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The world’s most-visited museum shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

PARIS – The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic – but on June 16, it was brought to a halt by it...

At the foot of the volcano

Activity is easy to find around Valles Caldera in New Mexico

Spaniards turn water guns on visitors in Barcelona and Mallorca to protest mass tourism

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Protesters used water guns against unsuspecting tourists in Barcelona and on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Sunday as demonstrators marched to demand a rethink of ...

Headed to the White City to meet Juanita the Ice Maiden

I feel her call in the blood. The breathiness of it is a soaring melody whispered across cloud-piercing peaks that line the Valley of the Volcanoes in southern Peru. Now it floats on a therm...

Kashmir tourism bears the brunt after tourist massacre and India-Pakistan military strikes

SRINAGAR, India – There are hardly any tourists in the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir. Most of the hotels and ornate pinewood houseboats are empty. Resorts in the snow-clad mountains hav...

A Day on El Lago de Sandoval

Tambopata National Reserve, Madre de Dios Region, Peru

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.” ...
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