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new biometric checks at European borders
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ropean-borders
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Most British holidaymakers to Europe will need to be fingerprinted, photographed and registered, and UK firms have reported wide divergence in how the rules have been applied since the soft launch of the scheme in October.
But most visitors to the 29 countries introducing entry-exit system (EES) will probably register their details at border control on landing at airports. The trade body Airports Council International (ACI) has reported that the system was causing delays of up to three hours, with airports in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy among the worst affected.
Queues in Lisbon airport had reached seven hours just before new year, he said, leading the Portuguese authorities to suspend the system.
Border authorities are allowed to reduce the number or extent of checks – or even stand down the system – to avoid significant disruption and large queues.
Đi một ngày đàng chờ một tràng giang.
(Tục ngữ)
Europeans shunning US as Emirates and Asia travel prove popular, says Tui
Travel company reports lower demand for US amid signs Trump immigration crackdown is deterring travellers
Europeans are booking fewer trips to the US, Europe’s biggest travel operator has said, as appetite for long-haul travel wanes and concerns linger around Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Tui, which receives most of its bookings from customers in Europe, has seen “significantly lower demand” for travel into the US, according to its chief executive, Sebastian Ebel.
“What we do see is growing business to the Emirates and Asia,” he said. “We also see European demand to the Caribbean, which – due to capacity – had not been the biggest priority in the past, but there we see now potential again to grow.”
It comes amid signs that demand for long-haul travel across the Atlantic is waning.
A report by the European Travel Commission, which surveyed travellers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea and the US, found 42% of long-haul travellers were considering a trip to Europe this year, down from 45% last year. In the US, 34% intended to travel to Europe, down from 37%.
In Europe, several countries have issued advisories about travel to the US owing to stricter border scrutiny, the detention of some visitors and protests over the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Since Trump took office, reports have emerged from the US border of tourists being detained and interrogated, people with work permits sent to ICE detention centres and people being wrongly deported.
Overseas visits to the US from western Europe were down 4% in December compared with the same month last year, according to the US National Travel and Tourism Office.
Last year, Ebel said Tui had seen a “significant decline” in travel to the US, owing to a multitude of factors including “the atmosphere, what you hear from border control”.
While demand for US holidays has been weaker, Tui hailed its best first quarter in just over a decade.
The German travel operator, which is headquartered in Hanover and employs about 67,000 people around the world, reported a 1% rise in revenue to €4.9bn (£4.3bn) in the quarter ending in December, and a 7.5% rise in operating profit to €72.9m.
Aarin Chiekrie, an analyst at the investment broker Hargreaves Lansdown, said much of the success came from its cruise business, where profits rose by more than 70%.
“Consumers continue to prioritise travel, which has seen Tui’s occupancy rates rise despite its fleet expansion,” he said. “All other business segments saw profitability improve over the period, except hotels and resorts, which suffered a double-digit decline due to losses resulting from the Jamaican hurricane, and the non-repeat of some one-off benefits last year.”
Shares in Tui, which is listed in Frankfurt, ticked up 0.4% in early trading on Tuesday. The stock has risen by about 10% in the past year.
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USA: Bắt du khách rực rỡ
UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...a-detained-ice
Đi một ngày đàng, tù một thời gian.Quote:
The dream holiday ended abruptly on Friday 26 September, as Karen and Bill were trying to leave the US. When they crossed the border, Canadian officials told them they didn’t have the correct paperwork to bring the car with them. They were turned back to Montana on the American side – and to US border control officials.
She didn’t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of an ordeal that would see Karen handcuffed, shackled and sleeping on the floor of a locked cell, before being driven for 12 hours through the night to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre. Karen was incarcerated for a total of six weeks – even though she had been travelling with a valid visa.
So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
On 25 January, German tourist Jessica Brösche was stopped by ICE and held for 45 days (including eight days of solitary confinement). Early in February, Germans Lucas Sielaff and Fabian Schmidt were also detained. In late February, the British backpacker Rebecca Burke was incarcerated for 19 days in the same ICE facility where Karen would later spend six weeks. (Like Karen, Burke had been trying to leave the US when she was detained.) Canadian actor Jasmine Mooney was held in an ICE detention centre for two weeks in March. In July, New Zealander Sarah Shaw and her six-year-old sonwere detained for three weeks.
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Death of British teenager on tourist trail in Vietnam
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-wates-vietnam
Ham vui mấy núi cũng trèoQuote:
Orla Wates, 19, from Surrey, was riding as a pillion passenger when she fell off and was hit by an oncoming truck, according to local media. She was taken to hospital in Hanoi, where she died from her injuries last week.
Winding along narrow mountain roads near the border with China, through jungle and rice terraces, the Ha Giang loop has become a must-do adventure for young, thrill-seeking backpackers in south-east Asia.
Online reviews describe it using terms such as the “best four days of my life”. Nevertheless, doing the loop, especially by motorbike, is not without risk. People who live and work in Ha Giang cite the rugged road conditions, unpredictable weather, rockslides and occasional loose livestock.
Travellers depart from Ha Giang city, riding pillion on motorbikes driven by local guides employed by tour companies. Foreign visitors riding solo must have a full motorcycle licence to ride the route, and face a fine if caught without one.
In recent years, there have been local reports of a tourist dying after a 100-metre fall from a mountain pass, and of two visitors involved in a fatal head-on collision with a truck. Locals who know the roads also fall victim to accidents, with the lack of medical facilities in the secluded mountains adding to the danger.
Mấy sông cũng lại mấy đèo cũng qua
(Ca dao)
Rome: cắt cổ rực rỡ
€44 for two ice creams in Rome
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...italy-facebook
Được coi còn đòi kem.Quote:
Sharing a photograph of the receipt, dated 3 June, on the page of a Facebook group offering Rome travel tips, Nicole Ann wrote: “We stopped for gelato and asked for 2 small cups” but the server “gave us the smallest-sized cup and said we had 3 scoops” and then “started adding toppings we didn’t ask for – like cannoli and macarons, implying it was free”.
Nicole Ann claimed she had ordered two small cups, and that her purchase was served in cups. The receipt listed two maxi cones at €12 each, €4 for dollops of panna on the ice-creams, two pistachio cannoli for €10 and two macarons totalling €6 – bringing the total to €44.
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Nicole Ann claimed she had ordered two small cups, and that her purchase was served in cups. The receipt listed two maxi cones at €12 each, €4 for dollops of panna on the ice-creams, two pistachio cannoli for €10 and two macarons totalling €6 – bringing the total to €44.
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Du khách ăn xong trả tiền cái bàn, cái ghế là chiệng thường của wuyện.
(Ăn khế trả bàn)
Đám trẻ Ý vô tri: "Sorry for bringing money to your country."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxg-LKYXBv8
Người Ý mà vô ý.
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Lựa volume mà nói cho vừa lỗ tai
(Ca dao)