The European Parliament opens its doors to 300 young Europeans

The European Parliament opens its doors to 300 young Europeans

The City of Strasbourg and the Hemicycle will greet a delegation of young people from 18 different Countries, who will deliver a document with a high symbolic value to the Vice-president of the European Parliament

Terra del Fuoco, young NGO from Turin, Italy, steadily present in the social and cultural field in the Region Piedmont, active in international cooperation, announced the presence of over 300 students coming from 18 European and extra-EU Countries at the site of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on May 25^th.

The visit to the EP represents the final stage of the project “The Phoenix – Europe”, created and realized by Terra del Fuoco and funded by the European Commission and by numerous Italian local administrations. During eight months, the participants discussed and elaborated themes of great importance for the present and future of Europe, such as eco-sustainable development, dynamics of integration and the consequences drawn by armed conflicts. “The Phoenix – Europe” involved 380 students, who met in three occasions. The first meeting was held in Krakow (Pl) between January 31^st and February 4^th, 2007, and among other activities the participants had the chance to visit the former extermination camp of Auschwitz. In the second meeting, held in Turin from March 22^nd to 26^th, the themes discussed were elaborated through workshops and transformed into on-line questionnaires, subsequently voted in real time by all participants. Finally in Rome, on March 25^th, they were symbolically welcomed by the President of the Italian Republic, Mr Giorgio Napolitano, at the Fosse Ardeatine Park, and took part in the celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome.

“In order to build our common European future, we shared a year-long course with 380 young people from all over Europe, starting from our history, or better, from our histories, different, at times tragically counter posed, but all associated by those gates in Auschwitz”, states Michele Curto – President of Terra del Fuoco. “In the European Parliament in Strasbourg we will have the opportunity to approve the final document discussed and developed in a great experiment of democracy and European citizenship. This makes 'The Phoenix, Europe' an unbelievable educational project upon the value of memory, upon the fortune of stories shared between European populations, upon European identity and citizenship, but above all, in this moment of impasse concerning the approval of the Constitution, a relevant action for the promotion of the political process toward European integration”.

The program of the day will begin with an assembly held into the Hemicycle of the European Parliament, during which the final version of the document will be voted. The Vice-president of the EP, Mr Gérard Onesta will attend, and at the end the document itself will be delivered to him. In the late morning, the delegation will be hosted by the Municipality of Strasbourg.

The official program is as follows:

09.00 – 11.00		Assembly in the Hemicycle, meeting with Mr Onesta and the MEPs
11.00 – 13.00		Manifestation in the city of Strasbourg
13.00 – 15.00		Welcome at the City Hall, meeting with the municipal delegation

The event will be attended by:

Gérard Onesta		Vice-president of the European Parliament
Sandro Gozi		Italian deputy, fellow member of the Commission for Institutional Affairs and of the Commission for EU Policies of the Italian Parliament, President of the Schengen, Europol and Immigration Parliamentary Committee
Giulietto Chiesa		Member of the European Parliament
Vittorio Agnoletto		Member of the European Parliament
Monica Frassoni		Member of the European Parliament, Co-president of the Group of the Greens/ALE at the European Parliament

About Terra del Fuoco

Terra del Fuoco is an association for social promotion, founded in 2001 by a group of young people coming from the students' movement in Turin. It is an NGO operating in the field of international cooperation. Activities follows four strands of intervention: international cooperation and cooperation to development – education to active citizenship in European ambition – cultural promotion and social support to migrant communities – social and cultural promotion in the Mediterranean area. For further info, please visit www.terradelfuoco.org

About “The Phoenix - Europe”

“The Phoenix – Europe” is the main project in the field of education to active European citizenship. 400 young people actively participate in the project, coming from Portugal, Spain, Austria, France, Italy, Malta,

Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Russia and Moldova. Terra del Fuoco considers young Europeans the only engine for a real growth of European society and of the sense of European citizenship. For further info, please visit www.europeanphoenix.org

Contacts

Oliviero Alotto - Tel. +39.011.238.6330 – Cell. +39.333.654.6597 – oliviero.alotto@terradelfuoco.org

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Mediaset Board Meeting - Press Release

Cologno Monzese, 8 May 2007
Mediaset Board Meeting

BOARD EXTENDS POWERS OF THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

PIER SILVIO BERLUSCONI
APPROVAL FOR THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2007
Consolidated Results
Net revenues: €964.9 million
Operating profit: €255.7 million
Net profit: €124.5 million
Italy
Television costs: -1.2%
Mediaset Premium: revenues double with a positive operating result
Ratings: Mediaset channels and Canale 5 confirm leadership
in the 15-64 year-old audience
Spain
Operating profitability: 47.0%
Ratings: Telecinco Spain’s leading channel

The Board of Directors of Mediaset, which met today under the Chairmanship of
Fedele Confalonieri, has extended the powers of the deputy chairman Pier Silvio
Berlusconi.
The broadening of the responsibilities of Pier Silvio Berlusconi is a response to the
need to face a number of challenges in terms of content, technology, advertising
sales and to take advantage of new opportunities in Italy and abroad..

