Indonesia
Denpasar, Bali (eTN) - Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik has categorically refuted allegations that the tourism industry has had a significant impact on climate change.
"People ...
Minister of Tourism of St. Lucia
Castries, St. Lucia(TVLW) - Allen Chastanet, Minister of Tourism of St. Lucia affirmed integration in this sector is still a dream, during the last journey of the 16th Caribbean Media Exchange ...
Hawaii
(TVLW) - Officials from Marriott International Inc. say the company is close to signing an agreement to operate a new 220-room hotel planned for La'ie.
The new hotel, which is expected to ...
Tampa Brandon Hotel Offers Luxuries of Home
BRANDON, Fla. (TVLW) - White Lodging is proud to announce the opening of the first Embassy Suites added to its management portfolio with the opening of the Embassy Suites Tampa Brandon. The hotel ...
Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (eTN) - A French tourist was fatally shot at a bus terminal in a central Iranian city by a gunman suspected of armed robbery, state media said Monday.
The official IRNA news ...
Fire or heart attack killed tourist
(eTN) - The elderly British tourist found dead after a fire on Table Mountain could have died of a heart attack, the doctor who did the post mortem examination conceded on Monday.
However, ...
Cruise
(TVLW) - Royal Caribbean Continues Global Expansion, Launches TUI Cruises Royal Caribbean, which has already embarked on efforts to expand its business to Spain and France, announced today that it ...
Airline
FORT WORTH, Texas (TVLW) - American Eagle, the regional affiliate of American Airlines, will add two daily nonstop flights between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Grand Junction ...
Airports
WASHINGTON (eTN) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now collecting additional fingerprints from international visitors arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport ...
Airline
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (TVLW) - Alaska Airlines today inaugurated nonstop, year-round service between Anchorage, Alaska, and Honolulu. The airline launched nonstop Seattle-Honolulu service Oct. 12 and ...
Cities of the Dead off the tourist route
(eTN) - Sunlight falls through a hole in the crown of the beehive-shaped tomb that Saad Mahmoud and his family call home, illuminating an oblong gravestone that serves as a kitchen ...
First tourists to the South Pole
(eTN) - South Pole, anyone? The British travel company Discover the World is to become the first tour operator to offer trips to the geographic South Pole, as part of an eight-day trip to the ...
Indonesia
JAKARTA (TVLW) - The Culture and Tourism Ministry has launched a website to provide comprehensive information about the country's tourism sector.
The website contains information on tourism ...
Cruises
(TVLW) - Dubai welcomed six cruise ships at its state-of-the-art cruise terminal since the start of cruise season in October.
North Korea
(eTN) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has given warm encouragement to local workers developing Mount Baekdu, the highest point on the peninsula that will be opened to South Korean tourists next ...
Sweden Door-to-Door
(TVLW) - Business organisation, RTS, the Swedish Travel and Tourist Industry Federation, and public players are cooperating on a new venture. The parties have agreed to develop Sweden Door-to-Door ...
Argentina
(eTN) - Early Sunday, over 5.000 tourists from three large cruise vessels will be landing in Buenos Aires, one of the peak days of the 2007/08 cruise season.
Infinity, Symphony and ...
Airline
(TVLW) - Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott said the airline�s Atlantic Southeast Airlines regional carrier, will fly out of Tupelo for the last time on Jan. 7 at 7:50 a.m.
�Obviously, we ...
Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand (eTN) — Above the din of children playing, tourists chatting and dogs barking, a muffled clang echoes through the alleyways. It's 70-year-old Pranee Sutdis who, as she has for ...
Locals fear flood of more tourists
SIENA, Italy (eTN) - Plans to bring this city into the jet age with the expansion of its small airport are being contested by an embattled group of citizens who say that Siena is doing fine, just ...
Airline
SAO PAULO, Brazil (TVLW) - GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., the parent company of Brazil's low-cost airlines GOL Transportes Aereos S.A. and VRG Linhas Aereas S.A., announces that today VRG ...
Mexico
REAL DE CATORCE, Mexico (eTN) – Pity the peyote, the legendary cactus whose hallucinogenic powers inspired gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and an entire generation of hippies.
This ...
Cruise
SINGAPORE (TVLW) - A Western-based global cruise brand is making a grand foray into the Asian market.
One of America's and Europe's biggest cruise operators – Royal Caribbean ...
Iguana invasion
MIAMI (eTN) - Florida's idyllic Gasparilla island has taken up arms against aggressive foreign intruders, but the Mexican spiny-tailed iguanas are putting up a tough fight, devouring landscaped ...
HANOI (eTN) - Vietnam on Thursday greeted its four-millionth visitor of the year, celebrating a milestone for the tourism sector as it is seeking to position itself as a leading Southeast Asian ...
Nepal
KATHMANDU (eTN) — Cadres of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which is now part of a peace process ending its 10-year insurgency, beat up a Swiss tourist in western Nepal when the tourist ...
South Africa
Pretoria (eTN) - Unlike other countries where tourists are advised to buy bottled water, with South Africa's high quality of tap water, tourists need their holiday cash on bottled water, writes ...
Scotland
(TVLW) - GLASGOW'S success in forging a public-private partnership to boost tourism should be a model for the whole of Scotland, the new chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Forum (STF) said ...
Vietnam
HANOI (TVLW) - Vietnam has agreed to organize the 28th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Tourism Forum (ATF) in capital Hanoi in 2009, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and ...
(eTN) - The Brazilian Tourism Institute and the National Institute for Tourist Promotion of Argentina have signed an agreement for joint promotion of their tourist destinations in countries that ...
