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International Hospitality in a Swiss Setting Education

International Hospitality in a Swiss Setting

In Switzerland, you can get any profession. But if among all opportunities we highlight the one that is rightly considered the country's 'trademark', it is undoubtedly training in hotel management…

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Swiss Travel System Tourism

Swiss Travel System

A distinctive feature of Switzerland's tourism product is its magnificent network of railway, bus, and water routes. There are about 5,000 km of railways and 1,500 comfortable trains with air…

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Tourism

Stellar Alpine Five

Switzerland is an example of a classic tourist country: elegant cities and famous resorts with cozy hotels, majestic mountains, pristine lakes and picturesque hillsides. Here, all the beauties of…

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Immigration

Britain to protect itself from Bulgarian and Romanian workers

Citizens of Bulgaria and Romania who wish to obtain work in the UK after their countries join the European Union will have to obtain special permission from the relevant British government bodies…

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Visas

Hungary Allows Visa-Free Transit

Hungary has become another country allowing visa-free transit for holders of Schengen visas, as well as visas of countries that are new members of the European Union: Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech…

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Analysis

Duty Free shops suffer from terrorism

For the first time in 50 years, some duty-free shops have ended up 'in the red'. And this despite the fact that the chain, founded by enterprising Irishmen, had never before yielded 'an inch of its…

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Supernew Russians Immigration

Supernew Russians

In Russia, migrants already constitute a tenth of the population. Concerns are being voiced in society that further influx could disrupt the ethno-social balance in the country. Especially since…

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Schengen Will Get You to Prague Visas

Schengen Will Get You to Prague

Until the end of 2006, some countries of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the Baltic states, must change the rules for the stay of foreign citizens holding a visa from one of the Schengen…

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Top stories of the issue (abroad No.346) News

Top stories of the issue (abroad No.346)

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Velvet Season for Thrill-Seekers News

Velvet Season for Thrill-Seekers

Trips to resorts are becoming quite nerve-wracking for tourists from all over the world. Explosions everywhere, danger everywhere... Even if terrorists don't blow things up, might it turn out that…

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Analysis

End of multi-culti

Recently, a very telling incident occurred, which greatly amused the public. A Northwest Airlines aircraft flying from Amsterdam to Mumbai (now the name for Bombay) turned around a few kilometers…

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News

Tourists flee Egypt

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has urged its citizens to 'exercise particular vigilance in Egypt due to the high level of terrorist threat there'.

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A Close Career on Distant Islands Education

A Close Career on Distant Islands

The desire of our compatriots to stay abroad after graduating from university surprises no one. But one should stay in a country where you are truly welcome (in other words, a country with an open…

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Travel

Full Voluntourism

A recipe for happiness for the hero of the book 'Duhless' and other bored white-collar workers who have lost the meaning of life – to sign up as volunteers. In a prosperous European society, where…

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