MEDIASET GROUP: CONSOLIDATED RESULTS

Performance in the first three months of 2007 can be summarised as follows:
• consolidated net revenues came to €964.9 million, compared with €955.2
million in Q1 2006.
• EBIT came to €255.7 million, a €9,9 million reduction on the same period of last
year (€265.6 million).
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• operating profitability, operating profit as a proportion of consolidated net
revenues, amounted to 26.5%, compared with 27.8% in Q1 2006.
• profit before taxation and that attributable to third-party shareholders,
amounted to €247.6 million, compared with €261.5 million in Q1 2006.
• net profit attributable to the Group, after estimated taxation, came to €124.5
million, compared with €145.1 million in the first quarter of the previous year.
• the Group’s net financial position went from -€568.3 million on 31 December
2006 to -€357.6 million on 31 March 2007. In the first three months of the year
net cash generation totalled €210.7 million, compared with €243.1 million in the
same period of the previous year. Excluding the non-recurring component
generated in 2006 by the disposal of the company’s stake in Hopa, net cash
generation in the first quarter of 2007 was higher than that of Q1 2006.

A BREAKDOWN OF RESULTS BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA
Italy

• In the first quarter of 2007 consolidated net revenues amounted to €714.2
million, compared with €728.1 million in the same period of the previous year.
Television advertising revenues came to €720.4 million, compared with €776.8
million in Q1 2006. This was due to a reduction in advertising investments by a
number of important groups that had already made marked cut backs in their
campaigns in the last months of 2006. March, however, saw a recovery that
improved sales for Mediaset’s channels.
• EBIT came to €137.7 million, compared with €164.0 million in Q1 2006. This
result was affected by the previously mentioned trends in the advertising market.
• total television costs saw a significant fall (-1.2% on the first three months of
the previous year) against a 2007 budget that foresees costs in line with those of
2006.
• pre-tax profit came to €125.0 million, compared with €157.2 million in Q1 2006.
• net profit amounted to €81.2 million, compared with €108.2 million in Q1 2006.
• there were excellent results for the pay-per-view business, “Mediaset Premium”
as it entered its second year. First quarter 2007 revenues were double those of
the same period of 2006, up from €22.8 million to €45.3 million with an already
positive operating result.
• TV ratings during the period were also positive: in the first three months of 2007
Mediaset’s channels confirmed their national leadership in all the time bands
among viewers in the 15 to 64 year-old age range (the commercial target) that
account for 70% of the Italian population and on which 80% of TV advertising
investments are aimed: overall, Mediaset channels had a 43.7% share in prime
time and 43.2% in the 24 hours.

Canale 5 is Italy’s most popular channel in the commercial target with
consolidated net revenues 24.0% and 23.6% in the 24 hours.
Spain
• In the first three months of 2007 consolidated net revenues generated by the
Telecinco Group came to €251.1 million, compared with €227.8 in the same
period of the previous year.
• Telecinco’s operating profit rose to €118,0 million, on the €101.6 million of Q1
2006.
• operating profitability (operating profit as a proportion of consolidated net
revenues) reached an international record at 47.0% (44.6% in Q1 del 2006).
• pre-tax profit came to €122.6 million, compared with €104.4 million in the first
quarter of 2006.
• net profit amounted to €86.1 million, compared with €73.3 million in Q1 2006.
• Telecinco’s ratings were also up, consolidating its position as Spain’s absolute
leader with a prime time share of 20.4% and 20.3% in the 24 hours.

FORECAST FOR THE YEAR

For the current year, given an objective for a marked containment in TV costs in Italy
and increased revenues over the whole year from DVBH-related activities (which, in
2006 contributed only from the second half of the year), the company continues to
expect to generate a level of consolidated operating profit that is higher than that of
2006. The scale of the increase will depend on the trend in TV advertising revenues
in Italy and Spain.

