Interesting facts from the world of tourism. Tourism: interesting facts
Fact 1: No matter how many times I was on the Riviera, I didn’t know or, out of absent-mindedness, didn’t pay attention that exactly opposite the coast of Cannes there are two islands - Sainte-Marguerite and Sainte-Honorat. The second (which is smaller) from time immemorial has been in the possession of the Lerins Monastery and to this day the monks living there. It's worth visiting for a day ( water transport departs from the port of Cannes every half hour) to stroll around the quiet island and its vineyards, see the old fortress, stop for lunch with local wine in a restaurant on the coast, and if your soul asks for a complete “detox”, stay in a monastery for a couple of days (here you can rent a room for a short time). But you should be prepared to spend these days in complete silence and without any means of communication.
Fact 2: In the house opposite the very center of the Marche Provencal market in Antibes (at 25, Cours Massena) there is a souvenir shop “with a surprise” - in its 19th century basement there is an absinthe bar, the owner of which will personally prepare absinthe of any strength and taste, and will also let you play on piano or try on one of your hat collections.
Fact 3: The artists' town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence (the third most visited in all of France) usually becomes an obligatory point in the cultural program of every traveler to the Cote d'Azur. But not everyone knows that after visiting it at sunset, you should definitely stop for dinner at the Michelin-recommended restaurant Alain Llorca. Here, in addition to the a priori delicious food, there is an excellent view of Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the landscapes of Provence. Adjacent to the restaurant is a hotel of the same name consisting of 10 luxury villas. In general, this place “begs” not only to stay there for the night, but also to celebrate here, for example, a wedding or anniversary.
Facts 4 and 5: Two more places near Saint-Paul-de-Vence that are worth knowing about are the La Fondation Maeght museum and the neighboring hotel Les Messugues (still owned by Alain Llorka). The museum is primarily known for its complex of modernist buildings, park and sculptures installed in it. Well, after that, of course, and exhibitions contemporary art that are held there. Hotel Les Messugues, which is located right next to the museum, is good because it is convenient to stay in if you are traveling along the Cote d'Azur or Provence by car and change your location every day. Breakfast overlooking the vineyards and an hour or two by the pool in a quiet garden is the right place to catch your breath.
Fact 6: One of historical hotels The Côte d'Azur (like the Negresco in Nice or the Carlton in Cannes) is considered the Belles Rives hotel in Juan-les-Pins. Pablo Picasso, Ramon Novarro, Umberto Eco, Edith Piaf once lived there, and Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote his “Tender is the Night” and “The Great Gatsby” here. As more budget option nearby there is a cozy hotel Juana, where you can stay and go here for sunbathing.
Fact 7: I strongly recommend that all lovers of classic sightseeing tours around the city take one on a Segway in Nice. There is room to accelerate, the route is convenient and covers the most important things, the trip will be unforgettable, especially if this is your first Segway experience. And if you first go through a little longer training, then you can ride all day without an accompanying person and wherever you want.
Fact 8: Usually you find good bars in a city through multiple nights of trial and error. Some are too pretentious, some, on the contrary, are very “close to the people.” Bar Le Hussard (in the center of the old town) – unique place with the ratio of price, quality, pleasant music and audience around.
Fact 9: Especially for the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, Uber launched UberCopter, which delivers everyone from Nice airport to the foot of the Palais des Festivals and Congresses in Cannes. Everyone is still talking about the fact that Uber may soon launch this service here on a permanent basis. And that would be so true! It's breathtaking to look at Cote d'Azur from a bird's eye view even for the most unromantic nature.
Fact 10: And this is only a small part of the unknown and unusual that can be found on the Cote d'Azur. It’s also great to experience Indian summer here at the beginning of September, when there are not so many tourists and the weather is still excellent.
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Tourism is a strange thing. You fly to a foreign country, leaving the comforts of home, and then spend a lot of money and time on fruitless attempts to get the very comforts that you would not lose if you stayed at home.
Summer has not gone well this year, and you can completely forget about swimming. The more you want to escape to the south, to the sea and sun. Most of us are sure that sea water and air are very beneficial. But not everyone knows how, when and to whom they are especially useful.
Swimming in sea water is very good for health. This is a fact!
