Few Tips Before going for A Forign Country Tour ?

Few basic tips for You if you are planning for a Foreign country tour .

1) Buy a side hanging bag in which you can carry your Passport, Visa , Travelers cheque and other documents related to Traveling . Don’t buy a bag which is specially used by Travelers, this will make you look different from other Travelers and save you from pickpocketing and other crime issues.

2) Take care if you are applying for a Foreign Country Visa , your Passport should carry atleast twelve blank pages and it should be valid for minimum five years . if anyone of them is lacking, your application will not be approved .

3) After receiving Visa, make two photocopies of yout Passport and Ticket so that you can keep one with you and other at your House.In case if your original copy is lost or theft You will not face any problem due to that.

4) Don’t forget to make your Travel Insurance before going for a Foreign Country vacation .

5) If you are planning to visit America for vacation then you are not required to carry heavy luggage . You are suggested to have complete information from your airlines company.

6) Do all your shopping like clothes, footwear and other accessories according the weather of your Touring Destination .East Countries have almost one kind of weather every month . Singapore have Monsoon kind of weather,HongKong has cold evenings while UK and USA has different kind of weather So you are suggested to take complete knowledge of weather before selecting your Tour Destination.

7) For countries having winter season, keep overcoat, gloves, proper footwear, body lotion and lip balm etc.

Pay special attention before packing your dresses for the tour. avoid packing revealing dresses as this will bring special attention of people to you which may be risky. Islamic countries does not allow wearing revealing dresses for ladies due to their strict laws.

9) Don’t forget to carry your medicines at your tour. If you are going through some special tretment for a long term disease then carry some extra dose of medicines . Also carry few multi-vitamins and anti allergic tablets with you.

10) Carry your mobile instrument with complete safety. Buy a local sim of Your tour destination as it will save you from high roaming charges and help in cost cutting.

11) Carry an updated Diery having all your important numbers . make a list of your residence, office, friend’s numbers including numbers of your Docter, Travel Agent, Taxi service and Ambessy.

Nowadays, moving a business from offline to online becomes a sort of good-style marketing among large and medium companies. If a company does not have at least a promo-website, that is considered to be either as oldie ignorance or as a scoped marketing. Indeed, the Internet sales are in the speedy reincarnation after the painful 2002 dotcom-crash. No doubt, doing business online becomes profitable and less-costly than selling stuff from offline shops or stocks.

Lets look what consequences this trend brings to the touristic sectors. The trend kicks first of all the so called tour operators, that organize and provide a complete tour packages including tickets, accommodation and excursions. In the old (no-Internet) days, that was a great offer for a traveler. Get one tour package that includes everything, without any calls and organization issues â?? that was great and easy. Therefore, we can see so many tour operators jumping from nowhere around us last decades.

However, with introduction of the internet-order-opportunities the tour operators are in danger. There are number of factors that lead a tourist to use the online-services instead of going to the tour operator office or website:

- Online booking services provide lower rates because they (a) have direct agreement with hotels, car rentals or airlines, (b) do not need to rent offline offices, and (c) they just have larger turnover.

- Normally, the international booking services (for instance for hotels – Booking, Hotels.com, Orange Smile Tours, HRS, Venere, HotelsDiscount) have much larger amount of hotels and provide extensive choice for their clients.

- A client can control his travel arrangement right from his home computer, without going to the operator office and signing the package.

- The online reservations can be easily cancelled sometimes even 12 hours before check-in.

These beneficial factors actually turn more and more people towards the online services. In order not to be forgotten and abandoned, some tour operators already started looking at the ways to bring their business to the online. Their mobility in this aspect might play an important role in their survival. Future will show how effective the tour operators can be in the online business. Anyway, our prognosis concludes that in several years we probably will not notice the standard tour-operator-offices at our streets anymore.

Nowadays, moving a business from offline to online becomes a sort of good-style marketing among large and medium companies. If a company does not have at least a promo-website, that is considered to be either as oldie ignorance or as a scoped marketing. Indeed, the Internet sales are in the speedy reincarnation after the painful 2002 dotcom-crash. No doubt, doing business online becomes profitable and less-costly than selling stuff from offline shops or stocks.

Lets look what consequences this trend brings to the touristic sectors. The trend kicks first of all the so called tour operators, that organize and provide a complete tour packages including tickets, accommodation and excursions. In the old (no-Internet) days, that was a great offer for a traveler. Get one tour package that includes everything, without any calls and organization issues â?? that was great and easy. Therefore, we can see so many tour operators jumping from nowhere around us last decades.

However, with introduction of the internet-order-opportunities the tour operators are in danger. There are number of factors that lead a tourist to use the online-services instead of going to the tour operator office or website:

- Online booking services provide lower rates because they (a) have direct agreement with hotels, car rentals or airlines, (b) do not need to rent offline offices, and (c) they just have larger turnover.

- Normally, the international booking services (for instance for hotels – Booking, Hotels.com, Orange Smile Tours, HRS, Venere, HotelsDiscount) have much larger amount of hotels and provide extensive choice for their clients.

- A client can control his travel arrangement right from his home computer, without going to the operator office and signing the package.

- The online reservations can be easily cancelled sometimes even 12 hours before check-in.

These beneficial factors actually turn more and more people towards the online services. In order not to be forgotten and abandoned, some tour operators already started looking at the ways to bring their business to the online. Their mobility in this aspect might play an important role in their survival. Future will show how effective the tour operators can be in the online business. Anyway, our prognosis concludes that in several years we probably will not notice the standard tour-operator-offices at our streets anymore.

