About usability credit cards in tourist trips are aware, perhaps, everything. But advertising security and ease of use "plastic", the banks hold back on important points that should be borne in mind, not to get in trouble on holiday or after it. In fact, good reasons not to use bank cards and, especially, do not rely on them entirely, there is hardly any more than arguments "for" the use of credit cards. Cards are stolen and copied Despite the fact that banks advertise "plastic" as a safe means of transportation money, the thieves only dream to get to your bank account, the easiest way to do it with your card. Stealing the card or making a copy of it, the fraudsters can get their hands on more money than they could be in a stolen purse. And that card data stolen, you may not realize until that moment as receive SMS on an unknown transaction from a distant land. And refund will be virtually impossible, because only you are responsible for maintaining their own credit cards. In the best case, the bank will appoint an investigation and appeal to the representation of the payment system with a request to investigate the situation. But, alas, the standard answer would be: "can not do anything" - at least for the simple reason that neither the bank nor the payment system does not want to spend your own money. Protect yourself from identity theft a "credit card" is difficult, since scanning the chip can be sewn directly into the payment terminal and you simply do not notice.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Russians spend on the Cote d'Azur and more tourists from other countries
A recent study conducted by analysts Global Blue, show that the most money on the Cote d'Azur leave Russian tourists. Despite the crisis of 2009, which resulted in a reduction in purchases by 11.8 percent, Russian tourists were the most generous tourists in the French Riviera. Thus, it is the Russians account for 27 percent of all purchases carried out in the local duty free shops. The study also showed that half of all tax-free purchases in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur commit tourists from six countries. In addition to Russia among the leaders of the U.S. (2.6%), China (14.8%) and Switzerland. Most of all purchases - 34 percent - takes place in Cannes. Followed by Nice (29%), Monte Carlo (11%), Saint-Tropez (6%) and Marseilles (5.6%). In Marseille, more than any other tourists spend the representatives of the Algerian community, arriving here by sea. Overall in 2009, the number of purchases made in the region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, declined by 3.7 percent. In this case, among the most popular items, according to an online agency Tourmag, includes clothes, shoes and accessories - these things account for 84 percent of all purchases. On average, tourists spend 952 euros on them. In second place - watches and jewelry, who make up three percent of all purchases. [Source]
For the first time captured the rare thin Laurie
In the forests of Sri Lanka managed to make its first-ever images of a representative of the family lorievyh subspecies of Loris tardigradus nyctoceboides, which many considered extinct. Perform a feat managed professionals from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). This thin Laurie (slender lori) have seen only four times in the last 74 years, and in the interval from 1939 to 2002, no news about it has been reported. Now experts from the ZSL evince elation that funny primate disappeared from sight for 65 years, has not disappeared completely. All fine Lori live in trees and are mostly nocturnal. Caught in the lens animal - an adult male is about 20 centimeters in length. Naked eye, it is clear that L. t. nyctoceboides markedly different from other lorievyh Sri Lanka and southern India: wool with stiff and long, and the limb is relatively short. Scientists were not only able to photograph the primacy, but also catch some live Loris tardigradus nyctoceboides, which have been carefully examined and then released. The most optimistic estimations total population of this subspecies Laurie is hardly more than 100 individuals. In addition, forests in which they live, as a result of human intervention were divided into small plots, and it does not allow animals communicate with each other and reproduce. Found a wonder-animal zoology in programs coordinated by ZSL rescue of unique animals, "On the verge of collapse" (Edge of Existence). [Source]