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Venice expands day-tripper tax in bid to combat overtourism

VENICE, Italy – Venice is charging day-trippers to the famed canal city an arrivals tax for the second year starting Friday, a measure aimed at combating the kind of overtourism that put the...

A day on the motorbike

Madre de Dios Region in the Western Amazon of Peru

Anger against Trump is forecast to cost the US international visitors

Anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and rhetoric will likely cause international travel to the U.S. to fall even further than expected this year, an influential travel forecasting ...

A new luxury hotel towers over Havana as Cuba’s economic troubles mount and tourism plummets

HAVANA – It’s impossible to miss. The huge rectangular mass of concrete and glass – the tallest building in Havana – dominates the city skyline, towering 490 feet above colonial homes with i...

Argentines flock to budget-friendly beaches in neighboring countries

VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile – On a recent hot summer day in Chile, the beaches of Viña del Mar, Concón and Reñaca are packed with holidaymakers sharing yerba mate teas and playing ball. Others mill ...

Into the Amazon: Savage universe of unfathomable Beauty

“If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.” ...

Was I really here? Wakra Pukará, Peru, 14,100 feet above sea level

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust Desire and determination get me up the mountain, nothing less. During the rai...

Dazzling Ice Castles draw tourists to Colorado and other states

NORTH WOODSTOCK, N.H. – An annual architectural celebration of ice is up and running again in New Hampshire and several other states. Ice Castles, which are both temporary art installations...

Collision of Two Empires Qorikancha and Sacsayhuamán

Bonifacia, one of seven sisters from the Omuto Community, Province of Urcos, is dressed in a cherry-pink wool jacket hand-stitched with multicolored, stylized flowers, a full black skirt, al...

Take a trip to the ‘Adventure Capital of the West’

When is the last time you made a visit to Moab, Utah

Into thin air: Five days in Cuzco, Peru

I begin this Letter From Peru by recognizing that I have been socialized within an occidental culture of whiteness with settler ancestry. What is normalized in the culture I am most familiar...

Jim Bishop, Southern Colorado castle builder, dies at 80

The man who created one of Southern Colorado’s most beloved and quirky attractions has died, according to a social media post. James “Jim” Roland Bishop began building his monumental stone c...
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