Tourism

French goal: 100,000,000 visitors by 2020

France, already the world’s top draw for international visitors, is ready to spend hundreds of millions of Euros in a drive to up the number to 100 million visitors by the end of this decade. Last year’s total was 84 million.

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Japan: Hi-tech toilets; China: playing catch-up

This is a tale of two “sitties.” Japan is pushing to install thousands more of the high-tech toilets that have become the national standard in advance of the 2020 Olympics, while China is pledging to upgrade its public toilets, mostly squatters.

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Barcelona: Sometimes TOO many tourists at market

Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little crowded out…especially at their favorite food market, La Bouqueria. The result: during the Friday and Saturday shopping rush…

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Tourism websites grow, but not like travel!

Two reports on Skift, a travel-industry news site, paint an interesting contrast. New numbers from the National Travel and Tourism Office tally 75 million international visitors to the U.S. last year, about 34 million not from neighboring countries….

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Toronto scales new heights in Tourism

Add Toronto to the list of cities, including New York and London, that have recently reported record new levels of tourism. In Toronto’s case, it adds up to over 14 million overnight guests.   While its sports teams, the CN Tower, markets and…

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Climate Change and European Tourism

The travel industry site Skift is continuing a series assessing the effects of climate change on travel, and has concluded that changing climate over the next 50 years may shift tourism from southern to northern Europe in the summer, but may have…

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French goal: 100,000,000 visitors by 2020

France, already the world’s top draw for international visitors, is ready to spend hundreds of millions of Euros in a drive to up the number to 100 million visitors by the end of this decade. Last year’s total was 84 million.

Read More

Japan: Hi-tech toilets; China: playing catch-up

This is a tale of two “sitties.” Japan is pushing to install thousands more of the high-tech toilets that have become the national standard in advance of the 2020 Olympics, while China is pledging to upgrade its public toilets, mostly squatters.

Read More

Barcelona: Sometimes TOO many tourists at market

Barcelona, which continues to be one of the hottest European cities for visitors, has locals who sometimes feel a little crowded out…especially at their favorite food market, La Bouqueria. The result: during the Friday and Saturday shopping rush…

Read More

Tourism websites grow, but not like travel!

Two reports on Skift, a travel-industry news site, paint an interesting contrast. New numbers from the National Travel and Tourism Office tally 75 million international visitors to the U.S. last year, about 34 million not from neighboring countries….

Read More

Toronto scales new heights in Tourism

Add Toronto to the list of cities, including New York and London, that have recently reported record new levels of tourism. In Toronto’s case, it adds up to over 14 million overnight guests.   While its sports teams, the CN Tower, markets and…

Read More

Climate Change and European Tourism

The travel industry site Skift is continuing a series assessing the effects of climate change on travel, and has concluded that changing climate over the next 50 years may shift tourism from southern to northern Europe in the summer, but may have…

Read More