Cheyenne Street, Detroit, USA – Turnkey investment requiring little imput from the investor – 15% net return

Price: $45,500

Bedrooms: 3

“Turn-key” investment requiring little input from the investor… full rental management included, no hassle, hands off property investment. Low cost investment opportunity with tenants in situ and huge capital gains to be experienced over the next few years… View property details

Other Available Properties – All refurbished & tenanted

US075 -(Michigan) – Renovation complete, tenants being credit checked… expected return = 800 USD/month – $44,900

US074 -(Michigan) – $28,900

US073 -(Michigan) – $45,900

US072 -(Georgia) – $43,990

US064 -(Michigan) – $37,800

US052 -(Michigan) Reduced for a quick sale, this property will need refurbishing – $10,000

International Horizons will be attending the UK Snow Film Fest, we are sponsors at the UK Snow Film Fest. We have some fantastic Ski Apartments in Ukraine for sale prices start from £30,350 in this up and coming ski resort, which is already really popular with the Ukrainians so much so there is not enough accomodation in the area for all the skier & snowboarders. These apartments are located only 400m from the lifts.

If you would like tickets to the event please visit the UK Snow Film Fest webiste.

More about the event:-

As the first of its kind, the UK SNOW FILM FESTIVAL is breaking new ground – this won’t be a conventional, ‘sit still in your seats and clap politely’ film fest. No,  you can expect a festival-like atmosphere, with beer, wine and food throughout the night, as well as various competitions and giveaways. Following the films – which start at 6pm each evening – there will be a banging after-party with big name guest DJs.

Get excited and celebrate the start of a new season with a Two day movie festival of the latest and greatest snow movie productions from across the world.

New Atlanta Properties, USA

Prices includes refurb & tenant in place

Price: $41,990

Bedrooms: 3

Eastridge Road – 3 Bed 2 bath detached house, refurbished & tenant in place. Located in a good middle class area, ideal for rentals. Approx rent $650-$800 pm. The property formally had a $165000 mortgage written off to give you an idea of the prices before the recession… View property details

Price:$43,990

Bedrooms: 3

Cascade Circle – 3 bed, 2 bath Detached property located in good middle class area. Price includes refurb & tenant in place. Rents are fairly high in this area a rental return of around $800 is achievable…. View Property Details

Santo Domingo. – The presence of the Dominican Republic destination in London’s World Travel Market (WTM-2009) international tourism fair will benefit hotel companies as Europe’s tourism sector will heighten the demand for its products.

Representatives from Casa de Campo, Punta Cana and of the Oasis Hotels & Resort told Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia that their business appointments with English and European tour operators were very positive, given their interest in exploring the Dominican destination.

Garcia said the private and public sectors conducted a busy agenda including renewed agreements with airlines, tour operators and hotel chains, to guarantee that Dominican tourism continues in the positive figures of the last few months.

The Tourism Minister met with senior executives of the tour operators Group TUI, Thomas Cook and SunWing, and of British Airways and the Federation of Tour and Tourism Operators (FTO), to outline joint business plans for 2010.

The official said from May to October TUI will operate a weekly flight at La Romana International Airport and also plan to increase its capacity at Punta Cana’s terminal (east). “This fair is the most important held in London and all of England and the English market is very important for us, for being Europe’s third largest market and the fifth for Dominican Republic.”

We have properties for sale in the new hotspot in the Dominican Republic –  the south west to find out more about the area & properties for sale continue reading ….

Source: The Straits Times

MANILA – THE Philippines is proposing the adoption of a single visa policy for 10 Southeast Asian nations, saying it would benefit trade and tourism.

Visitors currently need to secure separate visas for each of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Philippine Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libyan says he is pushing for a single visa for citizens of countries not belonging to Asia that would enable them to travel freely within the region.

He says the proposal will be discussed at a three-day meeting of regional immigration heads that starts Monday in the Philippine capital, Manila. Libyan says a common visa, modeled on the European Union system, would bring huge benefits in trade, investment and tourism.

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By Robert Bailey   Source: Global Arab Network

Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:16

The last twelve months have been one of the most challenging periods ever experienced in the global tourism industry and signs of recovery are eagerly being sought at this week’s World Travel Market being held at the London Excel Centre.However, even hitherto strong markets that have experienced a decline in visitors during 2009 are likely to find that consumer behaviour has undergone fundamental change according to Tunisia’s Minister for Tourism Khelil Lajimi.“About half of all tourists are now booking their vacations in the same month as they travel. This contrasts with a few years ago when bookings were made three to six months prior to departure,” he told Global Arab Network.“Today we see people surfing the net to find the right products, quality and prices for themselves. I believe that vacationers will increasingly mainly be booking late and the challenge is to meet this changing pattern of consumer behaviour.” The minister says he is working to distribute Tunisia’s tourism product via the Internet. “We are pushing products and hoteliers onto the web and system reservations on-line.” The forward looking approach is likely to be needed. Latest results from the World Tourism Organisation indicate that worldwide visitor arrivals dropped 7 per cent over the first eight months of 2009. The WTO is forecasting a 5 per cent drop for the whole year matching an earlier prediction which suggested a 4-6 per cent decline. A healthy level of tourism is vital for Tunisia’s economy since the sector contributes 6 per cent of the country’s GDP and provides nearly 20 per cent of foreign currency earnings. The industry provides more than 340,000 jobs directly and indirectly and is also a key component in the dynamics of the whole region’s development. WTO data suggests that Tunisia has achieved 4.6 per cent increase in revenue in the first nine months of 2009. The UN World Tourism Organisation’s latest barometer of global tourism trends states that Tunisia continues to benefit from “very competitive cost structures compared with resorts on the northern Mediterranean shores.” The WTO says this advantage has been reinforced by the strength of the euro and depreciation of the British pound since the UK is a major market for the destination. As well as meeting the on-line challenge, Tunisia is also moving to broaden its appeal and take itself upmarket by adding its strong cultural and historical heritage to its sun and beach attractions. “We want to encourage cultural tourism and diversify our product. Tunisia has three thousand years of history from Carthage and the Ottomans till now. With the Ministry of Culture we developing added value products and creating a cultural circuit.” The Sahara is another focus development says Mr Lajimi. Nevertheless the package beach holiday business remains the locomotive of the sector. “We are looking to upgrade hotels and facilities. There is a national upgrading programme.” Increasing the number and frequency of flights into the country is also seen as a critical factor which is why Tunisia has opted for an open skies policy. Negotiations are being conducted with the European Union’s Transport Commissioner and Minister Lajimi says he hopes that the new policy will be implemented by 2011. Influential carriers especially Easyjet and Ryanair have shown considerable interest in the planned move, he says. Meanwhile Tunisia’s major new airport at Enfidha will start receiving flights in November and is geared for a substantial increase in visitor arrivals National carrier Tunis Air is acquiring 16 new aircraft comprising ten single-aisle A320s, three A330-200s and three A350-800s. The first A320s are due next year and will help expand the airline’s regional operations. Acquisition of the A330s and later the A350s will move the airline into long haul operations in particular to North America.

