EXO boys band to promote tourism in Korea
The EXO boys band was chosen to promote South Korea to foreigners, said Monday the Korean Tourist Office (KTO), as part of efforts to attract more visitors to the country. The K-pop band is currently shooting a series of KTO promotional video...
READING TIME: 1 minTanzania: Masai expelled from their lands in the name of tourism
In Tanzania, the Masai are increasingly repressed. A dozen villagers were attacked by a Tanzanian army patrol as they grazed their cattle a few kilometres from the Serengeti National Park in the north-east of the country. The semi-nomadic people see their lands systematically reduced in favour of tourism in...
READING TIME: 3 minChinese tourists flee the heat of summer… in Africa
A lot of people think it's awfully hot in Africa right now. But when we arrived in Kenya, what a shock for us! Not only was it not hot at all, but it was even cool. Going to Africa to escape the heat of summer is nothing like a...
READING TIME: 2 minAmsterdam goes to war against mass tourism
Amsterdam goes into the fight against tourism: Airbnb limited to 30 days, even banned ; no tourist boats in the city centre ; tourist taxes up... The city has taken a series of measures to reduce the influx of travellers estimated at 18 million each year. The population of the...
READING TIME: 2 minAn Indian, in the Amazon forest, has lived alone for 22 years
Funai (the public agency responsible for Indian tribes) spotted this individual in 1996. Since then, she tries to keep...
Jamaican superstar Chronixx headlines World Creole Music Festival 2018
The Dominica Tourist Office has just unveiled the programme for the 20th edition of the World Creole Music Festival....
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts appoints Sabine Dorn-Aglagul President Europe
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts has promoted Sabine Dorn-Aglagul to President Europe with immediate effect. This appointment will support the...
The world of Bluegrass swing in Raleigh, North Carolina
The world’s largest Bluegrass music festival will take place again this year in Raleigh, North Carolina (September 25-29, 2018)....
Robert Adams, Our Lives and Our Children
In 1983, Aperture published the première édition désormais épuisée of this série of photographs taken between 1979 and 1982...
When travel and gastronomy go hand in hand
It was little known in France and it is a pity. Anthony Bourdain, the affable American chef and author...
