High travel season refers to the part of a year when the weather conditions and other factors are the best for traveling and usually there are more people traveling in the high season, so it’s always the busiest time for the hotels, airlines, and travel agencies. Thus the price of hotel, air tickets, etc. is comparatively higher than that in other seasons.
Tourism seasons in China:
High travel season: April 1st to May 31st, Sep 1st to Oct 31st
Shoulder travel season: June 1st to Aug 31st & Nov 1st to Nov 31st
Low travel season: Dec 1st to Mar 31st
There are slight differences of definition of this between different hotels, airlines, travel agencies in different regions. In Tibet, high season is from July 1 to Oct 15. The rest of the year is the low season.
Note: If you plan to travel during a high travel season, we suggest you make reservations two to three months prior to your departure date.
Written by Travel News on October 31st, 2009 with no comments.
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He’s out of Beaverton.
Now what? There’s still time for a shared use of PGE Park with portbale bleachers, but that would make too much sense. How about a $100 million stadium in Molalla?
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In some places, they’re not letting the kids wear masks for Halloween any more. But that’s no excuse for this.
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It makes no sense. Here it is the creepiest holiday of the year, and Portland’s scary mayor leaves the country for a week. Another one of those all-important trade junkets, on which he and one or more of his dubiously qualified staff members act like they’re doing something to help the local economy.
But unlike some, I wasn’t surprised at the news of the trip. I knew he’d be heading over there soon, once I saw that the Japanese planners are currently working on the kind of fantasy project that gets our mayor really excited.
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Oregon’s fearless senior senator is acting like a Democrat this week. He’s actually calling for a scale-back of some of the crazy domestic spy powers that were given to the government in the aftermath of 9/11:
While there are several controversial provisions in the USA Patriot Act, the coming debate is likely to center around the “business records” provision. Prior to 9/11, if the FBI or another government agency was conducting an intelligence investigation and wanted to obtain an individual’s personal records from a bank, hospital, library, retail store or whatever institution was holding them, the government had to have evidence indicating that the person whose records were sought was a terrorist or a spy. The Patriot Act changed the law to authorize the government to collect any records deemed “relevant to an investigation.”…
I have served on the Senate Intelligence Committee for eight years, and I have yet to see evidence — classified or otherwise — that has convinced me that revising the business records provision to include a less intrusive standard would be harmful to U.S. national security. Yet as Congress considers whether to reauthorize this standard — written in a rush to judgment eight years ago — some will undoubtedly argue that Congress should just trust that the provision is essential and blindly sign-off on reauthorization. I disagree. While “just trust us” has passed as informed national security debate in this country for eight years, it hasn’t resulted in good national security policy….
While the Obama Administration has taken laudable steps to release some information about how certain provisions of the Patriot Act have been used, more needs to be done for Congress to have an informed debate on this issue. Specifically, there is classified information that the public and the majority of my colleagues have not seen that, in my judgment, is essential to understanding the full scope of this issue. I and other senators have raised this problem with the Executive Branch in classified correspondence, and I hope that this information will be declassified soon. If it is not, however, I believe that the Senate should debate it in closed session to ensure that all senators are fully informed before casting their vote.
Of course, with Congress blowing every available minute on the health care reform juggernaut, it’s not at all clear that any such thing will happen. A rushed examination of the key issues seems much more likely.
And then there’s the question whether the current occupant of the White House will act like a Democrat on this. At least he can pronounce “terror.”
Written by Travel News on October 31st, 2009 with no comments.
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If you don’t like ugliness, it might be best to stay away from internet discussion of the Blazers for a couple of days. In tonight’s loss to Denver, Greg Oden had two foul shots with less than five seconds left in the game and the Blazers down 1 point.
He missed both free throws.
For a minute or so late in the fourth quarter, Coach Nate had pulled Andre Miller and substituted Steve Blake. The Blazers gave up 6 points during that short stretch, at which point Miller was reinserted in the lineup.
Between the Oden-bashing, the Nate-bashing, and the Blake-bashing, it’s not going to be a pleasant few days for Blazer fans on the old intertubes. They play the patsies of Houston again on Saturday evening.
Written by Travel News on October 31st, 2009 with no comments.
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Our PC got sucked into the Windows Update Dead Zone for a while this morning. Something called “Vista Service Pack 2″ invaded it. So far, so good, but if you never hear from us again, you’ll know what happened.
Written by Travel News on October 31st, 2009 with no comments.
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Portland’s mystery layer of government, Metro, is still out there asking folks how mass transit between Lake O and Portland should be improved — add a few more buses onto the Tri-Met 43 line, or build a streetcar. These meetings have been going on for years now, and there’s a new round in the offing.
As a big fan of comedy, I enjoy this joke. Like they haven’t already decided on the shiny train set. And all the condo madness that will follow, all up and down Macadam Avenue. Never mind what it will do to auto traffic, which along that street is already screwed up. Never mind how much cheaper and easier the bus alternative would be. It’s all about the developer weasels, and that means it’s all about the streetcars. This is what the Goldschmidt lieutenants at Metro do — they make the millions for the old boys of Portland real estate.
That’s bad enough. But after a while, the whole “public input” charade gets offensive.
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Now, that’s the kind of fantasy journalism that endears our local daily to all of us.
This latest wad of malarkey was tossed at us in a brief story about the city’s new park, downtown where the Nordstrom parking lot used to be. Across from where the Aero Club used to be, and Hamburger Mary’s, and the Vat, and Alligator Records, and the IHOP. Up the street from where the Virginia Cafe used to be. Across from where the abandoned construction pit is now.
The new place isn’t really a park by any traditional standards. It’s a granite and concrete plaza with the mandatory glass roof over part of it. Kind of like Pioneer Courthouse Square, only smaller, and with a multi-story parking garage underneath. Decidedly not green.
But maybe all green-ness is not lost. Many years ago, when I used to park my car on that lot, the parking lot attendant used to sell pot out of the little shack he worked in. The deal was that you gave him the money in the morning, along with your parking fee, and the herb would be in your glove compartment when you picked up the car in the afternoon. Given the climate downtown these days, maybe similar activity will be observed on the property.
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A wise old columnist on a San Diego paper sees Beaverton making a big mistake on the Paulson baseball stadium — the same blunder that San Diego made with the Beavers’ parent team, the Padres, a while back.
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