Over-heated Med stokes tourism fears
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As temperatures in southern Europe reach record heights, traditional holiday playgrounds may soon become unbearably hot and dangerously dry.
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Medics fear public safety could be compromised by the growing interest of world governments in using drugs for law enforcement.
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A leading Welsh expert in respiratory diseases says some patients are having to travel too far due to a shortage of local rehabilitation services.
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Thailand struggled on Monday to evacuate thousands of traumatized foreign tourists from its once thriving holiday island of Phuket and other popular islands and beach resorts devastated by Sunday&#39;s tidal wave.
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As Governor Mitt Romney tours East Asia to bulk up his foreign policy credentials for a possible presidential bid, he's coming under fire from a top Massachusetts tourism group for slashing $5 million in state funds for promoting the Bay State to international tourists.
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The recovery in business travel has a dark side for corporations returning to the road: Higher prices for hotel rooms.
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Of the 12 million tourists who visited Thailand this year, many headed straight to the gems of the south to soak up the sun along tropical beaches, dive on spectacular coral reefs and indulge in a languid, sometimes lascivious, lifestyle. Now, they're scurrying away in droves, reeling from a disaster of epic proportions which left five-star resorts and &#36;3-a-night bungalows in ruins and polluted the air with the smell of rotting corpses.
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Efforts to restore tourism infrastructure in areas hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami topped the agenda at the 25th Spanish International Tourism Fair (FITUR) that opened amid signs that the overall industry is buoyant.
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PENANG, Malaysia -- On any normal Sunday, the public beaches at Batu Ferringhi on this island state are filled with a mix of tourists and residents seeking refuge from the equatorial sun. But yesterday's Boxing Day holiday swelled the usual numbers with jet skiers, swimmers, boaters, and paragliders. No one had any idea, or warning, that a giant tidal wave, ...
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Hoping to replace images of violence with those of hospitality, countries once torn by war are seeking to boost tourism.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND -- A statesman, a supermodel and a skier were among the vacationers whose search for some peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was ripped apart by the horror of the massive earthquake and tsunami waves that tore through the region
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Some fear that doctors will steer patients to I.M.R.T. radiation therapy because it has higher profit potential.
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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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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity
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One of the tourism enclaves badly affected by the calamitous Asian earthquake was Phuket, an island located off the Southern part of Thailand.
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Sri Lanka and Thailand struggle to get their tourist industries back on track.
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The new upscale resort lodge has a lot of potential -- and pitfalls.