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Pound Falls to Five Year Low

The UK Pound fell this week to its lowest value against the US Dollar in five years as news of an economic slowdown in the country fueled its drop. The British currency also fell against the euro as Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted the UK will slip into a recession.   At the end of

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Lower Travel Prices

The fall is traditionally when travel companies, hotels and airlines look to raise prices for the coming year, but this year the opposite is happening. While there have always been good deals for those who spend the time to find them, there are more deals this year, particularly for those who want to travel in

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Millennium City Center, Budapest

In the heart of Budapest along the Danube River is a 10 hectare property that is being developed into the new Millennium City Center. This project includes residential, cultural, hotel, retail and office spaces and will offer a modern city center to go along with the well known historic old city. This new complex will

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Tourism growth in 2008 for Dominican Republic

Between January and August 2,567,050 tourists visited the Dominican Republic, according to its Ministry of Tourism. This is a 4.5% increase compared to the same period in 2007, when 2,455,932 tourists visited. Over half the tourists came through Punta Cana International Airport (54.7%), while the remaining tourists came through Las Americas International Airport (19.3%), Puerto

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US Housing Starts at Lowest Levels in Years

The United States Commerce Department has released its latest housing report and the news isn’t good for the beleaguered housing and construction industry. For the month of September, 2008, new home construction starts fell to a seasonally adjusted rate of 817,000 houses. That’s a 6.3 percent decline from August and is more than 31 percent

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