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Overcrowded Venice introduces first entry charge for tourists
Reuters, Published on 25/04/2024
» VENICE - Venice becomes the first city in the world on Thursday to introduce a payment system for tourists in an effort to thin the crowds that throng the canals during the peak holiday season.
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Amsterdam bans new hotels to curb mass tourism
Published on 20/04/2024
» AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam will no longer allow new hotel buildings to be built as part of its fight against mass tourism, the local government said this week.
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Time running out for many Maldives islands
Published on 06/04/2024
» MALÉ, Maldives — To live in the Maldives is to live in one of two worlds. Either you belong to the capital — Malé, a micro-Manhattan in the Indian Ocean — or you are out in “the islands,” among the quietest and most remote villages this side of the Arctic tundra.
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Mass coral reef bleaching event looms
Published on 05/03/2024
» LONDON - The world is on the verge of a fourth mass coral bleaching event which could result in wide swathes of tropical reefs dying, including parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Sri Lanka ends free visas for long-staying Russians and Ukrainians
Published on 29/02/2024
» COLOMBO - Sri Lanka has decided to stop issuing free long-term visas to Russian and Ukrainian nationals who have lived in the country for the past two years, a government official said on Thursday.
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China warns nationals holidaying in Bali to mind safety risks
Published on 16/02/2024
» HONG KONG: China has issued a special warning to its nationals visiting Bali, after multiple "traffic accidents and drownings" involving Chinese tourists in the Indonesian resort island.
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Japan maglev train project being derailed by Shizuoka stalemate
Kyodo News, Published on 13/02/2024
» SHOZUOKA - The start date of the new high-speed maglev train that will run from Tokyo to Nagoya has become increasingly uncertain, as long-running environmental disputes with the Shizuoka prefectural government leave the project at a stalemate.
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China warns Philippines against 'playing with fire'
South China Morning Post, Published on 09/02/2024
» BEIJING - China has warned the Philippines against "playing with fire" amid reports that Manila plans to bolster its military deployment on strategically important islands it controls near Taiwan.
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Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore hope to lure Chinese with visa-free travel
Reuters, Published on 09/02/2024
» SINGAPORE/BANGKOK - Chinese engineer and aviation enthusiast Wei Ming is exactly the kind of visitor the tourism authorities in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are looking for.
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Taiwan and China feuding over tourism
Published on 07/02/2024
» TAIPEI - Travel agents in Taiwan have been told to stop organising new group tours to China since Beijing has yet to allow such trips to the island by Chinese visitors and has altered a flight path in the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
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