The value of the U.S. dollar is on everyone’s mind these days. There are horror stories about travelers paying $10 for a cup of coffee or $400 a night for a modest hotel room while traveling in Europe. Here at home, escalating fuel prices combined with falling home sales has everyone asking:

CTBUH - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat - announced the list of the tallest buildings completed in 2007. The winner is a 72-storied Rose Rotana Tower hotel in Dubai, UAE. The building is 333 meters high, total area - 51,5 thousand square meters.....

CTBUH - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat - announced the list of the tallest buildings completed in 2007. The winner is a 72-storied Rose Rotana Tower hotel in Dubai, UAE. The building is 333 meters high, total area - 51,5 thousand square meters....

Hovering high over a jungle while sipping a cocktail -- it sounds like a dream but could soon become reality, if designer Jean-Marie Massaud has his way. His bold vision of a luxury airship hotel in the shape of a huge white whale could usher in a new era of eco-friendly tourism.

Lhasa China isn’t everybody’s idea of a vacation destination although Lhasa remains one of the most apparently remote mysterious, and even romantic places on earth. Once completely inaccessible it still isn’t easy to get to, and then when you do, there is the question of where do you find a decent Lhasa Hotel.

Turkey boasts of increasingly favored ports of call for international and local yachtsmen. The country's popularity is certainly advantaged by her spectacular coastal straits, a past noted for the rich sea-faring literature, some of whose references are part of the everyday culture, as is the case for the Blue Cruise, and the search for the Golden Fleece. In recent years, modern infrastructure and facilities that are considered as requirements for nautical tourism are also being developed with increasing rapidity and sophistication, catering a whole range of services commonly expected by visitors. Modern services geared to recreational boating reaches back to more than three decades in Turkey and considerable momentum has been accumulated in terms of infrastructure, know-how and human resources, promising a still more active future for the business. Prominent Turkish private sector groups view marinas as an attractive investment that also enhances their prestige, thus have built or acquired one to include in their overall portfolio.It is noteworthy to recall that apart from the larger installations, there are also countless points of stop and supply along the Turkish shores, which offer the advantages inherent to smaller enterprises, sometimes in a family environment, at the same time as putting the coastal geography to good use.Marinas in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus While it boasts of two well-integrated marinas (in Girne and Gazimağusa), particular emphasis needs to be put on a number of points in relation to its state of isolation susceptible to evolve in line with the Foreign relations of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and on which political haggling between Turkey and the European Union continues (see subheading below for details).