Mauritius & SW Indian Ocean

MIAMI, July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) today announced that the 1,488-passenger Costa Europa, currently operated by its Costa Cruises brand, Europe's number one cruise line, will join British travel company Thomson Cruises under a 10-year bareboat charter beginning in April 2010. Under the agreement, Thomson has an option to purchase the ship any time after five years. Costa Europa, which joined the Costa fleet in 2002, was one of the first ships to operate on regular cruises in the Arabian Gulf, with departures from Dubai, and the Indian Ocean out of Mauritius. Although the Costa Europa will be leaving, Costa is continuing to expand its fleet of 14 ships currently in service. The Italian company's fleet expansio... (more)

Perfect Escapes Launches Worldwide Luxury Hotel Collection

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect Escapes (http://www.perfectescapes.com/), the online expert in luxury hotels and great deals on luxury travel, today announced the worldwide expansion of its hand-selected collection of luxury hotels with the addition of 1,364 international deluxe properties. The Perfect Escapes luxury collection now includes 2,426 true 4- and 5-star hotels f... (more)

The Wireless People

The golden rule of journalism is to examine Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? and Why Does It Matter? But of all those questions, it is the first one that people wishing to be "in the think" usually revert to again and again. "Show me who," the old saying goes, "and let me decide the rest for myself." Accordingly WBT here looks at The Wireless People, our term for the _types_ of players ... (more)

Jewel of the Arabian Sea

It wasn’t long ago that Dubai barely registered a blip on the radar of American jetsetters looking for the next “it” destination. They parked their yachts in the standard favorites of South of France, Monaco and Sardinia – the more adventurous stopped at the Italian island of Pantelleria. But all of a sudden, Americans discovered what Europeans had known for years... (more)

New Eco-Aware Data Center in Mauritius

Mauritius & SW Indian Ocean on Ulitzer Mauritius may soon emerge as the next ecologically aware data center of choice for companies from the United States to Australia, due to its progressive approach to technological investment and overall national stability. Using an innovative Sea Water Air Conditioning (SWAC) system pumping cool jets of ocean water from nearly 2000 meters down, this I... (more)