India's tourism havens and Drug traffkiling hot spot

New Delhi: India's popular tourism havens and drug traffkiling hot spot state like Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan have emerged as the "hot spots" for cocaine, ecstasy and LSD besides other synthetic drugs....

Baja All Exclusive, short documentary film will be a big hit

Hermelinda Vargas Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S.- Mexican and foreign tourism developers, are destroying the nature in Baja California Sur. Throughout the peninsula you can observe  these predactory activities of...

Maldives President- "We don't want a global suicide pact"

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has warned that the world is set to sign a "global suicide pact" unless it agrees a deal in Copenhagen next month to limit greenhouse gas emissions. ""At the moment every...

Toronto wins bid for 2015 Pan Am Games on first ballot

Friday's vote in Guadalajaro, Mexico selected Toronto as the host city of the 2015 Pan Am Games.  Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller made their last pitch prior to the ballots being...

WTF? Wisconsin Tourism Federation Changes Its Name

After becoming the butt of several internet jokes, Wisconsin Tourism Federation - WTF - has changed its name to Tourism Federation of Wisconsin.The federation has had the same name since its inception in 1979, but...

South Indian tourists make beeline for Sri Lanka after end of war

"   CHENNAI: K. Palaniappan, an industrialist, had to shelve a business collaboration when the insurgency broke out in Sri Lanka in the latter part of the 70s. He had not had a chance to visit the island...

CNN mix-up tickles Alberta tourism officials

It sure looks as if we need to get Jeannie Moos out of New York once in a while.  Jeannie, a well known CNN reporter, did the story on that squirrel that accidentally showed up in the picture of those...

Hawaii: 50th State is 50 Today

There are unconfirmed rumors President Obama was born in Hawaii.Hawaii is about the size of New Jerseyor about half the size of Nova Scotia with a population of 1,300,000.It is a major tourist destination for...

From Warriors to Tour Guides

In the wake of conflict, demobilizing combatants is as critical as ending the fighting if there is hope for the peace to last. When conflict ends, former fighters usually find themselves unemployed. But tourism is...

Italy Travel: Naples Hires Ex-Convicts as Tour Guides

In Southern Italy, the city of Naples started to hire ex-convicts as tour guides. The program, "Esco-Dentro" or Exit-Inside, was launched to help ex-cons reintegrate into the society and decrease the crime rate....

VIA Rail and Union settle on Arbitration - Strike Over

340 unionized locomotive engineers walked off the job Friday afternoon, after a noon deadline passed without a new contract.  This essentialy shut down all passenger rail travel in Canada. In a joint...

VIA Rail engineers to strike 12 EDT, Tourism hit in Canada

Travel plans have been derailed for many tourists in Canada.  VIA rail is poised to go on strike at noon today.  This will essentially cancel all passenger rail travel in Canada. Talks between the...

International sexual terrorism - your ambassadors abroad

When people travel from their home land they become ambassadors to the nation they belong to. However it would seem that countries that have citizens worried about sex predators. Within a neighborhood or play...