Latest Washington Travel & Tourism News
- Taiwan demilitarizes picturesque offshore islet 24 Jul 2008 09:36 GMT
... Thursday, July 24, 2008 - Page updated at 02:30 AM ... substantial expansion in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Taiwan. (This version CORRECTS that late ... levels were 450,000).) Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Alaska Ranger sinking prompts Coast Guard warning about propellers 24 Jul 2008 09:16 GMT
... The federal investigation into the sinking of the Alaska Ranger ... Nov. 23 while off Antarctica. The 154 tourists, guides and crew were safely evacuated. But ... at sea, and was operated by the Seattle-based Fishing Company of Alaska. As the water ...
- Helicopter rescues 2 Italian climbers in Pakistan 24 Jul 2008 08:58 GMT
... Thursday, July 24, 2008 - Page updated at 01:55 AM ... Shaukat Zaman, a senior official at Pakistan's tourism ministry, says the helicopter rescued the two ... then retrieved Nones. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- North Korea angrily reacts to 'enemy' remarks 24 Jul 2008 08:08 GMT
... Thursday, July 24, 2008 - Page updated at 12:30 AM ... the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a North Korean resort earlier this ... a peace treaty. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Frommers.com Cruise Deals for the Week of July 24, 2008 24 Jul 2008 07:29 GMT
... Here are some of the best deals a handful of major travel agencies are advertising this week. Cruises are capacity-controlled ... 25 sailing. 4-night Pacific northwest, round-trip from Seattle. From $289, Sep. 22 sailing. 5-night Bermuda, round-trip ...
- NKorea angrily reacts to 'enemy' remarks 24 Jul 2008 06:31 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at 10:35 PM ... the shooting death of a South Korean tourist at a North Korean resort earlier this ... a peace treaty. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Visa survey shows foreign travel remains popular 24 Jul 2008 05:58 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at 10:20 PM ... similar to last year when, based on tourist spending on U.S.-issued Visa cards instead of ... book their trip. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Building boom transforming Beijing 24 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT
... BEIJING, China (AP) -- This ancient capital city, long known ... Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who designed the Seattle Public Library, the Prada store in New ... While the imperial Forbidden City and other tourist sites remain, many of the old courtyard ...
- Gates Foundation breaks ground in Seattle 24 Jul 2008 03:57 GMT
... The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation broke ground Tuesday on its ... campus is a crosswalk away from the Seattle Center, and the Experience Music Project and ... to the new complex near Seattle's busiest tourist draws. "It's a big change for us, ...
- Washington 24 Jul 2008 01:37 GMT
... revisited many of the places in the Washington State guide — a 687-page volume, first published ... of logging and ranching, a route for tourists and the untoured. “It's the organic, hipper ... source of power for the city of Seattle, led to improvements in the road on ...
- Drug smugglers get record sentences in Ireland 23 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at 02:35 PM ... during his testimony that he was a tourist who swam into the sea to rescue ... port of Kinsale. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Obama calls Holocaust memorial 'a place of hope' 23 Jul 2008 18:21 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at 11:00 AM ... of the Holocaust live in Israel. American tourists who passed by Obama at Yad Vashem ... understand," Shalev said. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Arena Bowl brings smile to New Orleans economy 23 Jul 2008 17:33 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at 10:05 AM ... Bowl is the little game that could. Tourism officials say it will draw a welcome ... of Hurricane Katrina. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Indian tribes take issue with IRS interpretations 23 Jul 2008 16:51 GMT
... Agua Callente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Washington State is appealing an IRS ruling that ... other golf courses that more likely attract tourists. Attorneys are suggesting that tourists have been known ...
- Grand Coulee Dam's immensity dominates Columbia River Basin 23 Jul 2008 15:54 GMT
... is about 230 miles from Seattle. Head east on Interstate 90. Turn left ... Despite 100-degree summer heat and freezing winters, tourists come to tour the dam and the ...
- Obama tries to reassure Israelis and Palestinians 23 Jul 2008 14:17 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at 06:35 AM ... he wrote in the visitors' book. American tourists who passed by him at the memorial ... to this report. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Tacoma by train: all aboard Amtrak 23 Jul 2008 13:31 GMT
... . . . a glass goldfinch, the Washington state bird, fresh out of the hot shop ... galleries, the city is blossoming into a tourist destination It's Friday afternoon and traffic on ... will be snapped up by dealers from Seattle to the north and Portland to the ...
- Tourism travails: summer fun faces uncertain times 23 Jul 2008 11:36 GMT
... Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - Page updated at 04:00 AM Tourism travails: summer fun faces uncertain times The ... life that way." Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- A tale of two cities' urinals 23 Jul 2008 11:19 GMT
... The next time you're in Seattle, you might find it a bit more ... designed for the 24-hour use of both tourists and transients, which means they needed to ...
- Kyle McCaskill: Plum Creek could learn a lesson from Canadians 23 Jul 2008 10:58 GMT
... Kyle McCaskill: Plum Creek could learn a lesson from Canadians ... decide whether to allow Plum Creek, a Seattle-based real estate investment trust, to develop Lily ... in the dust. Algonquin Park has active tourist, youth camp, and logging industries. Nearly a ...
- Recent Global Update: Who's where and doing what 23 Jul 2008 10:31 GMT
... Denny Fitzpatrick has returned to his native Washington State to take over as General Manager at the Hotel 1000 in Seattle. For the past six years, he had been ... JW Marriott Mexico City and the Airport Marriott Hotel, Mexico City . Roberto Garrido Sanchez has ...
- China OKs gym for US alternates 23 Jul 2008 10:31 GMT
... Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - Page updated at 10:35 PM ... not get Olympic credentials and must get tourist visas. The alternates for the U.S. men's ... Tianjin, not Tianjian) Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Iraq seeks invasion of tourists 23 Jul 2008 07:30 GMT
... A new airport in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where ... year, Iraq's government is beginning to promote tourism. It will be a tough sell — ... to this report. Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company ...
- Hollywood Privacywatch: Adrian Grenier Not Afraid Of A Little PDA 23 Jul 2008 05:32 GMT
... Hollywood Privacywatch: Adrian Grenier Not Afraid Of A Little ... albeit one who sits where all the tourists, not to mention tetchy locals like me, ... my flight back to LA at the Seattle airport on 7/16, I saw CALISTA FLOCKHART ...
- Global trade key for Puget Sound region, officials say 23 Jul 2008 04:53 GMT
... International trade is more important to the Seattle area than to any other region of the country. ... on trade and transportation at the Everett Holiday Inn offered by a partnership of the U.S. ... the Washington Council on International Trade. "In Washington state, trade and transportation investments create jobs," said ...
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