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Facebook, Twitter – the new roadmap for high-end travel

By Audrey Stuart

FEATURE CANNES: Facebook, Twitter and a host of invite-only travel websites are fast becoming a key pipeline for well-heeled travellers as well as the budget-conscious to find hot deals and destinations.

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'Tunnel of truth' for air travellers is a long way off

By Kerry Sheridan

FOCUS WASHINGTON: Travellers and transport screeners alike dream of a day when people will no longer have to spread their legs and lift their arms for intimate pat-downs or see-through body scanners.

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Saudi Arabia opens its doors to pilgrim tourists

By Asma Alsharif

FEATURE JEDDAH: Sunshine all year round, a medley of multicoloured coral reefs beyond its sandy shores and the remains of an ancient desert city make an enticing tourist destination. But don't pull out your bikini yet.

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China's Great Wall crumbles as tourism soars

By Pascale Trouillaud

FEATURE BADALING: Empty gin and whisky bottles, crumpled beer cans and tattered food boxes are piled up after a rave in China -- perhaps not so unusual, except that the garbage is on the fabled Great Wall.

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Tourists flock to Chernobyl radiation zone

By Anya Tsukanova

FEATURE CHERNOBYL: Yellow Geiger counter in hand, the guide announces that radiation levels are 35 times higher than normal. Welcome to Chernobyl, the site in 1986 of the worst nuclear disaster in history and now an attraction visited by thousands of tourists every year.

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Israeli guides rediscover Bethlehem after 10-year absence

By Selim Saheb Ettaba

FEATURE BETHLEHEM: Israeli Moshe Gabai, 27, admits he has mixed feelings leading tour groups through Bethlehem. Until recently, he had only been to the occupied West Bank on military patrols.

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Sites in China, Mexico, Brazil get World Heritage status

BRASILIA: Six sites located in Brazil, China, Mexico, France's Reunion Island and the South Pacific nation of Kiribati won World Heritage status yesterday from a Unesco panel meeting in Brazil.

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Century-old steamers inspire nostalgia in Stockholm's waters

By Francois Campredon

FEATURE VAXHOLM: Sitting in an armchair on the sun-soaked bridge of the vintage Stockholm steamer SS Storskaer, 84-year-old Stieg Dingertz, dressed to a tee, savours a special day out on the Baltic sea.

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