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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Sean Penn: Madonna in Haiti to see his aid work
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Associated Press Writer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Madonna is in Haiti to visit humanitarian projects that ex-husband Sean Penn has been overseeing since the Caribbean nation’s devastating earthquake in 2010, the actor said Monday. Penn said in a brief phone call to The Associated Press that he had invited Madonna, with whom he has “maintained a great friendship over the years,” to visit several times and that she had come with her son Rocco. He said they arrived a “couple of days” ago, and he wasn’t sure when she would leave. “She’s here, she’s seeing, she’s made the effort to come here, and I’m thrilled by that,” Penn said,
In this Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 photo, U.S. pop star Madonna smiles during her visit at the “Hard Candy Fitness” center in Berlin.
Bono optimistic about ‘Spider-Man’ musical future Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — U2 frontman Bono feels optimistic that his musical, “Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark” will continue to thrive after the show turns the lights out on Broadway early next year. “When you think of the difficult birth that we had with ‘Turn Off the Dark,’” he said, “it’s worked out so well.” “Three hugely successful years, and then it’s off to Germany, it’s off to Las Vegas,” Bono said Monday night on the red carpet for “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.”
U2 contributed to the film’s soundtrack with “Ordinary Love.” It’s the band’s first new song in three years and it plays at the end of the movie. Bono and Edge also wrote the music for “Spider-Man.” By the time it closes, more than 2
million people will have seen it. But the musical had a tumultuous run, including six delayed opening nights, numerous injuries to the cast, and the publicized firing of director Julie Taymor. It was also Broadway’s most expensive show, costing around $75 million. “It was a lot more expensive than it should have been, but in the long term it will ... do very, very well,” he said. The musical turns off its light at the Foxwoods Theater on Jan. 4.
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adding that he hoped Haiti might inspire her to seek out a cause in the country. “She has a unique platform, and wherever she chooses to bring that to, it’s very well.” Madonna’s been busy posting photos on Instagram. One shows her posing with others at a new hospital built by public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer in the central part of the country. The caption: “Revolution of Love in Haiti.” Another picture shows a view of the mountains at dusk. The caption: “Sunset in Haiti. This is Heaven!” Penn has served as an ambassador-at-large for Haiti since early 2012. He received the recognition for his work as head of a humanitarian group he co-founded in the aftermath of the earthquake, the J/P Haitian Relief Organization. The group has focused on housing and relocating thousands of people from a golf course that was among hundreds of impromptu settlements that sprang up after the quake. His group recently sponsored five Haitian runners to participate in the New York marathon.
US, Russia throw weight behind Syria peace talks
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United face stern test in Leverkusen fortress
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Thai protesters call for nationwide uprising
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Handling of incentive tourism remains to be left behind
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A tourist walked beside APEC Summit banner during the APEC meeting that held in Bali recently. Indonesia has tremendous potential to develop the meeting, incentive, conference and exhibition (MICE) tourism. Unfortunately, it has not been worked on maximally.
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From left, recording artists The Edge, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton attend a screening of “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom” hosted by U2 and Anna Wintour on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, in New York.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
DENPASAR - Indonesia has tremendous potential to develop the meeting, incentive, conference and exhibition (MICE) tourism. Unfortunately, it has not been worked on maximally. Director of Special Interest, Convention, Incentive and Event Development, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Akhyaruddin, said the handling of incentive tourism in particular was still far behind the other countries. gFor the management of incentive tourism as a separate part of MICE, we are relatively underdeveloped. Indonesia is ranked 41st out of 99th countries while specifically for Bali and Jakarta it was ranked 39th and 41st among 182 cities that have developed the incentive tourism,h said Akhyaruddin amidst the workshop on the management of incentive tourist
destination in Denpasar. He explained that incentive posed an award given by company to employees having an outstanding achievement. It included the activities such as holiday gift to the world destinations like Bali. Actually, he said, Indonesia had a great opportunity to work on the incentive tourism with the advantages such as being the country with many
islands and various tribes that could become tourist attractions. Unfortunately, the tourism stakeholders had not been able to capture the opportunities and less focus on working on the incentive tourism. Even, they had not owned a comprehensive understanding on the concept of MICE tourism. So far, they always combined it into MICE as a single unit whereas MICE had four sections namely meeting, incentive, conference and exhibition. gHere, we have asked each region or tourist destination to see the potential and strength of the section where the focus should be directed to. For example, if the strength of a tourist destination lies in the incentive it must be focused and the others must serve as sup-
porters. If the four sections become the focus, it will make people confused,h he said. Bali was expected to become one of the driving indicators of incentive tourism in Indonesia so that incentive travelers that had been spending holidays in Bali were also expected to visit other regions in Indonesia. He explained that employees of world companies conducting incentive activities in Bali or Indonesia would be staying and shopping in Bali. It would provide multiplier effect on the peoplefs economy in Bali including the other regions of Indonesia they visited. Chairman of the Indonesia Congress and Convention Association (INCCA) of Bali Chapter, IB Surakusuma, said that Bali should
be able to continue working on the incentive tourism. Incentive travelers denoting the companyfs employees would be provided with a lot of money when going on holiday in Bali. He believed the money would be used to buy souvenirs. However, there were still many obstacles, for example, in working on the American market. Incentive travelers from the American region took a long time to arrive in Bali. Meanwhile, though Australian market was still applying travel warning adding to travel advisory, they would remain to spend holiday to Bali. gTo work on incentive travelers, it is required a special strategy in order to drive the meeting and convention tourism,h he concluded. (kmb29)