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The additional of a 29th park means that Costa Rica’s protected areas now encompass more than 25% of its land mass, more than any other country in the world.

Ireland will be hoping that the May figures were just a blip and that visitor numbers from both the Uk and continental Europe will continue to grow.

Tourism is one industry that could be hard hit but what solutions does the tourism industry offer?.

The specialist booking company, Spain-Holiday.com has just produced its annual Summer Spending Report 2019 which gives guidance to those visiting Spain an idea of what they will be facing in expenses.

Many readers might have already thought that the ancient site of Babylon would have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site but no.

The winner of the £100,000 Art Fund prize is St Fagans, one of the constituent parts of the National Museum of Wales.

The rise in visitor numbers during the winter months reflects a growing appetite for cultural city breaks rather than beach holidays says the tourism board.

Reza visits north east Italy to find a part of the country that preserves its mediaeval nature.

In a unusual turn of events, the Mayor of Venice will ask UNESCO to place the city on its World Heritage Site blacklist.

The next target for the tourist authority must surely be to attract more tourists from places other than the province.

The lifting of the ban on travelling to Sri Lanka has come within months of the terrorist incident.

The Algarve in Portugal has over 100 beaches, 88 of which are Blue Flag beaches and the coastline stretches across 200 kilometres.

Would a series about a nuclear disaster encourage you to visit a nuclear power plant. The Lithuanians think it will.

At present only a few thousand Britons holiday on the islands because few know about the advantages of holidaying there.

NASA has announced that it will allow tourists to fly to the International Space Station. Great news except for the ordinary package holiday taker, there is a lot of admin to do before you fly!

Go to Athens and there is every chance that you will visit the Parthenon, certainly one of the greatest survivors from the golden age of ancient Greece.

Catalonialand is a promotion developed by the Catalan Tourist Bard and is an immersive virtual reality experience which, it claims, will bring to life a series of six new cultural routes.

Just as tonight’s new BBC drama, Gentleman Jack, also portrays a woman who opted to dress in men’s clothes, so did Sand.

Not on the Scenic Eclipse because it carries a small submarine for the use of passengers.

The Nullarbor Links was built “to complement and enhance the tourism industry…by providing travellers with an additional attraction and hence a reason to spend more time and money in the region.”

In fact, out of the top ten let-downs, Paris managed four

The ruling administration in Buenos Aires says that tourism is “a fundamental driver of the growth and development of Buenos Aires.

Saudi Arabia is making a concerted effort to encourage us to holiday in the country.

Whatever organisation is behind this outrage needs to be told that visitors will still holiday in Sri Lanka.

This exhibition by Dale Chihuly, called Reflections on Nature, features a number of works some of which are new and some which are technically very difficult to create.

Notre Dame will be rebuilt. And it will still remain an iconic site and a tourist attraction.

Apparently, according to the local tourist board, it only takes 1,969 steps to take in the main sightseeing attractions of the old town in Vilnius!

Visitors will head to the national parks on both sunny and inclement days for the walking, the scenery, the enjoyment and the opportunity to just clear the mind’s cobwebs!