Italy

Also after the first four months of 2007, the leadership in the commercial target (15-
16 year-olds) of Mediaset’s channels has been confirmed across all time bands.
Canale 5 consolidated its absolute leadership, while Italia 1 confirmed its position as
Italy’s third most popular channel.

In the first two months of the year advertising sales for Mediaset’s channels was
affected by continuing weakness in the advertising market. On the basis of Nielsen
figures, advertising investments in Italy in the first two months of 2007 saw a sharp
overall fall (-5.3%), with television particularly hit (-5,9 %). However, from March,
there were some clear signs of a recovery that was consolidated in April, a month in
which advertising sales for Mediaset’s channels saw growth of 4% compared with the
same period of the previous year. Given this result, advertising revenues for
Mediaset’s channels, which at the end of the first quarter showed a fall of –7.3%, at
the end of the first four months showed a fall of 4.6%, compared with the same
period of the previous year.

Meanwhile Mediaset Premium continued to perform exceptionally well: since the
beginning of the year more than 300,000 new re-chargeable cards and around 2.2
million re-charges have been sold.

Spain

In April, Telecinco further reinforced its ratings leadership, both in the total audience,
with a daily average of 21.1%, and in the commercial target, extending, in all of the
main time bands, its advantage over its historic competitors Antena 3 and TVE1.

Department of Communications and Media Relations
Tel. +39 0225149251
Fax +39 0225149286
e-mail: ufficiostampa@mediaset.it
www.mediaset.it/corporate/

Investor Relations Department
Tel. +39 0225147008
Fax +39 0225148535
e-mail: ir@mediaset.it
http://www.mediaset.it/investor

The Board then went on to approve the company’s report on the first quarter of 2007.

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However, Cairns' future was secured as it developed into a railhead and major port for the exportation of sugar cane, gold, precious metals and agricultural industries from the surrounding coastal and Tableland regions.

The city is rapidly expanding, with a population of 128,284 and is reliant on the sugar and tourism industries.

In particular Flashbooking provides a large selection of cheap accommodation offers in Cairns where there are plenty of low cost solutions for backpackers in budget Bed and breakfast Cairns, cheap hotels and guesthouses.

The City of Cairns lies about 1070 miles from Brisbane and about 1600 miles from Sydney by road.

Moreover, for anyone that owns a personal website or a travel blog, the travel guides (London, Rome, Amsterdam, Florence, Prague, Barcelona and more coming on soon!) come for free and can be used as an extra travel resource for theirs users.

Cairns is a popular travel destination for foreign tourists because of its tropical climate and proximity to many attractions.

In Flashbooking website there is also a section dedicated to the world cities events where you can also get a quite exhaustive list of main festivals, exhibitions, concerts and cool things to do and see in other top European cities.

The Great Barrier Reef can be reached in less than an hour by boat. The Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation, about 80 miles north of Cairns, are popular areas for experiencing a tropical rainforest.

It is also a starting point for people wanting to explore Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, and the Atherton Tableland.

The customer service is always available to suggest you the perfect accommodation for your trip. A Skype account has been recently added in order to give more assistance to our travellers and backpackers needs. In just a sentence here the flashbooking motto:

Those who love travelling light, those with a sense for adventure, those who love flexibility in their trip, those who like meeting locals and travelling slow and low... THOSE ARE OUR TRAVELLERS!

So mates, we are looking forward to finding the best accommodation for you on your next trip!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from cheap hotels accommodation and Mrs. Vera Bonaventura. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit our website to download your free pocket travel guides for Cairns City in Australia.

Roulette: most glamorous and social casino games in the world

Roulette is one of the oldest and the most famous game played in any of the casinos of the world.

Roulette is a casino and gambling game named after the French word meaning "small wheel". In playing the Roulette game, your objective is to pick the winning number that will appear on the Roulette Wheels.

There are actually 3 main versions of the game; French Roulette, American Roulette, and British Roulette.

In the game a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular surface running around the circumference of the wheel. The ball eventually falls onto the wheel and into one of 37 (for European Roulette) or 38 (for American Roulette) colored and numbered pockets on the wheel.

Roulette is one of the most glamorous and social casino games in the world today. Contrary to its image, the game is very simple and easy to learn and play.

The entire range of roulettes proposed by Dal Negro all have wheels mounted on ball bearings. These quality roulette sets are made of solid sapelli mahogany. Both roulettes and mats are available in the classic version as well as the "double zero" version:

- De luxe roulette set
- Roulette Montecarlo cm 50
- Roulette Montecarlo cm 50
- Roulette cm 35
- Roulette fantasy set 35 cm
- Roulette montecarlo cm 36

Roulette has a rich history. Today, the game is considered one of the most glamorous of all the casino games despite its simple rules. James Bond, in the 007 movies, immortalized the glitz and pomp surrounding this popular gambling game.

