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Korea's tourism balance swings to deficit in July after 4 months of surplus
Korea's tourism balance swung back to a deficit in July after posting surpluses for four consecutive months, industry data showed Sunday. The balance posted a deficit of $50.3 million in July, reversing a surplus of $596.6 million in June…
Delegates discuss the future of tourism sector in the Union Territory at a conference in Puducherry
Around 200 persons from tourism and allied industries attended a conference on the subject “Future of tourism with artificial intelligence,” at the Alliance Francaise de Pondicherry on Saturday. The participants discussed the future…
Despite AI, personalisation and human touch will remain central to tourism experiences, say speakers at KTM 2026
Speakers at a seminar on ‘Evolving Customer Expectations' held as part of the 13th edition of the Kerala Travel Mart (KTM 2026) here on Saturday (September 26) said that Keralam needs to broaden its tourism offerings beyond its established…
Keralam to leverage AI, cutting-edge digital tools to reshape tourism, says Minister
Keralam started integrating the tourism sector with artificial intelligence (AI) and a cutting-edge digital ecosystem to meet the demands and preferences of today's tourists, said P.C. Vishnunadh, Minister for Tourism, here on Saturday. Since…
Telangana plans 'tourism coupons' to get Hyderabad IT professionals travelling on weekends
Hyderabad's IT professionals could soon have a new reason to step out of the city on weekends, with the Telangana government considering ‘Tourism Coupons' to encourage software employees to explore destinations across the State. Deputy Chief…
Madurai celebrates World Tourism Day 2026 with historic heritage walk
Madurai marked World Tourism Day 2026 with celebrations on Saturday, highlighted by a major heritage walk through the historic core of the temple city. Minister for Energy and Law R. Nirmalkumar inaugurated and participated in the heritage walk…
How Japan went from a rice shortage to a rice surplus in two years, as climate change, tourism, and a U.S. trade fight collided
In 2023, extreme heat and drought damaged Japan's rice crop, and a year later, that damage turned into a national shortage so severe, it forced a government minister to resign. By 2026, Japan had swung so far in the opposite direction that it was…
Climate change will transform our tourism forever but could cost us all
It may sound like the understatement of the year, but Cornwall was certainly busy this summer. Wall to wall sunshine, high cost of travelling abroad, uncertainties due to the Middle East war and temperatures at the Med so high as to be unpleasant…
Notswolds set to be England's hot new tourism region
The East Midlands could one day enjoy the kind of tourism success the Cotswolds has basked in for decades. The overlooked region, which includes South Northamptonshire, Rutland - England's smallest county, as well as parts of rural Leicestershire…
This Underrated Eastern European City With 4th-Century Fortresses, $15 Dinners, And 1-Year Visa Free Visits For Americans Is Breaking Tourism Records
If you're tired of hearing well-traveled acquaintances raving about their Paris–London–Rome circuit every year, we have something for you that might actually properly turn a few heads, and that won't burn a hole through your wallet:…
Grapevine: Lost on the har
FOLLOWING HIS retirement around 10 years ago, Rabbi Joseph Abrams, a former long-term day school principal in the US, came to Jerusalem. In a desire to be useful, he volunteered to teach at a yeshiva in Jerusalem's Old City. “It used to be…
Solo travel is booming and changing the entire industry
Solo travel was once the domain of rugged adventurers or travelling salespeople. Now, it seems, there's a little bit of lone wolf in many of us. Booking website Skyscanner has noticed it. Between June 2024 and May 2025 hotel-for-one searches on its…
Families scramble to find childcare after visa slowdown hits au pairs
Australian families have been forced to scramble to make last-minute childcare arrangements as Labor's pause on working holidaymaker visas hits the international au pair market. The global peak body for the industry has sounded the alarm that…
Bermuda needs execution and integrity, Mr Burt
Search 86ea4e79-a6c5-4cce-bfbe-40bfb11d5159 The site where the Ottiwell A. Simmons International Arbitration Centre was supposed to be built (Photograph by Akil Simmons) Yesterday's Premier's Question Period raised a straightforward issue: how…
Cuba warns against 'law of the jungle' as Foreign Minister denounces US pressure
Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla said the international system was witnessing an alarming rise in “expansionism, usurpation, plunder” and military and economic aggression, arguing that fundamental principles of the UN Charter…
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