Estravelleri arhiiv

Summary in English

Estraveller is Estravel's customer magazine with a circulation of 13,500 copies. 9,500 copies of Estraveller are sent by direct mail to Estravel's loyal customers, the Estravel Kuldkaart (Gold Card) owners, and partners, and the rest is distributed through Estravel's sales offices. Estraveller contains material about destinations, many facets of Estravel and the services and products offered as well as travel stories by our clients. In 2003 four issues of Estraveller will be published, all of them full colour 100 pages.

Consumer Protection: How well is an Estonian customer protected when using travel services? The laws are inadequate and the guarantees seem to be insufficient, say lawyers of the Estonian Consumer Protection Board.

Our reader Eviza Lepik spent a holiday in Kenya and became very fond of the most popular African safari country: "Kenya means unforgettable exotic scenes, incredible poverty and blue ocean, and the most diverse collection of wild animals."

"Oman is unique, and not yet destroyed by tourism," says Toomas H. Liiv, a writer and businessman. "Sultanate of Oman is slowly emerging from its shell, revealing a land of friendly people, dramatic landscapes and a lot of forts."

Says Margit Mikk-Sokk about Malaysia: "A traveller finds here whatever he or she dreams of - adventures, exotics, sunshine, big cities and loneliness. There are forests and beaches, ramshackle houses and skyscrapers, and the cultural mosaic is marked by many different cultures."

Charming Söll lies in a sunny valley and is watched over by the towering Wilden Kaiser mountain range. It is a famous ski resort. But Eret Pappel did not go there for winter skiing but for hiking and trekking in summer. "There are hundreds of kilometres of mountain walking paths in the area," she says and hopes to go back there again.

Meelis Luiks had dreamt of Australia all his life as far as he could remember. And then came the time to fulfil the dream: two months of planning, browsing the internet for information, struggling with visa bureaucracy, and there he was at last, Down Under. No busloads of tourists, no bossy guide - just he and his backpack.

New York is a city that never sleeps. Though 0911 has left its mark, though the Ground Zero still reminds us of atrocities of terrorist attacks, the Big Apple is regaining popularity among European tourists. The city still lives an extremely hectic life, the bars and restaurants are overcrowded. New York is the world capital of trade and business.

What are the first things that come to mind when you think of Hamburg? Probably the colourful activity in the St. Pauli entertainment district, the merchant town's Hanseatic history or the impressive harbour. Germany's second largest city offers a high quality of cultural life and international flair. In Hamburg, the word "boredom" is unknown.