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Hawaii planning to replenish sand at Waikiki Beach

AP News 9 days ago

Hawaii hopes tourism authority will help pay for Waikiki Beach sand restoration project Hawaii officials are appealing to the state's tourism authority for funds to restore part of world-famous Waikiki Beach. The officials want to pump sand from a spot offshore to ...

New mega wine cultural centre for Bordeaux

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

Bordeaux on Thursday unveiled plans for a 55-million euro wine cultural centre that Mayor Alain Juppe says will act as a platform for developing wine tourism in southwest France. The 10,000-square-metre centre, a decade in the pipeline, will grace the mouth of ...

Cyprus tourism drop worsens in October

AFP Global Edition 11 days ago

The pace of the year-on-year decline in tourist arrivals in Cyprus accelerated to 14 percent last month from 9.6 percent in September, official figures showed on Thursday. The number of holidaymakers jetting in to the Mediterranean island sank to 230,431 in October ...

Nevada tourism launches new winter ad campaign

AP News 12 days ago

Nevada Commission on Tourism launches new advertising campaign to attract winter enthusiasts The Nevada Commission on Tourism has launched a new winter ad campaign it hopes will lure winter enthusiasts to northern Nevada and the ski slopes around Lake Tahoe. The "Capture ...

Mo. Tourism Commission picks new leadership team

AP News 12 days ago

Missouri Tourism Commission picks new leadership team, approves $1.6 million in budget cuts Missouri tourism officials selected a new leadership team, including a new director for the Division of Tourism and a new chairman for the state Tourism Commission. Katie Steel Danner, ...

South Carolina tourism officials get 2010 outlook

AP News 12 days ago

Tourism outlook for 2010 topic of meeting on South Carolina's Grand Strand Those who work in tourism along South Carolina's Grand Strand are getting glimpse at what 2010 has in store for travel. The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce holds its ...

Iraq touts for tourists at London fair

AFP Global Edition 12 days ago

Babylon, Sinbad, the Garden of Eden -- war-scarred Iraq touted its attractions for tourists, as it sent a delegation to a major industry fair for the first time in a decade. Iraqi tourism officials said "very few pockets" of the country remain ...

World tourism body sees recovery next year

AFP Global Edition 13 days ago

The global tourism sector will post a "moderate recovery" in 2010 after slumping this year due to the recession, with Asia set for the strongest rebound, the UN World Tourism Organisation said Tuesday. "International tourist arrivals are likely to witness a moderate ...

Fans of VisitNH Facebook page get discounts

AP Features 13 days ago

Fans of VisitNH Facebook page get monthly tourism, travel discounts The New Hampshire tourism department has started offering special deals to fans of its Facebook page. Nearly 1,900 people have registered as fans of the VisitNH page on Facebook since it was ...

Vegas is inspiring, but not buying, ideas for ads

Las Vegas Sun 13 days ago

The pros say they can handle tourism promotion themselves With Las Vegas tourism in the dumps, Virginia Ridgway, a retired gift shop owner in Goldfield — a mining boomtown decades before Vegas became a vacation hot spot — is doing her part. ...

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