There is no inflight catering or film

There is no inflight catering or film.Price of a Cuba Libre (rum and Coke) in the Habana Libre hotel (formerly the Havana Hilton): $3.Average monthly salary in Cuba: $5.Proportion of world’s heritage located within the frontiers of Egypt: one-third.Top European cities for hosting conventions since 1980: Paris (407); London (185); Brussels (184); Vienna (161).Number of hotel rooms in … The journey time is two minutes (90 seconds on a good day) and the fare is pounds 11. Proportion of tourists visiting Wales whose overnight accommodation is the sleeper cab of a truck: 2 per cent. Number of people employed in travel and tourism, 1992: 192 million. Number predicted for 2005: 305 million.
Percentage of Air New Zealand flights that are non-smoking: 89.Stretch of Bournemouth beach that is non-smoking: 100 metres.Europe’s top tour operators (turnover in million DM): TUI (Germany, 5,000); NUR (Germany, 3,150); Thomson (UK, 2,800).In February 1994, the arrival figures in the United States increased from only one European country: Belgium, by 0.3 per cent.The world’s shortest flight is BA8872 from Westray to Papa Westray in Scotland.

Peter Buck is the guitarist, guys.” The printed page will perpetrate the myth long after the Internet guide is cleaned up.The Rough Guides’ home page is at http:// www.roughguides /. Rough Guides has engaged an online editor in New York to keep the “book” up to date. A year from now, the electronic version should be very different from the book’s text, amended with the help of one Chip Cipcic. From Athens, Georgia, he e-mails: “You say the 40 Watt Club is owned by Barrie Buck, `wife of REM drummer Peter Buck’. Alan Jones, for example, warns about Georgia’s “dumb accommodation law”, whereby existing guests in a hotel can extend their stay on a whim, even if other people have prepaid to occupy the same room. Maybe the leopard skin will elude me, so perhaps the place just recommended by Elwyn Hodges would be a good second choice – but it would help if he had given an address or phone number for the Marriott North West Hotel.The opportunity for instant updates is, for travellers, the most exciting aspect of the operation.

Icons take you smoothly to the newly arrived traveller’s first challenge: finding somewhere to stay. From a list which mirrors the one in the printed book, I chose the Atlanta Dream Hostel on the grounds that the owner will send a leopard-skin limousine to pick up guests. In an ideal cyberworld, you would be able to e-mail the proprietor instantly to make a booking. But the main use so far of e-mail is by travellers responding to the contents. So you have to twiddle your mouse while a banner bearing a fast red sports car, clearly beyond the reach of me and most other Rough Guide users, sluggishly materialises on the screen. This has two purposes – to enable the curious to browse around Pontiac’s cyber showroom; and, more importantly, to subsidise the operation.Next, you get a map and click on the state of choice.