Kuoni, Hotelplan Fly Tourists Home After Earthquake
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Kuoni Reisen Holding AG and Hotelplan AG, Switzerland&#39;s two largest tourist operators, are flying back guests from Asian resorts after the strongest earthquake in 40 years unleashed tidal waves throughout the area.
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On foot, by bicycle or in motorized rickshaw taxis, the people of this east coast village began returning home Wednesday as Sri Lanka turned its attention from relief efforts to resettling people uprooted by the Asian tsunami.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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A powerful earthquake sent a six-foot-high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia&#039;s Java island Monday, damaging hotels and sending boats smashing into houses, a witness told a local radio station.
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Australian holidaymakers planning to visit Tonga have been advised to leave their high spirits at home while the island paradise mourns its late king.
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Foreign tourists from Phi Phi Islands arrive in Phuket, December 26, 2004 after the area was hit by a devastating tsunami. One of the most powerful earthquakes in history hit Asia on Sunday, unleashing a tsunami
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KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel  - The hotels in northern   Israel have reopened. Travelers are slowly trickling back and   workers are patching up homes hit by Hizbollah rockets.
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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity
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Five bandaged survivors of a suicide bombing at a Yemeni temple returned home Wednesday &#151; one carried on a stretcher &#151; along with the bodies of seven fellow tourists who died in the attack.
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Four tourists died in the southern Thai tourist resort of Phuket after a major earthquake hit Southeast Asia yesterday, a disaster official said.
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Two brothers whose parents are missing after the tsunami in Thailand fly back to the UK and are said to be coping well.
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Indonesian police ratcheted up security  at Hilton hotels Thursday and a few guests in Jakarta said they  would leave after Western governments warned that one of the  establishments could be attacked by militants.
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More than 4,000 overseas tourists from nations worldwide are missing three days after 10-meter (33 feet) waves swept through Asian resorts at the height of the vacation season.
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Tourists are slowly returning to the beaches of Penang as Malaysia&#39;s hotels began cleaning up a day after the region&#39;s worst tsunami in decades killed 44 people, injured 200 and left at least 35 missing.
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This morning, Latvian resident Vladimirs Kulesovs who suffered injuries in the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, returned to Riga from Moscow by train.
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Rescuers were hoping for "individual miracles" of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand Wednesday for missing tourists and locals swept away by this week's quake-tsunami ...
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 -- The tidal waves from the massive undersea earthquake smashed many tourist heavens in the Southeast Asian nations.