Top Ten Reasons For US Residents to Vacation in San Juan Puerto Rico

1.The beaches in and around San Juan are some of the most beautiful in the world. With white sand and green water, you can't help but sit back and relax with your feet in the warm Caribbean sea. For the more adventurous, there is plenty of great snorkeling and scuba diving.

2. San Juan is just a short flight away from many other Caribbean islands, including Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and St. Thomas

3. Le Lo Lai festival. It goes on all year round and showcases the heritages of the local people, who are of Indian, African, and Spanish backgrounds. Tickets for a weekly series of events can be purchased for$US10

4. Fort Cristobal. It is one of the oldest and largest fortresses built in the Americas. It has over 100 foot walls that look graceful and powerful when the ocean's waves crash into them. There are also guided tours in English and Spanish.

5. San Juan Bay. The largest port in the Caribbean is located here. There are shops all around, carrying everything from gold jewelry to local arts and crafts. There are always cruise ships pulling up so there is always a chance to see one of these giant vessels up close.

6. Paseo de la Princesa. This place is located on the southern tip of San Juan and is the former location of a Spanish Prison. Several festivals are held here throughout the year and there is a beautiful view of Isla deCabras, a small island in San Juan Bay.

7. The parks in San Juan are everywhere you turn. There is a a variety of parks, everything from small parks in church yards to big parks with giant rolling hills, great for flying kites or just looking out at the sea.

8. The museums. There are dozens of museums in San Juan alone, not counting Old San Juan and surrounding areas. There is no shortage of educational sites to hit in San Juan

9. English is spoken by a majority of the residents of San Juan. Sure, it's more like Latin America than the United States, but you would be surprised by how many people can speak English.

10. U.S. residents don't need a passport or visa to travel to Puerto Rico! A passport is required to travel everywhere in the Caribbean and even Canada now, but when you arrive at

San Juan International Airport all you will need is a state issued driver's license or a state issued photo identification.

For more information on San Juan visit Welcome to Puerto Rico.

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Travel Agent - Helps You Plan Your Trips

World is wide and beautiful. It is full of natural and man made marvels. We all love to see new places and spend some time relaxing and holidaying. Now a days, people invest huge sum of money on the tours and expeditions to the various places across the world. There are so many places of tourists' interest in the world that tourism has emerged as one of the biggest industry in the modern times. There are innumerable places which are worth visiting and ideal for holidaying. Before you decide to visit any place you need to collect relevant information about that place. You should be well aware of the different facts like hotels, transport etc about that location. It is not advisable to move to any place without prior arrangement. For this you need to have thorough preparation and perfect arrangements. It is suggested that you seek guidance from the professional authorities before planning your tour.

Travel agents play a very vital role in this scenario. They can assist you and also organize tours for you. These agents assist the various tourists with the help of a variety of information. They help the travellers to arrange their tours by providing them information about the hotels, weather conditions of desired location and other important facts. These agents have vast information and data about the various locations. They give the customers advice regarding the destinations. They have in-depth expertise in terms of organizing the tours. They handle all your requirements related to the bookings of the air tickets, arranging for the taxis, booking the best hotels and guest houses for you. In simple words, the tour agents can plan your entire tour with their amazing packages and deals. Since they are specialist in this arena you can easily rely on them for the best arrangements. It may not be possible for you to contact the hotels, local transport etc as you may not be having enough contacts in every country or town.

These agents are really a major source of cruise lines booking, airlines booking etc. They have enough arrangements for the booking of rooms in various high standard resorts and hotels. The huge travel groups and chain of motels generally coordinate with these agents only to promote their packages. An efficient agent can help you search for a great package with attractive offerings at lucrative prices. They have enough knowledge about the various destinations and places. They have the ability to guide the tourists regarding the locations, the local decree, culture and the major attractions of various places. These efficient agents can give you advice regarding the various legal formalities, custom regulations etc in case you are traveling across the countries. They offer you information for the required documents like Visa, passports etc. You can also seek guidance regarding the currency exchange etc. Taking help from the reliable travel agents is therefore a wise decision.

