NICHE TOURISM: RIVER CRUISE IN PARIS EMBRACES RETRO

Theodore Slate -
Transportation is a differentiator in the tourism business. The river cruise companies that operate their ships on the river Seine offer a very specific niche tourism product. ...

CHINESE TOURISTS IN AUSTRALIA GET SECOND-CLASS TREATMENT

Richard Moor -
Chinese tourists in Australia are treated like second-class citizens according to a travel expert. Visitors from China are charged much more for visas than European and American tourists. Such policy ...

AFRICAN TOURISTS NEED VISAS IN 55% OF AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Pat Hyland -
According to the African Development Bank (AfDB), African tourists are struggling when traveling around the continent as more than half of the African countries, 55%, require visas to grant access to ...

FUKUSHIMA TURNS INTO A DARK TOURISM ATTRACTION

Joe McClain -
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, the place of the 2011 nuclear disaster, is slowly turning out to be a dark tourism destination just like the Dakota building, where John Lennon was ...

TOURISM IN HONG KONG TO RECEIVE $200 MILLION INVESTMENT

Bleak times came for tourism in Hong Kong, as arrivals are expected to continue on a declining trend in 2016, following a drop of 8% in the fourth quarter of 2015 alone. Based on the official numbers, ...