http://theadventurepreneur.com Information for mixing business with adventure Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:26:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_140" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Browny"][/caption] OK so for what it is worth, not much probably, here are some of the key things that the conference should be considering and actioning: 1. Stopping direct flights between UK and Yemen is ridiculous - unless there is a REAL reason for doing it. Terror threats ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/yemen/my-message-to-the-yemen-conference/ [caption id="attachment_135" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula"][/caption] So, Obama and Brown are going to save the world from Yemeni and Yemen influenced nasties. The media is loving being able to fill space and 24 hour news graphics with lots of scary details about how Yemen is now home to ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/yemen/the-yemen-underpants-bomb-and-other-stories/ [caption id="attachment_130" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Ryanair seat pocket safety card joke"][/caption] For those of you who have never heard of Ryanair, it is a low cost airline, based in Ireland. They are one of the world's largest airlines with just under 58m passengers carried in 2008 and with a market cap bigger ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/business-reports/the-business-of-ryanair/ It is with great sadness that i heard about the IY626 Sanaa to Comoros plane crash on Tuesday morning. I know several Yemenia cabin crew, thankfully they werent on that flight, however of course their colleagues were and they are all very upset. I quite often get asked what it is ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/yemen/flying-yemenia-airlines/ Chewed some extraordinary Qat last week, freshly plucked from the fields of Wadi Dhar. Was promised the best sleep of my life. Indeed, i was out for about 13 hours. Subject of the chew was mainly to do with Iran elections and the Saa'da kidnapping. The latest theories on the kidnapping - ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/yemen/qat-kidnapping-gossip/ Update 1845 Sana'a. It is increasingly likely that a group aligned to Al Qaeda and based in northern Yemen has committed this atrocity. Whether all 9 have been killed or whether 7 have been killed with 2 of the children being found alive, is not confirmed. At some point between Friday ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/yemen/yemen-al-huthi-tribe-adopt-new-tactics-al-qaeda/ In late May, The Guardian had an excellent report on a group of tourists visiting Yemen from the UK. As with everything we are told, taught or preached to about, context is everything. Kevin Rushby's article is one of the best i have read in that it sets western life - ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/yemen/yemen-behind-the-headlines/ On Sunday 4 South Korean tourists were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Shibam Hadramout. 2 Yemenis working as tour guides were also killed. A number of others in the group were injured. I also understand that 4 Spanish students were close by ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/yemen/how-much-more-tourist-terror-can-yemen-take/ Why now is Somali piracy headlining around the world? it is hardly a new phenomenon. I decided to take a quick look around the online media to see what is being rumoured, theorised and conspired. The back story to Somali piracy is pretty much as follows: the narrow waters between Yemen ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/countries/somali-piracy-intrigue-and-conspiracy-on-the-high-seas/ Like many others in Yemen on the 4th November, i bought a bag of Qat, and pulled an all nighter watching the US election coverage on TV zapping between BBC, Sky, Fox News, CNN, Al Jazeera and even France 24. By far the BBC coverage was the most clunky ... http://theadventurepreneur.com/communications/media-coverage-of-the-us-election/