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What's hot in Park City, Utah?

PARK CITY, Utah -- You may have missed Sundance Film Festival in January - and if you love cinema and celebrity spotting, it’s a must-go event - but there’s still a huge variety of reasons to visit this winter.

Travel Watch: St. Petersburg is perfect

St. Petersburg was built as Russia’s “Window to the West,” and it remains perhaps the most “European” part of this enormous nation.

Tree-lined avenues, charming bridges, elegant architecture and a network of canals that rivals Amsterdam and Venice make this the perfect walking city. Even under Soviet oppression, St. Petersburg managed to keep a lightness and an air about it that other parts of the country simply could not manage.

Atlantis Events giving away three oceanview staterooms in contest

WEST HOLLYWOOD _ Need a break from this unseasonably wet and bone-chilling San Diego weather? Want to trade these cold raindrops and windchill for the warmth of the sun, while you bask from the deck of a luxury liner? How about giving up another mundane week at the office for a trek through the Caribbean with 2,800 other gays and lesbians?

If you said "yes" to any of those questions, Atlantis Events has a contest that would allow you to do just that (as long as you are 21 or older).

Travel watch: Beijing - planet pavement

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The overnight bullet train pulls into the station and several hundred passengers pour out into the station. A logjam forms at the exit as attendants ask to see tickets. This first experience with Beijing traffic is followed quickly by a taxi line of more than 100 people, which leads you into morning rush-hour traffic on one of Beijing’s four ring roads.

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Travel watch: Helsinki, just adorable

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HIV travel and immigration ban lifted

(WASHINGTON D.C.) The U.S. government today lifted the HIV travel ban, which had prohibited HIV positive visitors and immigrants from entering the country. The ban was established in 1987.

The regulation promulgated by the Obama administration last summer and finalized in November went into effect today, removing HIV from the list of communicable diseases that bar foreign nationals from entering the United States.

Atlantis Events unveils $399 airfare special for first Gay Cruise from Shanghai to Hong Kong

(WEST HOLLYWOOD) Atlantis Events, Inc., the world’s largest company specializing in all-gay and lesbian vacations, is offering guests on the first-ever gay cruise to mainland China, South Korea and Japan, a special roundtrip airfare of only $399.

Only cruise participants who book an outside or balcony stateroom by January 12 can take advantage of this exclusive airfare promotion. Flights may originate from any continental U.S. or Canadian city and will arrive in Shanghai and depart from Hong Kong.

State plans high-speed rail in San Diego

(SAN DIEGO) Last year voters in California expressed their support for high-speed rail by passing a $10 billion bond measure that will build lines across the state. Now, the State of California is seeking an additional $4.7 billion in federal stimulus funds for the project. While several states are vying for this funding, California may be better positioned because of its voter support.

Even though construction is years away, the California High-Speed Rail Authority is already planning for where such a high-speed rail line would run in San Diego County.

Community Marketing, Inc. Releases 14th Annual Gay & Lesbian Tourism Study

(SAN FRANCISCO) Community Marketing, Inc. (CMI), the San Francisco-based LGBT market research and communications firm, has released its annual rankings of the destinations most visited by the gay and lesbian community. The rankings remain remarkably consistent from past years.

Travel Sites Say "Don't Panic" About High Holiday Airfares

(BOSTON), Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston based company Airfarewatchdog today urged travelers to not panic about media reports claiming that expensive airfares will be commonplace during peak holiday travel this year. The site's founder, George Hobica, notes, "Some routes, especially those served by a large number of airlines, have experienced wide fluctuations in price, and not just in the up direction."

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