Author: The Beetle
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Travel Mad Families Wanted for UK TV Program
Hello, I am making a new primetime UK ITV holiday series and am looking for various families who are passionate about going on a certain type of holiday to take
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Swiss Mystery Park Opens
Science fiction writer Eric von Däniken was the inspiration behind the May 2003 opening of Mystery Park in Interläken, Switzerland. The attraction resembles a giant space station, the centrepiece of
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Kuoni To Pull Out of Burma
Swiss based global travel group, Kuoni has announced that it will stop operating in Burma from the end of the 2003. The move is said to be due to recent
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What Counts As A Visit
Johan from Belgium contacted the Beetle to say that he visits The Gambia on a regular basis. He says that it is true that the bumsters have gone – because
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Peru – Volunteer as a teacher of English
Muir’s Tours have opportunities for their volunteer teaching programme in Peru. This is proving to be very popular with Gap Year students. Please note it is open to all ages,
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Hilton Hotels
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal told of how the Hilton Hotel chain, all 21,000 of them have a new customer system called OnQ. This records all customer
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Italy Screens for SARS
Italy is to be the first EU country to introduce mandatory screening of passengers arriving from countries affected by the SARS virus and including passengers who have first made stops
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Our Friends Ryanair
Due to a computer crash, the Beetle has lost this month’s commentary on our friends Ryanair. We hope to return to our favourite love to hate subject of Ryanair next
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Singapore Screens for SARS
Changi Airport in Singapore is using high technology to screen the foreheads of inbound passengers as they step off the plane. The infrared fever screening system has a thermal imaging
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Wroclaw, Poland
Andrev, a student in the beautiful city of Wroclaw wrote in to tell us about his hometown. He says he would like to tell us about a few interesting things
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Another UK TV Show Needs Volunteers
Would you like to take part in a documentary we are currently making for Channel 4? It is provisionally titled Travellers Tales, and is about travellers who have experienced tropical
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Fave Website: Japanese Etiquette
If you're going to visit Japan on business, or even if you are going for pleasure, this website shows you how to you bow appropriately and how to behave when
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Heat wave in Southern India
If you have plans to visit India this summer – never a good time to go – take note that around 200 people have died during the heat wave that
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Biometric Passports for UK
The UK Passport Service plans to put biometric chips into passports by 2005. The agency is to run a six-month trial to “evaluate issues around biometric capture using iris, facial
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Currency Conversion
The Globetrotters Club has just teamed up with Oanda.com to provide people with information about currency conversions and cheat sheets. To translate currency or make a cheat sheet, visit: The
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Some Algerian Sahara Tourists Found
In last month’s Globetrotter e-news, we spoke of 31 tourists being abducted and held in the Sahara for over 2 months. In May, 17 of the foreign tourists (10 Austrians,
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Mutual Aid
Simon, a single guy from the UK is looking for a travel companion to join him from May 2003 onwards in his travels across the US, over to New Zealand
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London Tube Tales
“Ladies and Gentlemen, we apologise for the delay, but there is a security alert at Victoria Station, and we are stuck here for the foreseeable future, so let's take our
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So You Think You.re Well Travelled?
Here’s a little Beetle quiz based on airport codes. How many did you get right! Go on, have a guess! Which cities are served by airports with the following codes: