Crime 'deters' SA 2010 tourists
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South Africa's tourist minister says crime may put off tourists visiting for the 2010 World Cup.
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The city has over 10,000 publicly funded CCTV cameras in public areas, but only one in five crimes are solved.
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is under pressure over crime but his annual speech is expected to highlight poverty.
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Brazen daylight killings by presumed drug smugglers just up the hill from Acapulco Bay are worrying business leaders that increasingly bloody drug wars will cripple Mexico's critical tourism industry.
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South Africa's security minister says cases of serious and violent crime in the country are unacceptably high.
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A government strategy to move public perception of crime into line with falling figures is due to be launched.
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Violent crime has fallen for the first time in eight years, but drug-linked offences and robberies are on the rise, according to Home Office figures released Thursday.
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Armed guards may become a presence on one of the world's most famous tourist attractions.
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Travel: Report says visitors to Australia are being ripped off by unscrupulous guides.
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Police cordoned off a London tourist hotspot Friday after making safe what they called a &quot;potentially viable explosive device&quot;.
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LISBON, Aug 20 (IPS) - Tempting and affordable offers of vacations in   âparadiseâ settings in developing countries are causing serious  harm to the  powerful tourism industries of southern Europe.
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The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa said in an interview published on Sunday that few would travel to the 2010 World Cup in the country if crime continued at current levels.
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The US embassy in South Africa said its diplomats were living in fear after six of its staff became the latest members of a foreign mission to be robbed in the crime-ridden country.
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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EILAT, Israel -- Boaz Rafaeli had read the warning that Israeli security officials issued last month against travel to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, and he didn't give it a second thought. The 24-year-old student thought the country's Shabak security service was being overly cautious.
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It's not like anyone from a decaying neighborhood east of downtown is harboring illusions that the place is crime-free. But the discovery of six bodies has raised fears that a serial killer is preying on the area, which one activist calls the most decrepit in the city.
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Africa's top watchdog has rapped South Africa for failing to tackle one of the world's highest crime rates, an emotive issue for a country hosting the 2010 football World Cup.