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Turkish tourism professionals have welcomed a decision that would allow Russian police officers to spend their annual holiday in Turkey. The police officers and their families may create a tourism potential of about 2.5 million people. The local tourism industry expects an additional of 1 million Russian visitors minimum as ...

While it attracts millions of visitors annually by land and sea, the Cayman Islands remain relatively little-known to many North American travelers. The easygoing British Overseas Territory, actually an archipelago of three islands in the western Caribbean Sea, offers a distinctive mix of natural beauty and local charm, highlighted by ...

​France is the world’s most visited country, with almost 87 million tourism visitors in 2017. A significant portion of those visitors, which is more than the population of France itself, were bound for Paris. Paris is at the top of many travellers’ lists and has been for centuries. It was ...

The recent bombings in Sri Lanka during Easter, which has drastically hit the country’s tourism sector, is expecting 5-10 per cent decline in Indian tourist arrival this year. Sri Lanka on Monday said it is expecting Indian tourists arrival to up to four lakh. The island nation was expecting a ...

Syrians escape an inhuman regime by the million. European countries are in a state of crisis trying to welcome Syrian refugees, but at the FITUR trade show in Madrid last month one of the countries exhibited and lobbied for European tourists was Syria. At the upcoming ITB Berlin in hall 2.2 ...

Hidden under one of the main roads around Crystal Palace Park is a cavernous, vaulted structure that strongly resembles a crypt from a Byzantine church. However, this was no last resting place for the dead, but a thoroughfare for the living who came to visit the Crystal Palace. Top Places ...

Parachuting is a big tourism business on Oahu’s North Shore. Tonight at 6:25 pm Hawaii time, a twin-engine KingAir A90 plane operated and owned by Oahu Parachute Center crashed minutes after taking off with at Dillingham Airfield on the Northshore of Oahu,  Hawaii USA. The plane is seen as s ...

HBO’s show Chernobyl, centred on a nuclear catastrophe that occurred in 26 April 1986, has brought dark tourism back into the limelight. After the series got popular, Chernobyl in northern Kiev Oblast, Ukraine, has drawn the fancy of many avid travellers. Dark Tourism has its perks; visiting these sites of ...

Craig Mazin’s limited miniseries Chernobyl. The series, which is the top-rated television series on IMDb, examines the real-life Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 and digs into the tragedy by offering not just a factual account of the cause of the accident, but the political elements leading to it as well ...

MOSCOW, 21th June, 2019 (WAM) — The Russian office of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi,DCT Abu Dhabi, hosted a breakfast for media professionals in Moscow to showcase the latest news and developments in the UAE capital and the unique attractions the destination has to offer. The ...