Travel Freak

If your mind is still populated with the doubt of Egypt being the right destination for a complete holiday experience, then you have hit the right place. I am sure the vast number of tourists visiting Egypt every year can erase all your doubts.

Having made a record of attracting 8.6 million tourists in 2006, Egypt witnessed a growth of 60% in their tourism industry from the Middle East alone. Spread over 2,450 km of coastline, the place has a populace of over 80 million. Breaking the perception of Egypt holidays being synonymous to camels and sand, the place has much more to offer viz. elite nightlife with the premium cuisine.

If you are an adventurous being, then explore the beauty of the place by visiting the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, the interment land of over 60 Egyptian pharaohs along with an eminent Tomb of Tutankhamen. The idea of partying at the Na’ama Bay in Sharm el Sheikh (Sharm) is worth practicing.

Sharm is positioned on the Sinai Peninsula at its southern tip on the coastal strip amidst Mount Sinai and the Red Sea. The place is known for its activities including water sports, scuba diving and snorkeling. The array of peerless hotels are Royal Rojana Resort, Continental Sharm Hotel, Saint George Three Corners and the not to forget Sonesta Club.

“On The Beach” is there to tailor all your desires into your assets by offering you a complete holiday experience in Egypt. It aims at raising you to the plinth of Egyptian prince and offering you princely stay in five-star hotels. This is an alarm for all travel freaks to unveil this unexplored territory and feel the beauty of this place by inking the best holiday deal with “On The Beach.”

Last week, a Mumbai air traveler was shocked when they find at the check in counter that her return ticket to Goa had been wrongly booked by an online travel planning website. Instead of June 2, the ticket was booked for June 1 and the arrival for June 6 instead of June 8.

The strange part is that the customer, who is a banker by occupation, get a receiving confirm for both the dates. She calls the site’s customer care number and was told to send the complaint. “I then had to book new tickets at a very high price; Rs 7,000 for two tickets, one way.”

This case shows that the online travel sites are not foolproof for booking of tickets in which we book tickets from hotels and package tours. The airline official says that, “There could be some kind of a system interface error.” Other than wrong dates, online fake pas include booking of only some part of the travel.

In reply to the ruling, Deep Kalra, CEO at makemytrip .com, says, “We are committed to providing our customers with a safe transaction environment and are constantly renewing our technologies and processes to ensure this. Today the rate of such incidents is extremely low, which is 0.0003% or three for every one million transactions.”

A new tourism website- Pleasetakemeto.com promises to offer a great Australian holiday to all the travelers. It has been endorsed by Federal Tourism Minister Fran Bailey who thinks that the website will exhort domestic travelers to explore their own country and to plan for holiday in their native land. The site will also be able to augment international travelers to the land of kangaroos.
It will feature more than 500 location-specific video clips, 10,000 photos, and more than 24,000 places for accommodation, sightseeing venues and attractions. Moreover, the site will have the profiles of more than 1200 Australian locations. The online window has made use of exquisite photography and video in order to attract the visitors to Australia as it features some of the most beautiful sights of the land. This site will enable the travelers to plan their holiday on their own and book accommodations also so as to avoid any trouble regarding their sojourn.
 I think that it is really an interesting way to explore the region. So we must at least once visit the site in order to plan our next holiday to Australian landmass
Via yahoo