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France, Italy and Spain have signed an agreement to develop a tourist town in the direction of customers in emerging countries with the aim of supporting the sector to face the crisis.

The hotel group Accor will implement the February 24 February 26 midnight to twelve o'clock a major promotional offers on its website no less than one million rooms (room nights in fact) posting of tariffs reductions up to 75 %. An address was created for the occasion: www.accorhotels.com / supersale.

Capital of Lithuania, registered since 1994 on the Heritage List of UNESCO, Vilnius has been elected to the European Cultural Capital in 2009.

Today the situation along the Benin coast is frightening. The continual loss of sand (beaches and dunes) on the coast has weakened its coast. This is the product of marginal shave dunes and uncontrolled construction on coastal inconstructibles yet.

The Law on the modernization of the hotel in french should be adopted by next summer. But asking hotels ranking 5 stars can carry the necessary steps since 1 January 2009.

Club Méditerranée has reached an extremely low -11.10 euros on 29 December while the highest of the year 2008 it had reached 44 euros.

Surprising. The latest figures from the International Air Transport Association (Iata) confirm the decline in air traffic worldwide - 4.6% in November 2008 compared to November 2007.

The European Union has launched the prototype of a Digital Library, called Europeana.

From 1 January 2009, the price of passports in France ... in increase significantly: 89 euros (as against 60 so far) for an adult, 45 euros for a minor over 15 years (against 15 euros) and 20 euros (free so far) for a person under 15 years.

During the first conference of overseas tourism that took place on 21 November 2008, organized at the initiative of Yves Jego, Secretary of State for Overseas, the government announced several measures to boost tourism in these regions, increasing competition from other destinations Caribbean or Indian Ocean, cheaper and / or less taxed than ultramarine departments.