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Most Amazing Golf Courses Around the World

Golf is a sport that has been recently gaining popularity across the world. Originating from 15th century Scotland, the modern game of golf started to be played at tournaments from mid 19th century. Today, the four biggest tournaments are: The British Open, The Masters, the US Open, and the PGA Championship, the last three of which are players in the United States. However, more and more people are not attracted to golf because of the lure of a professional career, although the victory money…

ANA adds Vienna, with Lufthansa links

Japan’s ANA is starting non-stop service to Vienna, which it will use as a hub for connections to Lufthansa affiliates’ European networks.

ANA tests remote-control pushback tug

Remote-controlled tugs are starting to make inroads at airports in Japan and elsewhere.

First Dreamliner now a Japan exhibit

The first-ever 787 has found a final home at a Japanese museum, near where its wings and fuselage were built.

Oaso Station, Saitama Prefecture, Japan (Where Gumbo was #288)

Gumbo was at Oaso Station on the Chichibu Railway in Japan

Japan: New hostel is old sleeping car

Japan’s roll of alternative lodgings grows again with a hostel created from former sleeping cars.

Dinosaurs take over robot hotel

No illusion: those are dinosaurs at Registration, and they speak four languages at a Tokyo-area hotel.

Japan: Airbnb and hotels work together

Despite strong rivalry elsewhere, in Beppu, Japan the two sides are collaborating to draw more visitors to the area.

New Japan service: Hands-free luggage

A new service offers to move your bags from airport to hotel to other hotels and back to the airport, leaving you free.

Winter is coming – best places for snowbirds

Snowboarding, being one of the most exciting sports there is, enjoys the ever-growing popularity all over the world. Every year, more and more people are getting to know the perks of this unique sport and once they have tasted it, they are enchanted by it for good. Why snowboarding, of all sports? Even though skiing is an older sport than snowboarding with a long tradition, it looks like snowboarding has gained even bigger popularity in the recent years, mostly because there are some…