GO TO RUSSIA TRAVEL INVITES YOU TO SAINT-PETERSBURG, RUSSIA. ENJOY THE BEAUTIES OF THIS MAGNIFICENT CITY WHILE SAVING MONEY!
Go To Russia Travel offers you a unique experience in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Saint Petersburg, Russia, is often referred to as the Venice of the North or the Paris of the East, but its beauty is really a brand all its own. A city of palaces and museums, broad avenues and winding canals, St. Petersburg's short history has endowed the city with a wealth of architectural and artistic treasures. Alongside world-famous attractions such as the Hermitage, St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Mariinsky Theatre, the city has scores of lesser known but equally fascinating sights that reveal both the pomp and extravagance of St. Petersburg's political and Imperial past, and also the mysterious, tragic genius that has touched so many of the city's great artists and writers.
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ATLANTA JOINS OTHER MAJOR US AIRPORTS WITH FASTER SECURITY LANES SERVICES
After months of negotiations, the registered traveler lanes are opening this week at the world's busiest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International. The registered traveler program, overseen by the Transportation Security Administration, provides speedy security clearance through a separate line for pre-screened subscribers who pay about $100 a year. New York-based Clear, the largest among the industry's three competitors, will run Atlanta's program. Its two lanes will be located in the main terminal near the existing security checkpoint. Twenty U.S. airports currently offer registered traveler lanes, including Washington Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, which offer direct flights to Russia.
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FIVE SOON-TO-BE HOT TOURIST DESTINATIONS
Venturing off the beaten path is adventure enough for some, but beating down the path itself is for a special breed. For these alpha tourists, the joy of travel is in getting there before the people who wear Mickey Mouse sweatshirts do.
ABC News found our that these destinations are poised to become vacation hot spots in the next few years but for now are still ripe for path-beaters to explore. You might have trouble getting around -- or even to -- your destination without a bit of the language or a local friend to help you out, but good stories are what alpha tourists bring home -- not T-shirts.
According to ABC ratings these are the hottest future places to visit:
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Bhutan. Ever wish you could have visited Tibet before the Chinese invaded it? Consider Bhutan. It's also a small Himalayan country on the Chinese-Indian border, and like Tibet, the majority of its citizens are Buddhist.
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Nicaragua is cheap with vast areas of land not owned by ex pats. It's the second-poorest nation in Central America (after Haiti), so there are places to avoid (Managua, the capital) and lots of petty theft, but you'll also find a few gems unlike anywhere on earth.
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Kazakhstan. Borat's country? Yes. Sacha Baron Cohen's character may have lifted Kazakhstan from its general obscurity as another former Soviet republic, but in recent years the nation has seen as huge rise in oil money. Which means a huge rise in luxury hotels, five-star restaurants and exotic nightlife in Almaty, its largest city.
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Laos has seen a couple of upscale hotels pop up, there's still plenty of territory with little Western influence. Though 10 percent of the country lives in the capital city, Vientiane, its lack of modern architecture has preserved an Asian village feel -- despite some French colonial architecture offsetting the city's gilded temples.
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Moscow. Like the rest of Eastern Europe, Moscow seems an obvious choice, but the rise of capitalism makes now an exciting time to visit what's just become the world's most expensive city.
With the help from Go To Russia Travel, however, you can still see the gem of Russia on a budget.
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 ONLINE CHECK-IN GAINS POPULARITY
Travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta are increasingly booking tickets online and using kiosks to check in, at a rate higher than some other large airports around the world.
A survey of passengers at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, Mumbai International, Charles de Gaulle in Paris, Moscow Domodedovo, Sao Paulo Guarulhos and Johannesburg was released recently by SITA, an air transport IT company with North America offices in Atlanta.
The survey found that in Atlanta, 18 percent of travelers check in online and 38 percent of travelers use kiosks for checking in, compared with 19 percent and 20 percent a year earlier.
Across the six airports, an average of 36 percent of passengers checked in online or with kiosks, compared with the combined 56 percent in Atlanta.
Mumbai had a 19 percent rate of online check in, the only airport in the survey with a higher rate than Atlanta.
North America in general is "one of the early adopter markets" for self-service technologies, which can cut costs for airlines, said SITA director of portfolio marketing Dominique El Bez.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, which is the largest carrier at Hartsfield-Jackson, recently reached a goal of getting 80 percent of passengers to check in online, at kiosks or at the curbside in Atlanta and other airports.
The SITA survey showed 73 percent of respondents in Atlanta said they booked their tickets online, up from 57 percent in the 2007 survey.
(Source: Atlanta Journal & Constitution)
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 RUSSIA CELEBRATES DAY OF THE NATIONAL UNITY ON NOVEMBER 4TH 2008
All Russian Consulates as well as the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Internal Affairs will be closed on November 3-4 in observance the Day of National Unity.
Though our US offices will operate according to their regular schedule, please plan carefully when placing your requests for full tourist or business visa service and business visa support and add 2 business days to the processing option you select if we will be handling your order during November 3 and 4.
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