Page 2

Articles tagged “religion”

Airlines

Vatican reporter reveals: Popes like to dish dirt while airborne

It's interesting to think about popes using their airborne time to chew the fat with reporters much in the same way presidential candidates in the U.S. will roll up their sleeves to chat with their press pool on the way to another speech.

Victor Simpson, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Vatican reporter reveals: Popes like to dish dirt while airborne

Tourism

Alcohol bans in Egypt trigger concerns throughout depressed tourism industry

The industries of several Muslim countries including Turkey and the Maldives grapple with the threat of an alcohol ban, but they tend to realize that giving visitors and nationals the choice to imbibe or not goes hand-in-hand with a stronger economy.

Reuters | 11 years ago

Tourism

Religious pilgrimages brought $16.5 billion into Saudi Arabia’s economy last year

Oil may be Saudi Arabia's largest industry, but tourism is in second place and the pace of hotel construction points to even more growth in 2013.

ArabianBusiness.com Staff, Hoteliermiddleeast.com | 11 years ago

Religious pilgrimages brought $16.5 billion into Saudi Arabia’s economy last year

Tourism

Timbuktu’s World Heritage-listed mausoleums are destroyed by religious fundamentalists

Locals and visitors share the same frustration over the utter senselessness of uneducated hooligans destroying treasures because they can't properly read a religious text.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

Tourism

Saudi Arabia ponders whether to improve infrastructure for religious tourism

Infrastructure for the religious pilgrimage has reached capacity, but investors are reluctant to poor in millions of dollars as facilities will stay empty for most of the year.

Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Chinese government tells Buddhist temples to ease up on the commercialism

While the profiteering by religious organizations never sits well in the stomach, the present Chinese government may not be the best role model when it comes to easing up on the rampant commercialism.

Louise Watt, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Hotels

Monasteries are redesigned into luxury hotels without losing their spiritual touch

CNN lists nine secluded sanctuaries surrounded by around incredible scenery with modern spas and comforts that seem as far from religious austerity as one can get.

Skift | 12 years ago

Monasteries are redesigned into luxury hotels without losing their spiritual touch

Hotels

Tunisian hotel attacked by religious hardliners for serving alcohol

Arab Spring countries that ditched dictators for democracies now must decide whether they'll embrace inclusive societies or retreat backwards into religious intolerance.

Tarek Amara, Reuters | 12 years ago

Hotels

Mecca’s hotel industry will expand by 13,500 rooms in the next 5 years

A Saudi Arabian development company plans to help the holy city accommodate the more than 10 million religious visitors that arrive each year with 35 higher-end hotels next to the Grand Mosque.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Tunisian government cracks down on popular tourist spots during Ramadan

Like Egypt to the east, Tunisia's new government must decide how it can balance the religious beliefs of its leaders with the compromises that are necessary for making a well-functioning, free society -- if that's indeed what they want.

Skift | 12 years ago