Entries with the tag: ‘Insurance’
Last week I cam across a worrying news item: according to the results of a survey conducted by the Association of British Travel Agents, as many as 20% of Brits travel without insurance. Now, although I am often suspicious about surveys, this report set my alarm bells ringing. A similar survey earlier in the year came to […]
One of the newswires that I subscribe to had a link today to an interesting article in the Guardian newspaper about the growing pressure of work on mountain rescue services in the UK. It caught my attention because Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country and I wondered about the situation here in Kyrgyzstan. In fact I […]
Have you ever noticed how something happens to people whenever they get behind the steering wheel of car? It’s as if the body of the car becomes a shell and the driver takes on a new persona. They become aggressive, selfish, thoughtless, inconsiderate to other road users – pedestrians as well as other drivers – […]
Last year, 2009, those of us working in Tourism spent a lot of time lobbying the powers that be about a new draft law “On Tourism“. It all began with a quiet announcement in the press to the effect that a new draft law “On Tourism” had passed its first reading in the Jogorku Kenesh, […]
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