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National Travel & Tourism Week is traditionally held in the US in the first full week of May. First Tourism Week was held in 1984. The "National Tourism Week" will be held from 4 to 12 May in 2013. This event is held in order to activate development of tourist business.

This week, the various states and cities of America are organizing various activities in order to increase the number of tourists, the number of trips.

Tourism brings significant revenue in the budgets of many cities and countries. But there are many who want to get from tourists even more. Berlin administration decided to impose a tax on tourists recently. The so-called city tax is five percent of the cost of living in hotels, hostels and campsites. Those who rent apartments on his journey in Berlin will also pay more.

Russia seeks a long time to achieve for visa-free travel for Russian citizens traveling to Europe. Today, the Russian media published information that the visa will be canceled no later than 2015. After the abolition of visas for Russian citizens will be able to travel more often to many European countries, and the inhabitants of these European countries will be able to freely travel to Russia.

February 7 is exactly one year before the Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi. To this day was done most part of the work to prepare for the Olympic Games.
Tickets selling to the Olympics begins February 7. You can buy tickets directly on the official website of the Olympics, as well as by representatives of the Olympic Committee in your country. Ticket prices have recently been published on the Internet.

How much will cost tickets for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi? Ticket prices was reported today in the Internet.

• Tickets prices will be from one to 40 thousand rubles (up to one thousand euros).
• Tickets for the final of the men's teams’ hockey tournament will cost from 7,000 to 40,000 rubles.
• The cheapest ticket will be the final competition of women's teams in luge (1000 rubles).
• Tickets for the Olympic hockey tournament semi-final will cost from 4 to 23 thousand rubles.

Preparing for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi continues. Flame torch design was presented recently in Moscow.

Olympic torch has made of aluminum alloy and transparent plastic. Colors for the Olympic Games torch are light silver and red (for the Paralympic silver and light blue).

The Olympic Games in Sochi (Russia) will begin February 7, 2014. There are already built a large part of sports facilities (look location on the Sochi map). Test events were held on the ski slopes. Preparing for the Olympics continues.

There is a long tradition. Preparing for Christmas in Helsinki and throughout Finland begins with the lighting of holiday lights on the street Aleksanterinkatu. This solemn, festive event for many years is going with lots of people at the end of November.

The first time, the Christmas lights were lit in Helsinki in 1930. Then the street
Kluuvikatu was decorated to the most favorite holiday of many people in Finland.

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The popular song contest Eurovision 2013 will take place in the city of Malmo, Sweden. City of Malmö is Sweden's southernmost city. It is located about 30 kilometers from the capital of Denmark Copenhagen and at a distance of about 600 kilometers from the Swedish capital Stockholm. This is the third in term of population city in Sweden.
Eurovision Song Contest will take place on the 14th, 16th and 18th of May 2013.