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Despite recent preoccupations regarding drug violence and the safety of travel to the county, Mexican tourism officials report that a record number of foreign visitors came to the country in 2011. In total, 22.7 million individuals arrived in Mexico by air last year, the highest number since Mexico began keeping track of the number of tourists coming to the country in 1980. Although the number of U.S. travelers visiting Mexico continues to drop, with a 3 percent decline between 2010 and 2011, tourists from other countries, most notably Brazil, Russia, Peru and China made up for this shortfall. News of Mexico’s recent tourist influx comes just weeks after the U.S. State Department released an updated travel warning, urging U.S.-American tourists to avoid travel to a series of sites in the country, including various resort destinations, such as Sonora’s Puerto Peñasco or Rocky Point, a city frequented by travelers from Tucson and Southern Arizona. With news that, despite such warnings, travelers continue to flock to Mexican tourist hotspots, it raises the question: is it truly unsafe to vacation in Mexico? Read article
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International visitor arrivals in the Philippines hit a new record high of 3.917 million in 2011, although the figure remains one of the lowest in Southeast Asia. While the Tourism Department has not released the final tourist count for 2011, President Benigno Aquino III cited in a speech before foreign investors that last year’s number […]
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The German travel industry has called on Kenya to find a solution to the recent evictions of the Samburu tribe, and warned its position as a tourist destination could be damaged. Germans currently spend more money abroad than any other nation. In a letter to President Mwai Kibaki, the head of the German Travel Association […]
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Algerian security forces have claimed to have foiled an al-Qaeda plan to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. and European ships in the Mediterranean coast of Algeria, as reported by the Algerian newspaper ” Echorouk ‘. The alleged plan, which would be implemented by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), would be aimed at […]
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Since the United States embassy issued a warning to its citizens that foreign terrorists may be looking to conduct attacks on tourist areas in Bangkok, some tourists have cancelled their bookings including several groups from Hong Kong. A number of tourists from mainland China and Malaysia have shifted their destinations from Bangkok to other cities […]
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1. On average, 3 foreigners are killed in New Zealand every 4 days. 2. The German tourists was the 2,336th foreigners to be murdered/ killed in New Zealand since January 2000. read article
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A positive trend despite the devastating floods that took toll on almost all the country’s industries. Thanks to an aggressive promotion approach immediately after the floods, the number of visitors stayed in positive territories for the whole year. Around 17 million tourists visited Thailand between January and November 2011. Read article
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