Though the world is in difficult financial situation, but people always want to travel. For those who wish to find something special the entire year the edition of HRI compiled a list of unusual trips for each month of the year. January, of course, could remain in your memory by going to meet the...
The Most Expensive Hotels of the World
Relax on the bed, where presidents sleep, sit on the chair, like an Arab sheik, or feel like a Hollywood star is quite simple. All you need to do is to book a hotel room for several thousands of dollars a day. 1. The Royal Penthouse Suite, President Wilson Hotel, Geneva 65,000 USD per...
Mermaids, Monsters, Aliens and Other Ways to Attract Tourists
This summer it is impossible to attract tourists to voyages: economic recession and horrors of the swine flu epidemic closed the boarders more reliably than the custom services and visa barriers. And no artless marketing methods from the standard arsenal of tourism industry can help to attract the potential traveler from his cozy apartment....
Global Warming: Places to Visit in Coming 20 Years
Scientists have been threatening the mankind for a long time already with the global cataclysms connected with the climate change. They promise either an ice age or a flood, which will wash the civilization away from the Earth. It looks like the last trend on which almost all the researchers agreed, is the warming...
The “Iron Lady” of Paris Celebrates the Anniversary
She has always been extravagant, loved to shock and amaze the audience with bold ideas, she was loved and hated, people died for her, married her… It is impossible to believe, but we speak about a vast inanimate metal monster – the Eiffel Tower. On March 31, she turned 120 years old, although the...
Tourists are Allowed to Extract Gold
Precious stones are attractive, the lustre of precious metals charms. It turns out that there are places where tourists can see how all this wealth is born, and sometimes even have the opportunity to try to recover the treasures with their own hands. California, United States The “Gold Rush” is associated primarily with America....
Floating sightseeings in the world
Ship museums are the most interesting sights. They seem to still have life in them, and all those sailboats, frigates, cruisers and even icebreakers are ready at any time. Some will tell you about the distant sailing of the past, while others – the achievements of military science in the twentieth century. Today, we...