Articles tagged “protests”

GetYourGuide faces ongoing protests from World Animal Protection over alleged animal exploitation in its listed activities, such as elephant rides. The online travel agency maintains it enforces its responsible tourism guidelines.

This summer, the Mediterranean island of Mallorca finds itself grappling with an age-old question: How much tourism is too much? What's notable is that the protests have spread to areas far from the coastal centers because tourism has, too.

Thousands of fed-up residents took to the streets of Tenerife. Activists want a new tourism model that puts locals first. But businesses seek sustained growth from a tourism sector that drives about a third of the local economy.

The crisis over Machu Picchu — Peru's most iconic tourist attraction — is over.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.