What is going to happen in the future of leisure travel? What kind of adventures will the travellers demand? How will products, ways of communication, prices and information systems develop? The report "Tourism of Tomorrow, Travel Trends & Forces of Change" from May this year (2005), is worked out by Sara Nordin. She works as a researcher by the European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) in Sweden. Her specialising is innovation in the travel industry with emphasis on clusters and innovation systems.

This report is useful for tour operators, agents and other travel organisations for understanding the need in travel market and for being able to take advantage of it.

Computer programmer Luca Mori discovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa when he browsed Google Earth maps showing satellite images of his local area. In the beginning he thought it was just a spot on the map, but when he studied it more thoroughly he suspected it could be something else.

Based on a content-based website, Travel Explorations has over 5 years published travel related information. Fresh content is our key to success. We attract traffic from people looking for information about explorations, expeditions and discoveries for unique adventures.

Our journalists and photographers provide us with articles on topics as tribes, mysteries, wildlife, society and more. The content on our website increases our traffic continuously, and gives us more attention. And of course it increases our statistics too both regarding Unique Visitors and Page Views.

A proverb says: smile to the world and the world will smile to you! It's good to bear in mind when you travel around the world meeting people with different culture and lifestyle. It's not always easy to understand the expressions from faces. The body language accounts for circa 70 % of the communication. One of the most important things is to understand is the signals from the face, especially the smile: it's genuine or false? How can you understand the difference?

Take BBC`s "smile"-test and see how good you are to interpret a smile.

Despite all news about melting snow on the top of Kilimanjaro, eager trekkers flock to Africa's highest peak in Tanzania. Some scientists have recently predicted that Mount Kilimanjaro's famous snow cap will vanish within 15 - 20 years.

Polè, polè! About 20,000 climbers attempt to reach the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania each year, the highest peak in Africa. Around 70 % of them succeed. Climbing high peaks can make people famous and admired. They get their names and photo in media. It also make them admired among friends and colleagues. After climbing Kilimanjaro in July 2003 one thing stands clear for me: the porters are the real heroes of Kilimanjaro.

The travel market and oil business in Norway goes hand in hand. Now it`s a big boom in both markets, and Norwegians travel more. They are travelling people - just as their forthfather, the Vikings, they like to explore the world and achieve unique adventure. Many of the experienced travellers search for new adventures and destinations. It`s clondyke time for travel agencies and tour operators who manage to sell tours to Norwegians now!

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Our mission is to be on the leading edge of complete marketing solutions and promotional work in the travel market, providing tour operators with best quality of products, services, methods, templates, tools and competence available.

By combining knowledge in marketing and technology, we in Travel Explorations can help make this mission a reality. We assist tour operators to attract travellers to them, and grow their business. Targeting marketing is the keyword for our work! This is what really matters!

The international organisation, UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, celebrates on 9 August the world's indigenous populations and the empowerment of local knowledge and cultural traditions to confront issues such as the environment, sustainable development and education.

Are you willing to take the risk to explore the last frontiers on this planet on your own? Or could it be a better and safer way to do it with the right tour operator? It`s a big difference of the quality of tour operators around the world offering adventure and expedition tours. To improve their products and services many of them encourage travellers to give them feedback. What`s the main criteria for finding the best tour operatour and evaluating them?

As a tour operator, would you like to advertise in a magazine or on website where there are hundreds, maybe thousand of advertisers, and at the same time in an environment, with a profile and content which not match your offers?

How to find the best tour guide - travel guide? Many tour operators today encourage their travellers to give them feedback. Probably the most important issues to give feedback on are how their tour guides do the job. Tour guides should give you the chance to explore the world in a better and safer way than on your own. They can make your tour unforgettable or they can just waste your time and money.

At the world famous Kon-Tiki Museum - Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History in Norway, you can explore Thor Heyerdahl's exciting world for yourself!

Researchers at the museum and Institute Kon-Tiki still explore the world`s great mysteries.....

These are the current research projects at the The Kon-Tiki Museum Institute For Pacific Archaeology And Cultural History: Easter Island - Tucume, Peru - Christmas Island, The Maldives, Pulemelei, Samoa and the Oceania project. As the famous Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl they like to explore the world with great curiosity and open eyes.