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VJV LAUNCHES NEW CLASSIC RESORTS AND WEEKENDS BROCHURE

VJV has announced the release of its new "Classic Resorts and Weekends" brochure which focuses on short breaks to a range of destinations around the world.

VJV has announced the release of its new "Classic Resorts and Weekends" brochure which focuses on short breaks to a range of destinations around the world.

Recognising that long-haul adventures have their place in the modern traveller's itinerary, but also knowing that there are times when only a short break will do, the latest edition of Voyages Jules Verne's "Classic Resorts & Weekends" brochure has no fewer than 36 such itineraries, ranging from city stays to resort experiences in destinations across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

The new brochure includes short breaks to classic European cities such as Rome, Venice, St. Petersburg and Prague. It also suggests ideas for those seeking a few relaxing days in the sun, suggesting hot spots such as Marrakech and Luxor. Both destinations are included in the brochure as possible winter sun escapes that won't break the bank.

As well as sunny getaways, the brochure also features destination ideas for those seeking snow-covered scenery, such as the Austrian village of Obsteig with 'Winter in Tirol', a seven-night stay at a family-run hotel that includes traditional winter activities and a visit to Innsbruck. Also featured are ideas for Christmas time retreats, such as a four-night mini-cruise encompassing the Advent festivities of Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava.
One of the most unique suggestions featured in the new brochure is the opportunity to see the Northern Lights. With NASA predicting that 2012 will be one of the best years for viewing the Aurora Borealis, Voyages Jules Verne's latest brochure includes two Iceland itineraries for those wanting to see the world's most famous natural light show. The brochure also covers tours of the Arctic Circle and visits to Norway's Arctic capital, Tromsø.

The latest "Classic Resorts & Weekends" collection also includes several new itineraries for VJV's portfolio of Russia holidays, Vienna tours, Bordeaux holidays, Italy tours and South Africa tours.

The brochure is designed with both couples and solo travellers in mind, with many of the itineraries included in the latest "Classic Resorts & Weekends" brochure available with no single supplement on selected dates. These arrangements ensure that clients wishing to join a tour independently may do so without the financial penalties imposed by many travel companies.
About Voyages Jules Verne:
Voyages Jules Verne was founded in 1978 and its range of product encompasses long-haul and short-haul, weekends and expeditions, the conventional and the unexpected, a variety of themes and special interests - all underpinned by quality and value for money. VJV offers tours to a number of worldwide destinations including Egypt tours, China holidays and India holidays.

PR Contact:
Prini Patel
Marketing Manager
Voyages Jules Verne
21 Dorset Square
London
+44(0)207-616-1094
http://www.vjv.com
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Sonja Fordham President Shark Advocates International "We are elated that the CMS Parties have embraced Ecuador's proposal for protecting the magnificent and exceptionally vulnerable giant manta ray. CMS is an excellent vehicle for facilitating much needed national and international safeguards for this wide-ranging, globally threatened species." Professor Sue O’Connor College of Asia and the Pacific ANU "The site that we studied featured more than 38,000 fish bones from 2,843 individual fish dating back 42,000 years. What the site in East Timor has shown us is that early modern humans in Island Southeast Asia had amazingly advanced maritime skills. They were expert at catching the types of fish that would be challenging even today – fish like tuna. It’s a very exciting find. We found a fish hook, made from a shell, which dates to between 23,000 and 16,000 years ago.” Karen Hinton U.S. spokesperson for the Ecuadorians “Chevron has been widely mocked for its "We Agree" ad campaign and spends far more money each year buying publicity, than it has ever spent cleaning up its toxic legacy in Ecuador. It is becoming increasingly clear that Chevron under its current CEO John Watson has become the most rogue of energy companies and has fostered an internal culture of impunity when it comes to abuses. There is little doubt Chevron's 'Most Toxic' award is richly deserved. A significant portion of Chevron's lobbying funds were used to try to convince the U.S. government to cut trade preferences for Ecuador in retaliation for letting its citizens press their legal claims against the company. Cutting trade preferences would have cost Ecuador an estimated 300,000 jobs.” James Gleason NPP project scientist NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre "This image is a next step forward in the success of VIIRS and the NPP mission.” Ken Schwer NPP Project Manager NASA "NPP is right on track to ring in the New Year. Along with VIIRS, NPP carries four more instruments that monitor the environment on Earth and the planet's climate, providing crucial information on long-term patterns to assess climate change and data used by meteorologists to improve short-term weather forecasting." Richard Meadows Executive Vice President Marketing, Sales And Guest Programs "Next year marks Holland America Line's 65th anniversary of providing guests with exclusive opportunities that showcase Alaska and its natural beauty. Our CruiseTours are designed to combine the best of both worlds — one of our incredible cruises with an overland exploration — and traveling to Alaska with us has never been more exciting or accessible."

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About 1.8 million people in Cambodia and Vietnam are currently suffering from the worst flooding in a decade. The situation has received far less media coverage then the floods in Thailand. . .
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Chris Justice Professor of Geography University of Maryland "The task now for the science community is to evaluate VIIRS performance and determine the accuracy of its data products. These long-term data records are critical in monitoring how the Earth's surface is changing - either from human activity or through climate change."
Valier Galy WHOI Researcher "The relatively long carbon residence time in the Ganges system was a surprise, primarily because of the region's dynamically high rates of physical erosion and sediment transport. We thought it was likely that the organic matter there was young, but what gets exported there sits in the soil for quite some time -- 3,000 years on average. That's pretty old. The good news is that the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin "is not contributing rapidly to CO2 in the atmosphere. The bad news is that makes the region more susceptible to global warming. That has "big implications for the global carbon cycle, because the longer it is stored in the soil, the longer it is kept away from the atmosphere as CO2. The buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere is thought to be largely responsible for global warming. Future environmental changes may dictate that carbon will not stay as long in the soil. If this happens, the net source of CO2 in the atmosphere will increase. Even though there have been few similar studies in other low latitude regions, the results of the WHOI study could portend global warming effects elsewhere in the world. Our study shows that ancient soil carbon exists in a globally significant tropical system. We therefore hypothesize that similar stocks of ancient carbon may exist elsewhere at low latitude. Global warming would likely destabilize this ancient carbon, generating an extra flux of CO2 to the atmosphere, hence further warming. This may not be too important over the short-term -- decades, for example, but over a longer time scale -- tens of thousands of years -- it can be important."
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VJV LAUNCHES
NEW CLASSIC RESORTS AND WEEKENDS BROCHURE

NATIONS AGREE TO PROTECT GIANT MANTA RAYS


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GONE FISHING? WE HAVE FOR 42,000 YEARS

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