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 …
Read More »The surprising place where sex change tourism is booming
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 …
Read More »Afghanistan, Covid variants, gas, space tourism: The news that defined 2021
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 …
Read More »‘A bunch of people will probably die,’ Musk says of future Mars tourism, ‘but it’s a glorious adventure’
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 …
Read More »Turkey expects tourism to surge by up to 70% amid global Covid-19 vaccination drive
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 …
Read More »One third of all countries worldwide COMPLETELY closed to international tourism – UN
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 …
Read More »Covid-19 could wipe out more than 100 million jobs & over $1 trillion from global tourism industry
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 …
Read More »The head of the Federal tourism Agency responded to a question on exit visas for Russians
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 …
Read More »High food prices and the decline of oil, the loss of millions of tourism — what are the risks of coronavirus
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 …
Read More »“Was the omission of the Israeli tourism”
Woman – creating a mysterious and very unpredictable. Because if she want something, whether it’s to get rich, lose weight, or, say, to leak information about their country to representatives of foreign special services, the question “to do or not to do” seems beside the point: I see the goal …
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