Argophilia

Αργοφιλία: For the love of the journey.

Valentine’s Day to Become Week Long Vacation!

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Digitas, a digitally-led, global integrated brand agency, released a study today along with Brandwatch, that analyzed some 1.6 million social mentions of “Valentine’s Day” to reveal the travel habits the loving celebrants. According to their findings, Valentine’s Day is becoming more than a single day event, vacationers are now making a week of it.

A Tasty Valentine’s at Orlando’s Grand Bohemian Hotel

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The Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, Autograph Collection®, one of Kessler Collection’s signiture boutique hotels, is out to show the love this Valentine’s week. Their Boheme Restaurant awaits hungry love birds with a sumptuous chef’s tasting menu, among the other culinary delights. Valentine’s brunch through dinner, Orlando was never tastier.

Europe Celebrates European 112 Day

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112 is the emergency number all over the EU, and today is the European 112 Day 2013, celebrated on 11 February every year since 2009. The pan-European emergency number 112 was created in 1991 and starting 2008 it is the only emergency number that can be used free of charge from any landline to reach the emergency services in any EU country.

A Return to Elegance: Starwood’s Hotel Bristol, Warsaw

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If you’re headed to Warsaw, and need a luxury stay with the crispest of pillow cases, Hotel Bristol there has brand new ones. A multi-million dollar revamp recently is sure to have included new linens. Aside this, the Warsaw city center icon also joins The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts’ group of the world’s finest hotels.

JuiceCane, the Stackable Power Can for Techie Travelers

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JuiceCane is a mobile, scalable power can that fuels the tech toys travelers need so much. With one single JuiceCan you can recharge an iPhone three times or use it to juice up an iPad twice. This gadget is extremely useful when there is no power outlet in sight or when you’ve forgotten to pack all the adapters you need to plug in your mobile devices when you travel from one country to another.

Turkey to Build World’s Biggest Mega Airport

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According to the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Shipping and Communications, the total number of airports inside Turkey will grow to 56, including the massive plans for a mega facility targeted for Istanbul 2020. The third Istanbul project in the North of the city will reportedly accommodate 150 million passengers a year. The projected cost of that facility is some €7 billion euro.

Danube Bridge Vidin – Calafat to Open on Europe Day

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A new bridge which will unite Bulgaria and Romania, also known as Danube Bridge 2, will be ready for the official opening on May 9th, on Europe Day, Novinite.com reports. Boyko Borisov, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, announced that José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, and Johannes Hahn, the Regional Policy Commissioner will personally attend the opening ceremony on May 9th.

Non-EU Airports Had Bigger Growth in 2012 than EU Airports

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Freight traffic and passenger traffic slowed down in Europe in 2012 as data from the European airport trade body, ACI EUROPE, reveals. Europe’s airports overall passenger traffic saw an increase of only 1.8% compared to 2011. Airports in the European Union countries had an increase of merely 0.2% in 2012 (and had been in recession since October), while non-EU airports saw an 8.8% increase. Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Iceland and Moldova are the leading countries from this point of view. In what freight traffic at European airports is concerned, it decreased by -2.8% during the last year.

Touchscreen Walls Featured in Future Hotel Concept

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How about this for a futuristic hotel room? The concept showcases a model room that literally comes alive at the ‘touch’ of a smartphone, with walls made almost completely out of Microsoft Surface tablets, multiple touchscreens and interactive surfaces that can be controlled via a smartphone or by touch