Croatia prepares hard labour for tourists in search of a 'thrill'
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Tourists bored with bungee jumping and other extreme holidays may soon be able to get their teeth into another challenge: a couple of weeks in a former communist detention camp in Croatia with hard labour thrown in.
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BELGRADE, Aug 18 (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.
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Croatia's Janica Kostelic, the injury-plagued master of the technical disciplines, is feeling fit and hoping to improve her record in the speed events.
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Only three days after the Indian Ocean tsunami swept over almost all the islands and atolls of the Maldives, tourists are once again willing to travel to the sparsely-populated
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Some companies are reviving travel, with options on destinations, as bonuses for their best workers.
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Croats are preparing to choose between a record field of presidential candidates as popular, pro-Western incumbent Stipe Mesic goes up against 12 challengers in Sunday's election.
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The people of Croatia are to elect a new president in a second and final round of voting.
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FOREIGN tourists saw children swept away to certain death by killer waves which turned a peaceful Christmas vacation into scenes of horror, according to accounts given to European media from different parts of ...
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Politics: 5 September 2004, Sunday. Bulgaria's police are looking for twelve Croatian citizens suspected of committing several crimes in Bulgaria.
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Theme parks are planning ÂFear Factor LiveÂ attractions that will ask contestants to try frightening stunts while vacationing.
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During an informational seminar, Minister Francis Zammit Dimech explained how a synergy between tourism and culture must be created to develop Gozo as a tourist destination engraved by history and culture.
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings -- along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings -- have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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The majority of resorts hit by the Asian tsunami will be ready for tourists within weeks, UK travel agents say.
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EU leaders are set to offer Croatia a start date for entry talks - but Zagreb is required to hand over war crimes suspects.
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A construction worker machine-drills his way through a cement wall in what was once a four-star restaurant in central Croatia.
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Foreign tourists are keeping brokers busy with their eagerness to buy Manhattan apartments.
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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity.  A former war correspondent offers a word of caution