Category: Tourism

After going through difficult times with its backbone sector of tourism severely battered by a series of volcano eruptions late last year, Indonesia’s Bali resort island started to recover with arrivals of foreign tourists. Tourists from different countries were seen visiting Bali’s prominent scenic spots in groups, wandering around popular bustling areas in the island’s […]

For the seventh straight year, Los Angeles County has set a record for drawing big-spending tourists. The county hosted 48.3 million visitors in 2017, a 2.2% increase over the record 47.3 million tourists in 2016, according to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who announced the fresh record during a news conference at Los Angeles International […]

Emirates and flydubai will offer travellers even more connectivity and flight options in 2018, with new codeshare flights planned to Krakow in Poland from 8 April, and Catania in Italy from 13 June.Both Dubai -based airlines currently offer customers a breadth of travel options across their complementary networks, with codeshares to 81 destinations and more […]

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) lauded Israel’s best-ever tourism year, telling ministers at Sunday’s cabinet meeting that “2017 was a historic turning point in Israeli tourism.” “More than 3.6 million tourists arrived in Israel during the year, an increase of about 700 thousand tourists compared to 2016. This is an all-time high, for we never before […]

The tourism sector in the EU is estimated to generate more than 10% of the EU GDP and approximately 12% of all jobs, many of which are within SMEs (European Commission, 2010). Tourism has proved resilient in these last decades, with the EU28 hosting 478 million international tourists in 2015, a notable increase from the […]

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will begin imposing its tourism tax from July and not August as reported earlier, according to Tourism and Culture Minister Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz on Thursday (Jun 8). An earlier announcement on the Royal Malaysian Customs Department’s website stated the tourism tax would kick in from Aug 1. The webpage with details on […]

Mayan ruins tower over the sea in Tulum. The formerly walled city was one of the last to be built by the Mayans, and its archaeological sites are incredibly well preserved. Take a break from the beach to visit El Castillo, the Temple of the Frescoes, and the Temple of the Descending God. Explore an […]

For nearly 500 years, the emperors living within Beijing’s opulent Forbidden City dictated who could enter and leave. Well, the gates have opened, and tourists are pouring in to see it all for themselves. Attendance is up by 2.5 million since 2010. The Forbidden City is a dream destination for some Americans, but most have […]