No Heavy Losses For Australian Tourism
By JESSICA MARSZALEK
Australia's tourism industry has weathered the global financial downturn of 2009 better than expected, with new data showing international visitors only slightly down.
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Burj Dubai Closed To Visitors
By ADAM SCHRECK
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The world's tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and castin
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Surfing The Net In Kenya
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile phone provider, has launched an Internet access platform available for tourist and business visitors. A week’s subscription costs a mere 999 Kenya shillings.
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Egypt Tourism Recovery
By Alaa Shahine and Abdel Latif Wahba
Egypt, home to the pyramids of Giza, recorded a slower-than-anticipated decline in tourism revenue last year and is targeting 6.9 percent growth in receipts in 2010 as the global economy recovers, the
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Canada's Must-Experience Places
VANCOUVER - Olympic fever and national pride hits an all-time high as Canada prepares to welcome the world for the 2010 Winter Games.
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Winter Olympics 2010
By Chris Erskine
Vancouver is one of the few major North American cities without a downtown freeway. As such, it lends itself to strolling, shopping and exploring.
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Turkey-Iran Tourism Cooperation
Turkey's Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay says the country will share its experience in the tourism sphere with Iran.
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Haiti's Tourism
By INGRID BROWN
From the devastation caused by the deadly January 12 earthquake, Haiti could emerge an attractive tourism destination.
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Bermuda Goes After Indian Tourists
MUMBAI - Sensing huge opportunity in the Indian market for outbound tourism sector, a delegation from Bermuda is exploring ways to lure Indian
tourists to island nation, a top official said.
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Olympic Tourism
Sallie Reavey picked up the phone at her charming Briar Rose Inn and the caller asked about rooms in mid-February.
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Tahiti Hit By Cyclone
By MICHAEL FIELD
Hundreds of tourists were taken to emergency centres as severe Cyclone Oli hit French Polynesia this morning.
This morning Oli was 250 kilometres south west of Bora Bora and moving south east.
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Machu Picchu Rail Repairs
By John Quigley
Peru’s government will help repair the privately owned rail line that takes tourists to the Machu Picchu ruins in a bid to limit economic losses for the country that could reach $800 million.
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Accessibility In Southern Sudan
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
Work in progress has been described as impressive last week, when a site inspection showed substantial advances on this key traffic artery, which connects Juba and the rest of the southern Sudan with
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Brunei Tourism 2010
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Year of the Tiger is off to a good start this year for Brunei's tourism industry players as tour agencies and hotels have experienced quick sales and are expecting high occup
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China-Taiwan Tourism
Travel agents on Taiwan's outlying islands of Kinmen and Matsu will be allowed from May to apply online for travel permits on behalf of Chinese tour groups who want to visit the two islands via direct
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Saudi Arabia's Tourism To Grow
Saudi Arabia's tourism industry is unique in that despite the limitations of strict entrance visa regulations, the industry has strong growth potential.
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Tourism To Jamaica Increases
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica – Jamaica experienced a 3.6 percent increase from January-December 2009 in tourist arrivals, compared to the same period in 2008, and is off to a promising start for 2010.
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Tourist Safety In Goa
The Goa tourism department is in the process of raising a special tourist security force in the wake of crimes against tourists in the state especially foreign women tourists.
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Mexico Tourism Report Q1 2010
Data released by SecretarÃa de Turismo (Ministry of Tourism, Sectur) indicated that tourist arrivals continued to fall in 2009, totalling 12.6mn in the first seven months of the year, a fall of 6.6
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Dubai's Arrivals Down
DUBAI - The number of tourists to Dubai fell in the first nine months of last year as the global economic slowdown resulted in fewer travellers from Europe, the country’s Department of Tourism and C
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