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Tourist arrivals in Zimbabwe eased 3% to 1,115 million in the first half ended June 30, 2019 compared with 1,148 million, a year earlier, according to a local media report.

Kenya’s Tourism Board has called upon counties in the Lake Victoria region to come up with a simple and fast licencing regime of hotels to open the region’s tourism sector.

While the whole Christian world is only preparing for the main winter holidays, last weekend, India and the Indian and Hindu communities all over the world celebrated Diwali - the New Year - with millions of lights and tens of thousands of fireworks.

According to Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO), the estimated number of international travellers to Japan in August 2019 registered 2.5 million with a decline of 2.2% compared to the previous year.

Sergey Bachin, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rosa Khutor resort, told our correspondent about the challenges facing the development of the ecotourism in Russia and what can be done to solve them.

Several high-profile tourism and ecotourism projects have transformed some of Vietnam’s ecotourism destinations into highly desirable tourism destinations, with overseas tourists flocking to the country in large numbers to visit those places.

This year exhibition of motor home tourism - Mobicar ended on Sunday in Brussels.

Heritage hotel in Bruges, Belgium, won the prestigious World Luxury Hotel Awards 2019 in the category of the best "Luxury Romantic Hotel (Global)".

Groups of people used to settle in the territory of the Russian Arctic, notorious for its hostile conditions. During several scientific expeditions it turned out that despite the harsh climate prehistoric hunters were living on Zhokhov Island for a long period of time.

According to statistics, tourism accounts for 18 per cent of Thailand's gross domestic product and Chinese holidaymakers make up more than a quarter of total arrivals. But with a plunge in Chinese visitors caused by the US trade war and a stronger Baht, hotels on Thailand's most popular holiday island have been forced to slash prices with rooms left vacant and beaches almost empty.