Tag Archives : Airports

Advertising has always been out cornering potential customers, sometimes even to the extent of threatening their personal space. They either work for brand recall value or to make you buy their new products. Take One is one of the leaders when it comes to tourism distribution and media. It has brought a marketing opportunity which involves planting [...]

Sudden eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland has forced Britain to close down its airspace and suspend all flights. It is an unusual condition because the volcano has been spewing loads of ash clouds which is drifting over Europe and many other countries have been forced to suspend flights and shut down airports. Tens of thousands of travelers [...]

What on earth has a balance board to do with airport screening? A lot, as a latest development shows. The Nintendo Wii balance board has come into use, to identify fidgety, nervous passengers who may actually be carrying explosives or illegal items on their bodies. An astronomous $20 million Homeland Security-funded project called Future Attribute Screening [...]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has recently ordered the seizure of ports and fishing fleet that his government has expropriated. “We will recover the ports and airports throughout the republic, and oppose those who oppose,” so said the president who, less than two weeks ago, launched another crackdown on private business when he evicted Coca Cola [...]

With airports being transit points for foreign terrorists to enter a country, it has become quite mandatory to step up security checks and install scanners that effectively sense any source of threat. The EU has proposed full-body scanners to be used in order to check for weapons and explosives strapped to people’s bodies. Though this seems like [...]