Corona
Summer vacation in germany booming

Full beaches on the north sea and baltic sea, high activity in the foothills of the alps: despite the summer travel boom in many vacation regions, the industry believes that german tourism cannot make up for the slumps caused by the corona crisis.

"On balance, it will hardly be possible to speak of a boom in germany tourism this year. The losses during the lockdown were too heavy for that," said norbert kunz, managing director of the german tourism association (dtv). Currently, vacationers in particularly popular regions have to dig deeper into their pockets for overnight stays. Kunz talks of price increases of up to a maximum of 10 percent.

Trends
Fierce competition for hairdressers makes haircuts more expensive

Higher wages for hairdressers make haircuts more expensive. In the hairdressing trade – as in many other trades – there is fierce competition for employees, jorg muller, chief executive of the central association of the hairdressing trade, told the deutsche presse-agentur.

"We simply have to pay more, offer more."The salon operators had to pass the higher wage costs on to the prices. Many salons have long paid more than the minimum wage, muller said.

Travels
Strikes and long waiting times: air traffic remains problematic

European air traffic remains problematic. After a successful start to the easter travel season, with few exceptions, strikes are now threatening spain, germans’ favorite vacation destination.

Even in the medium term, the prospects for more punctual flights remain slim, as german air traffic control made clear on monday. She is working with the airport and the airlines to improve operations.

News

We hutschdorfers know what we have in it and have never wanted to miss it: our village shop.

There is almost everything your heart desires, and even if you run out of ingredients for the roast on a sunday morning: no problem, a trip to the village store and the sauerbraten is saved.

News
International successes for the martial arts team

Once again, the martial artists from TSV rannungen were challenged internationally, this time at the "world martial arts games" in wagrain near salzburg with over 2000 participants from 22 nations. Marcel markert from seubrigshausen showed all his skills, which was rewarded with bronze in light contact and gold in kicklight. Silver in the pointfight was won by lio oestereicher, only nine years old and the youngest fighter in the TSV squad, whose final opponent had more fighting experience than lio.

Reinhold polczyk from hain could not show his usual performance, but still won two bronze medals for the martial arts team in kicklight and light contact. TSV veteran holger volz was runner-up in each of his veteran categories, while fellow trainer nils volz was unable to compete in his two categories because he had to wait until later to tackle the 580-kilometer route due to work and was confronted with traffic jams.

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Visitors to the GWF’s wooden barrel cellar can expect a few surprises from friday, 18 january. January, reckon, when coarse black-and-white pictures adorn the old fasser. The artist volker glatz from heidelberg creates with his nude paintings a charming contrast to the dark cellar vaulting.

The group hammelburger kunstvereint thus continues its collaboration with the team of the winzerkeller to increase the attractiveness of the historic cellar through art.

News
Erdogan threatens eu again with opening border to refugees

Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has again threatened to open the borders to europe for syrian refugees. Ankara cannot shoulder a possible further influx of refugees from syria on its own, erdogan said on saturday.

He had already made similar remarks in a speech in ankara on thursday. There is "a new migration threat" from the last syrian rebel stronghold of idlib along the turkish border, erdogan said. He appealed to the EU to provide sufficient financial support.

Music
Artful whistle concert in the dormitory

The young female students and a male student, who live in busan, the second largest city in south korea, located at the southeastern end of the korean peninsula on the coast of the sea of japan, from where it takes four hours by car to get to japan, were supervised by musicologist chae heung lim, who speaks german fondly.

The director of the home, thomas geldner, buried the asian guests and gave them a tour of the house together with the home's resident michaela mende. Especially the three students, who want to take up a career in the care sector, were interested in all the rooms, whether it was the residents' rooms, bathrooms, therapy rooms or common rooms, and eagerly took pictures.

School
countries are on the way to a comparable baccalaureate

This is what the president of the conference of education ministers (KMK), stephan dorgerloh (SPD), said after the meeting. As of the 2016/17 school year, the states will be able to select tasks from the pool for which they have previously supplied them. "The best from the countries is going into the pool," said dorgerloh. Equal levels of difficulty and grading scales should ensure greater mobility of students and teachers.

The tasks are supplied by the federal states and then examined by scientists from the state’s own institute for quality development in education (IQB). First of all, the subjects are german, mathematics, english and french. The natural sciences should follow.

Finance
P&r-grunder arrested on suspicion of fraud

On wednesday, he was arrested on urgent suspicion of fraud as well as a risk of flight and collusion, brought before a magistrate and taken to the stadelheim detention center, as senior public prosecutor anne leiding said on thursday.

According to the insolvency administrators, P&R could have set up a kind of snowball system. Senior public prosecutor hans kornprobst estimates the damage at 1.5 to 2 billion euros.