The main pockets are numbered from 1 to 36 alternating between red and black, but the pockets are not in numerical order around the wheel, and there are instances of consecutive numbers being the same color. There is a green pocket numbered 0, and in American Roulette there is also a second green pocket marked 00.

Players can place a variety of 'inside' bets and 'outside' bets. The payout odds for each type of bet is based on its probability.

In playing the Roulette game, your objective is to pick the winning number that will appear on the Roulette wheel.

There are usually posted rules for table minimum and maximum bets, and these rules usually apply separately for all of a players 'inside' and 'outside' bets for each spin (Dal Negro: Dealing shoes).

Other than the individual numbers, you can also bet on the combination of numbers or choose the color, odd or even. For many newbie, it is not as easy as it seems. Hence, let go back to the basic to learn how to play Roulette and understand what your chances to win in Roulette game are.

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from Dal Negro team of game sets. For any information, please visit website to know all Dal Negro products.

Travel in USA - Free guide of San Francisco by Flashbooking

Flashbooking chose to provide backpackers, students and families with a list of cheap selected and independent accommodations worldwide, in particular of United States of America.

San Francisco, California's second largest city, is located on the Pacific coast, at the extreme northern point of the San Matteo Peninsula.

Flashbooking's happy travellers can book their rooms and beds not only in cheap hotels or cheap hostel San Francisco but also consider other budget accommodations in Bed and Breakfast, Guesthouses, Campsites, apartments, farm houses and much more.

The San Francisco area stretches southwards along the peninsula and comprises nearly 40 hills. The city and its hills form an icredibly scenic back-drop, home to Victorian houses, suspension bridges and the famous cable-cars straining to climb the steep roads.

The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco's most famous suspension bridge, is one of the longest in the world. The bridge, built in 1937, serves to link the city with Marin County at the mouth of the bay. It is possible to drive over the bridge by exiting at the Sausalito junction of the freeway and passing along Conzelman Road.

To see the bridge from its base, the visitor should go to Fort Point, site of the Presidio, a fortified military zone, founded in 1776 by the Spanish and occupied until 1847 by the Americans. The chapel and the officer's club still remain, as evidence of this military period. The Presidio complex is located in the elegant district of Richmond which is lined along its ocean shore by Lincoln Park.

Those who love travelling light, those with a sense for adventure, those who love flexibility in their trips, those who like meeting locals and
travelling slow and low... those are Flashbooking happy travellers!

For this and other reasons Flashbooking is becoming a recognized source of information and services for who loves creating a trip by him/herself and book bed nights securely online.

For a short visit, a week-end, a city break, these free pocket guides are useful printable and downloadable tools available online. In general, Flashbooking guides have been written for giving the essential information about the most visited cities in the world and in particular for any traveller or first-time visitor.

In the San Francisco City guide students, families and backpackers can get a large selection of cheap or low cost accommodation with plenty of low cost solutions in budget youth hostels, Bed and Breakfast, guesthouses, cheap hotel deals.

Flashbooking policy tends to privilege small and family-run hotels in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies.

Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about youth hostel and hotel location and map, description, services, hostel contacts, customer ratings, six pictures and updated prices inclusive of taxes and services together with instant real availability.

So mates, we are looking forward to finding you THE budget accommodation that meets your needs and pocket for your next trip! Last but not least, if you wish to help us, you can either give your personal ratings of some accommodations, lodgings, cheap hotel San Francisco, youth hostels and budget small hotels where you stayed, or enlarging the hostel offer by reporting some new hostel contacts!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from budget apartments accommodation. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit our website to download your free travel guides of San Francisco City in USA.

Travel in Australia - Free Guide of Sydney by Flashbooking reservation website

A growing youth hostels and hotels directory in Sydney City specializing in budget accommodation in Australia country.

Flashbooking is a recognized source of information and services for independent travellers who love creating their trips and book their bed nights securely online.

Sydney is not only the largest city in Australia (3,500,000 inhabitants) but is also the capital of New South Wales, the oldest state in Australia. The city lies along the length of the peninsula from the southern coast of Botany Bay to Port Jackson.

Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about cheap hostel Sydney location, description, contacts, prices, instant real availability, customer ratings, facilities and pictures. Recently put at travellers’ disposal is another useful tool: the Free Pocket City Guide of Sydney.

