Tourism boss has backed a tax in Cornwall (Image: SWNS) A tourism boss has backed the idea of a tax for holidaymakers coming to Cornwall – but says Devon would need one as well. Malcolm Bell, Chief Executive of Visit Cornwall, admits
Authorities in Venice have begun charging visitors to entry the historic Italian lagoon.
Venice is piloting a scheme to charge day-trippers a £4.30 (5 euros) entry fee which officials hope will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more liveable for its dwindling number of residents. Signs advising arriving visitors of
British stag dos are avoiding Tenerife in favour of Benidorm new data from specialist travel bookers The Stag Company has revealed. On Saturday giant protests calling for limits to protect the island of Tenerife hit headlines worldwide as frustrations from locals about
A British tourist was in for a shock when asking for “quiet town” recommendations on Reddit as people explained why tourists aren’t feeling welcome. The unknown tourist posted on Reddit asking for recommendations on “parts of Spain that don’t attract many tourists”
A popular quintessentially British seaside town in the Garden of England is considering taxing tourists who only want to stay for weekends or overnight. Councillors in Margate, Kent, have made rumblings they’d like to adopt the type of punitive charge used in
British tourists may soon be required to fork out a tourist tax when heading to Tenerife and the other Canary Islands. Not long before residents in Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and other holiday hotspots took their frustration at overtourism to the street,
The grand events and oft-told tales of the American Revolution are easy to find among sprawling reverent battlefields and national parks. George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Virginia, Independence Hall in Pennsylvania, and Minuteman National Historical Park in Massachusetts, where the American rebellion
This is the horrifying moment a group of British tourists counts down before their friend misjudges his leap into the abyss and crashes onto rocks at a notorious beauty spot in Tenerife. The 40-year-old man, also thought to be British, was stretchered
A tourist from the United States, Rene Remund, recently shared his shocking experience of receiving a six-figure bill after a short holiday to Switzerland took an unexpected turn for the worse. Remund, accompanied by his wife Linda, embarked on the trip last September, a