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The crisis over Machu Picchu — Peru's most iconic tourist attraction — is over.
Dawit Habtemariam | 2 months ago
Machu Picchu is arguably South America's top draw for foreign tourists. If access remains disrupted for some time, many international visitors may cancel future trips as a precaution.
As weeks of protests escalate in Hong Kong and Beijing weighs its options, it’s not hard to imagine Hong Kong’s successful tourism industry becoming a shell of its former self. Though the conventional wisdom from region insiders is that Hong Kong will prevail, the form that it will take is anyone’s guess.
Raini Hamdi and Rosie Spinks, Skift | 5 years ago
Protests and marches are a phenomenon that D.C. tourism officials never asked for but are forced to reckon with. It's an ongoing reckoning that the city's tourism board is still figuring out in the digital age, and other destinations are taking cues.
Dan Peltier, Skift | 6 years ago
Ground Transport
It is shortsighted of protesters to see free public transit as better path to economic growth than building infrastructure and attracting visitors, but Brazil must find a way to bolster the local economy while keeping an eye on long-term development.
Bradley Brooks, Associated Press | 11 years ago
In response to protesters' claims that FIFA has freely set up a government within Brazil, soccer officials point to job creation, a tourism boost, and infrastructure improvements as reasons the World Cup should stay.
Tariq Panja, Bloomberg | 11 years ago
Cruises
City residents’ flooded the port in small boats and lined the sidewalks to show their disdain of the cruise industry, which they believe is responsible for eroding the lagoon and diluting city culture.
Skift | 12 years ago
Tunisia's situation reflects the challenges faced by other Arab Spring states that have historically been popular with tourists: It wants a return to normalcy but has yet to figure out how to make that possible.
The Daily Telegraph | 12 years ago
U.S. embassy travel warnings were issued in several African and Middle Eastern countries starting Tuesday and will put a damper on the tourism industries that had finally begun to grow following the Arab Spring unrest.
Airlines
Local Parliament members have agreed to look into UK's Air Passenger Duty after 100,000 emails sent by British travelers describe how the tax limits travel plans and hurts the economy of popular destinations.
Oliver Smith, The Telegraph | 12 years ago