Security alert prompts Eiffel Tower evacuation
PARIS, Aug 12, 2023 (AFP) - A security alert Saturday prompted the evacuation of three floors of the Eiffel Tower…
2 years ago
Tourism
Belgium canal city of Bruges hits ‘red line’ with tourist crowds
BRUGES, Belgium, Aug 5, 2023 (AFP) - Inhabitants of Belgium's cobblestone-and-canal city of Bruges are clear: summertime tourism has hit…
2 years ago
UNESCO recommends putting Venice on heritage danger list
By Joris FIORITI Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- The UN's cultural agency UNESCO on Monday recommended that Venice be…
2 years ago
‘Get him!’: Witness recalls US soldier’s dash to North Korea
SEOUL, July 21, 2023 (AFP) - When a member of a tour group visiting the Demilitarized Zone on South Korea's…
2 years ago
Taiwan rejects Chinese officials entry permits for tourism expo
TAIPEI, June 29, 2023 (AFP) - Taiwan has rejected applications by Chinese tourism officials to enter the island for an…
2 years ago
Airport threatens Albania’s fragile wild paradise
By Emmy VARLEY and Briseida MEMA Agence France-Presse NARTA , Albania, June 15, 2023 (AFP) -- Flamingos and Dalmatian pelicans…
3 years ago
Vietnam battles plastic blight in idyllic Ha Long Bay
By Alice PHILIPSON Agence France-Presse HA LONG, Vietnam, May 26, 2023 (AFP) -- Squinting in the bright light of…
3 years ago
India hosts G20 tourism meet in disputed Kashmir under heavy security
By Parvaiz BUKHARI Agence France-Presse SRINAGAR, India, May 22, 2023 (AFP) - A G20 tourism meeting was set to begin…
3 years ago
Three dead in tourist plane crash in Switzerland: police
ENEVA, May 20, 2023 (AFP) - A tourist plane crashed in a wooded, mountainous area of western Switzerland on Saturday,…
3 years ago
Building fever grips Greece as tourism booms
by Hélène COLLIOPOULOU Agence France-Presse PAROS, Greece (AFP) -- It's early morning in the picturesque village of Naoussa on the…
3 years ago
Mexico: Two die when hot-air balloon catches fire
Mexico City, Mexico | AFP | Sunday 4/2/2023 Two people have died after a hot-air balloon flying near Mexico's famed…
3 years ago
‘Forget the war’: Ukraine ski slope offers respite from conflict
by Peter MURPHY Agence France-Presse BUKOVEL, Ukraine (AFP) -- Far from the Ukraine war's frontlines, only the whirring of generator-powered…
3 years ago
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