Can the Lake Naivasha in Kenya be saved? This has been the big question of late. In fact, the lake’s users and water regulators convened at the Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge to hammer out a formula to protect one of Africa most important sites. This amid concerns that it is just a matter of time before it dries up for the third time, and maybe forever, taking with it billions of shillings in investments and the livelihoods of millions of people.
The lake is a popular vacation weekend getaway for weary city dwellers. It was once part of a bigger lake that included Lakes Elmenteita and Lake Nakuru, but much of this original body of water dried up, leaving Lake Naivasha with a 150 km2 freshwater lake. Subsequently, Lake Naivasha becomes known for its cool climate, peaceful surrounds and tranquil waters – an excellent holidaying spot.

During the colonial era of the early 20th century, the lakeshore was a popular location for parties. Today, the fertile soil around the lake is used for agriculture, in particular for the production of fruit, flowers, vegetables and vineyards, while the fish of the lake attract over 400 bird species. Wild animals that can be seen frequenting the shore are zebra, antelope, giraffes, monkeys and hippopotamus.

Between 1937 and 1950 this beautiful, peaceful fresh water lake was used as a landing place for plane passengers destined for Nairobi! The flying boat from London would land on the lake where the Lake Naivasha Country Club now stands, and travellers would board a bus for Nairobi. Today the lovely lake, with its cool climate, has become a retreat for Nairobi residents and tourists looking for peace.
Officials from the Kenya Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) and the Naivasha Municipal Council and flower growers agreed there is an urgent need for them to engage the communities around the lake and far up its catchment areas to get its feeder rivers, which have since stopped flowing, back on course. Listening to the deliberations from the almost tearful speakers, the pain of losing Lake Naivasha becomes so real, the frustration obvious.

Unfortunately, neither the council nor WARMA has details on the lake’s water usage; though officials say the report is being complied and will be ready in a month. “Without the lake, there is no Naivasha. Without the lake, there are no flowers. Without the flowers, the people who live in the town will have to relocate,” said the mayor of Naivasha Municipal Council. The Lake Naivasha Growers Association, the Lake Naivasha Water Users Association, the Council and the government are burning the midnight oil to implement the Lake Naivasha Management Plan, which would provide water extraction, recover all riparian land and control usage. The plan, to be enforced by the Council, states how much water should be allocated to pastoralists, individuals, commercial users, irrigators and tourism.

<b>Tourist Activities Around Lake Naivasha</b>
Bird watching Safari: Kenya recorded around 1090 bird’s species mainly in Mt Kenya Lake Bogoria, Kakamega Forest, Lake Naivasha Masai Mara thus the East Africa ornithological & birding paradise.
Lake Naivasha Camping Safaris: camping safari is a throw back to the more traditional safaris in Kenya. Mobile camping safari involve being “on the move’, to have your tented camp move with you. Kenya camping safaris were undertaken by early explorers in East Africa and were led by professional a camping guide. This was East Africa safari way of exploring remote safari location by day and sleeping under camping canvas by night.

Lodge safaris: They are preferred by tourists looking to explore the a wide range world class lodges accommodation.
Honeymoon & Wedding Holidays: This is common for romantic honeymoon getaways.

The online market has caught on with all the people across the globe. With many shops giving us details of their products in their online sites, we can go on a virtual tour of the shop and experience the joy of shopping and choosing the exact product that we need.

Anyone having access to a computer and internet connectivity can take a virtual tour of shops. Virtual shopping takes us through a simulation of the real experience. There are various still or video images of the shop. There is background music, narration and text which give a detailed layout of the place. These are generally a series of still photographs which are taken from a single vantage point. The camera and lens are rotated around a nodal point. The video tour takes you for a walk through the shop at a walking pace as the video camera takes images moving from one place to another in the shop.

The advantage of virtual tour for shopping is that you can sit at home in front of the computer, look at all the options available and then decide on what you really want. It saves the person the hassle of going from one shop to another in search of things. Sometimes you might visit many shops and ultimately not get the thing that you want, when it comes to accessories. This is the best way to shop for accessories. You can take a virtual tour of various shops involved in the particular accessories that you want. Compare prices; see the product description, and then make the choice. Even if you do not order online, it would be a good thing to find out what is available and then go to the particular shop and buy the product.

You can shop online and go through a virtual tour for all kinds of accessories. You can go to various sites that sell car accessories like – seat covers, music system for the car, child seat and other parts of the car, compare details and prices of the products in various shops and order online. Similarly, you can go to sites selling motorbike accessories and order anything from the saddles, helmets, tires, clothing and various parts for the motorcycle.

When it comes to computers, mobile phones, I pods, music systems, televisions and other electronic gadgets, the option of taking a virtual tour of number of sites that you can visit to obtain information are enormous. You can see the still pictures or go through the video presentation of the whole shop and experience the feeling of seeing the particular product you are interested in and then placing the order. You can buy anything from cell phone covers, batteries, chargers to computer parts at these sites. Sometimes, you might come across many other accessories that might catch your eye and you might want to buy that product, just as it happens in a real shopping spree.

You can also take a virtual tour of different clothing stores and buy accessories that match your dress. It need not just be a matching scarf or a belt; it can also be perfumes, fashion jewelry, make up products and other accessories to suit your clothing. As you experience the virtual tour you will come across a vast variety of products that you will have a tough time making a choice. This will be similar to a real shopping experience. You can also shop for children – accessories for clothing, accessories for their toys, etc. Sports accessories can also be bought in this manner.

Your home needs that include furniture, furnishings and other accessories for the home and family can also be shopped online. There are many shops that can take you on a virtual tour of their shops and you can select the right product for your requirements.

Some online sites have many different types of products in their website. In such cases you can go through different varieties of clothing, sports goods, car accessories, jewelry, make up products – all in one place and make a prchase quickly.  Shopping for accessories by taking a virtual tour of the shop has indeed made shopping hassle free and interesting.