Moreover, for anyone that owns a personal website or a travel blog, the travel guides (London, Rome, Amsterdam, Florence, Prague, Barcelona and more coming on soon!) come for free and can be used as an extra travel resource for theirs users.

The construction of an enormous bridge, at Port Jackson, has made the communication between the two parts of the city much easier and has allowed the city to expand and incorporate the smaller out-lying areas.

Sydney now comprises 531km2 (Greater Sydney), made up of 29 districts and various city areas: Parramatta, Liverpool, Penrith, Bankstown, Canterbury and Sydney itself. Sydney, like any metropolis, is constructed around a densely built-up city centre, however there are many residential areas where trees and plants contend with the buildings for space.

In particular Flashbooking provides a large selection of cheap accommodation offers in Sydney where there are plenty of low cost solutions for backpackers in cheap apartments Sydney, budget hotels and guesthouses.

These zones of the city give the impression of living in the country-side, with eucalyptus trees growing outside the window and sub-tropical vegetation to complete the picture. The city centre is quickly and easily reachable by car. The sea, with its many beaches and numerous sandy inlets, is only a few minutes away from whatever point in the city
In Flashbooking website there is also a section dedicated to the world cities events where you can also get a quite exhaustive list of main festivals, exhibitions, concerts and cool things to do and see in other top European cities.

Flashbooking cheap lodging solutions are all available for online bookings and divided by Countries. Travellers have free access to the updated list of Europe hostels and budget hotels, North and South America hostels, Caribbean and Central America hostels as well as for Asia cheap accommodations, Oceania youth hostels and Africa hostels.

Sydney is best described as a coral-shaped stretch of sea that penetrates inland for kilometres, indenting the land on its way and creating an increasingly wonderful landscape.

The customer service is always available to suggest you the perfect accommodation for your trip. In just a sentence here the flashbooking motto:

Those who love travelling light, those with a sense for adventure, those who love flexibility in their trip, those who like meeting locals and travelling slow and low... THOSE ARE OUR TRAVELLERS!

Having the reservation final price is also convenient as it does give the transparency our users pretend while booking. Having the final total amount of your booking means you do not have to worry about other extra surprises!

So mates, we are looking forward to finding the best accommodation for you on your next trip!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from budget hotels Sydney and Mrs. Vera Bonaventura. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit our website to download your travel guide for Sydney City in Australia.

Frances School – English Language School in London

With over 30 years in language training, Frances King is one of the most popular and professional English Language schools in London. It is accredited by the British Council: it is a member of Quality English, English UK and IALC.

The School Frances King was established in 1973 and with 30 years' experience is one of London's most popular and well-known language schools. It is located in central London with its main centre located at Gloucester Road - close to underground stations and leading tourist attractions. Frances King offers a wide range of courses to suit individual needs with flexible course starting dates throughout the year. Most courses start every Monday. As a large school, teaching a minimum of 450 students at any time, Frances King is able to offer a selection of classes at each level: in fact it offers a wide range of courses to suit individual needs with seven levels from beginner to advanced and flexible course starting dates throughout the year.
Frances King teaches students from over 80 different countries and so you will find yourself in a lively, international environment with many opportunities to make new friends from all over the world. Frances King School of English is also accredited by the British Council which ensures high standards of teaching and student services.

An important feature of Frances King is their Internet and London courses: infact they offer a unique method of learning English online: you can start learning with a Frances King teacher before you come to London and continue learning after your course in London.

For more information about Frances King visit www.FrancesKing.co.uk

Travel in Greece: free travel guide of Crete Island by Flashbooking apartments accommodation

The island of Crete guide students, backpackers and families can get a large selection of budget or low cost reservation with plenty of low cost solutions in budget youth hostels, Bed and Breakfast, guesthouses, cheap hotel in Crete.

For a short visit, a week-end, a city break, these free pocket guides are useful printable and downloadable tools available online.

The island of Crete, the largest Greek island, is located in the south Mediterranean.

In general, Flashbooking guides have been written for giving the essential information about the most visited cities in the world and in particular for any traveller or first-time visitor (cheap apartments Crete).

The island's northern coastline is jagged and forms numerous bays and inlets, while the southern coast is high and rocky and presents a semi-desert image, with the island's coastal plains being densely populated.

