Ash led to big drop in air traffic to Europe

Number of passengers heading overseas fell 19 percent in April

NEW YORK — The number of people traveling to Europe from the United States fell 19 percent in April after a volcanic ash cloud forced thousands of flights to be canceled and cost airlines billions in lost revenue.

The U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries blamed the drop in air passengers to Europe on repeated shutdowns of air traffic when an erupting volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland spewed ash.

U.S. air travel to Europe was down 7 percent for the year to April, the office said in a statement.

But the number of passengers traveling to the Middle East from the United States soared 29 percent, while passengers to Africa were up 25 percent, Asia was up eight percent, Oceania jumped 10 percent, Canada grew 5 percent and the Caribbean 2 percent.

Air travel to South America fell 4 percent and the number for Central America dropped 13 percent.

A total of 2.9 million people traveled on flights leaving the United States in April, down 5 percent from last year.

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The best Michelin restaurant in the world

Copenhagen’s restaurants have more Michelin stars than any other Scandinavian city, and Denmark as a whole would doubtless have more still if the inspectors from Michelin ever troubled themselves to leave the capital and head for Aalborg or Århus & around. Even standards in a workaday Danish café are generally very high.

Copenhagen restaurant Noma has been named the best restaurant in the world. It s The S. Pellegrino World s 50 Best Restaurants behind the crowning of restaurant Noma in the past year has been very successful to specialize in Nordic cuisine.

Our intention at noma is to create and to prepare a distinctly advanced kind of cuisine, while nonetheless conjoining our patently Nordic approach with a manner of purity and simplicity in the approach. We are also busy infusing our new Nordic cuisine with a markedly curative potential. These values are all reflected in our menus’ ultimate articulation and manifest themselves both in the construction and presentation of the individual courses and in the means of preparation and ingredients upon which they are based. Book your table

Copenhagen is still Scandinavia s gastronomic capital. The Michelin Guide in 2010 have 12 restaurants in Copenhagen together 13 Michelin stars. Restaurant AOC is new to the list.

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The past decade, the Nordic kitchen experienced a comeback of the very big thanks to Copenhagen s top restaurants.

With a focus on pure Danish and Nordic ingredients and innovative cuisine has been the city s restaurateurs international gourmet writers and critics to turn the spotlight towards Copenhagen. Book your table at noma Worlds best Chef René Redzepi

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The Worlds best arkitect Bjarke Ingels Denmark Bridge architect Bjarke Ingels

Let the dreams of living "says the visionary Anders Christian Hjort

Yes, finally! It is precisely the Elsinore need - - Visions

The very visionary architect Bjarke Ingels from Elsinore Denmark, has proposed a 6 km. Long hotel bridge between Elsinore and Helsingborg. It is also very visionary Elsinore architect Jorgen Utzon, did Sidney world famous in the renowned Opera House, - - - let's get Elsinore put on world map, and let Bjarke Ingels show that Scandinavia and Denmark has the world's finest designers and architects.

Here we have a unique opportunity to promote Denmark - Oresund Region and Scandinavia, with a power which will give resonance world wide.

One might also imagine that in Bjarke Ingels project could incorporate the world's first underwater hotel, which also could strengthen the buoyancy of the bridge project, - - - I think - Dubai has an underwater restaurant, - - we can promote an entire hotel?

Economic, there will probably be someone that prefers tentacles back, but sees socioeconomic on the project will Bjarke Ingels project, eventually, be much cheaper than any other proposal, taking well into the future, harvested priceless and invaluable publicity value of Bjarke Ingels project, and it is not just an empty bridge design, but a functional context where there are a number of revenue in the form of rent etc..

Bjarke Ingels project also differs economically by which the substructure created a series of badly needed jobs, but unlike other proposals, creates project is also a series of tax revenue and jobs after the project completion, and healthy cities on both sides will gain a huge "buust "and a natural cohesion, which is not obtained by a conventional bridge or tunnel.

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