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Maldives Tourism Body's Plea To EaseMyTrip, "Indian Brothers, Sisters"
Amid the row between India and the Maldives - triggered last week after three ministers' comments about Prime Minister Modi - a prominent Maldivian tourism body has called on India-based travel aggregator EaseMyTrip to re-open flight bookings.
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PM Modi To Launch World's Longest River Cruise In UP's Varanasi Next Week
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the world's longest river cruise on January 13 in Varanasi, which the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal said will herald a new age of river cruise tourism for India.
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Indonesia To Partially Reopen Bali To Select International Travellers From October 14
Indonesia will reopen the resort island of Bali to select international travellers next week, a senior minister said, after the pandemic starved the holiday hotspot of one of its primary sources of income.
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Prince Harry Launches Eco-Tourism Project After Private Jet Criticism
Britain's Prince Harry on Tuesday launched a new sustainable tourism project, just weeks after coming under fire for taking private jets on holiday with his family.
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Deserted Beaches, Empty Rooms: Sri Lanka Tourism Hit After Bombings
Sri Lanka's $4.4 billion tourism industry is reeling from cancellations as travellers shun the sun and sand Indian Ocean island after multiple suicide bombings that killed over 250 people two weeks ago.
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Deadly Aftershock, Volcanic Ash Spread Alarm In Mexico
A magnitude 6.2 aftershock that shook Mexico on Saturday was blamed for five deaths, spreading fear among anxious residents reeling from a string of natural disasters and interrupting the search for survivors from a bigger tremor earlier this week
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Hot, Still, Silent: Paris Is A Ghost Town In August
At certain hours of the day, traffic slows to a trickle on Paris's grand Haussmannian boulevards. Handwritten signs in the windows of neighborhood bistros and boulangeries ask you - usually politely - to come back in September.
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Philippines' Ties With China And The United States
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte flies to China next week as he actively courts the Asian giant while ties with traditional ally the United States have come under strain.
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Body Found In Nepal Believed To Be Missing French Tourist
A body believed to be that of a 35-year-old French tourist who went missing in Nepal last week has been found, officials said today, as police awaited autopsy results to confirm her identity.
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Second Arrest Warrant Issued Over Thai Tourist Blasts
A military court in southern Thailand has issued a second arrest warrant for an unnamed suspect involved in last week's coordinated bomb and arson attacks against a string of tourist resort towns, police said today.
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Tourism Unaffected by Deadly Bangkok Bomb: Junta
Thailand's junta today insisted the crucial tourist industry has been unaffected by last week's bomb attack which killed 20 people, mostly foreigners, saying visitor numbers remained "at a normal level".
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Thai Police Say Whereabouts of Bomber a Mystery, a Week After Blast
Police said today the trail had gone cold in the hunt for a bomber a week after 20 people were killed in Thailand's worst ever bomb attack, and they were unsure if the chief suspect was still in the country.
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Tunisian President Admits Tunisia Was Not Prepared for Beach Massacre
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi admitted in an interview broadcast today that the country was not prepared for last week's jihadist beach massacre.
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Chile Volcano Eruption Costs Region $600 Million: Official
Last week's spectacular twin eruptions of the Calbuco volcano will cost southern Chile's Los Lagos region, a tourism and agriculture hub, up to $600 million, a local business leader said Monday.
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Nikki Haley to Visit India to Lure Jobs And Promote Tourism
Fresh from her emphatic re-election, South Carolina's governor Nikki Haley is to visit India next week to bring investment and promote her state as a tourist destination in her parents' native country.
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Maldives Tourism Body's Plea To EaseMyTrip, "Indian Brothers, Sisters"
Amid the row between India and the Maldives - triggered last week after three ministers' comments about Prime Minister Modi - a prominent Maldivian tourism body has called on India-based travel aggregator EaseMyTrip to re-open flight bookings.
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PM Modi To Launch World's Longest River Cruise In UP's Varanasi Next Week
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the world's longest river cruise on January 13 in Varanasi, which the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal said will herald a new age of river cruise tourism for India.
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Indonesia To Partially Reopen Bali To Select International Travellers From October 14
Indonesia will reopen the resort island of Bali to select international travellers next week, a senior minister said, after the pandemic starved the holiday hotspot of one of its primary sources of income.
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Prince Harry Launches Eco-Tourism Project After Private Jet Criticism
Britain's Prince Harry on Tuesday launched a new sustainable tourism project, just weeks after coming under fire for taking private jets on holiday with his family.
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Deserted Beaches, Empty Rooms: Sri Lanka Tourism Hit After Bombings
Sri Lanka's $4.4 billion tourism industry is reeling from cancellations as travellers shun the sun and sand Indian Ocean island after multiple suicide bombings that killed over 250 people two weeks ago.
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Deadly Aftershock, Volcanic Ash Spread Alarm In Mexico
A magnitude 6.2 aftershock that shook Mexico on Saturday was blamed for five deaths, spreading fear among anxious residents reeling from a string of natural disasters and interrupting the search for survivors from a bigger tremor earlier this week
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Hot, Still, Silent: Paris Is A Ghost Town In August
At certain hours of the day, traffic slows to a trickle on Paris's grand Haussmannian boulevards. Handwritten signs in the windows of neighborhood bistros and boulangeries ask you - usually politely - to come back in September.
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Philippines' Ties With China And The United States
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte flies to China next week as he actively courts the Asian giant while ties with traditional ally the United States have come under strain.
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Body Found In Nepal Believed To Be Missing French Tourist
A body believed to be that of a 35-year-old French tourist who went missing in Nepal last week has been found, officials said today, as police awaited autopsy results to confirm her identity.
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Second Arrest Warrant Issued Over Thai Tourist Blasts
A military court in southern Thailand has issued a second arrest warrant for an unnamed suspect involved in last week's coordinated bomb and arson attacks against a string of tourist resort towns, police said today.
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Tourism Unaffected by Deadly Bangkok Bomb: Junta
Thailand's junta today insisted the crucial tourist industry has been unaffected by last week's bomb attack which killed 20 people, mostly foreigners, saying visitor numbers remained "at a normal level".
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Thai Police Say Whereabouts of Bomber a Mystery, a Week After Blast
Police said today the trail had gone cold in the hunt for a bomber a week after 20 people were killed in Thailand's worst ever bomb attack, and they were unsure if the chief suspect was still in the country.
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Tunisian President Admits Tunisia Was Not Prepared for Beach Massacre
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi admitted in an interview broadcast today that the country was not prepared for last week's jihadist beach massacre.
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Chile Volcano Eruption Costs Region $600 Million: Official
Last week's spectacular twin eruptions of the Calbuco volcano will cost southern Chile's Los Lagos region, a tourism and agriculture hub, up to $600 million, a local business leader said Monday.
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Nikki Haley to Visit India to Lure Jobs And Promote Tourism
Fresh from her emphatic re-election, South Carolina's governor Nikki Haley is to visit India next week to bring investment and promote her state as a tourist destination in her parents' native country.