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In this week’s Dollar update by Moneycorp:
UPS AND DOWNS BALANCE OUT
Poor trade figures and positive UK house prices have equally little effect on the pound. US consumer confidence remains softer than analysts have been expecting.

A roughly three-cent range took sterling occasionally above its September highs but the early August peak remained out of its reach. It opened in London this morning at $1.67, about half a cent lower on the week but comfortably above Thursday’s $1.65 low.

There were not too many UK economic data and events to worry the pound last week but almost every one of them engendered some sort of reaction – mostly negative. It is a tribute to sterling’s growing resilience that on every occasion the loses were temporary.

The pound’s toughest hurdle was Tuesday’s trade figures. September’s trade deficit was substantially worse than investors had been led to expect. Instead of remaining steady at just over £6 billion the trade gap widened to more than £7 billion. The announcement coincided with unhelpful news about Britain’s credit rating. Ratings agency Fitch said the government’s reluctance to cut public spending could mean a downgrade of Britain’s sovereign debt, making it harder to sell.

Thursday’s unemployment figures could have been worse. The unemployment rate actually fell to 7.8% in September from what had originally showed as 7.9% in August. Instead of the expected 20,000 job losses in September “only” 13,000 extra people found themselves on the dole. The Bank of England’s Quarterly Inflation Report was a little strange, if not for its content then for the way it was spun by Governor Mervyn King. The detail of the report suggested that the Bank’s economists are optimistic about an economic rebound next year. The tone of the governor’s speech was gloomy. Nobody is sure whether he was deliberately trying to manage expectations (and the pound?) downward or if he was simply suffering from swine flu.

One almost consistently bright topic was house prices. In the last eight days the RICS, the government and property website Rightmove have all – one way or another – reported positive news about UK residential property. For the RICS it was another improvement in its price balance, this time to its highest level in three years. At Rightmove, where they measure asking prices rather than actual transaction prices, a -1.6% monthly fall still left the index +1.6% higher than a year earlier.

Where the pound managed to recover from everything that was thrown at it the dollar managed to avoid incoming missiles almost entirely. Its position against the euro this morning was unchanged from a week ago. Other than Thursday’s weekly jobless figures the only data of any importance were Friday’s balance of trade and the University of Michigan’s index of consumer confidence. US trade figures do not carry the weight they once did, mainly because dollar weakness has roughly halved the deficit in the last two years. Even so, at -$36.5 billion the September shortfall was more than $4 billion worse than expected and 20% wider than the previous month.

The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, an hour and a half later, was perhaps more predictable but no less of a disappointment. After September’s 70.6 the October reading was forecast to improve to a provisional 71.2. Instead it dropped by three and a half points to 66.6. In the last few months both of the major US confidence indices (Michigan uni and the Confidence Board) have made a habit of falling short. Analysts (and the market) seem to think that if the economy is growing, consumers must be feeling better about spending their money. But evidently they are not. They are worried about their jobs.

Neither the pound nor the dollar has any clear sense of purpose. There is movement but the ups and the downs are roughly in balance. For several weeks now the conservative strategy has been to maintain a neutral stance on currency exposures. There is as yet no reason to modify this stance. Buyers of the dollar should hedge half their requirement with a forward purchase. Those with a short time horizon who do not want to cover their whole exposure should protect themselves with a stop order.

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TUNISIA ONLINE NEWS - Living on the impact of the celebrations of the National   Saharan Tourism Day, a press conference held on Friday in Tozeur, the magnificent oasis city and the largest tourist attraction pole in south-western Tunisia, focused on the launch of regular and direct flights from Madrid to Tozeur twice a week.

140 guests from the Spanish delegation representing Travel agencies, organizations and Spanish politicians were present at the event as well as 45 journalists.

Mr. Khelil Laajimi, Minister of Tourism highlighted the importance of the event which coincides with the commemoration of the 22^nd anniversary of the National Saharan tourism Day.

He stressed that direct flights between Tozeur and Madrid, will encourage more tourists to visit Tunisia’s most attractive regions, without having to engage in transiting in other countries.

Within the same framework, Mr. Laajimi also paid a work visit to Governorate of Kebili in which he was briefed on aspects of development of Saharan tourism in the region.

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