At least 20 people went missing after a collapsing cliffside in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais crushed three tourist boats on the river below, killing five people and injuring others. The navy is investigating the tragedy. The rockslide occurred at around midday on Saturday, in a canyon along Furnas …
Read More »5 more European tourist hotspots now on Covid ‘stop list’
France, which was the world’s top tourist destination in the times before the pandemic, has just landed on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “stop list”. That’s after the European nation that once hosted tens of millions of tourists a year was assigned the highest Covid-19 risk …
Read More »Horrific tourist bus crash & blaze kills dozens, including many children
A bus with North Macedonian license plates crashed and erupted into flames around 2am local time as it was traveling on a freeway early Tuesday morning, killing at least 45 people, Interior Ministry official Nikolai Nikolov told a local TV station. At least 45 people were killed after a bus …
Read More »Sights on Syria: war-torn country becoming a tourist destination is a good thing
Tourism is finally, slowly, beginning to return to Syria, from Jordan and further afield. Naturally, the governments that fueled terrorism in hopes of toppling Syria’s government are not happy about this development. I haven’t seen much reporting on this momentous turn of events so far. However, one article I came across mentioned …
Read More »American tourist’s mistake? People ask why CNN journalist is in Edinburgh for COP26… while the summit is in Glasgow
On Monday, Blitzer, the anchor of CNN’s The Situation Room, took to Twitter to share that he and the CNN team were now in Scotland for the COP26 summit. “I’m now reporting from Edinburgh in Scotland where 20,000 world leaders and delegates have gathered for the COP26 Climate Summit,” he …
Read More »At least 3 killed as 4.8 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali
It was mainly felt in the Karangasem and Bangli districts on the east side of the island, causing people to flee their homes in panic. The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the earthquake at 4.8, saying that its epicenter was located 62 kilometers (38.5 miles) northeast of the …
Read More »Tourist arrested for using fake ‘Maderna’ vaccine pass WANTED in Hawaii after skipping virtual court hearing
Previously identified as Chloe Mrozak of Oak Lawn, Illinois in court documents obtained by a Hawaii news outlet, the 24-year-old tourist failed to appear for a virtual court hearing on Wednesday, prompting Judge Karin Holma to issue a $500 bench warrant for the woman. Mrozak was initially arrested last month …
Read More »Car plows into pedestrians in popular tourist area of Spain’s Costa del Sol (VIDEOS)
Graphic footage from Monday’s crash site shows wounded people along the sidewalk, overturned chairs and tables, and a small white sedan that apparently came to a stop when it hit a building. Waiters tried to assist some of the victims on the ground. A clip taken from the front side …
Read More »British billionaire Branson set to become first ‘space tourist’ to fly his own craft on Sunday, upstaging rival spacefarer Bezos
Branson has turned the test flight of the VSS Unity into a big publicity event, with comedian Stephen Colbert and singer Khalid hosting the livestreamed endeavor. The plane is to be lifted by its carrier, the twin-fuselage VMS Eve, to an altitude of about 50,000 feet (or 15 km) after …
Read More »Tourist hub Bali swept up in Indonesia’s harsh lockdown despite 71% vaccination rate, as country’s infections spike
“We are setting up [patrols] in 21 locations where typically there are crowds,” Istiono, the head of Indonesia’s national traffic police, who goes by only one name, told reporters on Friday night. The move comes soon after President Joko Widodo declared a new lockdown earlier on Friday, set to last …
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