INDIAN AVIATION INDUSTRY- CONSUMER RESEARCH 2009

An interesting link on 'flying' habits of Indian travelers.
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EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS 2008

Given below are links to some photographs uploaded on face book after my tour of Europe. I started off from Denmark, covered Germany, went to Switzerland, then to Italy and returned after a stint at Austria.



INTERESTING ITALY

ROMAN HOLIDAY
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8896&id=1053888700&l=c4b51aee82

VIEWS FROM VENICE
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8730&id=1053888700&l=550997d8f7

VIEWS FROM VENICE CONTINUED
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8765&id=1053888700&l=ada00c885d

THE MUSE OF MILANO
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8586&id=1053888700&l=6c13d2ffc8

THE MUSE OF MILANO CONTINUED
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8722&id=1053888700&l=9c4bdf3c87

A PIECE OF PISA
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8422&id=1053888700&l=513eb9b7ac

FABULOUS FLORENCE
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8343&id=1053888700&l=28b4c0d9f8


 SCENES FROM SWITZERLAND

THE LION OF LUZERNE
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8544&id=1053888700&l=73ea9a1520

LUZERNE LABYRINTH
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8574&id=1053888700&l=a3737e7542

LUZERNE AND  LAMBORGHINI'S
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8585&id=1053888700&l=5f1ab570dc

LUZERNE LAKE
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8540&id=1053888700&l=81bba1dd24

LUZERNE LAKE CONTINUED
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8541&id=1053888700&l=bb197727c5

THE TIMELESS TRUMMELBACH FALLS AND LOVELY LAUTERBRUNNEN
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8500&id=1053888700&l=7c4e898bf7

SCENIC SCHILTORN
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8499&id=1053888700&l=923e009733

BODHGAYA AT BONNIGEN
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8427&id=1053888700&l=bc5deab0e8

JOY AT JUNGFRAU
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8439&id=1053888700&l=74aa5127d4

INIMITABLE INTERLAKEN
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8424&id=1053888700&l=4c59d210e7

ATTRACTIONS OF AUSTRIA

SCHONNBRUN PALACE
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8967&id=1053888700&l=f9232b09d6

VIENNA AND VIOLINS
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8965&id=1053888700&l=b91a37f043

SALZBURG SYMPHONY
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8961&id=1053888700&l=3b78e818ca

SALZBURG SYMPHONY CONTINUED
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8910&id=1053888700&l=d74adff750

GESTALT OF GERMANY- WEST AND EAST, HAMBURG AND FRANKFURT
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8416&id=1053888700&l=13482eaecd

DENMARK THE HAPPIEST NATION IN 2008
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8410&id=1053888700&l=76b73a7f50

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A case for marketing the UAE as a common destination

This article explores the benefits of using UAE as a single destination. Recommended reading.
http://www.ameinfo.com/217996.html

Indian Travel Trends: Backpacking

Indian Travel Trends:
http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20091218/372/tbs-unfazed-by-downturn-indians-on-backp.html

Drinking Alcohol in Delhi, INDIA- What the Law says.

New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- If you are 21 years old and looking for a job in a pub in the city, the Delhi Excise Act will allow you to do so.

But if you want to taste your first drink, you will still have to wait for another four years - till you turn 25. Delhi Assembly passed the Delhi Excise Bill 2009 on Monday with a modification that would allow 21-year-olds to serve liquor at bars and hotels.
Congress MLA Rajesh Lilothia moved the amendment and argued that most youngsters finished graduation by 21 and need employment. The Opposition's demand for referring the matter to a select committee for further deliberation was turned down.
"This Act is aimed at containing hooch tragedies. Under the present Act, brewing illicit liquor and sale of hooch are all bailable offences. We propose to change this," AK Walia, Delhi's Finance Minister, told the House, replying to the Opposition's protests that the new Bill encouraged a drinking culture.
Not just brewing of hooch or selling it will draw tough penalties, but drinking in public will now attract a fine of Rs 5,000. At present, drinking in public attracts a fine of Rs 200. The Punjab Excise Act, 1914, is in effect in Delhi. Drinking and creating public nuisance could get you prison term up to three months and Rs 10,000-fine for creating public nuisance.
For any owner of a liquor joint - whether a bar, theka (road side liquor vend) or nightclub - who allows drunken behaviour or anti-social elements to gather at his establishment, the penalty is still stringent.
The owner would attract a prison term of up to six months and a fine of up to Rs 50,000. The Delhi Excise Bill, 2009, is based on the Model Excise Bill, 2005, circulated by the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
Under the Bill, all offences attracting a jail term of two years or more were turned non-bailable. It also introduces an incentive for informers who help in getting spurious or smuggled liquor caught.
"Any truck intercepted carrying smuggled or spurious liquor would be impounded and auctioned after three months," he said.