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Tourism from African countries to Russia has surged by nearly 60% over the past two years, the deputy director general of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR), Yulia Maksutova, has stated. Speaking to Izvestia in Moscow on Friday, she highlighted a rising demand for travel, fueled by expanding business and …

Domestic tourism in China is on track to make a comeback after sinking to an all-time low during strict Covid-related lockdowns, CNBC reported Monday, citing Fitch Ratings data. The analysis showed an increase in holiday bookings since the country’s biggest lockdown in Shanghai ended in late May. Traveler numbers surged …

Since the mid-1970s, foreigners have flown into Thailand as men and later flown back out as women. The Philippines, too, was something of a hotspot. Southeast Asia in general was long thought to be more tolerant of transgenderism. But now gender affirmation surgery is easing into the mainstream, it’s big business, and …

Biden takes charge of a divided America Conducting his campaign largely virtually from the confines of his Delaware basement, Joe Biden promised voters a return to the staid ‘normality’ that characterized Washington, DC in the pre-Trump era. While Biden’s message won out, his inauguration in January did little to heal …

Musk spoke with Dr Peter Diamandis on Thursday in Cape Canaveral, Florida during a livestream event announcing the $100-million Carbon Removal project, aimed at helping to keep the Earth habitable while humanity seeks to become an interplanetary species. The conversation quickly turned to the potential future human colonization of the …

Turkey is expected to see an increase in tourist flows of up to 70% in 2021, according to Firuz Baglikaya, who heads the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TURSAB), as immunization against coronavirus picks up the pace in Turkey and around the world. “More than 400 million people have been …

Of those, just over half – 38 destinations – have been completely closed for at least 40 weeks, and 34 percent of all destinations are still partially closed to international tourists. According to the UNWTO report, the emergence of new variants of the Covid-19 virus has prompted many governments to reverse efforts …

In a recently published policy brief, the UN projected that international tourist numbers may decline by between 58 percent to 78 percent in 2020, compared to last year. According to its calculations, such an “immense shock” for the industry, which accounts for the bulk of some countries’ revenues, could translate …

The head of the Federal Agency for tourism (Rosturizm) Zarina doguzova stated that she would not like the idea of a return to the Soviet practice of issuing exit visas. According to her, the issue she is not suitable as the head of the relevant Department, involved in the development …

Recently the leaders of major refineries in China announced the reduction of oil consumption. According to forecasts of Chinese experts, in the near future reduction can be 25% or 3.2 million barrels. Western media reported about the fall in oil prices. The risk of the coronavirus to the global economy …