Weekly travel news update on 3rd October 2011

This is the weekly news updates on travel related events happening around the world. Some would affect your travel plans or your upcoming travel itinerary, while others could lead you to embark on new travel ideas. These are things happening in the past week:

• More than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters have been arrested for blocking traffic on Brooklyn Bridge during an unauthorised march in New York, on 1st October 2011. The arrests took place on Saturday, when a large group of marchers, participating in a second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, broke off from others on the bridge’s pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes.
• Gold Coast is officially the bikini capital of the world after 357 women donned the two-piece to set a new world record. Bikini-clad women strutting through Surfers Paradise have bolstered the Gold Coast’s reputation for producing world-beating women.

  Sponsored by the Surfers Paradise Alliance and the Gold Coast Bulletin, the parade needed to attract 332 bodies to beat the record set in the Cayman Islands last year. Australian Guinness World Record adjudicator Chris Sheedy was on hand to officially declare the record attempt a success.

• Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second-biggest city has been put on alert for flash floods as more than nine weeks of heavy rains that have killed more than 200 people continue to wreak havoc in the country’s north. Residents of parts of Chiang Mai city evacuated as the Ping River kept rising and spilling over its banks. Thousands of students were ordered to leave school early, and tourists and vendors in the famous Night Bazaar area were told to evacuate. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said at least 200 people have died and about 600,000 households in one-third of the country’s 77 provinces have been affected by the floods. Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department warned people in the eastern part of the North and the upper part of the Northeast of widespread scattered rain with heavy falls and the danger of floods over the next few days.
• Malaysia Airlines (MAS) won the World Travel Award for Asia’s Leading Airline for the third consecutive year, Wednesday night on 28th September 2011. MAS also won the World Travel Award in the Asia’s Leading Airline Lounge category for its Golden Lounge at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

  MAS managing director Ahmad Jauhari Yahya received both awards from the Founder and President of World Travel Awards Graham Cooke at the World Travel Awards regional ceremony for Asia and Australasia, at a hotel in Bangkok. The Malaysian national carrier had won the Asia’s Leading Airline award in 2009 and 2010.

That’s all news related to travel and interested me that happened over the last week. Let’s see what would be happening this coming week. 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog

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