Stories discussed in this podcast are from the Travelography Twitter Blog for the week of 23 to 30 March 2009. This podcast is also available at Blubrry.com and Travelgeography.info.
Tourists look for luck at Pol Pot’s grave
Cambodia
- He was one of the greatest mass
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killers of the 20th century, but that
doesn't stop the hopeful from praying at Pol Pot's hillside grave for
lucky lottery numbers, job promotions and beautiful brides. Nor does it
stop tourists from picking clean the bones and ashes from the Khmer
Rouge leader's burial ground in this remote town in northwestern
Cambodia.
McCook abuzz over tourism idea: ‘Old Sparky’ the electric chair
Residents
of a small southwest Nebraska town have a question for state officials:
You’re not doing anything with that old electric chair, are you? The
Nebraska Supreme Court ruled last year that the state’s use of the
electric chair was unconstitutional because it amounts to cruel and
unusual punishment. Some people in McCook—population just under
8,000—think “Old Sparky’’ could be a tourist attraction and have
offered to take it off the state’s hands.
East Africa: Region to Start Issuing Single Tourist Visas
The
East African Community (EAC) has agreed to start a single tourist visa
for the region, ... the EAC members were discussing a protocol to
create and market the region as a single tourist destination. Rwanda,
Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda make up the EAC.
FAA to seal bird-strike records
The
US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says that the information
could mislead the public and its release could prompt some airports and
others not to report incidents, but the proposal is drawing sharp
criticism from bird safety experts and public records advocates.
80,000 on TSA's 'cleared' fliers list
critics
want stricter standards for deciding who goes on the watch list. The
list is based on "nominations" from intelligence and security agencies,
such as the CIA and FBI, which use a "reasonable suspicion" standard to
decide whether a person's suspected links to terrorism are strong
enough to put him in the database. "No one wants to be the person who
was too cautious about nominating names … so every name ends up on the
list when only a handful should be,"
MGM Mirage says Dubai lawsuit ‘without merit’
On
Monday Dubai World's Infinity World subsidiary filed a lawsuit against
MGM Mirage because of its concern about the viability of their $8.6
billion joint venture project under construction on the Las Vegas
Strip. The 67 acre project is under a cloud after SEC returns filed by
MGM indicated it may breach its debt repayment obligations. MGM Mirage
is currently saddled with $13 billion of debt.
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