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Hotel Okura Acquires 80% Stake of JAL Hotels Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:16 PM PDT Hotel Okura Co., which is located in Tokyo, Japan, has recently finished its buying of nearly 80 percent venture in JAL Hotels Company Ltd.  Hotel Okura has over twenty hotel chains, most of which are located in Japan.  The 80% stake they bought was from Japan Airlines Corp. that has filed for a protection for bankruptcy earlier in 2010. Since 1970, JAL Hotels has been operating as the hotel arm for Japan Airlines Co. Ltd.  Back in July 1996, the Japan Airlines Development Ltd. changed its name to JAL Hotels Company Ltd. in order to accentuate its role and goals as a hotel company.  In April 1999, JAL Hotels engaged in a merger with Japan Airlines Hotel Co. Ltd. that led to its taking over the management of the Kawasaki Nikko Hotel and the Ginza Nikko Hotel. Ultimately, last September 30, 2010, JAL Hotels Company Ltd. became a merged property of Hotel Okura Co., Ltd., who bought almost 80% of the former' stakes.  JAL's airline company still keeps their 11.1% on their hotels.  Candidates for the representative director position were determined by a shareholders' meeting as well as a board of directors' meeting.  Mr. Marcel P. van Aeslt, will continue to hold the Executive Director and Managing Corporate Executive Officer post for Hotel Okura as well as the post for JAL Hotels' presidents. JAL Hotels is a Japanese brand of global hotels with a headquarters in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.  It aims to deliver the utmost standards of hotel service as it fuses the unique hospitality of the Japanese people and its customs.  While Hotel Okura currently operates around 40 hotels located in Japan and in Asia.

Rabies, a threat to Travelers Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:03 PM PDT Unfortunately, a horrifying number of people around the world, around 60,000, die annually due to the lethal virus rabies. In countries where anti-rabies shots are unavailable or even unaffordable, more people suffer from trauma, uncertainty, and fear once they've been bitten or scratched by dogs who have yet to be vaccinated. Last September 28 was hailed as the World Rabies Day, this move echoed awareness about rabies to the global community.  It seemed that apart from the incident in Scotland where bats bit humans, there are no cases of native rabies in Britain and therefore, the awareness about the lethal virus is quite minimal. The virus called rabies may be transferred through the infected animal's saliva, particularly the canine specie.  There is an terrifying rabies break in Bali, however, it seems that even in a county like the US, where a rabies-outbreak from the raccoons that reside at Central Park, suffer from the rabies threat despite the vaccines being available. Travelers around the world are advised to take a three-jab anti-rabies vaccine shot before traveling.  No one can tell who are at the highest risks and some have developed fear of approaching sick mammals in parks or temple and stray dogs. So if you're traveling to a place or a country where rabies infected mammals are concerned, it would be wise to get pre-vaccinated for some peace of mind because a bite is not the only way that the virus is transferred but also from licking and scratching open wounds.

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