They help you plan your entire tour with complete arrangements from airlines, hotel bookings, meals and also your transport like taxi etc. They also hold responsibility for making alternate arrangements and bookings in case of any cancellation or changes in the planned trips. The agents use the various sources like the websites, travel journals etc to gain information regarding the various hotels, fares etc. They help the travelers find discounts on their trips. The agents need to have full knowledge about the different hotels and restaurants so that they can suggest these places to their customers.

So, if you are planning for a fun filled holiday to the beautiful and serene surroundings of Switzerland or thinking of visiting New York for seeking opportunities for your business, try taking assistance from a well known travel agent who can help you plan your tour with great efficiency. With the help of an efficient agent, you shall be a able to enjoy your trips. They are dedicated to offer you wonderful services so that you can have complete fun, comfort and enthrallment while during your travels.

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Innovation and Organization - The Two Horns of Dilemma

Are you creative? Do you want to do things differently? If I ask these questions to anybody, I am pretty sure in most of the cases I will get affirmative answer. At the same time I know, I will get response in negative, if I frame the same questions in a different angle. Can you show me an instance of your creativity? When you went to do X, why didn't you take a different approach? When the first set of questions talk of one's dream, the second set of questions is entirely practical. My argument is what barriers a person faces while trying to do things differently?

First and foremost why we do it? The answer is, yes we all know, it is for our bread and butter. For the sake of argument I am just ignoring all seers who work because of passion. They cannot be the basis of my discussion as they are not common people. But the fact is whatever we do, we do it for money. Either we work in an organization or we run an organization. The primary fact is that we are bounded by some rules and disciplines which are either self imposed to do better business, or are imposed on us.

The next obvious point is what makes an organization to restrict creativity. The faux pas is that an organization is not at all bothered with creativity, unless it itself is in very creative field where innovation is the basis of its business. Primarily the domain of an organization never collides or merges with that of innovation. Every organization has a goal and the goal is to do business and make its position better. Now to make yourself better, you need to compete with others. And to win in that zone, you have to be quality wise perfect, time wise accurate, cost wise cheaper and service wise excellent. Time effective accuracy is always the goal of an organization and perfection its motto. And it cannot compromise in time and quality. Where organization sees perfection, innovation looks forward to improvement and improvisation. A machine is better resource to an organization than a human being.

Innovation is a time consuming process. If we consider the most effective innovation technique which talks of ethnography, virtual ethnography and lead user method, all of them basically studies an environment, collects data over a significant period of time before coming to an altogether different approach. Ethnography is basically a study of subject in its own environment. Virtual ethnography talks of alternate approach when the direct study of subject is not possible. Lead user method in brief is, instead of reinventing wheel why don't you find a user who invented it and then improve its functioning; or change it to suit your purpose. In all the cases it takes a lot time for study, data collection, research and then coming to the conclusion. Who can afford to give you time in this age of cut-throat competition?

So when we are under the purview of an organization (I consider one's own business is no exception as he is still guided by delivery, client satisfaction and his own survival in the market), you can not afford to try. But shall it be discouraged, if we do a thing differently. The answer is not at all, if your procedure outperforms the traditional practice and people can feel its benefit in terms of time, quality and cost. As I already said organization is neither against nor supportive of innovation, you can always give a different hand but you must be very sure that it will work.

When a creative mind falls under that situation, he suffers from dilemma. His heart says to try it differently where his brain says why you will take risk by not following conventional proven method. The catch22 is most of the small or medium sized, even big cannot afford to experiment. They always welcome research and development, but outside current scope.

To conclude, innovation is something which you can practice in parallel but mingling it with your current job is next to impossible. Innovation can be practiced for a task which is over but not for a process which is under way. Innovation can be a habit which is practiced elsewhere and can be inducted after success. But if you try to apply it in your running projects, then the syndrome of dilemma will grip you and will be a good excuse for you, for not being creative, forever.

Anirban Bhattacharya is an open source programmer and has almost 8 years of industry experience. For the past 5 years he is an active coder in LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) technologies. He has wide knowledge in project management and software development life cycle. He spends his free time in writing technical articles for his blog.

His past experience has enabled him to gather knowledge on various open source technologies, PHP frameworks and other related areas. He can be contacted at anirban76b@gmail.com

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