As Russian president Medvedev made a first visit to the island in November 2010.
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News of the currency changeover plans coincided with a visit to the Indian Ocean island by Horst Koehler, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
On a visit to the area around Zug Island, a fainter version of similar sounds was audible.
In the early 1980s, when a crime wave threatened to wipe out Jamaica's tourist industry, it was rescued by Sandals, a locally-owned chain, which marketed its all-inclusive hotels as a safe way to visit the island.
The visit is seen as a possible tourism boost to the island's cash-strapped economy as many residents seek to make use of a series of recent free market reforms that have slowly swelled the number of private businesses in the country.
U.S. citizens are allowed to visit Cuba, an island shrouded in a virtual blackout to the U.S. and other parts of the world, but must apply for special licenses to do so.
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Trips alight on various islands and also the Antarctic Peninsula to visit research stations run by different countries, giving a sense of the island's recent human history and the fragility of our hold on this most remote part of the world, beautiful and full of thrilling danger all at once.
Combining a couple of days in Santiago with a visit to Easter Island is a perfect weeklong trip, and while it can be easier to get to Lima, the city is not nearly as attractive a destination.
Unfortunately, a trip to Gorgona comes with a hefty price tag, making a visit an unattainable dream for many Colombians, especially the poverty-stricken residents of Guapi, to whom the island politically belongs.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Foreign Office said Britain had already arranged for Ilois community members to visit the island and assess the current condition.
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