towns and cities to visit Berlin in November 2010, representing an increase of 2.9% over the same month last year.

The average stay for tourism in Berlin is 2.1 days; more or less the length of stay, which allows a weekend trip, if we consider that it, should exclude the time spent on flights to and from Berlin. The use of the hotel capacity was good. According to statistics, hotels in Berlin are in charge of about 747 accommodation providers, with 112,366 beds available in total.

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Travel time: 9 days – 7 nights.
The price includes flights Madrid – La Havana – Madrid, stay in a room at the hotel in Varadero all-inclusive, airport – hotel – airport and travel insurance.

You can choose between different hotels: Barceló Marina Palace, Trip Peninsula Varadero, Barceló Solymar Beach, Sirenis La Salina Varadero, Sol Palmers Melina Las Antilles, Mercury Playa de Ore and Golden Sands.

All Luxury Hotels are located in the center of the city, the beach and surrounded by a natural environment.

Macho Picher was voted as the best eco-destination in South America World Travel Award 2010, announced today Prompter.

Distinction, which was established on October 22 in Jamaica, is considered by the prestigious journal estadouidense The Wall Street Journal as the ‘Oscars’ of the world of tourism.

The citadel was imposed on other destinations such as the Pant anal in Brazil and Argentina’s Patagonia. This is the second award for our country in the World Travel Award. In 2009, prompter won for best tourism promotion office.

“This award shows that the tourism sector has an impact on the economic, social and environmental aspects of country, “said Rocco Merino, Director of Tourism Prompter.

More than 185.000 tour operators around the world were commissioned to run for Macho Picher in the contest. The official presentation of the award will take place in London on 7 November. The award will be displayed in the Peruvian stand the World Travel Market 2010 exhibition to be held in the same city at the same date.

With the aim of detonating the tourism in Alana and achieve significant economic benefit, Mayor Elizabeth Morales Garcia announced the regional tourism program to sell to the capital as a tourist product of national and international level, the project will initiate Municipal President in conjunction with employers in the city.

EMG said that to increase tourism destinations will use adventure and ecotourism in the region, cultural activities and artistic productions of this city might even have a festival Cervantes and religious tourism to disseminate the image of the Holy considered the Catholic faithful, and Rafael Guitar Valencia.

This project will be coordinated by the business sector in Alana represented by former president of the Business Coordinating Committee of the State of Vera Cruz (CCEEV) Becerra Andres Lopez, the president of the Kanaka, Nicene Madeira, entrepreneur and restaurateur David Boucher Gomez, who directed municipal officials in the activities to be implemented.

The company Canary Detour GNSS Solutions, which markets since late 2010 an innovative intelligent virtual Video Guide audiovisual content based on geo-referenced with GPS Smart phone introduced in FITUR, its new application of augmented reality (AR) incorporated into Smart our video guide as a new information service and assistance to visitors.

This new technology is to define a vision of a direct or indirect physical environment in the real world; the elements are combined with virtual elements to create a real-time mixed reality.

The application will assist and guide tourists during their visit to the destination, which can be accessed easily and intuitively to relevant information and updates. From routes and points of cultural and tourist interests, to information on dining, shopping and entertainment most prominent, and transport services, healthcare, or official tourist information points, among others.

In the words of Eduardo Gonzalez, Managing Director said, “Smart our incorporate this new functionality to your system video guide Smart phones with integrated GPS, which allow users to access information of interest using augmented reality as an innovative viewing of this information. Using the camera and compass built into the terminal, the application facilitates the 2D projection on the Smart phone screen, objects of cultural and tourist interests geo-referenced in the system by its latitude and longitude. In addition, the display shows the user the distance that each point is of interest, using an innovative system developed to avoid visual overlap of points in the same direction or close together. “

This new technology, born in the Canary Islands since late last year in this region offers its first virtual tour for Smart phones, aims to position itself as a highly innovative reference to cultural and tourist promotion of any destination.

At present, smart our addresses an expansion plan based on the creation of a network of business partners and franchisees in order to expand coverage and services to other destinations in any region of Spain, closing to do partnerships with organizations that promote tourism and culture, as well as private operators in these sectors.

It is a city that receives more tourists in the African continent and one that most people have, so much so that their population growth was not accompanied by the development and organization of its urban layout, roads, transport, housing, services for what has also become a daily chaos.

However, Cairo remains a major tourist destination in Egypt, with a medieval atmosphere that mixes with the Western world, and in addition to its magnificent architectural heritage and historic mosques, minarets, and the famous Pyramid of Gaza, much visited by tourists traveling to Egypt.

The city of Cairo is located on the banks of the Nile River, which dates back to the first Arab settlement occurred in the seventh century, called Al-Frusta, which was the original town. In the old quarter of Cairo is where best preserved the characteristic features of Muslim urbanization, where we find low houses, winding narrow streets, and a large number of mosques.