Chinese tourism soars in U.S.

Chinese tourism to New York City and elsewhere grows. CNN’s Richard Roth reports from Manhattan. CNN.com – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

No need to tut tut Egypt’s conservative tourism industry

This week’s oddities from around the world globeandmail – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Travel Editor’s Blog: Canada can’t ignore American tourism

Fascinating news that the U.S. is considering a law that would allow Canadians to spend more time on American soil. Currently folks are allowed to live in the U.S. only for 182 days or six months. After that, you’re considered an American for tax reasons. And you don’t want to be paying Uncle Sam and [...]

Newfoundland Pitches Tourism With a Goat on a Horse

If nothing says spend your vacation at the most easterly edge of North America more than a goat on top of a horse, then Newfoundland and Labrador should prepare for an influx of tourists. The province, known until now as the place where the sun…      ABC News: Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]

World’s top eatery to boost tourism

An avante-garde restaurant run by three brothers in north-east Spain hopes that being crowned the world’s best restaurant will boost food tourism in recession-bound Spain. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

One flight closer to space tourism

Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial “spaceline.” The company’s passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. CNN.com – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]

Tourism NZ and STA Travel team up

Young, longer-staying visitors will be targeted to visit New Zealand under a joint .4 million marketing programme between Tourism New Zealand and the London-based STA Travel Group. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

War tourism: We will remember them

Commemorating the war dead at Gallipoli’s dawn service on Anzac Day is now an established travel experience, and tour operators say the numbers are growing each year. However, specialist battlefield tour operators say bookings for 2013 and 2014 are weaker as travellers save their money for 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landings at [...]

Child sex tourism: Canadian justice system faulted for cracks in system

For 18 years, allegations of sexual abuse have swirled around Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, levelled by a group of men who say the Nova Scotia businessman repeatedly molested them when they were young teens in small-town Cape Breton. On Monday, after a long-delayed extradition from India, two convictions in Nova Scotia on 17 counts of sexual [...]

Tourism to get $158m Budget boost

The government will allocate an extra 8m over four years to tourism in the May 16 Budget, Prime Minister John Key said today. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post