Tourism articles
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Thousands protest against Canary islands’ ‘unsustainable’ tourism model
Local people say archipelago’s outdated industry made life unaffordable and prompts environmental emergenciesThousands of people will join protests across the Canary islands on Saturday to call for an urgent rethink of the Spanish archipelago’s tourism industry and a freeze on tourist numbers, arguing that the current, decades-old model has made life unaffordable and environmentally unsustainable for local people.The protests – which will take place under the banner “Canarias tiene un límite”...
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Angola’s International Tourism Exchange seeks to promote sector
Luanda, May 2 (Prensa Latina) The 7th edition of Angola’s International Tourism Exchange (BITUR) started on Thursday in the city of Lubango, Huila province, attending the event travel agencies, entrepreneurs and other actors linked to the sector. The post Angola’s International Tourism Exchange seeks to promote sector first appeared on Prensa Latina.
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Chimps are dying of human sniffles. Is great ape tourism to blame?
Viruses that cause the common cold in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, it’s a bigger killer than habitat loss or poachingThere was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally miserable. But no one could say for sure what ailed them, even as the animals began to die.Necropsies can help to identify a cause of death, but normally,...