Swimming in sea water:enriches the body with oxygen and minerals. Sea water contains about 90 elements necessary for our body (iodine, calcium, potassium, silicon, sodium, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, iron, nickel, copper, arsenic, oxygen, nitrogen, neon, helium and many other elements, etc.) It is especially useful iodine – it activates brain function and normalizes thyroid function.
improves the functioning of blood vessels and blood circulation, lowers blood pressure and normalizes heart rate
increases vitality, has a hardening effect, strengthens the immune system
cleanses the skin, can help with eczema, psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
helps remove toxins from the body
...and not only for health, but also for beauty! This is also a fact
Intense swimming in sea water actively promotes weight loss and gives a light anti-cellulite massage effect. Sea water, rich in microelements, will replace both hair masks and nail baths - provided that you protect your hair from the sun.
Sea air is most useful after a storm. And that's a fact
The air near the sea after a storm is especially rich in oxygen and ozone and richly saturated with mineral salts and phytoncides of seaweed. This air is especially useful for respiratory diseases, and also moisturizes the skin and increases its elasticity.The saltier the sea water, the healthier it is. Fact!
How saltier water in the sea, the higher the concentration of nutrients in it and the more intensely they are absorbed by the body.
Seaside holidays are useful for everyone without exception - but this is already a myth
It would seem that such a number of advantages should make a trip to the sea useful for everyone without exception. But, alas, there are exceptions. The sea and sun can be dangerous for patients with heart disease, cancer patients, severe hypertension, people suffering from allergies to iodine, hyperfunction of the thyroid gland, as well as some skin and fungal diseases. If you are a regular patient of any doctor, you should consult with him whether the sea and hot climate will harm you.The warmer the sea water, the more beneficial it is. And it's a myth
Warm water is preferable for a long and comfortable bath, especially for children. But the greatest health benefits come from water at a temperature of 20-24 degrees. Firstly, in such water you have to move intensively, which enhances its healing effect. Secondly, in sea water warmer than 24 degrees, pathogenic microorganisms actively multiply, so rinsing the nasopharynx with such water is no longer recommended.
It's better to swim in pools with sea water or taking baths with sea salt than in a dirty sea with crowds of people and jellyfish. This is also a myth
Sea water extracted from the natural environment retains its beneficial properties for no more than 24 hours. Therefore, swimming in a pool with sea water can be equated in effectiveness to swimming in the sea only if the water in the pool is completely changed every day and is not chlorinated, killing many beneficial properties. And if you do not chlorinate the pool, then microbes will quickly multiply in a closed environment.It only makes sense to take baths with sea salt at home, for lack of anything better - after all, tap water with the addition of sea salt correlates with natural sea water in about the same way as juice reconstituted from concentrate correlates with freshly squeezed juice.
Swim in the sea - stock up on health and beauty!
The definition of tourism includes the concept of leaving one's local area in search of new experiences. We get out of personal comfort in order to find pleasure and the same comfort somewhere there. Tourists and travelers are truly amazing people.
Denis Tito can be considered such an amazing tourist, dreamed for many years or at least made a trip there. At first he was rejected by NASA, considering him not physically fit enough. Then he had to overcome obstacles in Russia, where the Mir station, the intended destination, failed due to its operating life. Only in 2001, Tito was able to make a tourist visit to space on the Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft, a device that delivers cargo to the ISS. Denis had to pay 20 million dollars to make his dream come true. But what is this amount compared to the sensations and emotions received!
Sex tourism, as it turns out, arose a very long time ago. It became a kind of manifestation of female feminism back in the early 19th century. Women, individually or in groups, traveled to “abroads” in order to indulge in pleasures with foreigners.
First economy tour was organized by the English enthusiast T. Cook in 1841. He offered poor people a ride on the train, paying one shilling for the trip. Passengers were served buns and drinks and musicians played.
This information will be of interest to lovers of gold jewelry. There are machines that sell gold in Abu Dhabi. This is the only place where such a service is offered.
Favorite place for many travelers– Thailand became a destination for mass tourist visits after the Vietnam War. During the ongoing hostilities, US Army soldiers came there to rest.
Japan lures tourists with various exotic offers. One of them is to create giant paintings of their rice sprouts. These works of art can be seen while flying over the fields in a helicopter or hot air balloon.
