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Tourists At Risk As Heatwave Fuels Australia Bushfires

December 30, 2019 5:00 pm

Thousands of tourists risked being stranded in Australia’s south east Monday, as a new heatwave left firefighters across the country bracing for another round of potentially catastrophic bushfire.

Hundreds of blazes are burning across Australia, which is experiencing a devastating summer bushfire season fuelled by a prolonged drought and climate change.

More than 30,000 people were told to evacuate Victoria state’s popular East Gippsland region Sunday amid fears soaring temperatures and gusting winds would stoke three large blazes, cutting off the last major road still open.

Victoria Emergency Management …

Unmarried Tourists Can Now Rent Hotel Room In Saudi Arabia

October 6, 2019 10:10 am

Saudi Arabia is looking to soften its image in the eyes of tourists and visitors. Obviously the government has noticed that in order to keep a robust tourism industry, a few things needed to change to accommodate the choice of, especially foreigners. Before now, couples had to prove they were married before getting a hotel room.

But with the few changes made in their visa policy, unmarried foreign couples will now be allowed to rent hotel rooms together in Saudi Arabia as announced by the religiously conservative kingdom. Also, women will now be allowed to stay in hotel rooms alone, …

US bars American tourists from visiting Cuba

June 5, 2019 12:13 am

The Trump administration clamped down on US tourist visits to Cuba Tuesday, aiming to cut the flow of dollars to a country Washington accuses of helping prop up Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The Treasury banned group educational travel and cruise ship and private yacht visits by Americans, taking aim at the most common ways US tourists visit the Caribbean island.

The move could constitute a heavy hit on Cuba, which saw more than a quarter-million US visitors in the first four months of 2019, almost double a year earlier.

“The United States holds the Cuban regime accountable for its repression …