North Korea banking on tourism
North Korea said Wednesday it saw a “bright future” for tourism and would offer more international and domestic flights and open up the sector to foreign investors. “Abundant in tourism resources, the (North) has a bright future to develop tourism,” Jo Song Gyu, director of the International Travel Company, told the state news agency. The country was making “big efforts” to develop tourism as one of its major industries, Jo said, promising new flights to the capital Pyongyang from China, Southeast Asia and Europe. Hotels in the showpiece capital were being renovated at the world’s level and new fitness centres and duty-free shops would be built, he said. Foreigners would […]
Airlines create secret society, give wild perks even members do not know how, why
How would you like to be greeted at the airport by people who know your name, whisk you past security lines, and will even press your suit for you? Those luxuries are just the tip of the iceberg for members of United Airlines’ secretive Global Services club. United doesn’t advertise the club, and no one knows what you have to do to score an invite (though it involves flying hundreds of thousands of miles per year). But the airline showed the Wall Street Journal what life is like for these pampered fliers. Some highlights: Drivers greet fliers on the tarmac to whisk them to connecting flights in a Mercedes […]