Tag Archives: Movie Travel

Cinematic Travel

Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Slumdog Millionaire not only stole the show at the 81st annual Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture, it is also sure to bring a tourism boost to the city of Mumbai, which had seen a decline in visitors since the November 2008 terrorist attacks that killed 173 people. According to the Annals of Tourism [...]

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Searching for Shangri-La

Posted on 14. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Over the Christmas holidays I watched an excellent documentary on PBS entitled “The Search for Shangri-La.” The episode, one of a four-part series called “In Search of Myths and Heroes,” was narrated by British historian and broadcaster Michael Wood, who takes us on a remarkable journey into one of the most remote and austere places on [...]

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