France
By Rick Steves
France is spiffing up its sights and museums from the Rhine to the Pyrenees. Of course, the biggest news is in Paris, where 2010 brings important changes.
read more
10 Billion Kenya Shilling Contract Signed
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
A contract worth nearly 10 billion Kenya shillings appears to have been signed for the supply of security and other operational equipment for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
read more
European Waterways Hotel Barge Review
By John Newton
As perfect days go, they don’t come much better than gliding along a canal in the south of France and being serenaded by a raven-headed beauty with the voice of a diva.
read more
European Waterways Hotel Barge
By Mari Nicholson
At four miles an hour, Go-Barging in Burgundy allows the body to relax into the rhythms of the French countryside while gliding past medieval villages and dark forests.
read more
Chinese Shoppers In France
By GREG KELLER
Chinese shoppers' love of French fashion helped make them the biggest tourist spenders in France last year, results from a survey released Thursday suggest.
read more
Top Tourist Destination
By Luc Citrinot, eTN Senior Managing Editor Asia
With 78.45 million international travelers in year 2008, France remains the world’s most visited destination, far ahead of the United States (58.03 million) and Spain (57.3 million).
read more
Dining On The French Anjodi
By Keith Ellis
When it was time to join the coach at Montpellier and travel to Anjodi, my hotel barge moored half an hour away on the Canal du Midi at the tiny waterside village of Le Somail.
read more
Martinique
France's overseas minister is in Martinique to help the French Caribbean island revive its tourism industry, slammed by a monthlong labor strike earlier this year.
read more
Muslim Bikini Controversy
By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer
Following an incident in France involving a Muslim woman who was told she was violating pool regulations - while wearing her Muslim swimsuit consisting of a headscarf, tunic and trouser outfit which a
read more
Egypt and the Louvre Museum
By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer
A harsh decision was handed down by Egyptian antiquities authority this weekend.
read more
French Tourism Aided By The French
PARIS - Tourism in France, the world's top holiday destination, held up over the summer months because a rise in domestic holidaymakers offset a sharp drop in foreign visitors, government data showed
read more
Latest News on Flight 447 Air France
By Unal Basusta and wires, eTN Staff Writer
Paul-Louis Arslanian, the director of the French agency investigating the crash of Air France Flight 447, said Monday that investigators could take at least a year-and-a-half to reach a conclusion.
read more
Tourist Trapped In Town Hall
A British tourist has spent a night trapped in a French town hall after mistakenly thinking she could book a room at the "hotel de ville".
read more
French Tourists Better Think Twice
French tourists that are thinking about heading off to some of the more risky foreign destinations may be asked to pay the bill if the French government has to come to their rescue.
read more
France's Tourism Under Wasp Attack
The bee-eating hornets, instantly recognisable by their yellow feet, are rapidly spreading round France and entomologists fear that they will eventually cross the Channel and arrive in Britain.
read more
French "Cheese" Tourism
When people think of France, they think of French cheese. And when people think of French cheese, they think of Roquefort.
read more
France Tourism
By Luc Citrinot, eTN Staff Writer
PARIS (eTN) - As France international tourist arrivals take a dive, the French government adopted over the summer two new laws that could theoretically benefit to tourism.
read more
France
Despite a global economic monetary crisis people are still travelling. And France is still the number one destination in the world. Has been for several years running.
read more
Air France Tragedy
By Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor
PARIS – The mysterious fate of Air France flight 447 took place when France was asleep.
read more
France
MOULIDARS, France - Three British women were recovering after being attacked by a huge swarm of bees in what witnesses in France described as a scene from a horror movie.
read more
