Israel was to inaugurate a new international airport Monday in its desert south meant to boost tourism to the nearby Red Sea and serve as an emergency alternative to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport.
Analysts at 38 North on Wednesday reviewed evidence of extensive construction at the Wonsan-Kalma resort, possibly indicating North Korea expects sanctions to end, engagement with the outside world to increase, and tourism to boom.
Israel’s booming inbound tourism industry was confirmed Sunday when the four millionth visitor for 2018 was welcomed to the Jewish State.
(AFP) — Moroccan authorities on Tuesday arrested a suspect following the murder of two Scandinavian tourists in the High Atlas mountains, the interior ministry said.
Jerusalem boasted the world’s biggest growth in inbound tourist numbers for 2018, with international arrivals soaring 38 percent this year, nearly doubling since 2016.
TEL AVIV – Airbnb could find itself sanctioned with a special tax over its decision remove all of its 200 listings located in Israeli settlements, Israel’s Tourism Minister said Tuesday.
Israel’s position as one of the world’s fastest-growing tourist destinations has been confirmed as record numbers of inbound travelers have already been recorded for 2018.
CAIRO – Egyptian authorities on Sunday denied reports of alleged organ theft after the body of a British tourist who died suddenly while on holiday was returned home without some organs.
A South Korean tour company appears set to be the first in the nation to organize trips to North Korea, according to a report by the nation’s Yonhap news agency Friday.
A man of North African origin has allegedly stabbed two German tourists on the Spanish island of Majorca before being gunned down and restrained by police.
The looming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Tuesday has the potential to open up global tourism and foreign investment to North Korea, with little prospect of any profits reaching the North Korean people.
The rightful owners of two of Cuba’s largest ports, stolen from their families by the communist Cuban revolution, launched a campaign this week in conjunction with human rights organizations to discourage American tourism in the island nation.
North Korea’s state news service, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), boasted that its Chinese counterpart Xinhua praised the country’s seaside resort town of Wonsan, applauding the “fresh development” in North Korea’s economy.
Israel has already been credited with making the desert bloom. Now it hopes to make it boom — with tourists.
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and President Donald Trump ordered relief from an Obama-era regulation that harmed the guides and outfitters who provide seasonal tours on the nation’s waterways.
Business owners and residents in the northern French commune of Ouistreham are worried that tourists may not come to the seaside resort, which could crush local businesses, due to the presence of over 150 migrants sleeping rough on the streets.
Less than a week after French President Emmanuel Macron boasted that Western intervention in Syria had “divided” Turkey and Syria, Turkish officials boasted on Tuesday of closer economic ties to China, urging greater investment and tourism from the Asian power.
Ten Western tourists have been detained in Cambodia after they participated in a pool party, accused of “dancing pornographically.”
In a news cycle full of poverty, war, political intrigue, and all the usual torment, America’s media have wasted valuable time this week debating the value of President Donald Trump’s use of a bad word.
Despite endless reports of violence in other parts of the troubled Middle East, a record 3.7 million foreign tourists descended on Israel during 2017 with U.S. visitors showing the way.
Slovenia’s Economy Minister held a press conference to tell reporters the good news about increasing tourism in first lady’s homeland.
Saudi Arabia will begin issuing tourist visas in the first quarter of 2018, its top tourism official said, a first for the kingdom as it undergoes major economic and social reforms.
The State Department confirmed on Friday that they have received complaints from private U.S. citizens who have traveled to Cuba of similar symptoms to those documented in American diplomats affected by unexplained “attacks” reportedly caused by sonic weapons.
Author Michael Malice joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the experiences in North Korea that informed his book “Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il.”
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Around a hundred Barcelona residents gathered on Saturday along the Spanish city’s beach to protest the unchecked growth of mass tourism to the popular vacation destination. They argue that the influx of tourists has increased the
Members of the public in Cadiz, Spain, have recorded the shocking moment a boat filled with migrant men landed on a beach filled with women, children, and families in broad daylight, before disappearing into the country.
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the launch of a massive tourism project that will turn 50 islands and a string of sites on the Red Sea coast into luxury resorts.
The North Korean government has launched a new, multilingual tourism website to attract foreign revenue, highlighting its lavish holidays to honor late dictator Kim Il-Sung and its natural wonders, from the eastern beaches to its volcano, Mount Paektu.
Tourism to Israel has reached an all-time high, with 1.74 million tourists arriving in the first six months of 2017, a 26-percent increase from the same time last year.
American student Otto Warmbier’s imprisonment and murder by North Korea’s savage Communist regime prompted many questions about the tour group in which he participated.
After the disappearance of one journalist and the murder of a second, government officials of the once moderate Islamic Maldives island chain are worried that radical Islam is growing in strength, putting at risk the lives of millions of western tourists who go there to soak up the tropical paradise.
In a foreign policy speech on Friday, President Donald Trump is set to announce changes in the United States’ relationship with Cuba, including increased travel restrictions and an effort to stop foreign aid going to “repressive members of the Cuban
May 2017 set a monthly record for the number of tourists arriving in Israel. Since the start of 2017, tourism has infused $2.18 billion into the Israeli economy, according to figures published Thursday by Israel’s Tourism Ministry.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced a five-year Jerusalem development plan during a special cabinet meeting held in the Western Wall tunnels in honor of the 50th anniversary since the unification of the capital since the Six Day War.
Melania Trump smiles at passersby on a highway in Sevnica, Solvenia that reads “Welcome to the Hometown of First Lady” — a billboard that represents more than a celebration of its most famous citizen.
A massive landslide in California’s Big Sur has closed a portion of scenic Highway 1, further isolating that region from the rest of the state and dealing a massive blow to tourism in the area.
Germany now sits between the Gabon and Mongolia in the 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report’s “safety and security” field, having plummeted 31 places since the 2015 edition of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) biannual report measuring how “tourism-friendly” economies are.
Tourists are abandoning London for more rural locations in Britain as fears of terrorism grow.
MEPs have demanded the bloc suspend visa-free access to U.S. citizens because Washington, D.C. denies citizens of five European Union (EU) countries from its no-visa policy.
Paris and the surrounding region lost 1.5 million tourists on 2016 as visitors, especially from the Far East, stay away due to ongoing terror fears. According to the Comité Regional du Tourisme, the Paris Ile-de-France region also lost 1.3 billion