With the monthly newsletter, Flashbooking puts at travellers, students, volunteers free disposal some useful pocket travel guides of major European cities: the Amsterdam City guide, the London City guide, the Prague City guide, the Paris City guide, the Rome City guide, the Florence City guide, and the freshly issued Crete Island guide!! For the Crete travel guide Flashbooking staff efforts concentrate on making it simple to read dividing the Crete centre in different districts with their relevant amenities.

The Ciclade islands, stretch northwards in the Attica region. The islands, arranged in a circle around the small central island of Delo, include: Andros, Santorino, Serifos, Naxos and Mikonos and are characterized by white cube-shaped houses.

Flashbooking chose to provide backpackers, students and families with a list of budget selected and independent accommodations worldwide, mostly run by locals, in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies. For this and other reasons Flashbooking is becoming a recognized source of information and services for who loves creating a trip by him/herself and book bed nights securely online.

The Sporadi islands are situated to the north and include Skiros and Skopelos. Lemno and Rhodes lie in the northern Aegean sea between continental Greece and Turkey.

Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about youth hostel and hotel location and map, description, services, hostel contacts, Bed and breakfast Crete, customer ratings, six pictures and updated prices inclusive of taxes and services together with instant real availability.

The large islands of Lemno. Lesbo, Chio,and Samo, situated near to Asia Minor, have succeeded in maintaining their individual populations.

Having the reservation final price is also convenient as it does give the transparency our users pretend while booking. Having the final total amount of your booking means you do not have to worry about other extra surprises!

The Dodescaneso are a group of twelve main islands. The two main islands are Rhodes and Kos.

Flashbooking policy tends to privilege small and family-run hotels in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies.

Last but not least, if you wish to help us, you can either give your personal ratings of some accommodations, lodgings, cheap hotel Athens, youth hostels and budget small hotels where you stayed, or enlarging the hostel offer by reporting some new hostel contacts!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from hotels & hostels Crete. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit our website to download your free travel guides for Crete Island in Greece.

Travel in China - Free Travel Guide of Beijing by Flashbooking aparments online reservation

For the Beijing (China) travel guide Flashbooking staff efforts concentrate on making it simple to read and with a nice format.

Beijing, a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's Republic of China.

The guides are full of essential hints on where to go, things to see, Beijing's Museums, shopping mall and flea markets, quality places reasonably priced where to eat or sip a famous Pilsner, clubs and discos, budget hostels and cheap hotel deals to book, emergency numbers and more.

It was formerly known in English as Peking. Beijing is also one of the four municipalities of the People's Republic of China, which are equivalent to provinces in China's administrative structure.

Flashbooking is a growing cheap hostel Beijing and hotels directory specializing in budget accommodation for independent travellers, students, adventurous backpackers, international volunteers, families and all the ones that travel on a budget.

Beijing Municipality borders Hebei Province to the north, west, south, and for a small section in the east, and Tianjin Municipality to the southeast.

Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about youth hostel and hotel location and map, description, services, hostel contacts, customer ratings, six pictures and updated prices inclusive of taxes and services together with instant real availability.

Beijing is China's second largest city in terms of population, after Shanghai. It is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways passing through the city.

Flashbooking having the reservation final price is also convenient as it does give the transparency our users pretend while booking. Having the final total amount of your booking means you do not have to worry about other extra surprises! Flashbooking cheap lodging solutions are all available for online bookings and divided by Countries.

It is also the focal point of many international flights to China. Beijing is recognized as the political, educational, and cultural center of the People's Republic of China, while Shanghai and Hong Kong predominate in economic fields.

For this and other reasons Flashbooking is becoming a recognized source of information and services for who loves creating a trip by him/herself and book bed nights securely online. In fact, thanks to a secure server certified SSL provided by Thawte (the global certificate authority) Flashbooking is able to guarantee instantly confirmed and secure online reservations.

Travellers have free access to the updated list of Europe hostels and budget hotels, North and South America hostels, Caribbean and Central America hostels as well as for Asia cheap accommodations, Oceania youth hostels and Africa hostels. Flashbooking's happy travellers can book their rooms and beds not only in cheap hotels or youth hostels but also consider other budget accommodations inbed and breakfast Beijing, Guesthouses, Campsites, apartments, farm houses and much more.

With the monthly newsletter, Flashbooking puts at travellers' and partner hostels' free disposal some useful information tools as pocket travel guides of the top world cities: the Amsterdam City guide, the London City guide, the Barcelona City guide, the Paris City guide, the Rome City guide, the Florence City guide, and the freshly issued Beijing City guide!

In general, these guides have been written for giving the essential information about the most visited cities in the world and in particular for any traveller or first-time visitor. For a short visit, a week-end, a city break, these free pocket guides are useful printable and downloadable tools available online.

