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/ 18 February 2009
Madagascar’s political unrest has left the once-booming tourist industry facing ruin as tour operators turn their backs on the Indian Ocean paradise.
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/ 17 February 2009
More than 18 000 people from nearly 200 countries have applied for the "best job in the world".
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/ 3 February 2009
Tracking endangered wildlife in politically troubled, impoverished Zimbabwe might not seem the ideal holiday spot but it’s in hot demand.
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/ 22 January 2009
Finalist — Drivers of Change: Civil Society Award: Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa
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/ 19 January 2009
Forget the Maasai Mara reserve, Mount Kenya and palm-lined Indian Ocean beaches. The hippest tourist spot in Kenya these days is ”Obamaland”.
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/ 31 December 2008
The young waitress waved at the empty tables as a clutch of idle cooks bided time in a corner of one of the Gambian capital’s trendy restaurants.
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/ 18 December 2008
Vietnam is set to miss its target of attracting five million tourists this year as arrivals have dropped amid the global economic downturn.
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/ 5 December 2008
With glossy airline adverts, Thailand started work on Friday on a long battle to win back the confidence of tourists.
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/ 20 November 2008
The president of the Maldives wants to buy a new home for his people to save them from rising sea levels. But where could they go?
A yoga hideaway in Turkey that pleases his partner, five-year-old daughter and bank manager – Kevin Rushby is in heaven.
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/ 11 November 2008
Hotel bookings in the Caribbean are plunging as financial turbulence dashes vacation plans.
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/ 7 November 2008
Parisians may have gone Vélib’ mad, but cycling in the city can be scary. Resident Agnes Poirier finds a quiet route via the best bistros and markets.
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/ 7 November 2008
The Unité d’Habitation in Marseille is one of the iconic buildings of the 20th century. Now you can stay there for a night, writes Lauren Cochrane.
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/ 5 November 2008
Imagine a series of interconnected travel routes that span Africa.
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/ 5 November 2008
At the suite-only Carlton Hotel, the reservations department is getting disturbing news daily.
Marilyn Honnikman explores the culture of the Vietnamese capital as a micro-tourist.
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/ 28 October 2008
More and more foreign tourists are coming to SA for a little nip and tuck at the country’s private hospitals, with a safari on the side.
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/ 28 October 2008
Dizzying construction boom relies on migrant labourers who are lured into a life of squalor and exploitation, writes Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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/ 21 October 2008
Contradicting its many detractors, the service at the Mount Nelson has long been casual if not unabashedly familiar.
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/ 17 October 2008
As markets sink and fears grow of global recession, Latin America is banking on gains as well as losses from tourists tightening their purse strings.
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/ 17 October 2008
Tibet is cutting admission fees to key attractions in an effort to boost tourism to the region after riots led to a dramatic drop in visitor numbers.
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/ 17 October 2008
Indonesian lawmakers have decided that bikinis are acceptable attire for beaches in the mainly Muslim country.
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/ 16 October 2008
First time bushwhacker Monako Dibetle goes in search of the ultimate safari adventure and guiltily takes to colonial comfort.
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/ 10 October 2008
Demolition teams this week smashed up popular beach bars as part of an improvement scheme to develop tourism in Sierra’s Leone’s capital, Freetown.
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/ 10 October 2008
Australia’s tourism chiefs have turned to Hollywood for help in promoting the country as a holiday destination after their last campaign failed.
A Dubai-based real-estate company said this week it plans to build a multibillion-dollar themed entertainment development in South Africa.
News that a development planned for the Sea Point promenade has stalled strengthens calls for preserving public spaces.
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/ 29 September 2008
Dubai boasts a new resort billed as unique in the Middle East: the ocean-themed Atlantis, where a night will cost up to $25 000.
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/ 22 September 2008
It’s the latest word in Gulf excess — a sprawling ,5-billion resort boasting a 000-a-night suite and dolphins flown in from the South Pacific.
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/ 17 September 2008
A community tourism project in the Wild Coast could have made over R4-million a month for one of the poorest regions in SA had it not been halted.
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/ 7 September 2008
The deadliest of the many blows suffered by Algiers’s disintegrating old quarter may actually be contemporary.
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/ 6 September 2008
While Spain’s beaches are still busy, shops and restaurants at its resorts are ominously quiet.