VIDEO: Typhoon SON TINH in Sanya on Hainan Island, China, and the track of its further movement
http://hainanwel.com/en/hainan-news/214 ... -tinh.html At yesterday, the city of Sanya and Hainan Island, China were under attack of typhoon SON TINH, but the epicenter of the typhoon passed to the side of the island of Hainan, the typhoon SON TINH brought to Hainan Island a storm winds and heavy rains (see the video at the bottom of this article).
The maximum wind speed in a typhoon SON TINH was 40 m / s, the radius of hurricane-force winds was 110 km from the center, the typhoon is moving to northwest at 20 km/h, as seen from the trajectory of the typhoon, on October 31, 2012 typhoon SON TINH weakened and its epicenter will reach the city of Haikou, but the strength of the wind will be around 45 km/h, as first typhoon will turn to a tropical storm and in tropical depression.
Name of typhoon SON TINH was taken from Vietnamese mythology and means "Mountain god." Until the beginning of November 2012 in Hainan Island, China are expected a periodic rains.
We are the first in Russian reported, that the typhoon is approaching- two days before its arrival at the island of Hainan, but the situation with the typhoon Son Tinh surprised us do not the typhoon, but its coverage in the Russian press, despite the fact that Hainan Island is advertised in the Chinese press as "the premier international resort"- from 36 articles of media in the Russian section of the largest Russian Internet news system Yandex News- only HainanWel.com and Gismeteo reported, that the typhoon affected of Hainan Island (in this point in time), all the rest of the media pretended, that Hainan Island does not exist, and reported that the typhoon hit the Philippines and Vietnam.
This suggests, that the popularity of Hainan among Russian tourists has decreased to almost zero in 2012, because in 2010, in a similar situation with a typhoon most of the media reported about the island of Hainan, and did not report about Vietnam and Philippines.
This is not surprising, given the responses of Hainan tour operators in the Russian press, and given the work of employees of the Tourism Department of Hainan Province and the Sanya City for development of tourism on Hainan Island, the responses about the Hainan tour operators can be found here:
http://hainanwel.com/en/hainan-news/203 ... urism.html Learn about how the staff of the Tourism Department of Hainan Province and the Sanya City advertised of Hainan Island in Moscow, Russia at September 2012, can be found here:
http://hainanwel.com/en/hainan-fairs-fe ... urism.html We remind everyone that, in our opinion, Hainan Island is the best resort in the world, the list of independent excursions on the island of Hainan, which you can organize themselves independently (without Hainan tour operators) can be found here:
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