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Summary in English
| Estraveller is Estravel's quarterly customer magazine
with an ordinary circulation of 11,000 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 2001 six issues
of Estraveller will be published, all of them full colour 100 pages. |
| Cover Story: In addition to its usual inbound and outbound travel
services, Estravel also offers lodging and recreation to domestic
clients, looking for a short holiday in Estonia. "We have very good
co-operation with hotels and tourist farms all over Estonia, and due
to our large purchasing volume, we are able to negotiate the best
prices," says Anne Samlik, General Manager of Estravel. |
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Estonia: Says Ellen Aunin, project leader of Estonian Tourist Board:
"There are many hidden secrets in South Estonia. You can enjoy wonderful
sceneries, participate in activities and travel through different
cultures." South Estonia is the only region in Estonia with two seasons,
both summer and winter. |
| Travel Experience: Eneli Jänes, travel manager of Toyota Balti
AS - a loyal customer of Estravel, spent a few days on Ruhnu and fell
in love with the tiny island in the Baltic Sea. "You can have as good
a rest in Estonia as in Austria, but it will cost you seven times
less," Eneli says. |
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Cruise: In the 2nd article of his cruise series, written specially
for Estraveller, international travel and cruise journalist Timo Kauppinen
gives us advice how to pick the right cruise. "The most important
thing is to choose the itinerary and the ship," says Kauppinen, "and
it is essential to do some home-work before the decision." |
| Partner: Hotel Latvija in Riga opened its doors after full renovation.
The 26-storey building has been regarded as one of the landmarks and
best-known hotels of the Latvian capital. After renovation there are
382 cosy rooms and the best-equipped conference centre in Riga. |
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Advice: AssarJõepera, sales manager of Fotoluks photo shops,
long-time partner of Estravel, gives valuable advice on making stunning
pictures with simple cameras. |
| Partner: Stena Line is an international transport and travel service
company and one of the world´s largest ferry operators. The route
network comprises 12 strategically located routes between Great Britain
and Ireland, Holland and England, Norway and Denmark, Sweden and Germany
and Sweden and Poland. |
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Destination: Costa del Sol is one of the most popular Mediterranean
holiday destinations among Estonians. 325 days of sunshine per year,
clear sea water, golden beaches. Says José Miquel, manager
of Spanish Tourist Office in Helsinki: "The infrastructure of Costa
del Sol is so well developed that it guarantees the best quality
and price ratio. And just
a few kilometres inland you find superb white villages and quiet
everyday life, as if tourists did not exist."
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| Destination: "Berlin is a big metropole," says Terhi Paavola of
Silja Line, "it is nine times bigger that Paris, it is always busy
and ready to offer anything the visitors wish. The fine network of
S-Bahn, U-Bahn, busses and trams enables you to get anywhere quick
and easy. It is easy to go there and it is interesting to be there."
Silja Line's ferry Finnjet takes passengers from Tallinn to Rostock
in 21 hours, and Berlin is almost there. |
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Travel Experience: Margus Schults, Vice President of Ühispank
and a long-time loyal customer of Estravel, continues his travel story
about South America. Now their party has reached Peru, the land if
inkas and condors, and is visiting Cuzco and Machu Picchu. |
| Estravel: Estravel has seven sales offices in Estonia: five in Tallinn,
one in Pärnu and one in Tartu. In June, the Tartu office is moving
to a new address, Vallikraavi 2. "It is a superb location," says Sirje
Volmre, manager of Tartu Estravel, "on the so-called banks' cross-roads,
where many people pass every day." |
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Air: Part 2 of the article, translated and published on kind permission
of AIT International and the authors, which analyses the major Russian
regional airlines, particularly in the aftermath of Aeroflot's de-regulation,
and the country's financial crisis of 1998. |
| Travel Experience: "It was like Hollywood, or travelling into our
own distant past," says Veigo Kell after his visit to Cuba. "People
standing in queues, empty shelves at shops, streets full of old American
and Soviet cars. The trip was extremely interesting, but the time
seems to have stopped in Cuba." Mr. Kell did not stay at Varadero
beach resort like most foreigners do, but wandered around the country
on his own and witnessed the real life. |
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Partner: Superfast Ferries, a Mediterranean based company, opens
a ferry service Hanko-Rostock with brand-new 21st century
ferry ships. The service will be operated throughout the year and
with introduction of another vessel in July there will be 6 departures
a week from Hanko 6 times a week. The voyage from Finland to Germany
will take 22 hours. |
| Travel Experience: "Give your Moms and Dads a trip to a sunny beach,"
suggests Toomas Alatalu, one of the best-known figures in Estonian
politics and academics. The retired people in Estonia lack both the
tradition of foreign travel as well as the resources. Therefore it
is their children's task to give them a trip as a present," says Mr
Alatalu who himself took his 80-year-old mother to Cyprus. |
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Estravel has introduced an internet application WebMarine (http://www.webmarine.ee)
which enables every PC-owner to book a ferry or catamaran ticket from
Tallinn to Helsinki or vice versa through internet and even to print
out the ticket at once, without getting up from the computer. "The
system is very simple and very informative at the same time," says
Andres Kreegipuu, Vice President of Estravel and the main creator
of WebMarine. "It provides information about all carriers operating
the Tallinn-Helsinki line, all departures and prices. Payment can
be transacted at once too, through Hansabank or Ühispank internet
banking system link in the system." |
| Markku Marttinen, Finnish travel writer and journalist, visited
Turkey a few weeks ago and now shares his travel impressions of that
interesting country with readers of Estraveller. "It is an astonishing
mixture of the past and the present," Marttinen says, "and there is
no experience like Hamam, the Turkish bath." |
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Estravel
AS kliendileht, mai - juuni 2001