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TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Destinations Awards - Top 25 - World

Top 25 TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Destinations It is good to keep up to date with the trends in visitor choices as it can be a great idea for your holiday. According to TripAdvisor (2011), the top 25 world best destinations for 2011 are : 1. Cape Town , South Africa 2. Sydney, Australia 3. Machu Picchu, Peru 4. Paris, France 5. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6. New York City, New York
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The Famous Dracula Legend, Brasov, Romania

Count Dracula was just a character in the well known Bram Stoker's novel called Dracula. He was inspired by one of the leaders in the history of Romania, Vlad Dracul, who was the father of Vlad the Impaler. Vlad the Impaler was the leader of Walachia somewhere between 1456 and 1462. He was borne  in 1413 in  Sighisoara city, and he lived there all his adult life,except for the time when he was imprisoned in Pest and Visegrad, in Hungary ( Romania Tourism ,2011 ). The truth behind the story of Dracula is that, Vlad the Impaler was a very honest leader and he thought that he needs to take some measures against the theft, laziness and other bad things that were happening around that time. He wanted the people to feel scared and was using as a negative example the people that were punished in order to ensure that people will not even think of doing mischief . In that period some of the famous punishments were staking, burning and hanging etc. His method of pun...
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Austria

Austria is well known by the winter sports and the amazing mountains, slopes where these sports can be enjoyed to the fullest. According to the Austrian National Tourist Office (2011) Austria's tourism has been developing steadily for over 50 years. Tourism industry constitutes approximately 8% from the annual GDP and is growing faster in Austria. Austria has some amazing landscapes, the mountain is joining directly with the lake which offers an amazing view, the view of the Alps in Tyrol region is like a picture freshly painted. Wien a very important city of Austria is a city full of history which gives the travellers the impression that it's part of a film and introducing him/her into the old style cities. There are plenty of shops from where you can shop everything that you wish and things that never crossed your mind. If you are an art lover it's good to visit this city as you can see a lot of old architecture and different attractions related ...
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Oxford Circus

Everyone knows how important Oxford Street is for London, is like the Champs Elysée for Paris... During the winter this street is becoming really great is full of lights and it looks very happy... If you will travel to London it's a must to go to Oxford Circus to see and experience the place as is always crowded and the people look very happy... Not only you can see the old architecture but you can do some shopping as well as there are plenty of shops... :)
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Tourism

Tourism        What is Tourism? Tourism is the activity undertaken by people to travel away from their homes for more than 24 hours. (Page and Connell,2009) Another more complex definition of tourism is the activity of “persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.”(Gee et al. 1997:5) Tourism Society (1976) cited in Holloway et al (2009:8) states that “Tourism is the temporary short-term movement of people to destinations outside the places where they normally live and work, and activities during their stay at these destinations ; it includes movement for all purposes as well as day visits or excursions”.
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