So mates, we are looking forward to finding you THE budget accommodation that meets your needs and pocket for your next trip!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from Hotels and Apparments accommodation. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit our website to download your free travel guides for Beijing City in China.

EASYBIT.IT now in the WEB DESIGN INDEX By Content.02

Web Design Index By Content.02 contains a selection of the best 500 worldwide websites, offering a comprehensive overview of web design standards all over the world. Here you can find our website www.easybit.it.

Easybit, an important italian web agency, gains another big prize: our website entered the Web Design Index by Content.02 (published by Pepin Press/Agile Rabbit), a book collecting the most stylish sites of the world in graphic and fruition.

We are proud to have been selected in the big ocean of the Web; in addition among these 500 there are only 25 italian agencies and big international names like Group94 and Fantasy-Interactive. We can't be just proud, we're excited!

Easybit succeed again! Our easy style, relaxed and straight to the point, is really powerful.

Further informations at:
Easybit PR
Nicola Canonico / Ambra Lazzari
E-mail: nicola.canonico@easybit.it / ambra.lazzari@easybit.it
Tel + 39 011 596112
Fax + 39 011 5806677
www.easybit.it

A team of professionals to re-launch the Italian metal casting industry

After the boom, the Asiatic competition puts the Italian metal casting sector up against a wall. Only experience, flexibility, quality and competitive prices can contrast the Chinese giant.

As anybody noticed, the European market was given a strong jerk by the pressing growth of new Asiatic economies (China and India above all), and in particular of the engineering and metal casting furnace.

In order to contrast the threatening advance of these emerging markets, it is necessary to focus on weak aspects of the provided services and products. In fact, it is true South-East Asia companies offer low-cost finished products but they feature second-rate quality compared to the European standards, Italian first of all.

In these conditions, the metal casting industry and mold-making industry have to turn to their experience, professionalism and ability to adapt to new market requests, all features that China and India can’t still provide for their new development.

On this regard, 7 important metal foundries and cast iron foundy have set up a Group: a truly effective Team aimed to solve problems and needs related to the mold production and metal casting.

These are the companies settled in Veneto:

• Procasting Srl: cast iron metal prototypes of any metal
• Program 2000: design, creation and production projects
• Modelleria Zuin: small and medium size models of metal, resin and wood for foundries
• Modelleria Griggio: production of metal casting models for medium and big foundries
• Modelleria 80: produces metal casting models and wooden moulds of big dimensions
• Tecnomodelleria: small, medium, big wooden and aluminium models for thermal-modelling
• Sand Form: cores: sampling and production for foundries

It is easy to understand that this partnership is the Team’s main strength as it gathers in one spot the know-hows of 7 companies. This union leads to some logical improvements as the cutting down on costs of prototypes and moulds production and on the replying time, whilst offering a wider range of technical solutions.

Today the KnowHow Team offers the most innovative solutions to problems related to moulds design and moulds production for the industry.

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from metal casting equipment. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit our web site.

Travel in Argentina: Free travel guide of Buenos Aires by Flashbooking cheap accommodation

Buenos Aires is renown for its open and friendly international people, art museums and Art Galleries, the sea, the movida and cheap lodgings, classic itineraries in the region and a lot more to make a visit worth wise.

In general, Flashbooking guides have been written for giving the essential information about the most visited cities in the world and in particular for any traveller or first-time visitor. For a short visit, a week-end, a city break, these free pocket guides are useful printable and downloadable tools available online.

Buenos Aires is the third largest city in South America and is made up of 47 districts, inhabited by approximately 3 million people.

These people referred to as Portenos,(Port People) are strongly characterized by their neo-latin language. This complex,energetic and seductive sea-port city was, for centuries, the gateway to Argentina.

In the Buenos Aires City guide students, families and backpackers can get a large selection of cheap or low cost accommodation with plenty of low cost solutions in budget youth hostels, bed and breakfast Buenos Aires, guesthouses, cheap hotel deals.

Favoured for its geographical position, at the mouth of a large river network, it is the departure point for numerous road and rail links. Surrounded by the almost unlimitless Pampas, this vast urban area is a metropolis open twenty four hours a day.

Founded by the Spanish in 1536, it became the capital of Argentina in 1880., During the Colonial Period, the city grew, forming square-shaped districts around the Plaza de Mayo, which, even today, still preserves its beautiful colonial centre, where it is possible to admire the XVIII Century buildings in Peruvian Rococo and Portugese style.

