Saturday, May 28, 2011

Estonia Launches Community «cultural dating»

Aircraft take off and sit down, passengers pass through terminals and are working in lounges near aircraft arrived, ... but this is no ordinary airport. The world's largest miniature model is represented in the Museum Miniatur airport Wunderland, Hamburg, Germany.

Airport Knuffingen is a miniature worth 5 million dollars. He served as a prototype to airport Hamburg. Model zajdestvovany 40 planes known companies and 90 other vehicles that are offline are moved to mini-Airport (with an area of 150 square meters). To build the model took 7 years.

Manoeuvres of vehicles, passengers on terminals, flashing emergency lights, take-offs and landings are made by using a computer. Miniature don't forget even about baggage carts, escalators and parking lots. By the way, a large fleet demonstrates the variety of models of aircraft from Airbus A380s to Cessnas.

In addition to aircraft and service vehicles, there are approximately 40 000 model, light bulbs, 15 000 human figurines, 500 machines, 10 000 trees, 50 trains, 1 000 wagons and 300 buildings.

Real airport Hamburg was opened in 1911 and currently occupies an area of kvadrtanyh. 6 km.

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Friday, May 27, 2011

The Greeks noted positive developments in tourism

According to figures released by the Federation of Greek tourist enterprises, Greece continues to build tourist flow, allowing some experts even suggest a cutoff figures growth on pace.

In particular, it is reported that between January and April arrivals in Greece increased by 5.6% compared to similar period of last year, already surpassing the mark in 1 147 000 tourists. Particularly impressed by the Hellenes, which Greeks noted an increase of 24.04%. In General, only last month Greece was visited by tourist 541 974, which is almost half of all visitors since the beginning of the year.

According to the Federation, the highest increase of tourist arrivals was recorded at the airport of Zakynthos, Kos and Rhodes. In particular, the increase of tourist arrivals through the airport of Rhodes, was 133% in April and 119.18% since the beginning of the year, respectively. The Zakintose recorded an increase of 504 percent for April and 521% for 4 months of 2011. But most of all the Hellenes, whose growth was good Cos of that of the 600% for 4 months.

Posted May 22, 2011

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