Lebanon tourism pays the price for Syria's war
Dia's restaurant in the Lebanese resort village of Aley is deserted. Most years, he caters to thousands of rich Gulf Arab tourists and to visiting expats, but this year no one has come.
World Cup visitors: beware of Brazil's sky-high prices
Tourists planning to flock to Brazil for the World Cup a year from now should brace for some of the world's highest housing, restaurant and transport prices.
Turkish Pegasus to bring Kazakhstan tourists from Turkey
169 Kazakhstan tourists who are stuck in Antalya because of Sky Airlines bankruptcy will be transported to Aktobe by Turkish Pegasus.
Airline bancruptcy gives extra vacation days to 1,000 Kazakhstan tourists in Turkey
Around 1,000 Kazakhstan citizens cannot leave Antalya, Turkey, because of the Turkish air company's bankruptcy.
Turkey tourism takes a hit but visitors shrug off unrest
Hotel reservations may be down after a week of violent mass protests in Turkey, but plucky tourists on the ground have taken the unrest in their stride.
Iraq to restore ancient arch to woo back tourists
Iraqi authorities have contracted a Czech firm to carry out a 10-month restoration of the ancient Arch of Ctesiphon as part of a plan to boost tourism to the once-popular site.
Two Englishmen to horse-ride from Ust-Kamenogorsk to Tashkent
English friends, a writer Jamie Maddison and an entrepreneur Matthew Traver, have decided to ride horses from Ust-Kamenogorsk to Tashkent.
Kazakhstan to make Baikonur rocket launches a tourist attraction
Kazakhstan wants to make rocket launches from Baikonur cosmodrome a tourist attraction.
Almaty to get tour buses
Three tour buses will be purchased in 2013 and will start cruising Almaty city right away: official.
China Nile relic vandal hunted down: report
A Chinese tourist who defaced an ancient Egyptian monument was hunted down by Internet users who prompted his parents to apologise.
Kazakhstan to develop adventure tourism in western regions
A concept for development of tourism in Kazakhstan until 2020 has been presented.
Five dead, 53 hurt in Thai bus cliff plunge
Five people died, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 were injured when a Thai tour bus plummeted off a hillside in northern Thailand after its brakes failed.
Chinese travellers are top spenders: UN tourism body
Chinese travellers are the world's biggest tourism spenders, splashing out a record $102 billion (78 billion euros) on trips abroad in 2012.
UAE most popular winter destination for Kazakhstan tourists
The United Arab Emirates are the most popular destination for Kazakhstan tourists in the fall-winter period of 2012-2013.
Women tourists desert India after sex attacks: survey
The number of foreign women tourists visiting India has dropped by 35 percent in the past three months following a spate of sex attacks that have made global headlines.
'I love Paris' may soon be passe for Chinese tourists
Mass muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists in Paris have spawned alarm and warnings of a decline in the number of free-spending visitors from the Asian giant who swarm to France.
Turkey to offer Kazakhstan new seaside holiday
It is expected that the total number of tourists from Kazakhstan travelling to Turkey will triple in the next three years.
China city searching for 'modern Marco Polo'
A Chinese city is searching for a foreign traveller to become a "modern Marco Polo", with a 40,000 euro ($52,000) salary on offer to the winner.
Thai tourist industry 'driving' elephant smuggling
Smuggling the world's largest land animal across an international border sounds like a mammoth undertaking, but activists say that does not stop traffickers supplying Asian elephants to Thai tourist attractions.
There are those who oppose Kok-Zhailyau ski resort: Yessimov
Big attention of the society makes this project more transparent. We want the community to take part: Almaty Akim.