Flashbooking policy tends to privilege small and family-run hotels in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies.

Flashbooking chose to provide backpackers, students and families with a list of budget selected and independent accommodations worldwide, mostly run by locals, in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies. For this and other reasons Flashbooking is becoming a recognized source of information and services for who loves creating a trip by him/herself and book bed nights securely online.

Flashbooking's happy travellers can book their rooms and beds not only in cheap hotels or cheap hostel Buenos Aires but also consider other budget accommodations in Bed and Breakfast, Guesthouses, Campsites, apartments, farm houses and much more.

Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about youth hostel and hotel location and map, description, services, hostel contacts, customer ratings, six pictures and updated prices inclusive of taxes and services together with instant real availability.

Having the reservation final price is also convenient as it does give the transparency our users pretend while booking. Having the final total amount of your booking means you do not have to worry about other extra surprises!

So mates, we are looking forward to finding you THE budget accommodation that meets your needs and pocket for your next trip! Last but not least, if you wish to help us, you can either give your personal ratings of some accommodations, lodgings, bed and breakfast, youth hostels and budget small hotels where you stayed, or enlarging the hostel offer by reporting some new hostel contacts!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from cheap hotel & guest house. For any information on how travel insurance, please visit our website to download your free travel guides for Buenos Aires City in Argentina.

Travel in Brasil - Great Pocket Guide of Rio de Janeiro by Flashbooking website

A growing budget hostels and hotels directory in Rio de Janeiro specializing in budget accommodation in Brasil, Flashbooking is a recognized source of information and services for independent travellers who love creating their trips and book their bed nights securely online.

Rio de Janeiro, capital city of the state of the same name, is situated at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, forming an amphitheatre around the Bay of guanabrara on the Atlantic Ocean.

Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about cheap hostel Rio de Janeiro location, description, contacts, prices, instant real availability, customer ratings, facilities and pictures.

Amerigo Vespucci arrived here for the first time on 1st January 1502, leading a Portugeses expedition who, mistaking the bay for the mouth of a river, gave the area the name " January River". "Carioca", was the name given to the Europeans, by the local Indios, a nick-name, that even today is still used by the inhabitants of Rio.

It's impossible to accurately calculate the number of residents, those officially counted during the census in 2000, were 5,580,544, but the inhabitants of the Favelas, who may amount to the same number , constantly refuse to take part in any form of census.

Flashbooking staff and management have decided to put at travellers' and partner hostels' free disposal some useful tools as some pocket travel guides, written for giving the essential information about the most visited cities in the world. Especially created for a quick visit, a week end, a city break, these free pocket guides are printable and downloadable online. The staff efforts concentrate on making them simple to read and with a nice format and full of essential hints on where to go, things to see, shopping and markets, quality places reasonably priced where to eat or hang out in the nights, budget hostels and cheap hotel deals to book, emergency numbers and more.

Recently put at travellers’ disposal is another useful tool: the Free Pocket City Guide of Rio de Janeiro. This free travel guide of Rio contains, in just 9 printable pages, all the essential information and very good suggestions about the Rio flea markets, Museums and Art Galleries, budget restaurants and cheap lodgings, classic itineraries you can’t miss, transports and a lot more. The Rio de Janeiro Travel Pocket Guide comes with colour pictures and it is free and downloadable for anyone who wish to book and go!

Rio is one of the major economical and cultural centres of the South American Continent, an immense city, chaotic and contradictory, which symbolises and perfectly synthesizes the situation of the entire nation, both from the historical point of view and the a social point of view; Rio a city with a thousand faces.

See Flashbooking database of selected accommodations worldwide and help us enlarging the hostel offer by reporting the contacts of some accommodations, lodgings, bed and breakfast Rio de Janeiro, youth hostels and budget small hotels where you personally stayed. In fact, Flashbooking policy tends to privilege small and family-run hotels in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies.

If you also have a personal website or a travel blog, or even manage a youth hostel or a hotel accommodation, and are interested in the travel city guides, you can collect all of them and put at your visitors' disposal.
Other city pocket guides of top European cities are: the London guide, the Rome guide, the Amsterdam guide, the Paris guide, the Prague guide, the Barcelona guide and more coming on soon!

So mates, we are looking forward to finding you THE budget accommodation that meets your needs and pocket for your next trip!

This article was written by Michele De Capitani with support from hostels & hotels accommodation and Mrs Vera Bonaventura. For any information, please visit our website to download the travel guides of Rio de Janeiro - Brasil.