Spain has been warned it’s facing a dip in tourists’ interest after the country has experienced the closure of thousands of bars, coffee shops and taverns. The Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) said between 2021 and early 2023 the country saw
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Comanesti, a small industrial town in northeast Romania, attracts global visitors during the winter holiday season. The annual Dancing Bears Festival in Comanesti is based on a millennia-old tradition from the Moldavia region, featuring bearskin-clad participants. The festival begins before Christmas and
The “picturesque” village of Barrancas in Chile’s O’Higgins region is home to a group of artisans dubbed “living human treasures” by the Chilean government. They were granted the honor in 2011 for preserving an ancient way of cultivating salt in a part
In August, the historical town of Lahaina, Hawaii, was decimated in a massive wildfire that caused dozens of deaths. On Tuesday, residents of Lahaina delivered a petition to delay the reopening of a portion of West Maui to tourism. While residents said
Celebrities have backed the banning of adverts for attractions abroad which abuse elephants whose “future is threatened by ruthless commercial exploitation”. The Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Bill will have its third reading in the House of Lords on Monday. Conservationist Chris Packham
Tourists stroll the city of Venice amid travel surge Visitors have poured back into Venice, with outsiders often vastly outnumbering the 50,000 residents of the city center, overwhelming the narrow alleys and putting the daily charge back on the mayor’s agenda. (SOURCE:
The Virgin Galactic spaceflight is due to take off from New Mexico carrying an 80-year-old British former Olympian, an Aberdeen student and her mother. It marks a special moment in history as the first flight for a paying “space tourist”, with hundreds
More efforts to protect the Italian city of Venice and secure the historic city need to be put in place urgently, according to the UN’s cultural agency – Unesco. Because of the risk of “irreversible” damage from overwhelming tourism, Unesco believes Venice
Amsterdam wants to move a cruise liner terminal out of the heart of the historic capital city as the latest step in its ongoing battle against pollution and hordes of tourists clogging its narrow, cobbled streets. The Dutch capital is one of