A roundup of the week's other travel news in brief:
Beware of putpockets
Visitors to London wary of having their pockets picked now have to look out for a new breed: putpockets.
Twenty former pickpockets have been recruited to slip anything from £5 (€6) to £20 (€24) into visitors’ pockets or bags at Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and other tourist hot spots.
It’s a publicity wheeze by a telephone and broadband company, TalkTalk, which says it wants to brighten up people’s lives in unusual ways in the €120,000 giveaway.
Pharaohs’ tomb risk
The ornate pharaonic tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings could disappear within 150 years if they remain open to tourists, the country’s head of antiquities has warned.
Zahi Hawass said humidity and fungus are eating into the walls of the royal tombs in the huge necropolis on the west bank of the Nile across from Luxor, which is swamped daily by several thousand tourists. Poor ventilation and the breath of the hordes of visitors are causing damage to the carvings and painted decorations inside the tombs, he said this week.
* 100,000The amount, in euro, that Ryanair raised with its 2009 Cabin Crew Charity Calendarwhich featured 13 of the airline's staff in bikinis. The airline has invited charities to apply now to benefit from the next one.