City Index 2025 sees shift due to tourism gains in East Asia
Global Power City Index 2025 sees city rankings shift due to tourism gains in East Asia and inflationary pressures in the west, 48 major cities evaluated in Mori Memorial Foundation’s GPCI-2025 report…
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Tui says ‘overtourism’ is fault of short-term let companies not hotel industry
Travel operator hits back at Airbnb’s claim that it is being made a ‘scapegoat’ for problems in some holiday hotspots
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Spain tourist hotspot faces summer of 'changeover day' travel chaos as hotel staff set to strike
Hotel staff across Tenerife and the western Canary Islands will walk out every Friday in July and August amid growing tensions between unions and hoteliers
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Activists storm hotel Papagayo Arena to protest its illegality
A group of residents in Lanzarote took direct action yesterday (Monday), by entering the “illegal” Papagayo Arena hotel in Playa Blanca to protest against ongoing water supply issues affecting locals…
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Tourists are fighting for the best spots at the beach with parasols
Spanish sunbed wars look to have escalated with tourists now battling for the best umbrella on the beach - by dashing out at the crack of dawn to mark their territory over prime shoreline parasols.
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China unleashed: Outbound travel from China surges by close to 400%
The travel industry has been waiting, waiting for Chinese travelers to return to the global tourism stage in a significant way, while there was some recovery in 2023, outbound travel from China remained largely in the role of supporting actor rather…
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Meet the Icelandic hotel owner who refused to leave evacuated town even as volcano set to erupt
‘The whole of Iceland could erupt at any time’ claims defiant Grindavik hotel owner who has lived in fishing port for more than 50 years - While others fled the earthquake that split the streets of an Icelandic town, one man refused to comply with…
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