Who doesn't want to bring a souvenir with them? after the visit architectural monument antiquity. This is especially true tourist countries such as Greece or Italy. In order to preserve the buildings and not “offend” tourists, workers at the Parthenon Museum are asked to scatter pieces of marble at night.
For those who love an extravagant holiday, A visit to the Chernobyl zone is offered. EE was recognized as “super extravagant” tourist place, where you can see something that is not found anywhere else on Earth.”
An ardent fan of tourism was the super-Nazi A. He believed that active travel toughens people and shapes real fighters. Who might be scared by the recent unrest in Greece? Except tourists from Europe and America. But this is not the case for the Russians.
For guests of Israel there is another attraction, in addition to historical artifacts and natural beauty. This is Harry Potter's grave. But it contains not a famous character, but an ordinary soldier of the British army who died on Israeli soil in 1939.
Tensions between countries in the Middle East is affecting the tourism business. For example, a person whose passport contains an Israeli visa will not be able to visit neighboring Muslim countries, even if he has visas open for them.
The largest hotels have been built in America. There are two dozen of them in total. Of these largest hotel complexes seventeen are located in Las Vegas.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a movement appeared among rich youth- “wandering students.” It was a protest against the bourgeois environment in which they grew up. Young people set off on a journey to places with harsh climates and difficult conditions for survival. This is how they tried to express themselves and feel the essence of real life.
One of the most unusual items forgotten by visiting people in hotels there was an urn with ashes. She was forgotten by the man who brought the remains of his wife to scatter them in a memorial place for them. Fearing that he wouldn’t make it to his destination in time during rush hour, he left the trash can on the windowsill in a hurry. He returned for her an hour later.
Wedding bustle makes you forget not only flowers or rings, but also your own children. One young couple forgot their eight-month-old baby in their hotel room, thinking that their loved ones had already taken him. Seeing the absence of the baby, they immediately returned.
On the eve of World Tourism Day, which has been celebrated for 33 years in most countries of the world, we have prepared a selection of interesting facts from the world of tourism and travel, which will once again remind you of the fascinating countries around us and further fuel interest in travel.
On the eve of World Tourism Day, which has been celebrated for 33 years in most countries of the world, we have prepared a selection of interesting facts from the world of tourism and travel, which will once again remind you of the fascinating countries around us and will further stir up interest in travel.
1. Who opened the world's first travel agency?
On July 5, 1841, that is, exactly 171 years ago, British entrepreneur Thomas Cook, at that time an active fighter against the widespread drunkenness in England at that time, organized the world's first group tourist trip. At his insistence, the Midland Counties Railway provided a special train for an “alcohol-free” trip for 570 workers across scenic route between the cities of Leicester and Loughborough in Leicestershire in Midland England. 570 “friends of temperance” were loaded into nine open carriages. In the future for advertising purposes railways began to provide Cook with discounts that made it possible to organize recreational trips for people with the most limited financial resources. Therefore, there were not hundreds, but thousands of clients. His excursions and travels were based on a very effective principle: "Getting the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people at the minimum cost." This was the beginning of world group tourism.
Soon trips became regular, and in the 1850s routes appeared along many European cities. In 1865, Cook opened for his compatriots New World, and for Americans - the homeland of their ancestors. The activities were carried out through the agency "Thomas Cook and Son" - the first company specializing in organizing tourist trips. By the way, one of the first American clients of the company was Mark Twain. Cook was recognized as the “inventor of tourism”, and the travel agency he founded gained worldwide fame. Five decades later, Thomas Cook & Son owned 84 branches, 85 agencies, and more than 3 million people used its services.
2. Which city has the longest name in the world?
Everyone knows that main city Thailand is called Bangkok. But in fact, this short and sonorous word was invented so that people would not break their tongues about its real name, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest name of a settlement.
The real name of Bangkok is Krung Thep, which means “City of Angels”. But this is only part of its full name - it includes 30 words and sounds more than majestic: “City of Angels, great city, residence emerald buddha, an impregnable city, the great capital of the world, endowed with nine ancient stones, replete with huge royal palaces, reminiscent of a heavenly abode, from which the personification of God rules, the city presented by Indra, built by Wissanukam. In the original language and in a somewhat abbreviated form, it is as follows: Krung Tep Maha Nakorn Amon Rattanakosin Mahanindra Ayutthaya Mahadilok Pop Noprarat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratniwet Amonpiman Avatansatip Sapkakatiya Visanukkampasit.
