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SpaceX Starship Could Spark Explosion In Space Tourism, Scholar Says
The SpaceX Starship, the most powerful and advanced rocket and capsule ever designed on this planet, could spark an explosion in space tourism and supercharge Space Race II. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) While SpaceX sketched out…
Greek tourism minister hails Jet2 as company hosts Athens summit
Jun 26, 202615:14 GMT by Samantha Mayling Steve Heapy, second left, with Jet2 colleagues at the summit in Athens Senior executives from Jet2 have hosted travel bosses from the Greek tourism industry at a recent summit organised by the company in…
Chicago set record for tourist spending in 2025, Choose Chicago tourism bureau says
Chicago set a record for tourist spending in 2025, the city's tourism marketing organization said Thursday. Choose Chicago said the city welcomed 56.8 million visitors in 2025, generating what city officials said was a record-setting $21.5 billion…
WATCH: How glamorous was Galway in this 1957 tourism video?
Galway, old and new, is captured in glorious color in this 1957 Bord Fáilte (now Fáilte Ireland) tourism film produced and directed by Colm Ó Laoghaire. You won't want to miss this glimpse of old Galway. We've always known that…
Why Chicago sees LGBTQ+ tourism as a growing economic opportunity
This Sunday, the Pride Parade will draw hundreds of thousands of spectators to Northalsted for one of the country's biggest neighborhood parades. Why it matters: As some states become less welcoming to LGBTQ+ visitors, Northalsted is betting that…
Report highlights discrimination against women in tourism transport
Jun 26, 202608:21 GMT by Ian Taylor Picture by Yakobchuk Viacheslav/Shutterstock UN Tourism and the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) have called for action to address the “severe” underrepresentation of women in…
Techno tourism in Detroit - what do visitors owe the city that created the music?
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) In 1997, I was one of relatively few tourists in Detroit. Well before #vanlife was a hashtag, I left my home state…
SF adds jobs, but tourism and tech tell a complicated story
Amid the arrival of the foggy summer months and Mayor Daniel Lurie's unceasing social media videos about downtown's recovery, San Francisco's leisure and hospitality industries showed sluggish but consistent job growth over the last year. Tourism…
Techno tourism in Detroit - what do visitors owe the city that created the music?
In 1997, I was one of relatively few tourists in Detroit. Well before #vanlife was a hashtag, I left my home state of California and drove around the country for five months living in a 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon. Though I had few planned stops…
Tourism enters era of last-minute bookings
Cyprus tourism is facing a profound transformation that is reshaping the entire structure of the market. The period when holidays were booked months ahead of summer, allowing businesses to forecast the season with relative certainty, appears to…
Ghost of Yotei Success Sparks Tourism Boost in Japan
The popularity and success of Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yotei is leading to a tourism boom in real life. As gamers have sought to visit the real world version of the locale in Ghost of Yotei, the surrounding cities are seeking to capitalize on the…
Resilient tourism and corporate lending fuel growth for banking sector, says UBS
Greek lenders, some of which also operational in Cyprus, remain on course for strong growth despite geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and concerns over the tourism season, with UBS saying that resilient tourism trends and continued corporate…
Climate extremes threaten Mediterranean agricultural and tourism sectors
Extreme heat waves and droughts are increasingly threatening economic growth across the European Union, with the agricultural sector in regions such as Cyprus facing substantial risks from compounding climate shocks, a new study published by the…
How Vietnam is Redrawing the Southeast Asian Tourism Map
Digital travel platform Agoda has recorded close to a 50% year-on-year rise in international accommodation searches into Vietnam in 2025. The data points to a destination that has moved decisively up travelers' shortlists, likely fueled by a…
Cyprus Business Now: real estate, tourism, seafarers, CySEC, customs duty, fuel
The numbers were published in the 2026 edition of Eurostat's Key Figures on European Business, which brings together data on business activity, investment, productivity, technology, globalisation and tourism across the bloc. Moreover, the figures…
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