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TOKYO — As the ranks of foreign visitors to Japan have swollen in recent years, unlikely tourist destinations have emerged, attracting big crowds of manga and anime buffs from around Asia. These pilgrimages to pop culture holy places have a name, seichijunrei, and they are now taking place in Singapore ...

Turkey—where Europe meets the Middle East—deserves a high position on your list of places to visit. A vibrant Western country with many stories to tell, it has a long and rich history and a diverse landscape that embraces pristine beaches and the honeycombed hills of Cappadocia.  Now is a good ...

While I’ve always had a passing fascination with the British royal family, I must admit my interest went up quite a bit when Meghan Markle officially joined the fam when she married Prince Harry in May 2018. With constant coverage of the new American in the royal family, London rocketed ...

International tourist arrivals grew 4% from January to June 2019, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer published ahead of the 23rd World Tourism Organization General Assembly. Growth was led by the Middle East (+8%) and Asia and the Pacific (+6%). International ...

New Delhi: A report by Pahle India Foundation (PIF) – an FCRA certified, not-for-profit policy think-tank – stated that the sugar, alco-bev, and tourism sectors provided employment to nearly 80 million people in India in 2018.   The report titled ‘An Integrated Value Chain Approach to ease of doing business: ...

An ancient sculpture of Alexander the Great was recently discovered in a Greek museum’s storage room, a leading archaeologist revealed recently on Facebook, according to greekreporter.com Angeliki Kottaridi revealed the sculptural portrait of the Macedonian king had been forgotten for years in the warehouses of the Archaeological Museum in the ...

By  Trend Several presentations dedicated to Azerbaijan’s tourism potential are being held in Russia on August 27-29, Trend reports on Aug. 28 referring to the Azerbaijan State Tourism Agency. The Azerbaijan Tourism Bureau holds presentations in Moscow, the capital, Yekaterinburg city, and Kazan, the capital of Russia‘s Tatarstan republic. Three hotels, 10 Azerbaijani ...

  By Bob CurleyCJ Contributor St Vincent and the Grenadines isn’t your typical Caribbean vacation destination. The lush, volcanic island of St Vincent is by far the largest land mass in this archipelago nation, yet may be the least visited despite its innumerable waterfalls and hidden coves that provided the ...

I go to Morocco almost every year, and I love it. I have stayed in everything from five star hotels to traditional riads and mountain lodges, driven myself across the High Atlas mountains from Taroudant to Marrakech, galloped horses for a week through little mountain villages, and walked home long ...

The Elysée Palace confirmed that the French president will host a lunch for Britain’s new Prime Minister in Paris on Thursday, ahead of the G7 summit of world leaders in Biarritz. The meeting will be the first between the two since Johnson took office on July 24th and will also ...