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Japan Is Now A More Affordable Travel Destination In 2023

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Japan, high on the bucket list for many travelers due to its popular culture, food, history and art, but often unaffordable for many or overcrowded for others, is now in a “sweet spot” to visit.

Japan was among the countries that took longer to reopen to foreign travelers after COVID pandemic closures, finally welcoming visa-free tourism in October 2022. And the first foreign tourists to return to historically expensive Japan have found a much more affordable country to visit.

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The parable of the last corals on Earth – POLITICO

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For three decades the Israeli scientist Maoz Fine waited for the corals around his home on the Red Sea to succumb to global warming and turn a horrible shade of white.

Instead, he discovered they have a superpower.

In 2013, Fine, who runs a research center in the Israeli port of Eilat, published a scientific paper reporting that the corals across a large sweep of the Red Sea appeared

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Space tourism firm is turning ships into floating spaceports

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A US space company that aims to send tourists into space using massive balloons is now buying up ships to turn them into ‘floating spaceports’. 

Florida-based firm Space Perspective has acquired a 292-foot-long shipping vessel from Los Angeles shipbuilder  Edison Chouest Offshore. 

The ship, now named MS Voyager, will become the world’s first ‘marine spaceport’ for human spaceflight – and the first in a planned global fleet operated by Space Perspective.

The fleet of shipping vessels will host launches of 

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Long weekend in Nashville: Music City tourism boom led by thriving nightlife

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The Music City hits all the high notes. And plenty of Americans — and foreign visitors too — find Nashville the ideal place to enjoy the sights, flavors and history of the heartland. 

Nashville boasts a booming economy, surging population, fantastic food and world-famous nightlife. 

The Music City offers more than 180 live entertainment venues, according to the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp.

NASHVILLE’S GLORY DAYS ARE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW:

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Kurtaxe Wales: Die Welsh Tourism Alliance sagt, dass die Kurtaxe für Wales „katastrophal“ wäre | Reisenachrichten | Reisen

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Die walisische Regierung sagte, dass Besucherabgaben „auf der ganzen Welt üblich“ seien, um Einnahmen zu erzielen.

Das Geld sei „zur Finanzierung von Projekten in Gemeinden, der Tourismusbranche und zur Unterstützung lokaler Unternehmen verwendet worden“, hieß es.

Es fügte hinzu: „Wir werden beraten, den lokalen Behörden die Möglichkeit geben, die Abgabe einzuführen, und wir werden alle Kommentare als Teil des Konsultationsprozesses berücksichtigen.“

Viele Gastgewerbeunternehmen sind besorgt über die steigenden Lebenshaltungskosten und befürchten, dass eine Gebühr Touristen abschrecken könnte.


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In Cyprus, a faraway war forces a city to redefine its Russianness – POLITICO

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LIMASSOL, Cyprus — Sipping coffee at a beachside cafe, Alexey Voloboev scrolled down on a Telegram group chat titled “financial help in Cyprus.”

“This is now the Russian bank of Cyprus,” the Russian businessman laughed. 

The group, which already has some 1,600 members, serves as a black market for swapping rubles and euros — a transaction that’s now increasingly difficult after Moscow sent its troops streaming into Ukraine. Not only has the EU

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Atlas of Dark Destinations maps out over 300 of the world’s ‘dark tourism’ sites

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If you want your next break to be something more meaningful than merely getting away from it all, new book Atlas of Dark Destinations is a good way of mapping out an itinerary. Author Dr Peter Hohenhaus explains in the introduction that ‘dark tourism’ is a way of engaging mindfully with the real world when travelling.

‘Not all travellers simply want escapism,’ writes Hohenhaus, who points out that dark tourism is a way of learning about history and broadening horizons

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Furious tourism bosses blast Chancellor for ‘leaving them in the cold’

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Furious tourism bosses today blasted Rishi Sunak for ‘leaving them in the cold’ after the industry was excluded from his new £1billion Covid support package.  

The Chancellor has announced grants of up to £6,000 per premises for hospitality and leisure firms being crippled by a wave of cancellations following the emergence of the Omicron strain. 

The taxpayer will also cover the cost of statutory sick pay for Covid-related absences for companies with fewer than 250 employees. 

However, there was nothing

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Europe’s country-by-country travel restrictions explained – POLITICO

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This article was updated on December 2, 2021.

The European Union spent decades getting rid of its borders. Coronavirus brought them back.

When the pandemic first washed across the bloc in early 2020, panicky countries restored border controls; people and trucks transporting everything from car parts to cabbages spent days in huge lines waiting to cross frontiers. Most air travel ended. Over the last year, as COVID-19 vaccines have become available, those barriers have been lowered — but they haven’t

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Space Perspective founder responds to claims that space tourism is a rich person’s game

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Jane Poynter, co-founder of Space Perspective, says space tourism is inspiring 

The success of Blue Origin’s space tourism flights have sparked concerns among the public and well-known figures, such as Prince William, who say it is a rich person’s game that is unnecessary when Earth badly needs help.  

For Jane Poynter, 59, co-founder of Space Perspective – a firm using a giant balloon to send humans into the stratosphere – the industry is not starving the Earth of help, but

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