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“What do the locals think about tourists and tourism?” a British tourist asked me last week. I was thinking ahead: was she relating it to the anti-tourism protests that have hit Mallorca and Barcelona recently, and to those we have already seen in Venice? “Why do you ask?” I asked diplomatically. “Oh, it’s just because I’ve noticed that the staff in shops and restaurants are not very friendly. In fact, I get that they are bored with their jobs and don’t want to serve customers there,” she replied. Ah, so you weren’t worried about being sprayed with water guns like…

CAIRO: Egypt’s finance ministry is awaiting approval from the IMF’s executive board for the third review of the country’s economic reform program, scheduled for Monday. The IMF is due to pay Egypt $820 million once the review is completed, and the government hopes that future reviews will remain successful. Egypt’s Finance Minister Ahmed Kucuk said the government was strategically managing complex geopolitical factors to improve economic performance. “We look forward to the IMF’s approval of the Third Review of the Economic Reform Programme and will pursue funding through the Resilience and Sustainability Fund to support the continued success of future…

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Rio Grande Valley is hosting several summer athletics events with the Texas Athletic Meet returning to Brownsville, and area businesses are definitely feeling the impact. Texas Amateur Athletic Association Executive Director Mark Lord said a few weeks ago that about 30,000 people will be visiting the area during the tournament, which means thousands of athletes and their families will call Brownsville home for the next few days. Several restaurant parking lots in Brownsville are full this weekend and several hotels are also fully booked, including the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Brownsville. Receptionist Esmeralda…

By Nia Williams and Anna Mellor Paperny (Reuters) – A deadly wildfire season is increasingly hitting Western Canada’s lucrative tourism industry, with some visitors starting to avoid the busy late summer months out of concern for out-of-control fires, smoky skies and closed roads. Following a scorching hot start in July, nearly 600 wildfires are now burning across British Columbia and Alberta, including a massive blaze that devastated the picturesque tourist city of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies this week. Evacuation orders have been issued for dozens of communities, including popular tourist destinations in British Columbia’s Kootenay region, and several highways…

. In an unexpected development, a highly anticipated debate on climate change, focusing on super storms and earthquakes and their impact on tourism, has been postponed due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Beryl. The storm caused major damage in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados and Jamaica. Meanwhile, in the semi-finals of the cybersecurity and artificial intelligence debate, Elmore Stout High School from the British Virgin Islands defeated Knox College of Jamaica by a score of 1,038 to 996. The win qualified them for the finals where they will face Precious Treasures International School from Turks and…

Thanks to its rocky terrain and caves, the uninhabited island of Formicoura, a dot on a map southeast of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea, was a vital refuge for endangered Mediterranean monk seals, loggerhead turtles, and countless seabirds. That was, until the island was discovered on social media in 2021 by happy tourists who went to any lengths to snap photos of the seals, according to a study of the island’s Monacus monacus population. “We counted 51 boats last Monday – and that’s around the island, which is just 400 metres,” photojournalist Dimitris Tsiddis, who is carrying out special studies…

DeKalb County Tourism Director John Dersham, in giving the Fort Payne City Council an update on visitor numbers to the area last week, said tourism numbers in DeKalb County have been very strong in recent years.He said the amount of money spent on tourism in DeKalb County has doubled in eight years, reaching a staggering $159 million in the county last year.”In 2023, travel and tourism will generate $1.4 billion in state and local tax revenue, making it the second-largest industry in Alabama after agriculture,” he said. He said there has been an interesting trend in tourism recently.”We’ve seen an…

Actors from the Golden Opera Troupe performed at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Shanxi Tourism Development Conference in Taiyuan city, Shanxi province, on Friday. Shanxi province plans to enhance the province’s culture and tourism industries by leveraging its abundant resources and boosting cooperation with a major tourism event that kicked off on Friday. Guests including representatives from foreign embassies in China, international tourism organizations and institutions, and foreign cultural tourism enterprises gathered in Guxian, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province to attend the inauguration ceremony of the 2024 Shanxi Tourism Development Conference. The event will continue through Sunday. The state’s comprehensive cultural…

Home » Tourism News » Hillsborough County sets new record for June tourism revenue Saturday, July 27, 2024Reading time: 2 minutesHillsborough County’s tourism industry enjoyed record-breaking success in June, with tourism tax collections and taxable hotel revenue reaching record highs.Hillsborough County’s tourism department had its most successful June ever, setting new records for Tourist Development Tax (TDT) collections and taxable hotel revenue. Mirroring May data, June TDT collections soared to $5,400,066, while taxable hotel revenue reached an astounding $90,046,768.While summer is typically a time when tourism to the Tampa Bay region slows, this year has been a big exception, said…

In his thoughtful exploration of travel, The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton argues that our travels are more than just physical movements. According to de Botton, travel is an opportunity to encounter unknown landscapes, both external and internal. Travel allows us to escape from the everyday and engage with the extraordinary.Now consider sports tourism, the fast-growing global trend in which people cross borders to watch iconic sporting events. Valued at $323 million (2,697 crores) in 2020, the global sports tourism market is projected to reach $1.8 billion (15,046 crores) by 2030. In de Botton’s words, these travelers aren’t just…