Foreign arrivals down 30 percent in Bangkok: industry group

BANGKOK — Arrivals of foreign tourists in Bangkok are down 30 percent, the Association of Thai Travel Agents said Thursday, blaming the drop on a state of emergency declared three days ago in the ca

Travel industry finds U.S. tourists are no longer low-hanging fruit

For 40 years, motel owner Gordon Heading counted on American travellers for a steady stream of business each summer along Cape Breton’s scenic Cabot Trail.

Tourist arrivals in Kashmir valley up by 97 pc

SRINAGAR: Agitation in favour and against Amarnath land transfer notwithstanding, tourist arrivals in Kashmir valley registered 97 per cent increase this season.

Visit Florida partners with Southwest for more tourists

Southwest Airlines and Visit Florida have forged a promotional partnership to target key markets such as Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh, Dallas and the Boston area.

O'Connor floats tourist tax to fund industry

Funding has finally been approved for the Government's much talked about tourism strategy but the difficulty in getting it passed has highlighted key financing issues for the industry.

Hawaii visitor arrivals drop 14.2% in scary situation for tourism

Nearly 100 Hawai'i tourism leaders met yesterday in an urgent search for a strategy to reverse the decline in visitor arrivals, which has reached levels not seen since the months after the 9/11 attack

Singapore’s tourism sector suffers drop in visitor arrivals

Singapore’s visitor arrivals fell 4.1 percent last month, the steepest monthly decline since the SARS outbreak five years ago, as rising hotel charges deter tourists arriving from Indonesia and Mala

U.S. airline on-time performance improves in May

The largest U.S.

Early Easter blamed for sharp tourism fall

An early Easter is being blamed for the biggest fall in visitor arrivals seen since July 2005.

On a seasonally adjusted basis arrivals dropped by 11.8 per cent between March and April and were down 7 per cent between April 2007 and April 2008.

Almost 30 pct of US flights failed to arrive on time

WASHINGTON - Nearly 30 percent of domestic flights were late or canceled in March, more bad news for an industry plagued with safety concerns and buckling under record fuel costs.

A record 1 million tourists arrive in Cuba in first quarter

One million tourists visited Cuba in the first quarter of 2008, and did so in record time, 22 days earlier than in 2007, officials announced at a celebration on Tuesday at the Compay Segundo Salon in the Hotel Nacional.

More extensive tourist fingerprinting comes to U.S. ports

New York - Fourteen small white boxes with green glowing screens were installed this week at customs booths around John F. Kennedy International Airport here.

Tourists swell 9.7%, says DOT

Foreign tourist arrivals breached the half-million mark in the first two months of the year, the highest so far registered in the last three years, the Department of Tourism (DOT) reported.

Cruise visitor arrivals plummet in Cayman

According to official figures, and allowing for disruption by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, total cruise ship arrivals in 2007 fell to pre-2003 levels.

Israel tourism jumps 25 pct in 2007 to 2.3 million

JERUSALEM, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Tourism to Israel jumped 25 percent in 2007 to its highest level in seven years, led by a record number of visitors from the United States, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.

New York attracts record 46m tourists in 2007

NEW YORK - A record 46 million tourists visited New York in 2007, in a sign of the city's dramatic recovery from the aftermath of the September 11 attacks six years ago, according to estimates unveiled Sunday.

The record figures included 8.5 million foreign visitors, who together with domestic tourists pumped some US$28 billion into the ... read more

Irish cities still more of a hit with tourists

Figures released by the tourism development authority, Fáilte Ireland, reveal that 2007 was a record year for Irish tourism in terms of visitors and earnings. 7.8 million people visited Ireland last year, a 5% increase on 2006.

The country's main cities are still benefiting most from tourism, with significantly less people visiting the ... read more