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A 46-year-old San Francisco man and a 23-year-old Kentucky man joined ten others injured by bulls in this year’s San Fermin festival.

Passengers with booked flights on Delta Air Lines are being allowed to rebook or cancel their travel plans to the Dominican Republic following reports of sickness and death in the country.

On Tuesday, a Louisiana honeymooner became the tenth American to die in the last year after visiting the Dominican Republic.

Iran announced Thursday it would not stamp the passports of foreign tourists to help the Islamic Republic withstand the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s historically crippling sanctions, which have reportedly harmed the country’s tourism industry.

The number of Chinese tourists visiting North Korea has surged in recent months, despite authorities attempting to enforce a limit of 1000 people per day, NK News reported Wednesday.

The embassy of Thailand in Sweden has put out an official travel warning for tourists in Stockholm to be on the lookout for thieves stealing passports and other items.

One of the most persistent Brexit scare stories was disarmed Friday after the European Council themselves announced Brits would enjoy visa-free travel across Europe after Brexit.

Amnesty International told digital tourism sites Wednesday that listings from Israeli settlements in the West Bank should be immediately banned.

Israel was to inaugurate a new international airport Monday in its desert south meant to boost tourism to the nearby Red Sea and serve as an emergency alternative to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport.

Analysts at 38 North on Wednesday reviewed evidence of extensive construction at the Wonsan-Kalma resort, possibly indicating North Korea expects sanctions to end, engagement with the outside world to increase, and tourism to boom.

Israel’s booming inbound tourism industry was confirmed Sunday when the four millionth visitor for 2018 was welcomed to the Jewish State.

(AFP) — Moroccan authorities on Tuesday arrested a suspect following the murder of two Scandinavian tourists in the High Atlas mountains, the interior ministry said.

Jerusalem boasted the world’s biggest growth in inbound tourist numbers for 2018, with international arrivals soaring 38 percent this year, nearly doubling since 2016.

TEL AVIV – Airbnb could find itself sanctioned with a special tax over its decision remove all of its 200 listings located in Israeli settlements, Israel’s Tourism Minister said Tuesday. 

Israel’s position as one of the world’s fastest-growing tourist destinations has been confirmed as record numbers of inbound travelers have already been recorded for 2018.

CAIRO – Egyptian authorities on Sunday denied reports of alleged organ theft after the body of a British tourist who died suddenly while on holiday was returned home without some organs.

A South Korean tour company appears set to be the first in the nation to organize trips to North Korea, according to a report by the nation’s Yonhap news agency Friday.

A man of North African origin has allegedly stabbed two German tourists on the Spanish island of Majorca before being gunned down and restrained by police.

The looming summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Tuesday has the potential to open up global tourism and foreign investment to North Korea, with little prospect of any profits reaching the North Korean people.

The rightful owners of two of Cuba’s largest ports, stolen from their families by the communist Cuban revolution, launched a campaign this week in conjunction with human rights organizations to discourage American tourism in the island nation.

North Korea’s state news service, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), boasted that its Chinese counterpart Xinhua praised the country’s seaside resort town of Wonsan, applauding the “fresh development” in North Korea’s economy.

Israel has already been credited with making the desert bloom. Now it hopes to make it boom — with tourists.

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and President Donald Trump ordered relief from an Obama-era regulation that harmed the guides and outfitters who provide seasonal tours on the nation’s waterways.

Business owners and residents in the northern French commune of Ouistreham are worried that tourists may not come to the seaside resort, which could crush local businesses, due to the presence of over 150 migrants sleeping rough on the streets.

Less than a week after French President Emmanuel Macron boasted that Western intervention in Syria had “divided” Turkey and Syria, Turkish officials boasted on Tuesday of closer economic ties to China, urging greater investment and tourism from the Asian power.

Ten Western tourists have been detained in Cambodia after they participated in a pool party, accused of “dancing pornographically.”

In a news cycle full of poverty, war, political intrigue, and all the usual torment, America’s media have wasted valuable time this week debating the value of President Donald Trump’s use of a bad word.

Despite endless reports of violence in other parts of the troubled Middle East, a record 3.7 million foreign tourists descended on Israel during 2017 with U.S. visitors showing the way.

Slovenia’s Economy Minister held a press conference to tell reporters the good news about increasing tourism in first lady’s homeland.

Saudi Arabia will begin issuing tourist visas in the first quarter of 2018, its top tourism official said, a first for the kingdom as it undergoes major economic and social reforms.