3. Who is the first space tourist in history?
On April 28, 2001, former NASA employee and billionaire Denis Tito became the first space tourist in history. Tito paid $20 million for an eight-day "vacation" on the International Space Station. However, the businessman had to overcome many obstacles before he could realize his life's dream. NASA considered Tito insufficiently trained, and he had to turn to Russian cosmonauts. But here, too, Tito suffered a setback, since his original destination - the Mir space station - was removed from orbit and sunk in the World Ocean. And only then was the businessman able to get a seat on the Soyuz TM-32 ship, which delivered cargo to the ISS (International Space Station), and, at the insistence of the American side, he had to take full responsibility for his actions.
Currently the ISS is the only target in use space tourism. Flights are carried out using Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Training for space tourists is carried out in Star City near Moscow, as well as in small planes simulating weightlessness. The last flight of a space tourist took place in 2009, and a total of seven tourists visited the ISS. One of them is a woman - Anousheh Ansari.
4. How long is the longest trolleybus route in the world, and where does it pass?
The length of the longest trolleybus route in the world is 86 kilometers, and it runs in Crimea between Simferopol and Yalta. Route number - 52. Trolleybuses run among the Crimean Mountains from Simferopol to Yalta. This route is considered intercity. It connects not only Simferopol and Yalta. On his way there is Alushta - resort town on the shores of the Black Sea. The trolleybus route is operated by the Ukrainian enterprise Krymtrolleybus. To the question: “Why did they decide to build a trolleybus line in the mountainous areas, and not just run buses?” - Crimean trolleybus employee Georgy Slavny replied: “To preserve the environment. Trolleybus is an environmentally friendly transport.”
5. What do the residents of the tallest city in the world do?
The highest city in the world - La Rinconada in Peru - is located at an altitude of 5099 meters above sea level. 30,000 people live here, most of whom are engaged in gold mining. Many miners work for free for a month, and on the last day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders. At the same time, it is unknown whether there will be gold in the ore or not. However, La Rinconada is not yet the highest permanent settlement on earth. There are two Indian villages, which are located at altitudes of 5170 and 5219 meters.
6. What is the most visited grave in Israel, and who is buried in it?
In one of the cemeteries in the Israeli town of Ramla there is the grave of Harry Potter. He was a private in the 1st Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment of the British Army, who died on July 22, 1939 in Hebron in a clash with the rebels. Recently, this grave has become the most visited in Israel and was included in the list of local attractions. Every Saturday, several buses with tourists stop near the city cemetery. In the company of a guide, they wander through the cemetery until they come to a gravestone in memory of Harry Potter. The unknown Harry Potter came from Birmingham and died at 19 in an ambush during the British Mandate of Palestine.
7. How long is the largest swimming pool in the world?
The largest artificial swimming pool in the world is located in the Chilean resort of San Alfonso del Mar. Its length is one kilometer, and the depth at its deepest point is 35 meters. And it is located just 200 meters from Pacific Ocean- it is ocean water that the pumps pump into this pool, pre-filtered. Also, a constant water temperature is maintained here - +26 °C, while in the ocean the water is quite cool.
8. Where is the most “leaning” tower in the world located?
No, not in Pisa. The Leaning Tower of Pisa, which before restoration work at the end of the 20th century deviated from the vertical by 5.5°, and after them by 4°, is not at all the most “leaning” tower in the world. Today the record with an indicator of 12° belongs to a 10-meter tower in the Chinese county of Suizhong.
9. In which country do they speak 820 different languages?
In a Pacific State Papua New Guinea With an area comparable to Sweden, 820 different languages are spoken, accounting for 20% of the total number of languages in the world. And in terms of the density of languages, Papua is second only to another Pacific state - Vanuatu (located in Melanesia), where on an area of just over 12,000 square meters. km, 113 languages are spoken.
10. Where is the largest church in the world?
Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Paix, or Basilica of Our Lady of Peace - catholic church in the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, Yamoussoukro, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest church in the world. It was built in the likeness of Rome's St. Peter's Basilica from 1985 to 1989. At the same time, there are more Muslims in Ivory Coast than Christians.
